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I am the Lead Software Developer at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at University of Wisconsin – Madison. I started at CHESS as a student back in 2007, worked there full-time while doing my Master’s Degree in Computer Science, and became lead software developer in 2015.
CHESS has given me many opportunities to research and build mobile, sensor, and website application systems that help patients and their families undergoing health crises. This includes working with patients undergoing substance misuse treatment, teenagers with asthma, cancer patients, caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s, and people that are simply aging.
I share CHESS’ mission, to help others. I try to do this by developing systems that empower people whether that is connecting patients undergoing life-altering treatments or research staff helping to bring technology to study participants.
I have worked with A LOT of different technologies over the years. Just a smattering include website development using PHP and the .NET framework, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Typescript, Javascript, Angular, Docker, Python, Tensorflow, MySQL, SQL, AWS, Gitlab, DevOps, Java for Android, Objective-C and Swift for iOS, and administrating Linux and Windows servers. Because CHESS has a small team, a lot of these are self-taught.
As lead software developer, I have had the opportunity to mentor both full-time and student software developers including coordinating project development and maintenance, reviewing code, triaging issues, and providing feedback to help improve technical and interpersonal skills.
My current interests include: (1) applications of machine learning, for example, the use of a convolution neural network model to identify ticks in a citizen science app called The Tick App; (2) user and developer experience design; (3) wildlife conservation; (4) modernizing and refactoring legacy systems; and (5) research systems that use Docker. Previously, I worked on applications of neural networks in Chaos Theory.
In my free time, I enjoy endurance sports like triathlons, long distance running and biking, reading hard sci-fi, learning new things, cooking, and writing. My brother and I were finalists at 2020 Austin Film Festival for a full-length holiday romantic screenplay called “Holiday on the Hills.” We’ve also written the treatment for another holiday romantic screenplay called “Mars by Christmas.”
I am an active member of the Friends of Military Ridge State Trail in Wisconsin. Besides participating trail maintenance and attending monthly meetings, I help to maintain their website and, in 2023, set up a way to sign up members and receive donations online.
For more information, please see my Resume/C.V. (Updated October 2024)