My main research focus was on the basic biology of autophagy regulation and how neurodegenerative disease impacts autophagic signaling.

Working in the lab trained me how to think like a scientist, how to troubleshoot difficult issues, how to use best data practices to draw sound conclusions, and how to work with teams across various disciplines.

Technology Transfer is best described as the intersection between science, business, and law. The purpose of which is getting technology out of the lab and into a commercial setting. A big part of my role was in assessing the patentability and marketability of new technologies developed at the institute.

Once a patent was filed, I was responsible for drafting and negotiating license agreements, confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, and research funding and option agreements with start up companies, established biotech companies, and other research institutes.

Early in 2020, I decided to make the career switch into software and web development. This is something I've been dreaming about for quite a long time.

I leveraged App Academy Open, the Odin Project, CodeAcademy, and many other resources to teach myself the fundementals of software engineering. My main focuses were on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Javascript, React/Redux, SQL, Git, HTML, and CSS/SCSS.

At Epion Health, I was fortunate enough to work with an amazingly talented and passionate team that built out Epion's patient access, check-in, and telehealth solutions.

Epion Health was acquired by Kyruus Health in 2022.

I worked on the platform to enable patient/provider communication, digital check in, and a provider toolkit that integrates seamlessly with the provider's EHR solution.

At the tail end of my time at Kyruus, I worked on a new microservice that would service as the central pillar of the company's entire text messaging platform. This was written in Java, using Spring Boot and DynamoDB.

At Buoy, I work on the team that creates and maintains the software used by the plasma donation centers at our sister company, Join Parachute. The software runs nearly every part of the centers' operations. From label printers to medical intake and plasma collection.

Since our software is regulated by the FDA as a 510(k) medical devices, it's critical that the code I write is rubost and easy to debug and maintain.