UX Engineer (Software Consultant)
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
MA National Guard, Northeastern University Practicum | Boston, MA
- Empowered 4,000+ Guard members with a communications and mentorship platform, improving transparency and career navigation.
- Shipped production-ready Next.js views and shadcn/Tailwind components, driving responsive UI across the application.
- Authored UX workflows, interaction specs, and design tokens to streamline handoff and establish a consistent design language.
- Led evaluative research (WCAG audits and heuristic reviews) to identify usability gaps and validate visual hierarchy.
Software Developer Intern
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Advanced Data Risk Management (ADRM) | Boston, MA
- Prototyped ADRM's website using Next.js and implemented a Prisma schema with SQLite, improving load times by approximately 25%.
- Contributed to development of DEFENDER, ADRM's SaaS platform, to optimize real-time security alerts.
- Designed and developed DEFENDER University, an educational portal to help users navigate ADRM's platform.
Software Engineer Co-op
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
Optum, Technology Development Program | Boston, MA
- Parsed SQL data and rendered API responses dynamically in UI components to ensure real-time system status updates.
- Developed automated email reports with Java and HTML summarizing test failures, reducing manual QA work by approximately 80%.
- Configured GitHub Actions pipelines to run SonarQube and Prisma Cloud scans, enabling automated quality checks.
Software Quality Analyst Co-op
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Verisk, Extreme Event Solutions | Boston, MA
- Performed test analyses to validate software against compliance standards, preventing defects and improving reliability.
- Troubleshot and resolved software issues with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, improving system performance.