University of Notre Dame Class of 2011. I'm primarily interested in web development, especially Ruby on Rails and Javascript, but I consider myself language agnostic. I have experience in the Healthcare industry and am interested in making the world a better place through technology. I spend some time working on side projects - you can check those out at my GitHub profile, linked below.

Software Engineer @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaR&D Team Lead @ -Transitioned pediatric Growth Chart software from legacy VB6 application to ASP.Net / C# / Javascript web application. Used SVG to draw the graphs. -Implemented text search functionality in web-based HTML and RTF report viewer in Javascript. -Promoted to R&D Team Lead in January 2013. Had 3 direct reports and was R&D Lead for ten different modules. -Lead investigation, design, development, and code review for performance improvements to patient timeline module Outpatient Synopsis. Were able to reduce load times by 50-70%. -Lead project to improve aesthetics of the Growth Chart module. Modernized the look and feel by adding improved tooltips, animations, and icons. From September 2011 to May 2014 (2 years 9 months) Intern - Center for Research Computing @ -Worked with iCeNSA and DIAL, the data mining labs on campus -Wrote C++ programs to build complex multivariate networks to represent the climate for descriptive and predictive purposes -Experimented with different measures of similarity and multivariate edge weighting techniques -Dynamically visualized the networks in ArcGIS using Python -Wrote and presented the paper "Empirical Comparison of Correlation Measures and Pruning Levels in Complex Networks Representing the Global Climate System" at the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Paris, France From June 2010 to August 2010 (3 months) Engineering Intern @ -Worked in the Service Programs department at Pratt & Whitney, a major manufacturer of large jet engines -Compiled technical references of common engine maintenance tasks -Created analytical models of past inflight engine data to help predict future engine failure and optimal engine removal times -Programmed VBA macros to automate repeated tasks for the department From May 2008 to August 2008 (4 months)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ University of Notre Dame From 2007 to 2011 Alex Pelan is skilled in: JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ember.JS, HTML + CSS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C#