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I attended the City College of New York (CUNY) during my Freshmen year of college and transferred over to Stony Brook University during my Sophomore year of college. I minored in Nanotechnology studies since this was the area I wanted to focus my graduate studies on. I also conducted research on the effects of chemically engineered nanoparticles on the performance of MRI-related technology. I finished with a Bachelor's of Engineering Degree in Biomedical Engineering and graduated in the year of 2014.

I applied and got accepted to the Biomedical Engineering PhD program at Stony Brook University during 2014 where I conducted research on Microfluidics for biomedical applications. During one of my semesters in graduate school, I got offered an internship position at Cook Medical based in Bloomington, Indiana. During my experience at Cook, I quickly fell in love with the medical device industry and was determined to pursue a professional role outside of academia. After the end of my internship, I decided to finish school in which I graduated with a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2016. I began the job hunting process to search for an engineering role in the medical device industry.

I got offered a contract position at Siemens Healthineers to work in the Reliability Engineering department. I spent about a year there operating Immunoassay Analyzers used for Laboratory Diagnostics and simulating customer usage to increase occurrences of engineering issues. I was given a chance to pursue a more technical role in engineering during my second year and assisted senior engineers in conducting characterization studies for design concept feasability. During my third year I was given a major role in an upcoming project to design and develop software features that would perform calibrations within the instrument. These features had direct impact on assay performance and results. I spent 3 years in this role and became an integral part of the Systems Engineering group where I designed, developed and provided subject matter expertise on several software and mechanical features.

During the latter end of my years at Siemens Healthineers, I worked very closely with Software engineers to design software features and other related deliverables. At one point, I took it upon myself to learn the C# programming language just enough so I could understand the source code of legacy features. I fell in love with coding so much that I would take ownership of features as a whole by writing the design specs as well as the code for implementation. I felt like this was my real passion, but I could not do it full-time while dedicating most of my time to my job. I made the big decision to take some time off from my engineering role at Siemens and decided I wanted to pursue a career in Software engineering. During the month leading up to my final days at Siemens, I began taking an intro course for Python through Codecademy. To speed up my learning I decided to pursue a Software Engineering bootcamp at Flatiron School. I spend my days now learning Python and honing my skills through an online website called codewars. I am also learning about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as I prepare for my bootcamp starting on November 22, 2021!