About
I am a Full-Time Student, pursuing a Major in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in the
Biological Sciences.
- Degree: Bachelor of Science
- Major: Computer Engineering
- City: Somerville, NJ
- Email: psp109@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Resume
Education
Masters of Business and Science in User Experience Design
2021 - Present
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2017 - 2021
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
School of Arts and Sciences [2017-2018]
School of Engineering [2018-present]
- Research
- Department of Entomology, Center for Vector Biology - Spring 2021
- Endogenous Viral Elements encoded by Anopheles genomes shed light on viral host associations
- Entomology Undergraduate Research Colloquium - 2nd Place
- Machine Learning in Cyber-Physical Systems - Fall 2020
- Organizations
- Society of Women Engineers - Outreach Chair
- Rutgers Blueprint - Incubator Education Director
- Rutgers Commuter Student Association - Public Relations Chair
- First Year Integration Program - Website Coordinator
- Honors
- Deans' List
- James and Edna Noe Scholarship Recipient
- SAME Commander Arthur E. Poole Scholarship Recipient 2020
Somerville High School
2015 - 2017
Projects
SmartPark - A Smarter Way to Park
Full-Stack Group Project for Software Engineering Course
Parking Garage Automation System for reserving parking spots and billing using the MERN Stack
- Semester: Spring 2020
- GitHub
- Documentation
Professional Experience
Cybersecurity Technology Intern, TIAA
June 2020 - Present
Remote Internship
- CyberArk Engineering Team
- Worked on developing Splunk Alerts to observe patterns in password checkouts from high secuirty safes which helped the team by monitoring the security of these accounts
- Shadowed the development of 2 plugins to ensure regular password rotation
- Completed Certification in Splunk Fundamentals and various CyberArk products
- Project Lead for Enterprise Innovation Challenge
First Robotics Mentor
March 2019 - Present
Programming Team Mentor
- Mentoring students of high school’s robotics team by facilitating communication between drive team and programming team to improve mechanisms of the competing robot
- Shadowed the development of the scoring app, used to tabulate and organize data for making streamlined decisions for strategic alliance building
Somerville Technology Department
June 2016 - September 2017
- Improved workflow for summer schooling by running updates and system repairs on issued laptops
- Organized and sorted repair jobs for desktops, printers and other school-used technology to prepare for the upcoming school year
- Installed and setup new desktops, Smart Boards and projectors to create a more ‘interactive learning experience’ as described by the district’s learning motto