Mathematics Alumni in the Spotlight

Born and raised in Burlington, Vermont, St. Mike’s was a natural fit for me. I graduated in 2012 with a major in accounting and a minor in mathematics and went on to obtain my MBA from Clarkson University. After graduating from Clarkson in 2013, I joined a small accounting firm in Burlington and worked towards obtaining my CPA license.

After 2 more years in Vermont, I decided I needed a break from the cold and moved to warm and sunny Bermuda! In Bermuda, I work as a tax accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. I specialize in U.S. and international tax compliance and strategy for insurance companies and investment funds.

St. Mike’s mathematics education has provided me with the tools I need to succeed in life, whether it be the problem solving skills needed to pass the CPA exam or the technical and research skills necessary in my day-to-day job requirements. The mathematics professors challenged me to really push myself and that work ethic translated well in my career. Looking back 4 years later, there’s only 1 thing I’d change about my mathematics education at St. Mikes – I’d major in mathematics this time!

Anthony Aliquo ’09

I am currently the Vice President, Controller at Minerva Neurosciences, Inc. in Burlington, MA. Minerva Neurosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NERV) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary product candidates to treat patients suffering from central nervous system diseases. The Company’s lead product candidate is roluperidone, a compound the Company is developing for the treatment of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. As the Controller at a small public biotech company, I have several cross-functional responsibilities. Most of my time is spent managing the accounting department though. I find the biotech industry to be exciting as it’s always changing and the science is interesting. My career path has changed a few times, but each step has been very important.

I graduated from Saint Michael’s College in the spring of 2009 and moved to Wilmington, NC in the winter of 2010. Between the winter of 2010 and the fall of 2013, I worked in the mortgage industry, graduated from UNCW with a Master of Science in Accounting, moved to Charlotte, NC, obtained my CPA license, and started with Deloitte & Touche, LLP as an External Auditor. After being promoted to Audit Senior at Deloitte in the fall of 2015, I accepted an international opportunity and moved to Bermuda. I worked in Bermuda for over a year and then moved to Boston to work at BDO USA, LLP. In the summer of 2017, I left BDO and the public accounting industry to join Minerva Neurosciences, Inc.

My mathematics degree and time at Saint Michael’s College helped prepare me to be a successful business professional. The study of mathematics provided me with an excellent basis for accounting and finance. My mathematics background was one of the reasons I was originally hired at Deloitte, which started my career in accounting. My liberal arts studies at Saint Michael’s College also helped me to become a well-rounded person, which has been extremely important professionally and personally. In addition to a great education, Saint Michael’s College has been recognized everywhere I go and great for networking.

Patti Bodkin Martucci ’04

I’m working as the Accounting Supervisor at HarborOne Credit Union where I use my math analytical skills almost daily. I’ve found myself using them in problem-solving approaches to finding discrepancies or recognizing trends in expenses.

I have always had a “knack” for numbers. When I was younger my parents bought me a game called “Smath,” which was essentially Scrabble with numerical equations instead of words. Friends will tease about how easily I remember phone numbers and birth dates and recognize license plates, but it all comes from my love for numbers.

After my first two semesters at Saint Michael’s, I recognized that majoring in Math was the right decision for me. Around that same time I took an Intro to Business course and really liked the accounting portion of the class. The following summer I was fortunate to get a seasonal job in the accounting department of a local bank. Since I was only working for the summer, I covered for almost everyone in the department, which enabled me to understand how the department functioned. My experience there led me to minoring in Accounting at Saint Michael’s, which, to this day, continues to complement the technical and analytical skills I learned in my advanced math classes at the college.

As part of my career growth, I have decided to further my education by pursuing a Master’s in Science of Management focused in Accounting. My math skills have given me a solid base to build from and this degree will better equip me to handle day-to-day decisions and to develop a more thorough knowledge of the business world.

See Patti’s profile on the Mathematics Association of America Web site.

I graduated SMC in 2016 as a double major in Mathematics and Economics. Much like Erika below, I interned at PwC in the transfer pricing group in Boston, MA prior to my senior year and was lucky enough to come back after graduating as a full-time associate. In the transfer pricing group, we assist our clients in planning and documenting their intercompany transactions (one entity paying a related entity for manufacturing services, for example) to ensure that they are acting in accordance with the U.S. Treasury, OECD, and other local or global regulations. This is a multi-step process that involves understanding of financial spreadsheets, in-depth research of our clients’ business segments and the industries they are a part of, as well as proper writing techniques.

While my job doesn’t directly utilize math, the quantitative and detail-oriented mindset I developed from my major in math helps me properly organize the multiple phases of the transfer pricing process and enhances my ability to effectively analyze the various functions of our clients and the companies we typically end up comparing their transactions against. The liberal arts education from SMC has also given me a wide repertoire of skills that allow me to shine in a variety of areas as a new associate, such as report drafting and summarizing outcomes from various meetings. All of these skills SMC helped me hone will continue to be of great importance to me as I (hopefully) move up in the firm and take on greater amounts of work and a more communicative role with clients.

I am a Transfer Pricing (“TP”) Associate.  As a TP Associate, I am responsible for assisting my teams with transfer pricing engagements with clients.  In general, transfer pricing deals with how related companies (such as a parent and its subsidiary) interact and perform transactions with one another.  These transactions could involve tangible property (actual products a company sells), intangible property (such as the know-how and intel behind a manufacturing process or a trademark), or services (such as back-office administrative services, distribution, or manufacturing services).  TP projects include contemporaneous transfer pricing documentation to be submitted to U.S. Tax Authorities, advanced pricing agreements to resolve royalty rate disputes between related parties, or the valuation of intangible property (“IP”)  in regards to how IP ownership contributes to projected revenues for a company.  Projects include several types of deliverables such as generic transfer pricing documentation reports, memorandums, interview notes, slide decks outlining TP requirements in each country a company has operations in, spreadsheets analyzing IP valuations and projected revenues, etc.

I am beginning graduate school part-time at the University of Massachusetts Boston where I will receive a Master’s in Accounting (MSA).  This is will make me eligible to sit for the CPA exam in two years.

My Saint Mike’s mathematics education gave me the ability to think critically.  Though I am not using the exact content I learned in Real Analysis or Abstract Algebra, for example, I am confident taking these upper-level classes greatly improved my quantitative abilities. This is especially the case when performing an IP valuation, which takes into account the “time value of money” concept – a concept involving the idea that the value of an asset is a function of the costs incurred to develop that asset and the riskiness associated with that asset.  Secondly, in the dispute resolution engagement I am working on, we are required to value the bare legal title of a trademark being transferred between two related entities. Though I have minimal finance background, this valuation technique involves the Black Scholes model (a method of pricing options).  The Black Scholes model utilizes the normal cumulative probability function – a popular function featured in Professor Yates’ probability and statistics class!

I graduated from St. Michael’s College in 2015 with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. Upon graduation, I landed a position at VIA Rail Canada in my hometown of Montréal, QC as a Development and Investment Analyst where I was able to put some of the quantitative skills I obtained at St. Mike’s to good use. On the development side at VIA, I was a part of a small team looking to digitize, update and streamline the workforce management process for a large group of employees. As a part of this team, we worked closely with a team of executives to find cost efficient methods of processing payroll data through a newly acquired software and utilized various statistical methods such as regression models to optimize workforce efficiency. As a part of the investment team, we analyzed various financial reports alongside macroeconomic trends to assess investment opportunities for the company’s pension fund.

After a brief stint at VIA Rail, I decided to pursue my education further and enrolled in the MS in Applied Economics program at Boston College. At BC, I was able to use my quantitative background to truly excel in graduate level economics courses such as Data Analysis, Econometrics, and Applied Microeconomics. The big difference in graduate coursework in economics at most institutions is that the material is more quantitative and mostly calculus-based whereas undergraduate programs tend to focus on qualitative findings utilizing simple algebra. Having that strong foundation in calculus and statistics from St. Mike’s was very advantageous in graduate school and allowed me to focus more on understanding the material rather than worrying about knowing how to execute the underlying mathematics.

Upon graduating from Boston College in the spring of 2018, I landed a position in Strategy Consulting at the Maia Strategy Group in Manchester, NH. Consulting was an industry that I truly wanted to get into after getting familiar with it in my first semester at BC and was very fortunate to get the opportunity to do so. At Maia, we utilize detailed primary research and data analysis to assess new market opportunities and growth and go-to market strategies along with performing M&A due diligence and competitive analysis for our clients. While the quantitative workload isn’t all that rigorous, the problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively and arrive at conclusive solutions I obtained through my Math degree at St. Mike’s are utilized every single day. I truly believe that these quantitative and problem-solving skills I developed at St. Mike’s have allowed me to excel in both graduate school and in my brief career in the financial services.

I graduated from SMC in May 2013 with a degree in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. I started working at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelburne, VT in June of 2013 and remained there until August of the following year, 2014. I was a Media Coordinator/Jr. Buyer for VTB at the time. The majority of my position was negotiating and buying advertising space in radio, TV, and print publications. I then moved to Boston, MA in September of 2014 where I continued my work in marketing at Decibel Media. I was a Media Planner, which focused more on building and executing media marketing campaigns for many different clients. It consisted of a lot of strategy planning, i.e. finding the right audience for the particular client, finding out where that particular demographic consumes the most media, finding the most cost efficient way to market to them, planning new and innovative ways to market, and executing these ideas while remaining within our designated budget.

After working for Decibel for about a year, and in media for about two years, I decided it was not my passion, as I wanted to work in a more numbers-based role. I could not be happier to say that in July of 2015, I was offered a job as a Regional Distribution Analyst for the Boston Beer Company. In this role I manage inventory at the wholesale level for 47 different wholesalers in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, West Virginia, Florida, and parts of Alabama. My daily tasks include order management, forecasting based on current depletion data and past sales trends, maintaining inventory level and in stock rating at each large wholesaler, and working collaboratively with both the wholesalers and the BBC sales reps in those regions. I am able to utilize my love for numbers and data much more freely in this role than in any other role I previously had. For example, one of our large tasks includes facilitating seasonal transitions when we transition from one season to the next. We have a hard date that we want each wholesaler to transition, so the weeks leading up to this date, I need to make sure the wholesaler will not run long with what they currently have on the floor or they won’t go out of stock too soon if they have too little on the floor. We are measured on our service level (in-stock ratings) and our truck utilization levels. We are held accountable for a portion of the logistics, such as truck weights and routing multi-stops.

My mathematics education and experience at SMC has helped me tremendously in both the media and operations fields. I was able to learn and execute marketing analysis and optimizations at a fast pace. In marketing, you use math more than you might expect. Everything is in terms of CPMs, which is a cost per thousand, GRPs, which is a point measurement system for radio shows, CPCs, which is a cost per click, CPA, which is a cost per acquisition, CTR, which is a click through rate, conversion rates, etc. In the operations field at BBC, I use my math background far more frequently than I did in media, which is why I prefer this position. I had zero supply chain experience going into this position, but was able to pick it up quickly as everything is grounded in math. I am a natural problem solver, as any Math student is, which is an invaluable asset for any employee to possess. At BBC, we forecast hundreds of different products on a daily basis for hundreds of different wholesalers. We calculate in stock rating and out of stock potential leading up to seasonal transitions and adjust our orders based on our findings. Everything is spoken in numbers and metrics. I love that I can ground my decisions, my successes, and sometimes my failures, in the numbers. I attribute all of my successes to my mathematics background from SMC. No matter where my career path takes me, I know that holding that degree and that experience will be an incredibly vital asset.

I graduated from SMC in May of 2012 with a degree in Mathematics and in Economics. At the time I had an internship with the actuaries at National Life in Montpelier, VT. The internship was helped in large part by my connection with the math department; an older classmate who had previously filled the internship put in a great recommendation for me and I landed the role! My internship turned into a “temp full time” position, and I was able to stay on board. Actuarial work was a great application of my math degree and I enjoyed working there, but after the summer of 2012, I decided I wanted to pursue something a bit different.

I changed jobs and worked as a Marketing Analyst for the Vermont Teddy Bear company in Shelburne. This introduced me to more data analysis and database work. After a year and half at VTB, I made a bit switch to work in Business Intelligence at Wayfair in Boston. This was a great opportunity and turned me onto a career that (a) I had never heard of and (b) I found I loved. After a year and a half at Wayfair, I have now moved back to Burlington and work in a similar role at MyWebGrocer in Vermont.

As a BI Analyst, I handle data extraction, transformation and loading to make information available to other parts of the company. The job involves all sorts of computer work, from SQL and Python to Microsoft BI programs. I find the job both challenging and rewarding.

My mathematics degree helped me post-college in a couple ways. First, my degree opened doors in Actuarial Science, Data Analysis, and Business Intelligence, three fields I hadn’t really considered before getting out into the “Real World”. Once in these positions, I was able to use skills I had picked up in school to solve the complex problems that came up. Identifying problems, finding “knowns” and then creating a plan to solve the problem remind me of many of my homework problems from school. My mathematics education taught me the framework for breaking down large problems and using the tools and resources available to create a solution. I believe my math background, my economics background and my complete liberal arts education have set the framework to allow me to succeed in whatever I choose to do.

I am currently working at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as an Associate in the Transfer Pricing department. I started working in the transfer pricing group at PwC as an intern the summer before my senior year. After graduating from Saint Michael’s in 2012, I accepted a full time position at PwC. Transfer pricing is in the tax practice at PwC and focuses on how related parties price goods, intangible assets, services, and loans as applied to both domestic and international transactions. As an associate, I conduct company, industry, and economic research and participate in functional analysis interviews with clients in order to deliver a transfer pricing report.

My Saint Michael’s education, especially through the mathematics department, has provided me with the tools and confidence to succeed in the start of my career. Although my position at PwC does not focus on mathematics, the mathematics department provided me with many opportunities. In addition, the curriculum at St Michaels provided me the work ethic and determination I now use working at PwC.

I graduated from Saint Michael’s in 2010 with a Physics Major and Math Minor. Unsure of where I wanted to go for a career I fell into banking and stayed there until I completed an MBA at Plymouth State University in 2012. I am now the Account Administrator for the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Here I work setting up student funding, establishing fellowship accounts and keeping the general ledger. I also process reimbursements and payments to students, faculty and staff. In my first year at Harvard I collected over $1 million in overdue invoices, some were over 3 years past due!

Working in the Cashiers Office and being the Secretary of Finance for the Student Associate at Saint Michael’s College prepared me well for this type of work. I was able to use my learned intuition and skills to adapt to my new environment as well as learn new tasks quickly. Having a solid background in math has taught me a different perspective from others who have come from either business or the humanities. I surprisingly use ideas from calculus weekly! I consistently bring new ideas to my department about how to improve our systems and some have started taking effect! In my spare time, I am the producer for a local theater company called Spotlight Playhouse. I was frequently on stage growing up, so it is a change to see how things work behind the curtain. I use many math skills while balancing our budgets and working through fundraising campaigns! I am proud to have come from a small liberal arts college where I was able to gain confidence in myself and my work.

I am a Manager of Special Projects at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Boston, overseeing the Personal Lines Distribution Campaign Management Operations group. I lead a group of analysts that build and execute campaign requests on behalf of various business units (marketing, sales, service, claims, etc.).

I also completed my MBA in May 2013 at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business school. This degree, combined with my BS in Mathematics from Saint Michael’s College, has allowed me to be successful in my career growth. The math background allows me to look at business problems and make business decisions using analytics, cost-benefit analyses and root cause problem solving. While my current job doesn’t require me to work with numbers, the math degree helps me to make sound decisions and look at problems analytically. I’ve also been able to pick things up quickly, especially applications, understanding how systems work together, and coaching my staff. A math degree can be used in various career paths; it’s all in how you apply the knowledge and skills you have developed!

I am a Business Management Specialist at J.P. Morgan, working on a nationally recognized wealth management team of 6. We manage high-net-worth individual and family’s wealth and provide guidance with their comprehensive financial plans.

I personally focus on managing client relationships and the financial planning aspects of our business. I serve as the primary advisor for a segment of our client base and am responsible for the management of our team’s overall business model.

In 2012, I received a Certificate in Financial Planning from Suffolk Univ. which helped to deepen my knowledge base in the world of financial planning and management.

My background in mathematics truly taught me how to think outside the box and approach any problem with an open mind. The analytical skills I developed through my math classes are vastly important when reviewing investment portfolios and financial plans.

I am working in the financial district of Boston as an Investment Associate at UBS Financial Services. I have my Series 7 and Series 63 Licenses, and I became a CFA charterholder in October of 2010 (the CFA program is a graduate level program for investment professionals). I am also a member of the CFA Institute and the Boston Security Analysts Society. Some of my job responsibilities include: putting together asset allocation models for existing clients; entering and executing both fixed income and equity trades; putting together marketing pieces to present to existing/prospective clients; tracking all of our equity and mutual fund holdings. My responsibilities continue to increase, which I like. I now join the senior person on our team on more meetings with our larger clients and will do solo meetings in the office if he is not around. I also write market commentary every month for some of our larger, institutional clients. I’m glad I have a liberal arts degree because that forced me to do a lot of writing and in addition to all those math proofs!

I would say taking challenging math courses (almost all of them are challenging) really develops one’s problem solving skills and one’s ability to analyze very complicated problems. Finance is a very complex field that requires exactly the type of analytical skills I developed at Saint Michael’s in the math department. Any job in finance requires excellent quantitative skills, which is exactly what the math professors gave to me. I would also add in that the degree in mathematics helped me immensely in studying for the CFA as statistics were a component of all three exams. Finance also uses the same Greek letters as math, like sigma, delta, gamma, etc. so I wasn’t confused by all the new jargon but was actually very comfortable with it.

I have been at the Chittenden Bank, a division of People’s United Bank, for 11 years. I am a Business Analyst in Burlington, VT, where my daily activities include system analysis, business performance reporting, project coordination, and system application security among other various responsibilities.

I find that my math background from Saint Michael’s, along with the support and expertise from all of the professors in the math department, has given me the knowledge and opportunity to succeed. At Chittenden, we are currently working on a system core conversion which will take us into spring of 2010. I find it a great challenge to coordinate and integrate our current structures and procedures into a new system architecture, but know that I have the tools to get it done. I must admit though, that the true application of ‘Real Analysis’ out in the real world for me has been learning what ‘limits’ my kids can push me to before I give in and spoil them. It ends not being a very complex problem the end. They always win!

I joined TIAA (The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association) in July 2015. Prior to TIAA, I was with Santander Bank for 15 months and Citizens Bank for 4 years. In my current role with TIAA, I am a Digital Product Manager supporting the online customer experience for TIAA’s digital bank:  TIAA Trust Company, FSB.  As the Digital Product Manager for the bank, I am responsible for maintaining the online customer experience on a day-to-day basis as well as setting its strategy over a multi-year period.  You can see some of what I do on www.tiaadirect.com and www.tiaa.org.

I was previously with Fidelity Investments for 12 years in various roles including product and marketing management as well as finance and operations. I also had a brief stint with Deutsche Bank – Scudder Investments in their mutual fund operations department.

I completed my MBA from Clark University (Worcester, MA) in 2000.

My mathematics education from Saint Michael’s has been very important throughout my career. Overall, I have a much stronger and more comfortable understanding of numbers, in general, than most. This has lent itself to a strong acumen to both the overall financial health of my employers as well as understanding the financial costs and benefits of the business decisions I make each and every day.  While I may not assemble the financial statements, I know and appreciate how my decisions will affect them and can make decisions using them as key input.

You can visit my LinkedIn profile page and see my full career path. I would highly recommend that recent or soon to be graduates start to build their profile page and “get connected” to the Saint Michael’s Alumni LinkedIn group. It’s a great way to network with alumni in their professions.

I am currently a Principal Systems Analyst for Liberty Mutual’s Global Specialty group. Global Specialty IT supports all of our GS division users around the world as they write diverse and often very specific lines of insurance that can be extremely complex.  After 15 years in training, and being Director of Training for the last two years of that, I decided to change back into a more technical role.  As a Principal Systems Analyst I act as a bit of a translator.  Leveraging my education and training background; my early IT experience as a Business Analyst; and incorporating many of my Executive MBA (Suffolk University) experiences, I help translate our business users’ needs into technical requirements that our development team uses to provide online solutions.  It’s interesting how things can come full circle and intertwine with each other when you take a chance and make a change.

At St. Michael’s, I was a Mathematics major, took a few computer science courses, loved my Honors courses, completed a research summer at Syracuse University’s NPAC (Northeast Parallel Architecture Center), and even completed my Secondary Education qualifications. This combination was very well supported by all of my professors and has led me in some very interesting career directions. I have actually applied my statistics courses as a Statistical Process Control trainer and analyst. Various software and management training positions and my current role have capitalized on merging my technical and teaching backgrounds. In addition, my well-rounded education from St. Mike’s provided a good foundation to help me grow into leadership positions, as well as create and facilitate various training programs for managers around leadership, coaching and interviewing skills.  Take a look at my career details if you are interested in more information Michele (Williams) Hudson LinkedIn.  As Jamie Pitney mentioned above, LinkedIn is a great resource for networking and sharing your professional experience.

We hear more and more how “traditional career paths, or career ladders” often don’t apply anymore, and this has certainly been my experience.  I am certain that the wealth of opportunities and diverse education that I received at St. Michael’s has been a key factor in allowing me such career flexibility.  Use your time at St. Michael’s and beyond to soak up the knowledge, then head off in a direction that feels right for you.  And remember, a decision, or a path, is not absolute, and you CAN change your mind.  Take a chance, learn and grow, and let life surprise you as much as it may delight you!

I am Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. I completed a master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Vermont, an MBA at Northeastern University, and I have worked in transfer pricing for more than 12 years. My projects include: establishing global cost sharing and intangible property migration strategies (for multi-billion dollar manufacturers of semiconductors and pharmaceutical and consumer products); performing economic analysis relating to intellectual property structuring and migration (for software developers and other manufacturers); and preparing transfer pricing support (for IRS audits, advance pricing agreements, and competent authority proceedings).

One thing I’ve learned is that having a strong quantitative background and education is immensely valuable for any career. Although I may not daily use my college and graduate mathematics directly in my job, the solid foundation and training that I received at Saint Michael’s College has benefited me throughout my career.

I work at Epic Systems in Verona, Wisconsin, as an Integration Engineer. Epic develops software to support healthcare systems and maintain an integrated and robust Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for patients. When healthcare systems integrate with other systems and need to exchange data, they do so using interfaces. I work with healthcare organizations’ IT teams to test, implement, and support these interfaces, as well as to give recommendations on the best and newest ways to exchange medical data. I also focus on conversion implementation projects where we take medical data from an organization’s former system and bring it into Epic so doctors can seamlessly care for patients once they go live with Epic.

No two days are the same at my job — I typically split my time between implementation and support work. I lead and participate in project tracking meetings and troubleshooting sessions, and I travel onsite one week per month to spend time working “in the weeds” with my analysts. Internally, I have ownership roles in the training & learning and conversion areas.

My studies in mathematics and computer science at Saint Michael’s prepared me to thrive at Epic. These subjects taught me attention to detail and problem-solving, and a broader liberal arts education helped to provide me with communication and organization skills essential for managing multiple projects simultaneously and working with a large number of people across the nation.

If you have any questions about my education at Saint Mike’s or my role at Epic, please feel free to contact me at rrouleau@epic.com.

I currently work at Epic Systems in Verona, Wisconsin. Epic is an international healthcare software company that develops and maintains electronic medical records. I work with three US hospital systems to support the Inpatient Orders and Infection Control applications as a part of the technical services division at Epic. I work closely with these community member’s internal IT teams to support their inpatient physicians and infection preventionists. Additionally I assist with their regulatory reporting to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Healthcare Safety Network, a branch of the Centers for Disease Control. Internally I host bi-monthly technical webinars and work on code for diagnosis association.

Each workday is different. Depending on what my community members are doing at a given time I could spend part of my day building out a functionality, writing a search in M or SQL to pull data, troubleshooting/debugging code to determine why something may not be working as expected, or researching how I can use the software to achieve my customer’s unique wants and needs. I’ve had the opportunity to travel about one week per month to various community members. During these trips I work directly with IT analysts and/or clinical end-users to ensure the software is used as effectively and efficiently as possible so that there is less time spent charting and more time spent providing direct patient care.

At Saint Michael’s I received training to break down an issue or problem and logically work through steps to find a solution. This is exactly what I do on a daily basis in my work as a technical problem solver. More specifically, computer science courses taught me the basics of reading and writing code and statistics introduced me to the skills I now use for examining things such as the likelihood of a patient’s readmission or surgical infection rate models.

If you have any questions about my position or Epic, please feel free to reach out to me at bri@epic.com.

I am currently working as a Technical Consultant at Galen Healthcare Solutions after graduating in the spring of 2015.  Galen is a consulting firm that has been in the healthcare tech industry for ten years.  At Galen, my projects have revolved around developing solutions related to ‘Electronic Medical Record’ databases.  For example, I have been contributing to a statewide project in North Carolina extracting data from private practices and hospitals, and organizing it so it could be accessed by medical providers across NC.

We face challenges such as evaluating logical arguments, anticipating special cases, graphically representing complex information, and learning new technology.  Internally, there is a strong sense of team collaboration that gives both learning opportunities and challenges in coordinating group problem solving. Beyond the technical problem solving, we often need to communicate with clients from a less technical background. This requires that we translate our solutions to include less-technical individuals in a discussion.  It is exciting to combine interpersonal and problem-solving-oriented sets of challenges.

The time I spent at Saint Mike’s played an absolutely crucial role in my ability to succeed at Galen.  Starting with the analytical skills developed in the Math and Computer Science departments, and supplemented by the rich liberal arts educational background, I feel very comfortable moving forwards applying skills I learned and gaining new ones.  Additionally, Saint Mike’s taught equally essential social and personal lessons that are just as important as the technical abilities.  If you have an interest in carrying your skills gained at Saint Mike’s over to the consulting world, or have other career interests, please feel free to reach out to me at Samuel.Blakely@galenhealthcare.com.

I began working as a computer scientist for the U.S. Army out of Picatinny Arsenal in October 2015.  The program I joined was a three-year career development path leading up to the permanent position I am current holding as of October 2018.

Throughout my time at Picatinny, I have been assigned to various projects looking at a variety of different technologies.  In the beginning, I worked with a group that supported the infrastructure and sustainment of an SAP system.  My team and I learned the functionality of various modules within the system and developed online training courses for soldiers learning how to use the module.  Only a couple months later, I began working on more technical, hands-on projects.  With one of the first projects, I learned about and worked with the cybersecurity of industrial control systems (ICSs); this project taught me the foundation of cybersecurity and basics of ICS development.   More recent projects involve artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and heavier application of data sciences.  Each of these projects have included great training opportunities to better myself technically and develop my leadership skills.

The strong mathematical background given to me at Saint Mike’s has made me a unique team member in my time at Picatinny.  While my job title labels me as a computer scientist, my mathematical background has given me the chance to participate in projects that require stronger linear algebra and statistical foundations, particularly in projects surrounding AI and ML.  My management has acknowledged my interest in math and has put me on projects allowing me to use what I know and expand that knowledge.

I graduated from Saint Michael’s in May 2014 and obtained a marketing position with Dealer.com in Burlington, VT. Having had multiple marketing internships throughout college, I thought that it was what I wanted to do. At Dealer.com I was introduced to the coding word with HTML/CSS and realized then that I wanted a career in website design.

I moved out of Burlington and took a JavaScript development class through General Assembly and started to apply for jobs focused in website design. I then worked as a Website Designer with Propel Marketing in North Quincy, MA. Propel Marketing provides marketing services to small and medium size companies across North America.

Currently, I am employed as the Integration Lead with SilverCloud in Portsmouth, NH. SilverCloud is a SaaS company that gives banks and credit unions the opportunity to self serve with our platform. At SilverCloud, I am responsible for creating the intranets that the banks and credit unions interact with to find their answers using HTML, CSS, React, and JQuery to make the pages interactive and functional. I thoroughly enjoy when problems arise, and I am given the opportunity to dive deep into the code to find out why.

My time at Saint Michael’s helped me in many aspects of my career and who I have become. The connection with professors I created, thanks to small classroom sizes, helped me have a professional reference post-graduation. Although I do not use math directly in my day to day tasks, there are many positive takeaways from my degree in mathematics. The reinforcement of different computer programs in different courses helped me obtain an attention to detail necessary for coding. The rigorous curriculum the math department demands has helped me persevere through any problem faced at work by figuring out what the issue is and creating a step by step plan to solve/fix it. I owe a huge thanks to the Saint Michael’s community for giving me the opportunity to become who I am today.

I currently work as a member of Technical Operation team at Ve Japan, an affiliate of Ve Interactive for the territory towards Japan/Australia/NewZealand/Korea, which provides solutions for various websites to prevent their customers from abandonments. The team of Technical Operation takes charge of all processes of integrating our services to our clients’ websites or web services. To name a few of my team’s processes, our team analyzes the structures of websites, issues JavaScript tags that will be set in the websites, designs drafts of advertisement creatives, and tests that the creatives work properly in the websites. In addition to our normal processes, our team also contacts clients a lot via e-mails, phones, and actually at their offices.

The position requires from me flexibility and patience when I explain our company’s services to clients (as you may know, not everyone in the world knows well about how Web works, JavaScript behaves, etc!), when I make the clients’ campaigns successful with colleagues of different positions such as sales, and when I have to investigate problems such as not showing creatives properly in the websites. To summarize, I need abilities to understand and digest technical knowledge and then to deliver those information and skills correctly to whomever is not very much familiar with technology (I’m like a “bridge” from technology to people.)

The undergraduate education that I received at Saint Michael’s College truly is the foundation for my success at Ve Interactive. Thinking analytically, logically, and critically which I learned in Mathematics supports me when I communicate with clients and colleagues and when I create technical documents for my company. How websites work, how JavaScript realizes specific operations on websites, and how background systems and frontend systems interact when the campaigns are on live which I learned in Computer Science supports me to deliver daily tasks in my team. Double majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science very best matches to my current position.

My company was just founded in Japan and is growing rapidly day by day. There are numerous styles of working in Japan. Working in such a growing company is challenging but every day is very exciting. If you want to know more about working in Japan or want to spend your days in the exciting and fascinating environment with colleagues/clients from all over the world, please contact me at ryota.ishisaka at veinteractive dot com. (You can also visit our website http://www.veinteractive.com/jp (Japanese) or http://www.veinteractive.com/ (English).)

When I started at Saint Mike’s I was an ‘exploratory’ major unsure of what to study and what profession I wanted to pursue.  I took classes in almost every major, including computer science which I wrote off almost immediately.  Instead, I pursued Math where I learned how to approach problems and to think dynamically.

After graduating Saint Mike’s in 2014, I worked for a financial firm in Boston thinking this would involve the same problem solving I loved.  However, I found that it was more statistical analysis then logic.  After two years, I decided to return to Vermont and was able to use my experience and talents to land a position as an Application Systems Analyst at Vermont Gas Systems.  My current duties include proving end-user support for the company’s numerous software packages.   I review, analyze, and modify corporate ERP and client programming systems.  Unlike most Systems Analyst positions, I also manage all the reporting including MS Queries, Crystal Reports, and SAP analytics.  I primarily use SQL logic to write and produce accurate reports for end users.

I use math the most when coding or writing logic-based reports which, ironically, I struggled with when I started at Saint Mike’s.   Having a math major not only prepared me for my jobs, but it also changed my outlook on coding and computers.  My math education provided me with the tools to do my job and Saint Mike’s gave me the confidence to challenge myself.   Should you have any questions or just want some helpful advice, please don’t hesitate to reach out!  jamullowney@vermontgas.com

I am currently an Implementation Team Lead with Epic, located in Bristol, United Kingdom.

I began my work with Epic in Verona, WI in August of 2013. Epic makes electronic medical record software for mid to large size medical groups, hospitals, and integrated healthcare organizations. I work on the Access side of the system, specifically focused on patient scheduling, referral intake, and insurance interfacing.

I’ve just recently hit my six and a half year mark at Epic, and throughout those six years I have worked in multiple different areas of the company. For the past four years, I’ve been on the Implementation team, and now hold the role of Implementation Team Lead. My responsibilities include working side by side with customers to install Epic software, on-the-fly problem solving and support, and direct management of other implementers across teams. No two days are the same, as each problem or workflow I’m looking to solve is unique to the organization I’m working with at that time. In my 4 years in this role, I’ve been fortunate to work with variety of organizations, including but not limited to safety-nets, large academic hospitals, community hospitals, and multiple hospitals/organizations outside of the United States.
Outside of my main role, I am able to use the computer science and mathematics skills I learned at Saint Michael’s in maintaining a variety of excel and SQL based set of tools that help other implementation staff evaluate external data through SQL. These tools give build suggestions, uncover best practices for implementations, and allow for easier conversion from legacy software over to Epic.
Prior to my role on the Implementation team, I worked at Epic as a Quality Assurance team member and team lead, overseeing the overall software quality, managing team member workloads, and working with the development team lead to prioritize new projects on the team.
Saint Michael’s College, and majoring in Mathematics, prepared me for the technical troubleshooting and problem solving that goes into implementing and troubleshooting healthcare software. But on top of that, the professors, especially those in the mathematics department, the athletics, and campus life at Saint Mike’s provided me with the social, moral, and critical thinking skills necessary for success in any career role I might face. SMC provided me with the capability to pick up technologies quickly, adaptability in tricky situations, and the self-awareness and confidence to grow as a manager and work with many different personality types, all skills essential to my career growth.
For more information regarding my position or Epic, please feel free to contact me at ehauser@epic.com.

I am currently a software engineer with Goldman Sachs Asset Management in Burlington Vermont.

Before joining Goldman, I spent two years as a software developer at Credit Suisse in New York City. At CS I worked as part of the bank’s equity swap trading team, where I enjoyed the fast-paced environment of financial software. My team interacted with traders on a daily basis, built and maintained high-volume trade processing applications, and provided data analytics for a global business.

Building on that experience, I was fortunate to earn an opportunity with Goldman’s fixed income team in Burlington. My team directly supports the bank’s stable value portfolio management desk, and I continue to enjoy the mix of business and technical challenges here.

Looking back, I’m very thankful for the time spent at Saint Mikes. I was fortunate to have support from the college’s alumni network throughout my four years, and I believe that the culture and community at Saint Michaels shaped the person I am today.

Whether asking questions in small classes led by knowledgeable and passionate professors, engaging in sports and activities on campus, or learning how to start a conversation while riding a chairlift at Smuggs, SMC presents an invaluable learning environment.  It’s this unique balance of opportunities that really differentiates the college and helps students grow into their potential.

I am currently working as a Proposal Design Consultant at National Life Group. National Life Group is a financial service company that offers life insurance and annuities, and it is located in Montpelier, Vermont. I began working at NLG over ten years ago as a Product Development Actuarial Intern. I held that position for 7 months and then transitioned over to a job on the illustration’s team (the team that I am still on today).

I worked two days a week the Spring semester of my Senior year and began working full-time the day after I graduated from Saint Michael’s College. I still work closely with the Actuaries that I interned with, but as opposed to helping create & price the products, I now bring them to life in the illustration system.

I spent my first five years on the team testing our illustration software. That included reviewing requirements, writing test cases, performing tests and managing defects. I then transitioned to a role on the team where I designed and developed the illustration output. While testing was still a huge part of this new role, I also had the chance to get creative by designing simple, clean, and modern illustration output and the chance to learn to develop in C#. Early in 2020, my role shifted again, and I was offered the opportunity to manage a team that designs, develops, and tests the illustration output. In this leadership role, I have had the opportunity to continue to do the designing and developing that I have grown to love, but I have also had the opportunity to learn a completely different set of skills: coaching, empowering, communicating and developing (just to name a few).

Saint Michael’s prepared me for life after college at National Life Group. A fellow SMC alum who worked at NLG helped me to get my foot in the door through my actuarial internship. The power of SMC’s network in action!

By majoring in math I learned how to problem solve…a skill that has served me very well in my role today. My love and understanding of numbers has also served me well. While I am not on the team that tests the values within the illustration system, my familiarity with the values and how they work allows me to jump in and help that team as needed.

I am extremely thankful for the education that I received at SMC and for all the professors who were so critical in my experience & growth.

If you are interested in pursuing a career at National Life Group or in software testing/design/development/leadership, please don’t hesitate to reach out any time: efarnhamhaskell@gmail.com.

Saint Michael’s College jump-started my career in software development. Not only was I better prepared for industry than I could have reasonably expected, but the workshops and tools that St. Mike’s offered to assist with resume-building and to provide mock-interview experience were invaluable when it came time to job-search. These amenities, along with dedicated support from professors in the computer science and math departments, are some of the primary reasons why I had the opportunity to begin my career at IBM.

I joined IBM when I graduated in 2011 as a Software Engineer. I developed ETL (extract, transform, load) software to continuously load the manufacturing information data warehouse. I also had the unique opportunity to help design and develop a prototype warehouse designed for aggregating financial and technical data to enable near-real-time reporting of business operations statistics.  I was quite thankful I’d decided to pursue the math minor alongside my computer science degree given my career quickly focused on data analytics and business intelligence.

I prefer (and thrive in) close and tight-knit environments; it’s one of the reasons why I chose to attended St. Mike’s. It’s the same reason I inevitably left Big Blue in favor of a smaller firm. I joined Galen Healthcare Solutions in 2013, a healthcare IT consulting company only a few miles from the St. Michael’s campus. I started out providing technical consulting services to Galen’s clients: I’ve assisted clients with data conversions, implemented data warehouses, built reports and developed custom software. I’d never expected to work so directly with clients while in industry, but the liberal education I received from St. Mike’s prepared me with the interpersonal skills necessary to handle client interactions professionally and gracefully. Before leaving Galen in 2016, worked as a Senior Software Engineer developing products designed to supplement electronic health records (EHR) systems. EHR systems tend to be large, complex, and sometimes unwieldy; despite that, they are also vital tools in providing quality patient care. The goal with this product was to ensure patient care is seamless and continual, ensuring where data is stored doesn’t get in the way of providing excellent patient care.  I credit Galen Healthcare, and its experienced development team for really teaching me how to build software properly.

I left Galen for an uncommon opportunity, and an unbelievable challenge. A local startup named DealerPolicy with a unique vision and a prototype software product was looking for an Architect to shape the product and development team. The company’s vision was simple and elegant – try to save people money on car insurance at a time when they’re most likely to switch carriers: when they’re buying a new car.  Sounds like a cliché commercial, but it’s more than that – if we can provide dealership customers with the best insurance at the best rate, and provide dealership employees a compelling tool to make their sales process easier and more intuitive; and you’ve got a powerful insurance lead generation tool. I began my role as Senior Software Architect by taking ownership of the product and ramping off the outsourced development team initially contracted to build it. Since then, we’ve built a fledgling engineering arm of the company that’s focused on transforming the prototype website into a scalable/enterprise-grade software product/solution that can continue to support the business and its multitude of dealership customers as the company aims to take its vision national.  While I’m responsible for product development and ensuring the cloud-based production systems that our dealerships use daily are working, the most fulfilling aspect of my daily routine is getting the opportunity to mentor new engineers on the craft of software development. As professors, classmates, and former colleagues from St. Mike’s, IBM, and Galen once mentored me, I get to watch and help new team members grow their skills and craft. Being able to pay that debt forward is quite gratifying. As a company, we’ll continue to grow our engineering team, and cultivate our newer engineers so that we may build a product so compelling, it’ll be used by the dealership you buy your next car from; and we hope at that time that we’ll be able to save you money on car insurance.

Thinking about a future in software engineering? Considering attending St. Mikes?  I’m happy to chat: mcommo@dealerpolicy.com.

I began my career with National Life in Montpelier, Vermont as a Corporate Actuarial Intern in September of 2010.  In the spring of 2011 I took a permanent position in Product Development as a Business Analyst working with and supporting the actuaries who price our Life Insurance products.  While working under the title of “Business Analyst”, I helped to lead an effort to rebrand our positions as “Actuarial Systems Analysts”.  Our day to day tasks focused on the testing and validation of the systems used to illustrate and administer our products.  While the actuaries were charged with developing the formulas used for calculation of premiums and charges of our products, my area was tasked with assuring that the formulas and calculations were properly implemented by developers on the systems.  This effort required the development of test plans and strategies as well as individual test cases and scenarios specific to the product and system being tested.

My experience testing in a product specific role lead to me being offered my current position as “Quality Assurance Lead” in the newly formed Business Delivery Office in early 2015.   The BDO as an organization offers such services as organizational design and opportunity, strategic roadmap development and planning, quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and process improvement.  As a part of the Quality Assurance team, I am heavily involved in the majority of software and testing related initiatives throughout the company as a whole.  We lead efforts to develop test strategy, planning, coordination, execution, and reporting on an individual basis as well as tailoring each of these to the specific needs of each project.

My time at Saint Michael’s College prepared me well for my career with National Life.  My background in mathematics and computer science allows me to think logically as well as analyze and mediate any risks to project delivery.  Much of my job requires me to communicate clearly and efficiently with IT Developers and Programmers as well as Business Users and Stakeholders.  This requires an extensive technical background and also the ability to keep up with the ever changing business trends of the Life Insurance industry.

For more information about me, Quality Assurance, or opportunities with National Life, please feel free to contact me at ehakey@nationallifegroup.com.

I am a Customer Success Specialist in the Systems Engineering group at Avid Technology in Woburn, MA. I’ve been at Avid for a little over a year and I really love it. The product I support is called Interplay Media Asset Management (MAM for short), which is essentially a big database used to store video archives. There’s a lot of customization involved at each site, which means they’re all set up very differently, and one of the ways they’re customized is via short pieces of code called workflows. They’re written in a proprietary coding language, but it’s really similar to some of the languages I learned at St. Mike’s and a lot of the time when I’m troubleshooting an error for a customer, I start with the following the code in the workflow.

Most of our customers are big tv stations, like NBC, CBS, Supersport (in South Africa), Caracol (in Columbia), and M6 (in Paris) to name a few. The coolest thing I’ve gotten to do so far was work tech support for NBC Sports during the Sochi Olympics – my name was even in the credits. I work on issues for customers all over the world, so I talk to people in France, Germany, South Africa, Ukraine and Columbia (to name a few) on a fairly regular basis, which is also pretty awesome. Plus I work with a great group of colleagues, which I’ve found is extremely important.

My education at St. Mike’s definitely provided a foundation to thrive in this industry. My double major enabled me to have a strong background in mathematics as well as computer science. Obviously, the CS background has helped when debugging code, but the logic I learned in my math classes has been key – you’d be surprised how many times errors are caused by improper use of parentheses. In addition, the Liberal Studies aspect of my education at St. Mike’s has been extremely valuable. In today’s world, there is a shortage of technical people with the ability to express themselves to non-technical people. Between Liberal Studies requirements and peer tutoring, I left St. Mike’s with all the necessary skills to work efficiently with both customers and engineers.

I currently work at MathWorks, a developer of technical computing software located in Natick, MA. MathWorks develops two main products, MATLAB and Simulink. I work as a technical writer for the MATLAB product, specifically with the graphics team. As a technical writer, I write user-focused content and develop examples to show how to use the software. Before working at MathWorks, I completed a Master’s in Mathematics at Clarkson University where I worked as a research assistant and a teaching assistant.

My education at St. Mike’s provided me with the strong mathematical background necessary for pursuing graduate school. The professors provided a great balance of pushing students to work hard while always being available for extra help outside the classroom. The extra push to work hard as an undergraduate has helped ease the transition to the heavy workload of graduate classes. My classes at St. Mike’s also introduced me to the concept of using software to solve mathematical equations, which eventually led to the job I have now! One thing I will never forget about my experience at St. Mike’s is the approachability, encouragement, and support I received from all the professors in the mathematics department.

In 2008 I started working as a software developer/bookkeeper for Data Systems Inc., a Burlington-based software company that specializes in customized order fulfillment, accounting, and E-commerce solutions. The logical principles I acquired in my mathematics education helped greatly in the transition to programming logic in PROIV, a fourth generation rapid application development language. Accounting principles were easy to pick up on, especially after getting through Calc III and Real Analysis!

Data Systems is structured as a worker cooperative; I’ll admit before I began working at DSI I had never heard of a worker coop before. For those in the same boat as me, worker cooperatives are business entities that are owned and controlled by their members, the people who work in them. So after a year of satisfactory employment I was offered the opportunity to purchase an ownership share in the Data Systems coop. I accepted and became one of Data Systems worker-owners. A few years later I became Data Systems’s president after a vote by the board of directors. I wear a lot of hats currently as is common at many worker coops and am involved in software development, customer support, business administration and sales.

Working at DSI has truly been a blessing, as a worker owner I have to opportunity to be my own boss and have a say in the direction of our company, as well as a share in the profits. We are currently supporting clients using legacy software applications, but hope to work on some new web-based applications for the wider ‘Coop Economy’. Currently I am an organizer for a burgeoning network of worker coops in Northern VT, known as the Green Mountain Cooperative Alliance.

Most importantly for me, my work/life balance is excellent and I have the freedom to spend lots of quality time with my wife, our 5 year old son, and 2 year old daughter. I truly believe that my mathematics degree from Saint Michael’s has helped me stand out from the crowd at every job interview I have ever been on and has opened many doors for me so far. My thanks go out the fantastically dedicated teachers at Saint Mike’s who helped make this all possible!

I am current working as an Information Technology (IT) Specialist at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) after graduating in the Spring of 2003.  I worked as a student intern while attending SMC and have been with the Federal Government for over 15 years now.  USCIS processes applications and petitions for immigration and citizenship benefits, promotes an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensures the integrity of the United States immigration system.  I work for the Office of Information Technology (OIT) within USCIS where we provide the information technology expertise and the strategic vision necessary to enable USCIS to deliver immigration services and products.  My role at USCIS has changed over the last 15 years, as the needs of the agency have changed post-9-11.  I began my career with an interest in computers, technology in general, and a technical background thanks to my mathematics degree, that assisted me with analyzing requirements and coming up with creative solutions to the complex challenges that face immigration and Government bureaucracy.

I started out at USCIS providing end-user support, and quickly moved onto managing a server environment and creating websites which I love to this day.  Today, my role within the organization has changed drastically. I decided to become a Project Manager and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) overseeing multi-million dollar IT contracts on behalf of USCIS.  I primarily manage our Mobility contract that consists of over 6,000 smartphones/tablets and our virtual desktop solution that allows users to remotely access the Network from any of their personal devices.  My degree in math is not fully leveraged, but my love of numbers that came from my time at SMC has assisted me with preparing multi-million dollar budgets, reconciling invoices, and performing data analysis in MS Excel/Access.  A math degree from a college with SMC’s reputation has opened doors for me within the Federal Government to move around the organization based on what I would like to do next, because they know I am fully capable of handling the challenge.

For the last 17 years, I’ve been working at Physician’s Computer Company (PCC) based in the Champlain Mill of Winooski, VT.  PCC is a medical software company specializing in providing software and practice management solutions to about 200 independent pediatric practices nationwide. PCC has existed since the early 1980’s and truly was a pioneer in the medical software industry providing billing, scheduling, and practice management software to pediatricians for over 30 years.  We have since added Electronic Health Record (EHR) clinical software and practice management consulting services.

I started at PCC in 1999 working as an Installation, Training and Support Technician providing software and hardware support and training for our clients. I have since visited dozens of pediatric practices, installing and training administrative and clinical staff on PCC’s software.  In 2005, I began working as a consultant to our clients, performing personalized financial assessments. Since then I have developed, maintained, and supported an online Dashboard application allowing pediatric practices to see key performance indicators compared to industry benchmarks. I have also become a subject matter expert in the realm of financial and clinical reporting and help our clients understand the ever-changing health care industry while also staying competitive.

Soon after graduating from Saint Mike’s I realized that I found great joy in teaching and helping adults understand technology.  While I enjoy the analytical part of my job (the data analysis and web development for example), I find that what I like most about my job at PCC is traveling to pediatric practices and helping them implement our software.  There is a great balance of customer service and data analysis in my job and I feel that the liberal arts education and experience at St. Mike’s prepared me well for that.  In particular, the mathematics and computer science classes that I took have allowed me to excel at data analysis and programming, both of which are an integral part of my job.

Many thanks to all the educators at St. Mike’s who challenged me and taught me skills and knowledge useful in both the workplace and in life. I began telecommuting to PCC in 2010 when I moved to Cape Elizabeth, Maine where I now live happily with my wife and two kids.

I have just celebrated my 30^th anniversary with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.  I have had various positions thru the years and most recently am managing a team of Security Analysts on Directory Services in the IT Hosting Security Operations department.  While Liberty Mutual is primarily an insurance company, IT is key to enabling the entire company to achieve its strategies and business objectives.  LM has a large technology team that combines technical know-how and business savvy to bring real-world results. Liberty Mutual IT provides the business with innovative applications, computing, security and communication services.  Liberty Mutual IT has evolved thru the years and I am continuously challenged and learning, adapting to changing environments, and applying my skills to make a difference.  I work with great people and Liberty Mutual offers in-depth technical training along with the soft skills training needed to work successfully.

I still have many fond memories of Saint Michael’s!  From the basketball court to the classroom, each professor, coach and friend played a key role in developing who I am today. The mathematics curriculum provided me with solid analytical thinking and problem solving skills that are very much required for a successful IT career.  Professors challenged my thinking and staff members were much more than just coaches. They demonstrated love and compassion providing a sense of belonging to the SMC community. Several friends and teammates are still a part of my life today.  While I don’t get back to SMC as often as I would like, all those there, past and present, will always be family.  SMC is deeply rooted in our family as my husband and son are also SMC alums. When back on campus, it feels like we were students yesterday and not 30 years ago.

For my first 5 years in industry I was an application developer. I then moved to work on infrastructure teams that supported servers, storage, LAN’s, and WAN’s all while obtaining a masters degree at night. When I applied to graduate schools to get a masters degree in Computer Science I was accepted into more than one program. I do believe that my Mathematics degree played a role as most people have a real respect for students with a degree in Mathematics. As my career progressed in infrastructure I moved into management positions and managed teams of architects and engineers that developed global standards for LAN design, WAN design, secure networks, firewalls, telephony and voice infrastructure. This included managing a large enterprise network as a Director connecting business locations in the US, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. My last position, before becoming a professor was a Vice President at ACE; this position involved managing all of the Servers and Storage infrastructure for ACE’s US focused businesses.

I became an adjunct professor at Drexel University in 2010 and have been a full time teaching professor at Drexel University since 2012. I teach courses primarily in the BS in Information Technology and the BS in Computing Security and Technology programs (BSCST).

Mathematics majors solve complex problems over and over again while obtaining their degree. Guess what, IT is full of complex problems that need to be solved. When I attended St. Michael’s most all of my classes were very small. I had very close contact with my professors and it was an ideal learning environment. The analytical and problem solving skills that were embedded into me by St. Michael’s College many years ago have served me well throughout my entire career.

I am currently working in the Procurement department as an Associate Analyst at C&S Wholesale Grocers. This department is responsible for monitoring product volume and helping purchase goods at the lowest prices. In return, we turn these lower prices into better deals for our customers and more profit for the company. In my role, I am responsible for supporting all groups within Procurement, usually solving problems to achieve maximum efficiency. Usually, the information I find is sent in reports or leads into further investigation.

My mathematics education at Saint Michael’s definitely helped prepare me for my role. Saint Mike’s provided me with strong analytic skills as well as the ability to think critically. I learned there are multiple ways to solve every problem. Being able to apply my math degree to real-life applications was very important to me and the Saint Michael’s faculty went above and beyond in helping me in my job search.

I graduated from Saint Michael’s College with a B.S. in Mathematics. In my work, I can see where SMC’s influence has helped me immensely.

After working at a data-as-a-service provider called Semcasting as a Marketing Audience Analyst in the Financial/Home services department, I recently accepted a Business Intelligence position at Lowell Community Health Center. I’ve been able to work on many different projects so far that help to comb through data for various departments at the health center. Most of my day involves either SQL or R to complete my analyses. SQL wasn’t something I learned at SMC but some of the other programs I was exposed to at SMC have made the transition fairly smooth.

My favorite project so far has been analyzing the HC’s quality of care measures using R. This involves taking the past year’s data from various types of screenings and seeing if there are statistical differences between the different races to determine which have higher levels of non-compliance. These analyses will then be used to help influence future decisions to improve our non-compliance rates. When learning R in college it seemed a bit like something I’d only use in a real math intensive job but it has certainly proven itself to be useful in my analyst role and I’m thankful I was exposed to it in school.

Attending SMC also instilled values I hold near and dear and I wanted to find them in my professional life. This new role has delivered on that front as well and I couldn’t be happier to work for an organization that has strong values and serves the underserved.

For me, this whole career path started with one class I took at SMC called Applied Regression Analysis. As I was was sitting in Durick one night creating a 60-page report, I realized that modeling data and finding unique solutions was something that was both engaging and challenging. I knew that I had stumbled onto something and decided to continue to pursue this path. The strong analytical background I fostered at SMC is coming in handy with tackling new problems and coming up with innovative solutions in my new position.

Apart from crunching numbers and running models, I enjoy playing tennis, hiking, skiing, and biking whenever I can!

I am currently a Senior Scientist at Merck working in Early Development Statistics within the Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences (BARDS) department. Within Early Development Statistics, I work in the Translational Oncology group, primarily providing statistical support to help identify, develop, and validate oncology biomarkers that can be used to support Merck’s various oncology programs. In this role, I serve as the lead biomarker statistician for several early- and late-stage oncology programs, helping to develop scientific statistical analysis plans and analyze biomarker and clinical data. I additionally conduct research to develop and validate statistical methods to aid future biomarker projects.

Prior to beginning my role at Merck, I completed a Biostatistics PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation research concerned development and application of novel statistical methods for performing distributed regression analysis, intended for use in multi-site observational studies where individual healthcare sites cannot share individual patient data but want to perform combined data analysis.

My mathematics education at Saint Michael’s prepared me very well for both my PhD program and ensuing role at Merck. In addition to the comprehensive introductory statistics curriculum, experience with linear algebra and writing mathematical proofs were especially helpful in learning probability theory and being well-prepared for graduate-level biostatistics coursework. Working as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry, non-technical communication of statistical concepts to multidisciplinary teams is a large part of my current role. The all-encompassing liberal arts education that Saint Michael’s provided has helped tremendously with this, and I am sure it will continue to prove useful as I progress through my career.

I graduated from Saint Michael’s as a math and education double major with hopes of becoming a math teacher in a middle or high school. I spent some time teaching after graduation, but ultimately decided that teaching was no longer a profession I wanted to pursue. My job search landed me in the health insurance industry, which I found to be a perfect blend of both my technical and arts backgrounds.

Currently, I am working at Fallon Health, a small health insurance company in Worcester, Massachusetts. I work with a team of doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals in the Utilization Management department as a Coordinator and Report Specialist. This department manages how our members access their benefits and medically necessary services. My role includes reporting and analysis of the data my department produces. This data is then presented to other department leaders within our company and is also sent to health care providers and government agencies for review. I run ad hoc reports to track various business processes within the department for quality assurance and compliance. I also work with our IT department to develop these reports.

My mathematics education at St. Mike’s has prepared me for this role because it taught me the significance of critical thinking. Many of my co-workers have approached me to help them work through obstacles that arise and I rely on critical thinking to find a solution. As a student at St. Mike’s, I was eager to learn new things and master each topic. I carried this desire to learn with me after graduation and it has allowed me the opportunity to be involved in many of the projects that support the ever-changing business needs of my department.

When I am not in the office, you can find me in the pool training for my next open water swim or on deck coaching the swim team at my local YMCA. Although I have stepped away from teaching, I find fulfillment in coaching these young swimmers.

I completed my Masters in Business Analytics at Bentley University, and I am now a Principal Engineer for the Field Operations team at Verizon. My job is to provide requirements for new broadband products and services as well as create training for installation and troubleshooting these new offerings.

My Saint Michael’s mathematics education has helped me thrive in projects involving big data. I am constantly asked to perform big data analysis on small side projects because of my math background. Those opportunities have allowed me to join many of the diverse and innovative projects Verizon is working on. I want to continue my mathematics education and I hope to some day earn my MBA degree.

I am currently working as a Public Health Analyst for the Vermont Department of Health (VDH). My work primarily supports the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. My day-to-day work typically consists of responding to data requests, writing data briefs, and performing any general data analysis and research related to drug and alcohol use/misuse across the state of Vermont. Additionally, half of my time goes toward working as an evaluator for the Strategic Prevention Framework for Prescription Drugs grant. This grant is aimed at preventing the misuse of prescription opioids among youth and young adults in Vermont through various media and outreach programs. My role as an evaluator is to determine how effective any grant-related programs have been and to engage with stakeholders to determine what is needed to achieve any desired goals over time.

Before being hired as a full-time employee at VDH, I was an intern in the Oral Health program. I spent most of my time writing data briefs with the aim of explaining the connection between oral health and overall health. This internship was done as part of my graduate work at the University of Vermont where I earned a Master’s of Science in Biostatistics.

During my time as a mathematics/economics double major, I learned many valuable lessons and skills, and the foundation I built at Saint Mike’s has helped immensely in my career and academic endeavors.  In particular, my background in programming has been the most useful part of my undergraduate experience and is a skill I cannot recommend highly enough to someone considering a career in statistical analysis or any quantitative field.

In addition to my work at the Department of Health, I also work at the Durick Library on the weekends, so feel free to stop by if you have any questions!

I am currently working at SmartCo Services, LLC in Taunton, Massachusetts. SmartCo Services is a web-based technology company which was established in 2005. SmartCo’s primary product is a smart inventory program called PartsEye. This program is used by car dealerships across the country to optimize inventory in their parts department by analyzing their data. PartsEye is used to see what parts a dealership is selling, what parts they have in stock, and consider current industry trends to decide what parts a dealership should order on a daily basis.

I work in the Process Improvement department as a Process Improvement Analyst. My day-to-day responsibilities include analyzing existing processes and operational data, as well as creating reporting and workflows that provide recommendations for improvement to the customer’s experience. I work closely will almost all other departments in the company, including the development team, technical operations, and product management. Currently, I am working on a project with product management in regards to changing the inventory import process. This is the process in which we collect dealerships’ inventory from various Dealer Management Systems that the dealers use.

Majoring in Mathematics at Saint Michael’s College prepared me for this role by providing me with the analytical and technical skills that I use daily. As a Process Improvement Analyst, I am looking at the company’s current procedures and figuring out ways to make them less resource-intensive and more customer-friendly. The Mathematics Department at SMC provided me with the critical thinking skills that I need to succeed in my current role and to advance in the technical/automotive industry.

I am currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen. This position resides in Brand Effect, which is part of Nielsen’s global Data Science Watch organization, maximizing clients’ advertising effectiveness across TV and digital platforms. I am responsible for measuring the memorability and quality of clients’ advertisements to improve their return on investment. My work primarily focuses on performing custom statistical research and analysis using various sampling, modeling, and hypothesis testing methods. Doing this involves extracting data from Oracle databases using SQL and writing Python/R programs to manipulate and analyze data.

After graduating from Saint Michael’s, I enrolled in Purdue University’s Master of Science in Applied Statistics program and graduated in May 2015. As part of my acceptance I was offered a teaching assistantship, including a stipend and a tuition waiver. During my two-year assistantship, I had a variety of roles and responsibilities, including conducting and grading introductory statistical methods recitation labs and instructing an introductory probability course for business majors. Being a TA as well as an instructor for undergraduate statistics classes not only solidified my knowledge of different statistical methods but it also built my confidence and leadership, making me comfortable in positions where responsibility, discernment, and strong interpersonal skills are essential. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I took courses which emphasized statistical methodologies and inference, and computational statistics.

My Saint Michael’s mathematics education provided me with the foundation of knowledge to succeed in graduate school and at Nielsen. The quantitative training and creative problem solving skills that I obtained from my coursework at SMC have taught me to look at data with an open mind. Data analysis has so many facets and approaches, and there are often multiple ways to find the solution to a problem. My education has taught me that it’s not about getting the right answer right away, but rather taking the time to think critically and understand all the possible solutions to a problem first. This approach to problem solving and the statistical skills I learned at Saint Michael’s have been invaluable, and I apply them every day.

I am currently an Analyst at Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophic risk modeling firm in Hoboken, NJ. I am concurrently enrolled in a part time M.S. in Data Science program at New York University where I will be exploring connections between data science, environmental conservation, and policy. Starting after the completion of my junior year, and continuing through the summer after my graduation, I interned as a Corporate Actuarial Intern at National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier, VT where I devised methods to capture and test specific data inputs against select in-force policy illustrations to ensure modeling accuracy between the incoming and existing actuarial softwares.

Following graduation, I moved to Scotland for a year and explored the scenery and the Scotch Whisky industry to which I became certified in its sales and service. Now that I have returned to the U.S. I have been working at RMS with (re)insurance clients to assess their quantifiable catastrophic risk for specific books of business. Working with datasets containing anywhere from one to millions of records I cleanse the data, import into our RiskLink software and apply any financial structures, and preform an analysis. Subsequently, I simplify the results and the client’s exposures into a digestible format, then I deliver and present it to the client giving insight into where there greatest risks can be found.

The mathematics degree from Saint Michael’s helped me prepare for my career. Through the various core courses and especially the elective courses I have been able to pique my interests in the applicability of mathematics. The most important aspects were the opportunities to present my research and participate in real-world applicable mathematics discourse outside of the classroom at various symposia and conferences.

Upon graduating from SMC, I received my Master’s Degree in 2014 in Applied Mathematics from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. I worked as Business Intelligence Analyst within the Human Resources department for a large healthcare system in Charlotte, NC for 6+ years. In this role, my responsibilities ranged from ad hoc reporting requests, to building automated reporting solutions in Excel & SuccessFactors, to statistical analysis on various workforce metrics.I currently work as a Vice President – HR Analytics Consultant for Bank of America in the Workforce Analytics, Reporting, and Data Governance (WARDG) department. I work with large employee data sets centered around Compensation, Pay and Financial Impact metrics. About 50% of my role is developing automated reports, dashboards, and tools for our Compensation business partners using MicroStrategy, Tableau and Alteryx. MicroStrategy is a data extraction and reporting tool. Tableau is a data visualization tool which is great for aggregating large data sets into an executive ready dashboard. Alteryx is a data manipulation tool similar to Excel or Access. The other 50% of my role is ad hoc analyses for topics related to Compensation such as: how does increasing the minimum rate of pay create compression across like job roles throughout the bank; or financial impact assessments of year-end bonus deferral grids, and more.

Working for a large financial institution has given me countless opportunities to develop myself both personally and professionally. For example, during the COVID pandemic, I took on additional responsibilities to be part of a project responsible for daily reporting around employee COVID cases & vaccine status which goes directly to the CEO (Brian Moynihan). It was great exposure to work with senior leadership and I get to work with colleagues from all across the globe, all of which bring diverse thoughts and skills to our team. My career is very exciting and rewarding; having a degree in mathematics from Saint Michael’s College helps me be very versatile in the types of work I can perform and provides a competitive edge in today’s data driven job market.

I am working as a Business Process Specialist for CUNA Mutual Group, an insurance company based in Madison, WI.  We provide insurance and other financial services for credit unions and their members.  I work in the Finance department leading the Account Performance team.  We aggregate the data for all product lines for each credit union.  This allows the product teams and the sales team to consider the entire account rather than a siloed view, one product at a time.  My primary responsibilities include verifying data accuracy and responding to data requests from the different product areas.  I also started an R&D working group whose purpose is to find more uses for the data.  A lot of time has been invested into compiling and verifying the data and it can be very powerful in driving business decisions so I assembled a group of analysts from across the company to see how their departments can utilize the data.  So far the project is one month in and we are already seeing interesting projects and a high level of interaction from the participants.

My Saint Michael’s mathematics education helped prepare me for this position because at St. Mike’s I learned not to have tunnel vision when solving a problem.  There are typically many ways to find the solution and being able to wrap your mind around many different starting points at once is important.  When I’m working with the data there are many different starting points and I have to decide pretty quickly which point is actually the best place to start.  Similarly, if there are problems with the accuracy of the data I have to quickly determine the best course of action to remedy the issue.  I am also doing some statistical regression, potentially moving towards inference, and learning about that at SMC has been invaluable.

I am a Public Health Analyst for the State of Vermont, working for the Department of Health’s Immunization Registry Program in downtown Burlington, VT. My main duties include conducting ad-hoc and standing data and statistical analysis tasks as requested from the IMR manager and other clients around the state, assist in data quality and import tasks, and provide support on multiple levels in the Immunization Registry team, including interacting with clients, practices, and health insurers from the area. I am also a graduate of the University of Vermont’s Master of Science in Statistics program, from which I graduated in May of 2013.

My mathematics education was a tremendous help in preparation for graduate school and for my career as an analyst for the State of Vermont. The principles that I was taught definitely gave me a leg up, both in graduate school and beyond. I could not be more happy and proud to be a graduate of the Saint Michael’s College mathematics program. Go, Purple Knights!

You have to measure it to manage it. A concept that my professional life has made me realize, but my education with Saint Mike’s Math Department provided the foundation for. My degree from SMC honed my problem-solving skills and enabled an exciting and diverse career path.

I joined MRM McCann early in 2015 as a Senior Data Strategist and have since been promoted to Director, Data Analytics. However, there is more to my story before this career shift. I started my career with a leading social media agency, Attention, as the head data analyst where I helped build the analytics practice, as well as, designed and executed analytics strategies for clients such as: Hilton Hotels, Michelin, Logitech, Sports Authority, M.A.C. Cosmetics, and Bausch & Lomb. After Attention, I earned a Master’s degree in technology entrepreneurship from the University of Notre Dame with a focus on recommendation engine design for a web-based deals marketplace business model. Following Notre Dame, I helped to found and build a startup, called enFocus, ‘focused’ on community development through technology deployment and business process optimization in the public sector. At enFocus, projects featured data driven business strategies for municipalities and educational institutions, social media focused crowdfunding campaigns, and health care informatics initiatives directed at population health using mobile and social platforms. A bonus: with all of the project experience I garnered to that point, I earned a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute – this is something I would highly recommend as life is full of projects.

When I am not at the office or trying to save the world, you might find me traveling, surfing, or playing ice hockey.

I completed my PhD in Biostatistics at Brown University almost two years ago. My thesis was entitled “Covariate Defined Latent Space Models for Social Networks with Extensions to Biomolecular Pathways”. It was an amazing experience to do a PhD at Brown.

Since then, I taught statistics for a year at SUNY Fredonia, but decided to go back into research. Currently, I am a research scientist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. I lead and contribute to manuscripts, lead the analytic team in defining research questions, developing analytic plans, and overseeing analyses and end products. It has been handy that my undergraduate degree was in math; for example, early in my position I was deriving measures to model economic competition that relate to healthcare markets that ended up in a paper. So my SMC degree is still coming in handy!

I am still involved with projects incorporating my dissertation topic, social networks, and I am encouraged to pose and work on new research questions that I come up with as pertains to the world of health policy and clinical practice. I also take an active mentor role, mentoring various students and programmers in the learning and implementation of statistics.

I work as a Healthcare Data Analyst at the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC). As an analyst, I use SAS and work with several forms of healthcare data including administrative claims, lab, pharmacy, EMR, survey and patient-entered information. I am responsible for completing analyses that examine clinical and financial outcomes, such as episode costs, mortality rates, inpatient length of stay, etc. HVHC work is focused around various chronic and surgical conditions, and I primarily work on Sepsis-related projects. The overall goal is to better understand best medical practices that result in the best outcomes and share this information with other hospitals within the collaborative as they transition to deliver value-based care.

My mathematics education at Saint Michael’s has certainly helped me get to where I am today. At Saint Michael’s, we were required to take certain math courses as part of the degree requirements but were also given some flexibility in exploring topics of interest in math. This mix provides a good foundation for everyone but also leaves room for students to discover what part of math is most fascinating to them as individuals. I first became interested in statistics at St. Michael’s which led me to a Master’s degree in Statistics and then a career in data and statistical analysis. The math education at Saint Michael’s has not only helped me in my career path; it has allowed me to solve problems and think critically outside of work and the classroom. I have also taken away with me a set of tools and skills that allow me to learn on my own and think for myself – important for anywhere life may take me.

Currently I am working as a Statistical Programmer for the Vermont Oxford Network. I write SAS code to investigate the network’s data. Usually the information I gain from investigations is used to send reports to clients, further a research project, or improve the accuracy of our data.

The varied math courses that Saint Michael’s offered allowed me to discover the areas of mathematics that I enjoyed the most, which led me to pursue a graduate degree. The math courses I took at Saint Michael’s provided a strong mathematical foundation when I entered graduate school. The mathematical education I received at Saint Michael’s helped me in my graduate school courses, but the analytical skills I developed have proven to be an invaluable asset at my job. I don’t necessarily use math or statistics for every given problem, but I have to solve problems constantly. I completed my MS in Statistics at UVM in 2010.

I am a Senior Pricing Analyst with Level 3 Communications, a global network services provider with one of the largest IP transit networks in North America and Europe. As an analyst, I have been primarily responsible for data mining and analysis, as well as delivering reporting to stakeholders from the analyst level through the Board of Directors on the projects our team has undertaken. I am frequently called upon to develop, mine and produce ad hoc analyses and reports for the myriad of complex global products and internal business operations our team consults on.

My math and economics coursework from St. Mike’s taught me both analytic and statistical skills that I use every day, but more than that, it instilled in me an appreciation of digging into a topic. Having a strong quantitative background has been invaluable. Even with no work experience, a math degree shows a potential employer that you have a strong ability to understand and digest complex ideas. Going to St. Mike’s also ensured I had a healthy work/life balance, and I try to spend as much time mountain biking and exploring Colorado’s backcountry as I can.

I am currently a Lead Data Analyst at Wellpoint Inc. in North Haven, CT. I am working in the Center of Excellence in Transplants, Bariatric, Cardiac and Complex Cancers Division. This division researches and sets guidelines for Transplant, Cardiac, Bariatric and Complex Cancer Facilities and Hospitals across the country for all Wellpoint, Inc. owned Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shields. We use statistical regression modeling to analyze the success rates of transplant surgeries, Bariatric surgeries, Cardiac surgeries and complex cancer treatments in quality designated facilities versus non-designated facilities. Based on this analysis Wellpoint negotiates contract rates at each quality designated facility for each of these specific procedures. I think many people have a negative perception of the Health Insurance Industry. This is an example of Wellpoint (Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield) improving the care people receive.

I am in the process of completing my MBA at UConn School of Business.

More than anything my Saint Michael’s Math degree provided me with a strong analytical and quantitative background. This background opens doors in many different ways. It shows you have the ability to learn complex topics, which is an asset to many industries and therefore beneficial in any career.

I completed the 3+2 SMC-UVM Engineering Program with a major in Civil Engineering and a minor in Math. This program allowed me to experience two different schools, two different systems and be exposed to a diverse faculty and staff. Saint Michael’s College liberal arts program allowed me to improve my communications skills and analytical thinking, while developing a strong foundation in math and science.

While in school, I interned at the Burlington Department of Public Works in Burlington, Vermont. This opportunity allowed me to gain experience and practice on the field, while utilizing the theories learned in class. I also interned at The Corradino Group in Miami, Florida. These two jobs gave me experience and understanding of the transportation field of civil engineering. After a couple years of experience in transportation, I decided to try the field of structural engineering and started working at Build Health International.

I am currently working as a Project Engineer for Build Health International in Boston, Massachusetts. BHI is a non-profit organization that develops high quality healthcare infrastructure in underprivileged regions of the world. The majority of my work is focused on projects in South America; mainly Haiti and Peru. My role involves budgeting, designing and managing the projects from start to completion. The projects require to work locally in the office as well as visiting the project sites. This job is rewarding, and not only allows me to pursue my engineering career, but also allows me to help people in need while traveling and learning new cultures.