Hello, I'm Emma

Since before I could remember I have been trying to create. I was always the child on the carpet in preschool, making crazy castles out of blocks and trying to make zip-lines out of string and clothing hangers for my Barbies to fly on. Fast-forwarding to now, these basic principles have become the building blocks of my everyday life. My passion for computer science came about from my high school robotics team. When Mr. Killian (the most feared, but incredibly respected math teacher at Pascack Hills High School) told me that I should join the team I thought he was crazy. As I worked on our award winning robots, my passion for math, science, and engineering developed. I am now a senior studying Computer Science Engineering at Lehigh University. 

I was terrified and intimidated by joining a club, and a field, made up almost entirely of males. Now, almost six years later, I am the President and Co-founder of the Women in Computer Science club, a group devoted to making sure that females coming into STEM fields have a support system during their time at Lehigh and the rest of their careers. Through partnerships with the Bethlehem Pennsylvania community we have started to encourage local middle school girls to learn to code with twice weekly afterschool game design courses.  

This past summer, I participated in the Enterprise Operations and Technology Leadership Development Summer Analyst Program at Citigroup in New York City. During my ten-week rotation with the Site Research and Analytics Team, I analyzed the global Citi consolidation strategy. I facilitated the movement of employees and businesses across the Citi global network of locations by analyzing and mining vast amounts of data on the Citi extended workforce of over 300,000. In the summer of 2015 I got the opportunity to spend three months in Tel Aviv, Israel working at a small-scale, later-stage startup called Genome Compiler. Genome Compiler is an IDE for the human genome, a website where users are able to design, annotate, share, and order genetic sequences for research. Applications of this include a project in the Silicon Valley that creates glowing trees, hoping to one-day replace street lamps with nature. I worked in quality assurance, writing all of the tests for the new features implemented that summer. Living and working abroad also enabled me to immerse myself in rich Israeli culture and history. I believe that my combination of corporate and start-up experiences, in addition to my technical background, makes me a unique and well-rounded software engineer.