Tara C Young

Program Manager and Software Engineer

Curious and motivated by opportunities to solve real-world business problems and well-versed at decomposing large efforts into smaller, more manageable pieces.

Work Experience

Capital One, NA

New York, NY
Senior Program Manager
2014 - Present

Program Manager entrusted with delivering transformational technology and operations projects to support Capital One's Commercial lending portfolio

  • Led nineteen member cross-functional project delivery and loan accounting platform support team.
  • Rolled out the first online portal for Commercial Bank’s credit customers; currently in pilot with fifty customers.
  • Let Loan Operations in executing system conversion for $5 billion portfolio acquisition.

IBM

New York, NY
Advisory Project Manager
2006 - 2014

Trusted partner and client engagement lead collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a mulit-year client migration initiative.

  • Let Operations workstream on an 18-month, one million client account migration from Smith Barney to the Morgan Stanley accounting platform.
  • Responsible for automating account reconciliation activities.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (formerly Merrill Lynch)

Jersey City, NJ
Operations and Business Analyst
1997 - 2006

  • In collaboration with 100+ global user base, developed a formal business case for retiring a legacy bond trading platform.
  • Developed functional requirements and test cases to exercise the replacement platform.

Education

Software Engineering Immersive

General Assembly
2019-2020
Six month intensive with a focus on full-stack engineering.

MS Computer Science

Stevens Institute of Technology
1999
Coursework focus on software engineering and financial application development.

BS Electrical Engineering

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1995
Coursework focused on circuit design and digital signal processing. President of Society of Women Engineers Student Section.

Professional Skills

Top Skills

JavaScript

Advanced Beginner/Intermediate
Vanilla JavaScript and ES6

React

Beginner
React Hooks, ContextAPI, Functional and Class Components

Express

Advanced Beginner
RESTful APIs

Other Skills

Ruby on Rails React Bootstrap Node.js MongoDB
HTML5 CSS3 SASS Git

Portfolio

NYC Greenspace Finder

JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX

Giggle Libs

Express, React

Loan Data Dashboard

Ruby on Rails, ReactJS

Math for Gaming Time!

Ruby on Rails, ReactJS

Get in Touch

I'm currently looking for full-time software engineering work.

I can help with the following:

  • App development with ReactJS
  • Back-end development with Ruby on Rails
  • Back-end development with Node.js and Express
  • UI development

Drop me a line at tara.young1617@gmail.com