Nicholas Jones

Experience

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  Siemens

  May 2019 - now

  • Collaborated directly with other development teams to improve HEEDS, a powerful design space exploration tool which accelerates the engineering design process to improve products and significantly reduce development costs • Managed high-impact UI-related improvements to the product, including various features which improve the user's workflow, a spotlight functionality for new features in a release, UI guideline updates, and full stylesheet redesign to improve reusability for light mode and dark mode • Created an internal time-tracker tool which integrates with Redmine through RESTful API requests to improve overall development team efficiency • Migrated a separate application’s frontend (Simcenter ROM) to utilize existing functionality and reduce future development efforts, including connecting to a Python/gRPC backend • Led the redesign of surrogate workflows within HEEDS Post, providing clear and concise information while also improving usability and visual hierarchy • Optimized file copy/move operations, resulting in a 6x improvement for copy and 37x improvement for move operations Show less • Built and locally deployed a prototype web app using Mendix to integrate with the HEEDS desktop application • Utilized Python for data processing and REST services for communication between HEEDS, Python and the web app • Managed and deployed multiple AWS EC2 instances to run the HEEDS application in the cloud to test as an alternate solution for customers without proper computational throughput to run large studies • Presented to various product teams at Siemens to transfer knowledge and help set the foundation for multiple customer-specific web application solutions Show less

  • UI Development Software Engineer

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Software Development Intern

    May 2019 - Dec 2019