Problem
In 2015, a nationwide investigation found at least 70,000 untested sexual assault kits in U.S. police departments, and likely many more. Kits sat in police departments, hospitals, and other facilities, with little visibility into where a given kit was or who had it. The work ran from January to October 2019.
Approach
- Partnered with the State of Idaho to white-label its kit tracking system so other states could adopt it. More than 20 states showed interest in Idaho’s system
- Assigned every kit a unique, anonymized ID and tracked its chain of custody, so each kit’s location was visible at every step
- Performed QA on deployments for several states
- Led the Puerto Rico deployment as team lead for 9 people across engineering, QA, and business analysis, focusing on product (what Puerto Rico needed changed) and the deployment itself
- Delivered Puerto Rico pro bono in September 2019: the team prepared in off hours the week before, then deployed over a weekend
- Built on .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, jQuery and JavaScript, and IIS
Outcome
- Puerto Rico rehomed kits from several storm-affected storage facilities with each kit’s chain of custody tracked
- Onboarded 4 agencies in Puerto Rico
- This project turned my interest toward Product Management