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● Creating targeted ad campaigns in order to get key demographics to use Rate my Judge website and get involved in judicial politics.

San Diego, California, United States

● Responsible for team of 4+ scholars, ensuring that they are able to create lesson plans and guide 30+ study participants and their families in learning spatial computational thinking strategies.

● Led 10-week course, facilitating students in small groups through technical assignments covering React.js, Javascript, using publicly available APIs, Databases (PostgreSQL), and CRUD operations.● Provided additional support to students by resolving any technical questions or problems with their assignments via Slack.● Recruited 14 students for Web Development and 32 students for other courses from underrepresented communities at SDSU.

El Paso, Texas, United States

● Promoted interactions and dissemination of CAHSI practices and activities● Connected with SDSU students via face-to-face interactions, social media, and email.● Organized workshop support, collaborations with student organizations, student engagement strategies, professional development support, and on-campus recruitment promotion.● Created swag (Hats, T-Shirts, Backpacks) and modified logo in accordance with branding identity to give to fellow advocates as a way to promote CAHSI to the students we served.

● Rebuilt client's previous website using Wix.● Integrated google sheets with site to automate website's content.● Automated google calendar display with events from NGP VAN.● Added functionality for website members with certain roles to access internal webpages.● Created promotional website for an upcoming election, ensuring that all endorsed candidates were elected as the county’s mayor and town commissioners.

● Responsible for updating and debugging client's website alongside their previous developer.● Debugged and created new components like drop downs and embeds to improve website navigation.● Sorted filter lists alphabetically to improve website's accessibility.● Updated and reformatted content to better reflect website's functionality and mission.

San Diego, California, United States

● Promoted, explained the steps of the study and the value of these activities to recruit study participants.● Designed curriculum for students and personalized kits for families to have the materials and instructions they need prior to the study.● Provided instructional support and encouragement to develop students’ willingness to engage in productive struggle and learn about computationally rich careers.● Supervised, mentored, and facilitated bilingual coding lessons for families and instructing parents in basic computer functions so they can follow the lessons along with their child.

● Selected for competitive program of 63 cohort members out of 5000+ applicants.● Gaining hands on experience creating REST APIs and RESTful WebServices with advanced Java backend development by using industry relevant tools (Spring Boot, SQL, AWS).● Receiving technical coaching and mentorship from seasoned Netflix engineers.● Addressing common challenges to the streaming industry like media codec compression, horizontal scaling, DNS and CDN optimization, and GraphQL.

San Diego, California, United States

● Gathered over 10 million tweets and cleaned/preprocessed 3250+ data points from 2 datasets used in training a machine learning model to detect the author’s sentiment/tone towards COVID-19 from their tweet.● Maintained a journal to report on research progress, developed a research plan, conducted literature review, created informational poster, and presented research.● Analyzed and visualized results from machine learning experiments to determine how people’s behavior and feelings related to COVID-19 changed over the course of the pandemic.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.12

Activities and Societies: oSTEM (out in STEM)

Certificate In Advanced Web Development

Certificate In Intermediate Web Development

Graduated with Honors.