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Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Worked as a GTA for the second introductory engineering course: ENGR 102
• Taught students basic Excel, engineering team skills, and CS concepts
• Instructed, facilitated, and graded two weekly studios of 25 to 30 students

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Created the tutorial website for BoGL, a functional domain specific teaching language created by researchers at OSU
• Created curriculum for the ChildsPlay Research Project
• Created CS learning and teaching materials for new middle school CS teachers utilizing non-electronic games and a functional domain specific teaching language (BoGL)
• Managed a team of 3 undergraduate student researchers
• Observed teaching of, and conducted interviews with, middle school CS teachers to gather information for analysis of curriculum effectiveness and teacher knowledge

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Aided in examining the current student and faculty views of course requirements and tracking for ABET accreditation in EECS by coding interview transcripts for qualitative analysis
• Aided in analyzing student mental models of the linked list data structure by reviewing and coding research participant interview data
• Edited and drafted codes/rubrics for evaluating research participants’ mental models of linked lists

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Worked as a TA for the introductory computer science courses: CS160, CS161, and CS162
• Taught students computer science fundamentals and programming skills in the languages of Python and C++
• Instructed and guided labs of 15 to 30 students
• Hosted office hours for students needing additional help
• Graded up to 20 programming assignments per week
• Lectured classes of over 50 as a substitute instructor

Hillsboro Oregon

• Developed a script in C# that migrates mass amounts of issues from Bugzilla to Jira using MySQL and Jira REST API
• Frequently wrote SQL and JQL queries to gather relevant product defect information for reporting purposes
• Created a command line application for emailing mass amounts of recipients in order to improve the team's client communication process
• Administered the company-wide migration from Bugzilla to Jira for defect/bug tracking

Portland, Oregon Area

• Documented legacy software tools written in Perl and C
• Developed Windows Desktop and ASP.NET Web applications
• Collaborated with a client business group to design the UI and workflow for their software’s new functionality
• Developed an ACH file upload and viewing feature for an internal ASP.NET web application that is used to process payment information for credit cards
• Wrote testing and technical approach documentation
• Debugged Microsoft SQL Server scripts that are used within an internal U.S. Bank auditing application

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Awarded with the URSA Engage scholarship for participating in undergraduate research
• Researched and tested low level torque controllers for the Ghost Minitaur robot
• Used MuJoCo to create and run robot physics simulations
• Presented research at OSU's CUE event

Portland, Oregon Area

• Created building energy models using eQUEST
• Wrote technical reports regarding progress towards LEED certification

Lake Oswego, OR

• Handled 300 to 400 dollars in cash during each shift
• Cooperated in teams ranging from 2 to 7 other employees
• Duties included serving food, serving alcohol, busing tables, cleaning dishes, taking customer orders, answering phone calls, communicating with customers and kitchen staff, and working the cash register

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science Education

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Leadership Academy, URSA Engage, ACM