Alec James Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Leading a small-group mentoring section each week.Attending weekly meetings with Senior mentors to build my teaching and preparation skills.Shadowing and checking-in with other mentors over the semester.

New York, New York, United States

Berkeley, California, United States

Leading discussion sections, contributing to lab and project creation, holding office hours for computer architecture.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Cooperated with several teams to leverage service-based RESTful API architecture to reroute payment verification requests for milestones in a service migration effort. Modified two major consumer payment services built with Java, DynamoDB.Created wiki page on high level and low level design review, along with deep dives on request translation using web sequence diagrams and drawio.Optimized verification efficiency by cutting intermediate request translations and field enrichments.Integration tested with Apollo server deployment and TestNG.

Columbia, Missouri, United States

● Created multi-UAV coverage path-planning protocol for deep learning object recognition drones, taking into account communication restraints, energy-awareness, and height-variance.● Expanded drone path-planning simulator to incorporate multiple drones.● Built broadcast model for the simulator.● Published paper in IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)○ A Multiple UAV Path-Planning Approach to Small Object Counting in Aerial Images● Presented at University of Missouri’s Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievements Forum:https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A423480● Work is being used by the Missouri Department of Conservation● Utilized skills: Java, Object Oriented Programming● Leveraged knowledge of state-of-the-art coverage path-planning algorithms