Alexander Kingston Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Va, Us

Mclean, Virginia, United States

Washington D.C.

Core team member responsible for developing the "Intelligent Information Management System" - a proprietary system that provides border security officers with aggregated information, travel data, and findings on persons of interest. Assisted in designing data model for a traveler and their information.Assisted in developing methods to systematically process a traveler's data, adding and removing information where necessary, which simplified overall system architecture.Developed automated random data generation tool to help test the integrity of systems in development and assist the quality assurance teams in their automated testing endeavors Collaborated with department leaders to design the systems and tools to perform advanced data analytics using unstructured machine learning models.Assisted in creating and integrating safeguards to ensure that connection and transaction failures with databases and apis do not disrupt an end user's session.Improved our development team's workflow by creating systems that allowed the to work in identical development environments given that the core system was too complex to run efficiently in local environmentsTechnologies used include: Go, DGraph, Apache Kafka, React, and Docker

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Learn and apply concepts of object-oriented programming through Java. Built two programs with intention to aid in testing of, and adding functionality to, company proprietary softwareUtilise Git version control to develop software in collaboration with team leaderApply UML concepts of design to plan development Develop procedural generative, pseudo-random person generator for modelling air-traveller traffic. Functionality included multiple methods of time generation through factory class, personal details generation, passport data generation, and flight data generationDevelop time analysis program for traveller time-stamp. Program analyses durations within and out of host country, and performs rudimentary statistical analysis of durationsDevelop and apply algorithm to analyse and calculate common time intervals of groups of travellersGather and analyse data from MariaDB (SQL database) through Java program. Applied connection pool to ease computation and DAO to isolate databaseSkills learned/in development: Java, SQL, Git, UML, JSON reading/writing

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Develop software which streamlined company client identification and background check protocolsBuild a fully dynamic financial model to understand the potential gains of an investment which was used by Senior Investment Officers for their analysis and work on the deal. Analyse financials and operations of potential investments. Organised data in a manner that made it easier to read and understand. Learned to use Bloomberg and Capital IQ to analyse economies of target countries to see where investments would provide the most gains. Studied commodities to see how their prices are determined as well as their current status to help better evaluate potential and current investments. Build a repayment calculator and schedule for the investors of Latin American Partner's first fund. Worked summers of 2015 & 2016

Northern Virginia

Help teach children basic engineering concepts using Lego and ensuring a safe environment in which they may learn and play.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Assists the Comptroller in overseeing departmental budgets and auditing expenditures.

Mclean, Va

Instruct students in the art of Hapkido. Focus on hand-to-hand self defense as well as weapons defense.

Master Of Science - Ms, Mathematics, Distinction

Postgraduate Diploma, Data Science, Technology, And Innovation, Distinction

M.A. (Honours)., Mathematics, Upper Second Class Classification

Activities and Societies: St. Andrews Economics Forum - Head of Finance and Operations; Cancer Research Society - Founding member.

Finance And Economics, Gpa 3.74

Transferred to the University of St. Andrews after completing one year of undergraduate study at American University.