Andy Smithwick Email & Phone Number

Pasadena, CA, US

La Jolla, California, United States

- Create new features for the UCSD ACM website using the MERN stack, nextJS, Typescript, and SCSS, serving 100+ board members and 2000+ members- Designed custom components to replace outdated library versions to fit website theming and reduce setup time for new users by 10%- Developed responsive mock events page using CSS Flexbox/Grid display modes and.

La Jolla, California, United States

- Develop 5 community programs and 1 large-scale program per academic quarter to boost community engagement- Hold weekly rounds to check in on residents and assess their emotional and academic health- Post weekly newsletters for residents so they can find events to engage them in the greater UCSD community.- Participating in RA Training and any leadership.

La Jolla, California, United States

- Wrote Python scripts using Pandas and NLP to evaluate child safety on Roblox, resulting in paper published to international conference as first author. Also deployed survey with over 100 respondents- Utilized Prompt Engineering with GPT-3.5 to identify hate crimes in news articles and documented codebase for project handoff- Wrote error analysis scripts.

La Jolla, California, United States

- Automated attendance grading to Gradescope using Python, Google Colab, pandas and pdfmetrics, cutting process time by 75%- Worked as a tutor for Prof. Joe Politz for CSE 15L, Software Tools & Techniques Lab- Supported 2 groups of 8-10 students for 2-hour weekly labs, answering questions and giving hints on lab material- Graded 200+ labs and skill.

• Used Python and Pandas to automate quality assurance tasks for translations, speeding up process by 10x

Remote

- Edited and added subtitles to 60+ videos on Alzheimer’s identification in 4 languages using Adobe Premiere Pro

Remote

- Fix defects and develop features for CSX Capabilities- Created REST & GraphQL endpoints using NHibernate, & XUnit following DDD, speeding up human query of employee skills by 20%- Developed React components & fixed UI defects using React, Apollo, Typescript, Styled Components, & Jest to fulfill user stories- Fixed bugs with improperly configured React.

- Explored NLP projects, solved and unsolved problems, and my future path in NLP.- Participated in workshops on impostor syndrome, machine learning, research methodology, and many other topics

Monrovia, California, United States

- Led AGILE scrums, made sprint boards, trained task leaders & future game directors to save 1 month of onboarding for next year- Won Congressional App Challenge Best App (2022) & Best Visuals (2021); Hackwise 1st in AR/VR & 2nd in Well Being (of 123 people)

Monrovia, California, United States

- Automated graphics/audio syncing & added finite state machines, Observer Pattern, speeding iteration cycles from 3 to 1 days- Subbed for game director to lead scrums, recruited & mentored talent to fill team deficiencies, promoted to Game DirectorAndy's Donuts won Congressional App Challenge 2022!------A DSA GameA.N.D.Y has been serving his community for.

Monrovia, California, United States

Sound Design (Foely), Engineering, Visual Effects, and animations for a web game released by Forge Interactve: https://charlieheatherly.itch.io/noko

Red Dungeon is an infinite 2D platformer made in the Unity Game Engine and playable on the web!I worked on triggering animations and sounds within the game. I also worked on programming, focusing on player and enemy AI scripts. I also dabbled a little bit in UI by assembling the enemy description scenes.

Pasadena, California, United States

I taught elementary and middle school kids how to code in Unity C# and Scratch! I was one of the only Unity coaches at the school during that time, and helped develop lesson plans for future coaches.

Remote

Over the course of 10 weeks, Academy scholars will learn about product management and design, marketing, sales, venture capital and entrepreneurship and participate in a hands-on activity related to these career paths. The goal of these 10 weeks is for scholars to get exposure to the practice areas and skills needed to pursue a career in product.

High School Diploma, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Game Development Game Director FTC Robotics @ Team Loki 7553 Founder and Mentor @ SMMS FTC Robotics Video Game.

Bachelor'S Degree (In Progress), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: ACM @ UCSD Circle KI will be attending UCSD as part of the class of 2026! I am in Revelle College and majoring.