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College Park, MD

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant forCMSC131 - Introduction to Object Oriented ProgrammingCMSC122 - Introduction to Programming Via the WebCMSC216 - Introduction to Computer Systems
• Introduced students to languages including Java, C90, Assembly, Javascript, HTML/CSS and explained good programming practices and motivations behind language features
• Explained critical concepts including I/O, recursion, libraries and linking, compilation, pointers and memory access, concurrency, memory management, code security, algorithmic complexity, operating system.
• Held weekly office hours to address student questions, concerns, and provide supplemental support for student assignments
• Worked with teams of instructors and teaching assistants, accumulating over 750 hours of work over 5 semesters
• Managed and graded for courses of more than 700 students

Annapolis, Maryland

• Collaborated within a small team of developers, QA testers, and business analysts following an Agile (Scrum) methodology to develop and maintain Knowledge360, Cipher’s proprietary business intelligence platform
• Developed data privacy and analytics tools to package and export user data stored across several databases to meet and maintain compliance with GDPR (EU Law)
• Designed, coded, and maintained links between back-end services and their corresponding front-end elements
• Repaired broken user dashboard configurations using SQL scripting to correct outdated configuration formats
• Overhauled and restored functionality to search and alert widget by switching to a new API and providing new features
• Implemented quality-of-life improvements suggested or reported by userbase including a script to prevent a user from losing unsaved work without being prompted, removing unnecessary page loads, and implementing bugfixes

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

The research project for the 2015/2016 WSSP focuses on the genomic analysis of the duckweed Landoltia punctata, and how the genes in this organism compare to other species.My analysis of my assigned DNA sequence was approved and submitted to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for their GenBank database.