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TradrAn application to trade unwanted items with others for their unwanted items• Implemented a user interface employing React and Redux with Semantic UI for styling• Developed a Rails API backend with a Postgres database enabling authentication, messaging and trade execution• Utilized the Twilio API to send SMS messages notifying users of incoming trade requests• Applied JSON Web Tokens and localStorage to store encrypted user information client-side• Integrated a live chat system where users can communicate with text and emojishttps://tradr-frontend.herokuapp.com/Giffy GuesserA guessing game using Gifs from your favorite movies and adorable dogs and compete against friends• Implemented a user interface using Ruby on Rails MVC with a Postgres database and Semantic UI for styling. It also enabled users to challenge others and make their way onto the leaderboards• Employs Google’s Tenor API to find Gifs, trending search terms and similar search term suggestions• Developed an administrator area to approve or deny automatically generated questions using various algorithmshttps://giffyguesser.herokuapp.com/

• Learned to code in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and C# using the ASP.Net MVC 5 Framework• Designed and wrote code to send Windows Tray notifications to pertinent users when a new alert pertaining to them is created on the company’s system using HTML, JavaScript, C# and SignalR• Attended team meetings such as sprint planning, stand up, sprint review and sprint retrospective where we used Team Foundation Server and Git version control to organize capacity, stories and tasks as well as collaborate on projects together and review each other’s work• Organized training data set to be used for machine learning to decide if incoming wire transfers are premium payments and match premium payments to respective policies and their unique ID numbers using tensorflow.js

Summer Internship• Administered, repaired and updated 400 company computers, printers, monitors and phones• Learned to write scripts using PowerShell for all company computers and trained current employees to create scripts to remotely uninstall and install company software in PowerShell• Designed, updated and validated new company inventory system containing 3,000 assets• Scanned all company computers for installed memory and upgraded memory to 16GB• Installed, tested and modified Windows 10 OS in preparation for company-wide upgrade• Automatically scanned storage space of 450 VDIs each night and erased cache & temporary files to prevent Windows update failures

Full-Time Summer and Part-Time School Year Position• Designed, built, assembled, and refurbished upwards of 100 desktop & laptop computers weekly• Provided ongoing on-site and remote technical support to 10 clients by troubleshooting and resolving computer difficulties• Trained 3 new employees to assemble and disassemble computers in order to retrieve the components for use in other machines• Managed inventory of computers in preparation for shipping to clients

Summer Position• Set up audio & video equipment (sound systems & projectors) in various locations in preparation for daily activities and camp-wide events• Built and installed 3 permanent sound systems that are still in use throughout the campus• Maintained and managed all of the camp’s AV equipment including speaker systems, televisions, projectors, computers & microphones• Responsible for coordinating and recording camp productions & performances equipped with live-music setup, lighting for special affects, and wireless microphones for actors

Summer Internship• Provided comprehensive customer support to Tempo’s clientele through constant email and phone communication• Assisted in new product development by adding over 100 new items to the company’s website and to SAGE application• Met with current and potential customers at the Promotional Products Expo in Las Vegas to discuss recent promotions and pitch new product lines