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Full Stack Engineer - Frontend UI & BackendCurrent Focus: Web interfaces for internal tooling

Production Reliability Engineering

● Founded online video gaming community www.hellsgamers.com, which achieved #1 game server rankings in the world multiple years.source: GameTracker.com● Oversee SysAdmins and operations for over 100 volunteers that moderate over 80 game servers● Developed IT infrastructure for back-end systems, administrative Dashboards, and automation● Outreach digital advertisement partners, which publish to over one million monthly visitor impressions● Research digital economics, IT executive management, organizational behavior, and brand marketing

● Consultant for esports and gaming industry veterans innovating product offerings for millennials in Las Vegas● Setup Dev Pipeline, Beta and Production enviornments for outsourced product developed in Symfony PHP, SmartFox Java back-end, and Unity3D C# / .NET● Research Unity3D app development for iOS and Android, iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth, BLE devices.

● Developed back-end APIs and automation systems using AWS Serverless Framework to handle scalable growth● Developed front-end websites for multiple product offerings using modern web technologies for fast load times● Developed cross-platform desktop applications using ElectronJS web technologies to create beautiful interfaces● Hired and led an outsourced team of programmers to meet the needs of specific complex product development● Research project management, product marketing, and serverless technologies for scalable modern applications

● Innovate and improve student life academically, socially, and professionally for the UCI School of ICS● Communicate and strengthen the bonds between students, faculty, administration, companies, and alumni● Foster student leadership and internship opportunities through company outreach, tech-talks and workshops● Lead student organized events such as Hackathons and collaborate with participating schools● Research IT leadership and assist IT student projects to help facilitate extracurricular experience for students

● Develop experience assisting management of an engineering research team● Outreach corporate sponsors and establish partnerships with local suppliers

● Oversee administrative team and interns to brand The Portal as a tech hub curating future entrepreneurs● Hosted corporate events and information sessions for start-up company professionals and student interns● Research IT organizational behavior and performance to improve business strategy in the start-up sector

● Educate students about The Portal's vision on entrepreneurship and start-up company opportunities● Connect Computer Science & Engineering Students with internship opportunities

● Founded digital services company, which provided game, voip, and web hosting for online gaming leagues● Systems Administrator and Technical Support Lead for over 200 dedicated servers running Linux and Windows● Researched and developed innovative technologies to achieve peak computing performance in the market● Achieved lead official partnership position of Cyberathlete Amature League and eCompete Online