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Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Live Music Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing arts access and arts community. Contributing as a volunteer to help launch Spontaneous Free Tickets, a ticket donation and drawing platform set to launch Fall 2024.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Collaborated with a team of 10 engineers to develop and maintain a Student Information System (SIS) in use at Rithm School. SIS is an administrative application that allows instructors and students to access curriculum.
• Developed an announcement feature leveraging object-oriented programming for easier code maintenance and scalability.
• Participated in regular team meetings to discuss progress, challenges, and new ideas.
• Automated a sprint pairing application, minimizing instructor workload through reduced manual intervention. Integrated jQuery and AJAX in the front end to enable user preference ranking and improve user experience.
• Wrote unit and integration tests with 98% test coverage, utilizing model factories and Django’s factory_boy.
• Presented research findings on Django's testing framework, factories, test file structure, setup, and testing strategy to improve team understanding within just two days of joining an 80,000-line codebase.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Founded in 2015 by Illumina, Grail is a pharmaceutical startup dedicated to early cancer detection. Together, we delivered 100,000 commercial Galleri test reports to patients in 2023 and completed enrollment of 140,000.
• Collaborated with software engineers to implement a site-wide tagging system to optimize sample search, enable test requisition filtering by status, and improve navigation for over 986,000 samples.
• Tested frontend UI changes on staging to validate interfaces before production deployment.
• Contributed to building a classifier for a sample management project that supported the validation of a multi-cancer early detection.
• Oversaw the collection, storage, and distribution of bio-specimen for clinical cancer diagnostic testing, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and internal regulations.
• Performed documentation review of test requisition forms.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Collaborated on a protein purification manufacturing team of nine to ensure the delivery of first-in-class treatments and therapies to patients with neurodegenerative diseases, while maintaining adherence to FDA.
• Lead the PLEGRIDY® (peginterferon beta-1a) campaign which involved project management, testing automation, working collaboratively with QA and engineering, troubleshooting quality issues, and stand-ups.
• Trained operators on manufacturing processes.
• Performed and reviewed batch records in compliance with ALCOA documentation
• Participated in Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) to further improve safety and minimize operation errors

• Qualified downstream operator for chromatography, viral inactivation, viral filtration, ultrafiltration/diafiltration, and bulk filling.
• Collaborated across functions with the QA team to conduct regular audits of the manufacturing floor.
• Rectified inconsistencies in standard operating procedures (SOPs) and batch production reports.
• Participated in bi-daily handoffs to discuss process status, sensitive deadlines, deviations, and priorities with the team.

Boone, NC

• Conducted heat-shock experiments to study the environmental stress response in zebrafish during embryogenesis and utilizing RNA in situ hybridization to characterize gene expression
• IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use) certified
• Collaborated with a team to present research findings
• Zebrafish husbandry

Apex, NC

• Coordinated and planned club activities, dinner events, special events, and social gatherings for domestic and international students
• Hosted an annual charity gala to raise money for Pay It Forward, a local donation program that helps incoming international students

• Provided academic assistance to students in math, organized classroom activities, assessed student performance, assisted professor with classroom duties, and answered student inquires

Computer Software Engineering

Bachelors Of Science, Cell/Cellular And Molecular Biology

Activities and Societies: Student Health Advisory Club, Multicultural Center, International Friendship Association (iPals), Asian Student.