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Washington, Dc, Us

Herndon, Va, Us

- Led the development of various features from gathering initial requirements through to deployment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with objectives and deliverables.- Developed and maintained core front-end tools and reusable components, optimizing workflows and ensuring consistency across different projects.- Created extensive UI designs and mockups to visualize and refine user interfaces, ensuring a user-centered approach and alignment with design standards.- Shaped UX design and execution, applying best practices to deliver a seamless, accessible, and user-focused experience across all devices and platforms.- Promoted accessibility by designing and building inclusive web pages and forms, ensuring they catered to a wide range of users.- Actively contributed to code reviews, ensuring high-quality code, adherence to best practices, and knowledge sharing across teams.- Took ownership of troubleshooting and debugging complex issues across large-scale codebases, improving the performance, scalability, and maintainability of key features.- Participated in interviewing and hiring processes, conducting technical phone screens and on-site interviews, with a focus on identifying both technical competency and cultural fit.- Provided mentorship to colleagues, fostering their growth in technical skills, career advancement, and conflict resolution, while promoting a culture of continuous learning and development.

College Park, Maryland, Us

Conducted statistical analysis under the guidance of the research team, performed necessary data cleaning and organization tasks, contributed to report writing using analyzed data, and reviewed research materials while providing consultation on statistical techniques aligned with research goals.Contributed to implementing a cross-platform mobile application for older adults using React Native with TypeScript, ensuring seamless communication with our backend server via REST API.Consulted with the research team on design specifications and usability, iterating on interface design using UI/UX prototyping tools such as Adobe XD and Figma.Led a deployment study to assess the feasibility of speech-based activity tracking in older adults using an Android Watch app developed by the research team.

College Park, Maryland, Us

Manage course administration and oversee teaching assistants. Coordinate TA duties, assist in their training and evaluation, and maintain/update webpages, electronic discussion boards, and other course-related platforms as needed.Head TA for: – CMSC838X: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages; Personal Health Informatics & Visualization (Fall 2021)– CMSC216: Introduction to Computer Systems (Summer 2021)– CMSC132: Object-Oriented Programming II (Spring 2021)– CMSC131: Object-Oriented Programming I (Fall 2020)

College Park, Maryland, Us

Prepare, administer, facilitate, and manage all external new student exemption exams for the CS Undergraduate Department at UMD, conducted during the Summer and Winter sessions.Assist in developing policies for remote/virtual examinations, and provide training, guidance, and instruction to a team of graders.

College Park, Maryland, Us

Take on teaching responsibilities for a laboratory or discussion session of a course, assist faculty members with grading, advising, and administrative duties, and maintain regular office hours as scheduled.TA for:– CMSC838X: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages; Personal Health Informatics & Visualization (Fall 2021)– CMSC 216: Introduction to Computer Systems (Summer 2019, 2020, 2021)– CMSC 132: Object-Oriented Programming II (Fall 2019, Spring 2021)– CMSC 131: Object-Oriented Programming I (Fall 2018, 2020, Spring 2019, 2020)– CMSC 198R: Introduction to Web Programming using HTML/JavaScript (Summer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Design and configure a collection of commands/tools that allows a user within the ACMD High End Visualization (HEV) environment to Monitor, Explore, Review Simulations with Immersive Visualization. Worked with a team of SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship), SHIP (Summer High School Intern Program) and volunteer students, to build a prototype system and a skeleton set of commands sufficient for a proof-of-concept implementation. The prototype for MERSIV was successfully tested with a software flow application.

Responsible for the development of marketing strategies and promotional material for NAICA.- Coordinator for communications, networks, events, digital marketing, social media, and public relations- Designed NAICA’s website and branding- Create graphics and illustrations for promotional use- Document activities and events with photography and videography

Baltimore, Md, Us

- Designed marketing material for the promotion of social gatherings, campus-wide events, and networking opportunities hosted by UMBC Off-Campus Student Services (OCSS).- Coordinated design implementations with OCSS directors, staff, commuter assistants, and interns- Encouraged student engagement within the UMBC community, especially for commuter students

- Offered services in designing and developing promotional material for various student organizations at UMBC, including apparel design, flyers, banners, graphics, photography, and videography.

- Designed the web application used for the current exhibition in the Albin O. Kuhn Gallery- Used the Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform, to display the contents of the exhibition, including archives, collections, and galleries

- Aid in the design of technical diagrams and instructional manuals- Inspect, install, and maintain electrical components such as circuits and wiring- Identify electrical problems with a variety of testing devices

Intern for the Montgomery County Family Justice Center in Rockville, Maryland.- Worked on projects involving legal research and writing in a variety of substantive matters and stages of criminal and civil litigation.- Contribute to and observe significant stages of federal investigations and judicial proceedings, such as witness interviews, depositions, motions hearings, trials, sentencing hearings, and appellate arguments.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Technology Administration

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