Dylan Vidal Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Knight Hacks is UCF's software development and organization, and the place I conquered impostor syndrome as a developer. Now I take it upon myself as President to empower our members with the same confidence and make.
• Managed a non-profit organization with 500+ members and $40,000 dollars in yearly assets focused on creating confident, capable, and passionate developers.
• Played a critical role in planning Knight Hacks 2024 Hackathon with over 700 attendees.
• Led a team of 45 students to achieve deliverables such as 60 technical workshops per school year and mentorship.
• Revamped the mentorship program, expanding the number of members by 58% compared to previous school year.
• Fund-raised nearly $15,000 for the Hackathon by networking with numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Participated in monthly development sprints to perfect the Hackathon registration system.
• Raised money through coordinated sponsorships with numerous Fortune 500 companies and partial proceeds events.
• Served as a Kickstart mentor to help guide aspiring developers, and led various workshops for the club.
• Managed access credentials for our 50+ person team to keep efficient operations.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• As a co-founder of DormDevs, I strive to create high-quality website solutions for businesses packaged with analytics and SEO optimization. As a Founding Engineer, I had the chance to build our infrastructure from the.
• Empowered businesses with powerful insights and uplifted students with contracted work opportunities.
• Developed a business facing dashboard with real time analytics, billing, and a ticketing system for routine maintenance.
• Hosted and deployed open source analytics, authentication, and database on a Linux VPS.
• Managed a team of contracted freelance developers sourced from local colleges and universities.
• Partnered with businesses of various sizes throughout Florida to provide web development services.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Honors Symposium is a core component of the Honors Curriculum at UCF, where incoming students learn what it means to be apart of the Honors community. As a Team Leader, I am in charge of running a 17 student breakout.
• Led a 17 student breakout room during the Honors Symposium, facilitating discussions and answering questions about UCF.
• Planned monthly social events for all Symposium students to help them make friends and feel welcome at UCF.
• Performed administrative tasks for the breakout room like creating and grading assignments

Orlando, Florida, United States

• As an Honors Orientation Ambassador, I was responsible for advising incoming Honors Computer Science students during registration. Meeting with my students over the course of a month, I gave professional assistance.
• Served as an academic advisor of 20 Computer Science students for course registration at UCF.
• Worked our in-person orientation sessions, where students were introduced to the Honors College.
• Provided a friendly face and positive attitude to help incoming students feel welcome at the Burnett Honors College.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Working in the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at UCF, my research focuses on the development of algorithms for the analysis of complex biological data with a focus on RNA-sequencing, Alternative Splicing.
• Reduced the runtime of the AS-Quant and APA-Scan laboratory pipelines by 75% by leveraging concurrency and parallelism in Python
• Assisted in data collection, sanitization, and transformation using numpy and pandas.
• Researched Machine Learning solutions for cancer detection with processed RNA-Seq data.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Sophomore

Activities and Societies: Burnett Honors College, Knight Hacks, SHPE, Programming Team

High School Diploma, Computer Science, 11Th-12Th

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society Historian, Dungeons & Dragons Committee Founder, School Discord Communications Server.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Computer Science, 10Th-12Th

Activities and Societies: Member of PsiBeta, InTech, and GSA

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