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• Designed an ecommerce platform for optometries to sell eyewear products online utilizing adaptive marketing techniques, artificial intelligence, and data analysis (thelenslink.com).• Creating mobile app with React Native, innovative image processing, and camera recognition capabilities.• Developing Reese Vision Care website leveraging Next.js, Vercel, DaisyUI, and TailwindCSS.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Developed graphical Gantt Project Manager interface using Next.js (SSR), Typescript, MongoDB, and the Jira API to prevent time spent on repetitive manual data entry (𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲).• Engineered 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺 UI/UX components with NextUI, TailwindCSS, and Canva, to match InfoTech’s design patterns.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Created 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 feature for a Seating Application utilized in Walt Disney World attractions, employing Angular, Angular Material, and Flask.• Orchestrated near-real-time connections across multiple devices using WebSockets and APIs.• Achieved a significant reduction (𝟵𝟬-𝟵𝟱%) in the number of guests missing the initial pre-show at Disney's Flight of Passage due to connectivity issues.• Selected as the 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗲 intern within the WDW GE&T department to deliver an executive presentation to Disney executives, showcasing my comprehensive internship project, particularly focusing on the offline mode implementation.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Optimized user experience across the entire ONE.UF application by analyzing UF student analytical data and adhering to new accessibility standards.

• Developed an extensible Fav-Menu React component allowing for easy integration within the UF Workspace Card's UI, and Middleware.• Implemented a MaterialUI Kabob Menu to UF Workspace, attaching favorite, unfavorite, and reorder favorite functionality.• Created Favorites Tab within the student UF Workspace through a sorting algorithm, ES6 mapping functions, and a new Favorite Card State.• Effectively implemented requested design changes for the ONE.UF site through the scrum workflow. After passing thorough testing, the updated designs were seamlessly integrated into the main site, which serves as a vital platform for 𝟲𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 UF students.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

• Worked with the programming language C# and the Unity Game Engine to design visual illusions, create games, and illustrate the importance of natural phenomena.• Designed AR (Augmented Reality) animations through Unity, Mixamo, and Vuforia to transform images in books to computer-mediated reality.• Promoted to 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 within engineering team and received 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 for completing courses in C#/Unity outside of internship hours.• Chosen as a 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 to interview with CBS4 news to explain the MODS APP-titude Internship Program.