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Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

• Refactored various Python, SQL, and C++ database systems to be more modular, easy to understand, and robust/secure. Databases included client listings, property listings, and news archives.
• Developed Python, Twilio, MongoDB text handling system that improved a client’s internal communications and enabled non-technical staff to easily debug and maintain the system.
• Handled a client’s HTML integration with Buildium, increasing ease of consumer access.

Greater Chicago Area

• Supervised development team for an online financial start-up that utilized Microsoft Azure, PHP, HTML, and various other languages and technologies. Duties included hiring, overseeing the work of other contractors, and.
• Personally handled relations and negotiations with financial partners, banks, potential clients, and legal consultants regarding all operations and relevant paperwork.
• Managed and negotiated the sale of all significant company assets to a major investor interested in pursuing the concept at a later date after securing funded needed to operate on an international basis.

Niles, Illinois

• Managed automating internal processes and communicating with technical solutions providers for Unique Insurance and its affiliated companies, Stonegate Insurance and Lighthouse Casualty.
• Resolved a one year standstill by finding, working with, and staying in close contact with a key person within Ezlynx. Rapidly responded and provided everything they needed while maintaining an ongoing conversation.
• Greatly improved the efficiency of the claims department by allowing for swifter and more precise resolution of any printing errors by designing and implementing a diagnostic system for claim form printing.

Greater Chicago Area

• Performed electronic security research in connection with the ESP‐IGERT Program under a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
• Researched knowledge base poisoning, specifically of android application malware detection systems.
• Discovered that past work from another college, which this research was utilizing to determine its viability, was erroneous. Drawing from this, I changed the course of the research to try basic malware evasion.
• The basic technique testing proved surprisingly effective, which convinced the department to change the course of their research; if basic techniques continue to be effective there is no reason for an attacker to.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked as a Summer Housing Assistant. Duties included checking in guests, preparing for conferences, handling the needs of residents (including not only summer students but also medical patients / their families and conference guests), and working security shifts.

Greater Chicago Area

• TA for CS 141, Programming Design II.
• Taught lessons in computer lab to students, graded their programs, and assisted students in understanding the material.
• Advanced to also proctoring the lab portion of tests.

• Handled general customer service and worked in many departments, as the need arose, under multiple department managers at the same time.
• Also performed night crew work, which required handling a variety of tasks in addition to correcting any errors caused by earlier crews, without supervision.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.75

Notable Courses: Expert Systems • Software Engineering I • Object Oriented Languages and Environments • Applied Graph Theory • Human.

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Major: Computer Science, Minor: Bioengineering, Major Gpa: 3.82

On Dean's list for four semesters. Undergraduate Research • My undergraduate research was in unconventional uses of affective computing.