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Tempe, Az, Us

Elected leader of the legislative branch of the Graduate Student Government at Arizona State University. Organized and led Assembly meetings and worked with the graduate and professional student body to set legislative priorities.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Tutored students in topics related to game development, algorithm and complexity theory, and introductory programming. Held office hours and put on lectures to supplement course content. Graded student assignments.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Led a team of three Graduate Student Assistants (GSAs) in administering an accelerated online 100-level computer science course for 280 students. Managed course communication tools including Slack workspace, and LMS presence. Developed course calendar and assignment deadlines. Tutored students in introductory programming. Held office hours and put on lectures to supplement course content. Graded student assignments.

Designed, executed, and documented HCI user studies of novel interfaces for visualizing data. Developed full-stack test applications and visualization software in Unity 3D and C#. Performed statistical analysis on gathered data. Mentored peers on designing and performing HCI user studies. Submitted results for publication to peer-reviewed academic conferences and journals.

Developed VBA and PowerShell scripts for workplace task automation. Worked with interdisciplinary engineering teams to assess the security posture of IT systems and the implementation of cybersecurity controls to US DoD standards. Authored technical reports on findings and presented briefings to senior network infrastructure administrators, engineers, and other system stakeholders. Advised on risk-mitigation factors within the Risk Management Framework.

Tempe, Az, Us

Directed policy and bylaws reviews. Wrote policy guidelines and legislation for policy changes. Interpreted bylaws and policy documents to settle disputes and enforce organizational policies. Consulted with graduate student workers on processed and led business process documentation efforts.

Designed GUIs and data models and developed productivity apps for the ASP.NET, UWP, and WinUI 3 platforms. Implemented several software design patterns and the MVC and MVVM app architectures. Used Azure DevOps to track features and user stories across agile development sprints, and coordinate with team members for feature testing. Published in the Microsoft App Store. Contributed to the Microsoft XAML Demo app on GitHub.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Conducted research as an outside consultant into the project management and business processes of the ASU Decision Theater. Developed and led undergraduate interns on a research path for documenting existing processes and uncovering opportunities for operational improvement. Conducted exploratory interviews and focus groups and presented findings to organization leadership.

Directly supported the lead program adviser in implementing a program structure for the Pathfinders staff at the World Scout Jamboree. Coordinated logistics with international team members from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Assisted program leads in facilitating team building and communication exercises with international staffers. Developed a command structure for executing a program more than 20,000 people participated in over the course of ten days.

Solved complex logistics problems to build daily schedules pairing 160 Trek Guides up with the units they were to lead on treks, while taking into account cancellations, injuries, and schedule changes. Assisted with customer service by handling individual issues brought to the management team, and ensuring problems were solved in a timely manner to the satisfaction of the individuals.

Worked with implementing image processing and hardware controller APIs for experimental systems. Developed software to function as an interfacing layer with external APIs, to provide a higher-level, object-oriented interface for other programmers to implement in their applications. Assisted with writing business use cases for management assessment.

Consulted with network survey teams about designing a database and application for them to store, access, and interpret the survey data they collect. Designed a prototype relational database in Microsoft Access. Researched and developed a final report on the viability of non-code solutions for the survey team to implement such an application. Assisted the survey team on surveys in the field to gain a better understanding of their problem's knowledge domain, such as the type of data they collect, the context of the data, and what the data relates to in the real world.

Designed and built a new help-desk for employees to submit help tickets to. Met with users and administrators to determine user requirements and needs. Used JavaScript and jQuery to interface with Microsoft Sharepoint RESTful service. Design considerations included using a thick-client model to reduce the number of server accesses over a slow network, and GUI design to simplify and automate workflow processes and frequently used actions in the system.

Served as the project lead, working with a team of "Road Crew" members, for the design, development, and implementation of the ArrowTour program in the Western Region. This tour is designed to bring the Order of the Arrow's Centennial Celebration to members across the nation, and consists of a traveling carnival-style program. The Western Region tour is one of four nation-wide, and consists of 35 stops across 15 US states, representing 35,000 members across 57 local BSA Councils.

The region chief is the youth OA leader of the region elected annually by the section chiefs of his region. This election is held in conjunction with an annual national OA planning meeting attended by the approximately 50 section chiefs from around the country. In addition to representing the national chief, the region chief conducts national leadership seminars and national lodge adviser training seminars in their respective regions. The region chief is advised by an adult region Order of the Arrow chairman and a professional region staff adviser.

Irving, Tx, Us

Counted and reconciled store inventory

Patuxent River, Md, Us

Supercomputing Internship Program (in partnership with the US Department of Defense - High Performance Computing) - Worked with groups of high school and college age students on serial programming concepts, and built LittleFe Beowulf clusters to learn about, practice, and help teach parallel programming concepts. Such concepts included OMP, MPI, pragma statements, and threading in C++.

Irving, Tx, Us

Counted and reconciled store inventory

Irving, Tx, Us

Counted and reconciled store inventory

Irving, Tx, Us

Counted and reconciled store inventory

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science (Software Engineering)

Engineering

Computer Software Engineering