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Ames, Ia, Us

Nevada, Iowa, United States

• Part-time through school (15 hours/week).• Led the rework and optimization of the app architecture and inefficient algorithms to improve data transfer with embedded equipment and data logging in SQLite for the Spring 2025 release.

Nevada, Iowa, United States

• 6.5 month full-time co-op.• Developed and reworked an android application on a team for the SeedPro Elite Research Planter, enabling seed researchers to plant geospatially at preselected points accurately within 0.4 inches of precision to allow study of the yield of their engineered seed(s).• Programmed full-stack in Java, utilizing Android Developer Tools for the maintenance and additions to the application, using Git for team version control; pitched UI concept ideas using Figma to key stakeholders for quick feedback and feature turnaround, fulfilling client requirements.• Successfully grasped a codebase of 100,000+ lines to seamlessly implement critical functionality, features, bug fixes, and optimizations to legacy algorithms for the Spring 2024 release. Features like field edit and shift outpace recreating a field by up to a 99% reduction of the previously needed time.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

12-week internship in PPG's global headquarters to develop a proof-of-concept for training in Virtual Reality using Unity and Visual Studio (C#) to develop an immersive VR training experience for the IT department and the company.

• Collaboratively and proactively plan and facilitate a lab of two-hour lengths on a near weekly basis for COM S 227 (Intro to Object Oriented Programming in Java) students in aid of their course learning, overseeing, marking, and assisting 40 students with their labs. • Advise and guide students during weekly office hours for hourly sessions on difficulties encountered with labs, assignments, or doubts on course material, aiding over 600 students.• Thoroughly evaluate and grade exams and other coursework as needed by the course instructor for a total of 10-20 hours a week.

Ames, Iowa, United States

• Collaboratively plan and facilitate two lab sections of two-hour lengths on a near weekly basis for students in aid of their course learning, overseeing, marking, and assisting 112 students with their labs.• Advise and guide students during weekly office hours for two hourly sessions on difficulties encountered with labs, assignments, or doubts on course material, aiding 378 students.• Thoroughly evaluate and grade exams and other coursework as needed by the course instructor for a total of 10 hours a week.