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• Stepped in subsequent to major layoffs, replacing the development team and CTO. • Collaborated closely with the owners, data science team, customer service team, and product designer as the sole engineer.• Identified and resolved critical platform issues, significantly reducing client churn and improving product knowledge across teams.• Trimmed monthly database costs by over $6,000.00, and saved the company over $30,000.00 a month in wages while prioritizing and enhancing quality… Show more • Stepped in subsequent to major layoffs, replacing the development team and CTO. • Collaborated closely with the owners, data science team, customer service team, and product designer as the sole engineer.• Identified and resolved critical platform issues, significantly reducing client churn and improving product knowledge across teams.• Trimmed monthly database costs by over $6,000.00, and saved the company over $30,000.00 a month in wages while prioritizing and enhancing quality of work and client services. • Created product roadmaps and wrote reports.• Managed development cycles, servers, databases, and DevOps optimizations.• Improved documentation and code quality, fixed legacy bugs, developed new features, improved old features, and created internal tools.• Hired and trained developers.• Led discovery, communication, and negotiation with third party solutions.• Major features developed include: data visualization client service aggregating over 1 million points of data, automated email client service for business data summary reports, improved data reporting for the data science team, new customization options for business and product platform pages, improved web scraping, and integration of third-party machine learning data processing. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[ Department of Computer Science ]• Collected 140 original vector sketches from 10 different artists for a research project.• Created a copyright-compliant website for artists to upload and view drawings, ensuring data validation on both client and server sides, and using MySQL for the submissions database. • Updated an annotation collection website with a custom Express NodeJS server, non-breaking error handling, cookie management for concurrent connections and temporary user… Show more [ Department of Computer Science ]• Collected 140 original vector sketches from 10 different artists for a research project.• Created a copyright-compliant website for artists to upload and view drawings, ensuring data validation on both client and server sides, and using MySQL for the submissions database. • Updated an annotation collection website with a custom Express NodeJS server, non-breaking error handling, cookie management for concurrent connections and temporary user annotations, and integrated research code into the backend, including user login for consent forms and annotation data mapping. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[ Department of Computer Science ]* Digital Geometry Processing Group, Imager Lab• Curated diverse datasets including pixel art, vector sketches, and 3D models.• Recruited users and artists for research studies.• Produced comparative method results and figures for research papers.• Handled video and audio content for conference submissions.• Wrote scripts in a supporting role for research.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[ Department of Computer Science ]* CPSC 427: Video Game Programming* CPSC 430: Computers and Society* CPSC 210: Software Construction* CPSC 121: Models of Computation• Conducted office hours, led labs, and graded student work across various courses.• In CPSC 427: created lecture slides for HCI and ECS modules, tools for cross-play evaluations and grade disputes, and a custom Excel gradebook with accompanying Python script for grade management which was integrated… Show more [ Department of Computer Science ]* CPSC 427: Video Game Programming* CPSC 430: Computers and Society* CPSC 210: Software Construction* CPSC 121: Models of Computation• Conducted office hours, led labs, and graded student work across various courses.• In CPSC 427: created lecture slides for HCI and ECS modules, tools for cross-play evaluations and grade disputes, and a custom Excel gradebook with accompanying Python script for grade management which was integrated into the course infrastructure.• In CPSC 430: independently organized and supervised extracurricular activities to encourage student participation, as well as final review sessions.• Consistently received top scores in student feedback evaluations. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[ Department of Computer Science ]* CPSC 314: Computer Graphics• Initially oversaw lab sections and office hours, later supervising teaching assistants in teams of six.• Managed course logistics, including training teaching assistants.• Organized meetings, scheduled, assigned, and managed tasks, performed quality control of assignments and grading, and resolved grade disputes.• Created tools and workflows for task scheduling, grading, record-keeping, and dispute… Show more [ Department of Computer Science ]* CPSC 314: Computer Graphics• Initially oversaw lab sections and office hours, later supervising teaching assistants in teams of six.• Managed course logistics, including training teaching assistants.• Organized meetings, scheduled, assigned, and managed tasks, performed quality control of assignments and grading, and resolved grade disputes.• Created tools and workflows for task scheduling, grading, record-keeping, and dispute resolution, some of which were integrated into the course infrastructure.• I received an award in 2019 for my work. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[ Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory ]* VISA 110: Foundation Studio, Digital Media• Restructured the VISA 110 course, transitioning technical instruction (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, computer basics) to the edX platform.• Enabled increased focus on art discussions during labs by reallocating time from technical instruction.• Initially joined a team as an extra video editor alongside two MFA students for instructional video recording; shifting to sole… Show more [ Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory ]* VISA 110: Foundation Studio, Digital Media• Restructured the VISA 110 course, transitioning technical instruction (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, computer basics) to the edX platform.• Enabled increased focus on art discussions during labs by reallocating time from technical instruction.• Initially joined a team as an extra video editor alongside two MFA students for instructional video recording; shifting to sole collaboration with the professor after the first year, leading to a complete overhaul of content.• Quickly learned and became proficient in Adobe Premiere and Audacity, then independently planned, scripted, recorded, and edited basic to advanced instructional videos in Final Cut Pro for both.• Developed edX modules, quizzes, and text content for designated modules.• Assisted in student data collection and evaluation of the effectiveness of the new course structure. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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