Sofia Jakovcevic Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

San Mateo, California, United States

- Executive lead for IT projects ordered by clients, often working independently. Projects include collecting and analyzing data to make educated financial and marketing recommendations, configuring web services and writing scripts to automate reporting, and building and maintaining ETL infrastructures using SQL.- Designed virtual conference processes and managed teams of technical staff to execute said processes for clients who needed to move their conferences to a virtual platform during the pandemic.

Davis, California, United States

- Executed all steps of research projects including: performing library research, crafting machine learning algorithms in Python, collecting and preparing experimental data, interpreting experimental results, and presenting the results using insightful data visualization scripts written in VBA.- Invented time- and memory-saving methods to detect recombination in COVID-19 and other virus sequences.- Designed Profile Hidden Markov modeling programs in Python to report on the statistical probabilities.- Mentored and supervised student researchers to aid in my projects and to produce research projects of their own during the school year and during the summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Program.- Conducted both virtual and in-person lectures and tutoring sessions to phD students on biomathematical topics including machine learning applications in molecular virology.

San Jose, California, United States

- Managed logistics for annual medical conferences and forums with success against aggressive deadlines.- Developed and scripted VBA programs still used by The VIVA Foundation to automate registration reporting and accounting reconciliation saving 20+ man-hours weekly and minimizing human errors.- Built and maintained professional and productive relationships with vendors.- Negotiated contracts and developed streamlined move-in and move-out processes for IT, audiovisual, electrical, internet, food & beverage, and other conference needs.- Lead and trained technical backstage staff and large on-site registration teams.

Santa Clara, California, United States

- Operated as the lead lighting technician, musical theater director, an acting instructor, and a production manager- Designed, operated, and troubleshot lighting systems and managed a team of technical staff during events