Zoë Wentzel Email & Phone Number

United States

Minneapolis, MN

- Lead labs, hold office hours, proctor exams, and grade quizzes and assignments for an introductory computer science course (in Python)- Explain complex concepts to match a student’s understanding and personality- Provide a total of over five hundred students with friendly and collaborative lab atmospheres to facilitate discussion and create open learning.

- Facilitated class discussions on topics such as privilege, race, identity, intercultural conflict styles, personal strengths, and various other leadership frameworks - Graded and gave feedback on personal writing- Worked with co-instructors to push students both academically and personally on their leadership journeys

Seattle, Washington

- Developed user facing features for Sansar, a virtual reality social platform- Implemented and improved upon user interfaces exposed in both desktop and virtual reality using an MVVM framework- Gained experience in C++ and XAML developing in a fluid codebase with GitHub as source control and Jira as project tracking- Involved in fields outside of directly.

Seattle, Washington

- Learned and developed using Golang and a microservice architecture to assist in user security and currency flow, notably assisting with creating infrastructure for GDPR compliance- Created an internal SlackApp to safely handle virtual currency transfers integrated with MySQL databases- Gained familiarity with large scale Golang and C++ codebases, worked.

Minneapolis, MN

- Programmed an array-based extension using Silver, an extensible language tool coded at UMN-TC, for ableC, a near replica of C that works alongside Silver, over the summer- Worked closely with another undergraduate student to learn about extensible programming languages, understand array-based languages such as MATLAB and SAC, and make design decisions.