Resume

Professional Experience

• Full Stack Java Developer, Revature, Completed the 10-week training program which included learning: Java Core, Spring framework, Hibernate, and Angular. Was furloughed (then released) after Revature no longer had clients in the Austin area due to COVID19.
  • Recipes Web App: Worked in a small group to develop a web app to submit recipes and display them. Worked primarily on the backend using Spring MVC to build a RESTful API and Hibernate to communicate with a PostgreSQL database. Used Jenkins for continuous deployment to AWS. I setup the t2.micro EC2 instance and configured it (i.e. installed Java, Jenkins, Maven, etc.). The frontend (Angular) was also uploaded as an S3 static webpage (this no longer exists on AWS).
  • Ride Share Web App: Worked in a large group (~20 people) to continue an internal project at Revature which connected people in a Revature batch to others with cars. Project used Spring Boot for the backend and Angular for the frontend. Database communication was done using Spring Data JPA. Broke into teams and I was the team lead for end-to-end testing (in Angular). My primary roll was to manage my team (assign tasks to my team members) and work with the other team leads on merging changes into GitHub.
• Teacher, EISD, Edna, TX: Intro to Programming/Computer Technology, Fall 2016-Spring 2018
• Teacher, VISD, Victoria, TX : Algebra 1, Fall 2015–Spring 2016
• Intern, IBM, Austin, TX, under Ivan Milman and Dan Mandelstein, June–December 2011
  Worked on the development database project using Oracle DB, J2EE, and Java web-application framework. Created XML schema, parsers, and generators. With no prior experience with XML, I learned to write XML schema, generate XML through the Java API, and parse an XML document using a SAX parser through the Java API.
• Teaching Assistant, University of Texas San Antonio, CS 1713: Introduction to Computer Science (Java programming), Spring and Summer 2009
• Teacher, Churchill High School, Castle Hills, TX: AP Calculus, Geometry, and Pre-Cal., Fall 2006–Spring 2008
• Lab Presenter, University of Texas Austin, Engineering Physics Electromagnetism lab, Fall 2005–Spring 2006

Research Experience

• Research Assistant under Dr. Jianwei Niu, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2009–2015
  Worked on Model Checking Staleness attributes and developed models via NuSMV (a model checking language). Master’s thesis explored model checking HIPPA and studied staleness of attributes in dynamic systems.
• Research Assistant under Dr. Carola Wenk, Department of Computer Science, Tulane University, 2010–2011
  Studied similarity measures for two paths (Fréchet Distance, Summed or Average Fréchet, and Dynamic Time Warping). Developed and implemented algorithms (unpublished) used to compute the Average Fréchet Distance measure between two polygonal lines using Dijkstra’s algorithm, Bellman-Ford algorithm, and dynamic programming.
• REU under Dr. Darin Acosta, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Summer 2004
  Helped analyze the efficiency of Cathode Strips in the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). My main contribution was to develop an automated way of analyzing data gathered during test runs prior to the LHC coming online.
• REU under Dr. Jerome Duggan, Deparment of Physics, University of North Texas, Summer 2003
  Made measurements for thin foil samples using a Van de Graaff accelerator and the theory of Rutherford backscattering.

Education

• University of Texas San Antonio, Fall 2015
  Master of Science in Computer Science
  GPA: 3.85
  Courses: Database Management Systems, Distributed OS, Machine Learning, Parallel Processing, Unix and Network Security, Networks, Data Structures (Java), Advanced Programming (Data Structures in C), Systems Programming, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages & Compilers, Operating Systems
• University of Texas Austin, May 2005
  Bachelor of Science in Physics
  GPA: 3.65
  Courses: Computational Physics, Elements of Scientific Computing, Elements of Graphics and Visualization

Programming Languages

• Expert in Java Core
• Advanced in Unix/Linux Command Line and Algorithms
• Intermediate in Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, JDBC, SQL, Javascript, Angular, AWS (EC2, RDS, and S3), Java Servlets, C, Latex
• Can learn a new language quickly.