Significant Academic Projects

BACK END DATA VISUALIZATION ENGINEER 02/2018 to 05/2018

Code for America, Congressional Data Challenge Data Science Team.

Explored, organized, and transformed raw data from California’s General Elections from 2010 to 2016 into features for the predictive models and Client-side Team.

• Contributed to a documented, functional pipeline allowing peer review and project reproduction on GitHub.

• Preprocessed raw CSV data by identifying missing and null values attributes for 1,502,264 rows, resulting in 10 out of 27 columns having anomalies with PostgreSQL queries.

• Explored data and identified characteristics to draw feature correlations for various Data Science algorithms.

• Derived statistical significance of the average campaign contribution per election cycle and presented in the Team’s final presentation.

• Supplied and standardized data into a CSV file for populating the Client Side Team’s Django database.

• Tool Chain: PostgreSQL, Mode Analytics, Trello, GitHub, GitLFS, Google Hangouts, Slack.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER                                                  09/2017 to 12/2017

Software Engineering Meta Course, Final Project.     Project Wiki

Team designed and implemented large-scale software application utilizing software principles. Movie Insight (refactoring)

• Collaborative program analysis and specifications including technologies, platform, web clients, search results, API’s, and persistent users within specifications and deadlines.

• Constructed UML designs and reviewed various actors, user cases, classes, database relationships, and sequential diagrams which expressed conceptual ideas.

• Produced wire framing diagrams that recognized interactions and usability issues.

• Applied Circle CI, conducted PHPUnit testing, and authored custom alerts throughout resulting in faster development and code reusability.

• Team implemented HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP coding including AJAX and SQL queries to facilitate the software product and demonstrating proficiency.

• Established a tool chain to execute continuous integration and deployment that assist with detecting problems early.

• Communicated with Slack bi-weekly and in person stand up meetings with the aim of tracking application advancements or issues, which were posted on the progression board.

• Tool Chain: Cloud9, GitHub, Heroku, CircleCI, Slack, MySQL Workbench, Progress Board, Wireframe, UML User Cases.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER                                                        05/2017

Internet Programming, Final Project. Comic Ink (live)

Conceived, designed and implemented a website with specific constraints, centralizing on the integration of server-side programming, database connectivity, and client-side scripting resulting in a dynamic web application.

• Generated a user story, website mock-up, and a simple database entity relationship diagram fabricating a final template that captured the product information and requirements.

• Designed and implemented SQL database with several tables using CRUD and Restful services in PHP providing meaningful content for users.

• Propagated several reports which used aggregated functions and AJAX calls from data.

• Embedded CSS3 and Bootstrap within HTML5 to present a nice and consistent design throughout the website.

• Interactive controlled functionality with JavaScript, enhancing the user’s overall experience.

• Tool Chain: Cloud9, GitHub, Heroku, MySQL Workbench, MVC Framework.

• 2024 Changes

• Compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) with continued research and testing methodology. 

• Expanded and updated SQL database, mySQL queries and third party libraries for comic books, graphic novels, and comic/pop culture conventions.

• Bootstrap 5.3 - Open-source CSS framework designed for responsive, mobile-first front-end web development.

• PHP 8.1 upgrade from 7.4 - Increase security, functionality, and modernization. 

• Tool Chain: a2hosting, GitHub, cPanel, phpMyAdmin, MVC Framework.