Hello! I'm a recent UCI computer science grad (class of 2018). I'm originally from South Central Los Angeles, but I tell everyone that I'm from Inglewood because my family lives a few short blocks from the border. Now, I'm currently living in Irvine, CA.
I believe that with front-end development, I can design and develop programs that actually interact with the user and put users' needs first. The design and user interface of a website is what a user sees first when they search up a URL, and I want contributing to that to be the center of my career.
Aside from programming, I'm also interested in reading articles about the Internet of Things. The Next Web and The Verge are some of my favorite websites to go to for udpates in the industry. During some of my spare time, I like playing music. I play the keyboard, and I recently picked up drums, ukulele, and some guitar.
During undergrad, I worked for UCI's Athletics IT Department as a student application developer. I was introduced to Scrum development practices and learned how to develop web applications using the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and front end web technologies.
I stayed as a full time Web Application Developer after graduation and got more involved in the development life cycle, including requirements planning and demoing new features to Athletics clients.
Academic Web Technologies (AWT) is the IT team that develops and manages the main UCI learning management system that tens of thousands of faculty, staff and students use. For about a year, I was a developer on the team working in a PHP framework called Symfony (not like a musical Symphony). Some of the applcations I contributed to are EEE+ Scout and EEE+ Evaluations.
In the summer of 2016, I was a mentor for AppCamp. AppCamp is a week-long summer program that UCI holds with the engineering and Information and Computer Sciences schools to teach middle school kids in the OC area about computer science concepts. During this program, I mentored students between 6th and 9th grade as they learned how to use Scratch, Arduino, Scratch4Arduino, and AppInventor to apply what they have learned. These students would ultimately create an AppInventor app in teams by the end of the week and present them to their peers. To learn more about the camp, you can visit the AppCamp website.
This is the first website that I built from scratch that really allowed me to focus on design and user research, as well as strengthening my front-end coding abilities. Check out the User Resarch tab for mor information on methodologies used for designing and testing this website with real users!
I worked on a team to build a web crawler that crawls through different UCI websites and saves that data to a MongoDB database. That data can be retrived through our search engine that searches for specific words, finds them on different web pages and organizes the web pages in order of highest to lowest frequency of that word/phrase.
This project was created for helping young children with autism or any other learning disabilities with communicating with the world. It features real-world occupations such as firefighters and mailmen, allowing each child to be able to personify these people and hopefully feel comfortable meeting people like them in real life.
Click HERE to view the current MVP.
On a team of three, I helped to create a mock movies e-commerce website (I say mock because the movie check out process doesn't actually take any money or connect to a movie provider). Users could log into an account and search for movies by name or genre.
On a team of student developers and a Graduate medical student, I participated in a two-week long UCI medical AppJam. We created an app that improves the communication between patients and their doctors. Patients would put some of the symptoms that they were suffering from (whether they were from medications that they were taking, a disease they were suffering from, etc) on a timeline in the application, and this timeline (by the patient's choice) would be parsed to create a document that would be sent to their doctors so that the doctor has all of that information in one place.
WICS is a UCI professional/social organization that aims to empower, support and retain women in computer science and related fields.
I served as a marketing committee member when I first joined WICS, and am now the Secretary. As a marketing committee member, I helped market our weekly events through social media, UCI email bulletins, and even physical posters located around campus. As the secretary of WICS, I send out weekly newsletter to all of our members, which account for the majority of our attendance at our events. I also take notes during board meetings and committee meetings, and manage our committee during events as we set up and take down.
