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Chief Technology Officer
What You KnowChief Technology Officer
May. 2020 - Aug. 2021Greater Seattle AreaAs the Chief Technology Officer, I oversee the engineering teams to help produce the best product and user experience for our game 7 Seconds OR Less! This is a game for everyone, focusing on celebrating Black Culture & teaching Black History. - Manage engineering and product team of 5 to create a fun, engaging user experience - Coordinate with the Product team to ensure engineering limits/expectations are present during the design process of features - Research the current trends in app development to ensure the overall architecture of the game is modern - Built the overall architecture of the app along with the gameplay experience
Software Engineer
MicrosoftSoftware Engineer
Sep. 2019Bellevue, Washington- Built settings menu associated with header of the Bing News and Interests flyout to allow millions of users to change their news settings without opening their browser - Perform code reviews for other devs in a team of 4 - Built Cold Start Upsell Card for Bing News and interests flyout to increase user engagement by enabling them to set preferences to get more relevant news - Lead BSIX Summer Mentoring program - Projects: Microsoft Rewards Integration with Edge, Header in news flyout for Windows, Cold start upsell card in news flyout Tools: React, TypeScript, Chromium, VS Code, Azure Dev Ops CI/CD
Cloud Collaboration Platform Engineering Intern
AdobeCloud Collaboration Platform Engineering Intern
May. 2019 - Aug. 2019Seattle, Washington- Built request access demo in React to showcase that the millions of users of Adobe Cloud Services could now request access to documents - Advised team of 8 on automatically creating a changelog based on commits - Added in test infrastructure to enable testing of notifications sent via the API
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Michigan State UniversityGraduate Teaching Assistant
Aug. 2018 - May. 2019East Lansing, Michigan- Taught 2 CSE 232 (Intro to C++) programming labs of 15 students each and helped students complete their lab assignments - Graded course projects and provided feedback on improvements - Tutored students during help room to advise them on their projects - Created project overview sessions to increase student competenancy
High School Engineering Institute Mentor
Michigan State UniversityHigh School Engineering Institute Mentor
Jun. 2018 - Jul. 2018East Lansing, Michigan- Live on campus with campers - Take them to and from their activities - Help them with their poster presentations - Mentor them and encourage them to become engineers
Graduate Research Assistant
Michigan State UniversityGraduate Research Assistant
Aug. 2017 - May. 2018- Read papers dealing with NLP to get an idea of what has already been done - Learn existing techniques for NLP - Attend weekly lab meetings - Annotate data collected from user studies
Software Developer Intern
OSIsoftSoftware Developer Intern
May. 2017 - Aug. 2017Johnson City, Tennessee Area- Perform sanity tests on Interfaces deemed ready for release - Ensure work items were fixed in the current state of the code - Identify and implement the fix for the work item if not already done - Attend daily stand up meetings with my team
Lab Monitor for the School of Computing
Clemson UniversityLab Monitor for the School of Computing
Aug. 2016 - Apr. 2017Clemson, South Carolina- Clean off white boards in computer labs and classrooms. - Lock exterior doors - Stock printers with paper
Software Developer Co-op
OSIsoftSoftware Developer Co-op
Jan. 2016 - Aug. 2016Johnson City, Tennessee Area- Fix bugs in interfaces and in interface testing programs - Test the various interfaces that have an upcoming release - Write Unit Tests to test functionality of interfaces - Make use of source control in updating interface testing programs - Attend daily stand up meetings with my team
Lab Monitor for School of Computing
Clemson UniversityLab Monitor for School of Computing
Aug. 2015 - Dec. 2015- Clean off white boards in computer labs and classrooms. - Lock exterior doors - Stock printers with paper
Research & Development Co-op
ItronResearch & Development Co-op
Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2015- Reviewed logs to ensure a system worked properly - Tested Node Migration - Installed new hardware in CCT
Research & Development Co-op
Itron, Inc.Research & Development Co-op
May. 2014 - Aug. 2014West Union, South Carolina- Sanity checked the different hardware types of meters to ensure that new software worked on the meter - Wrote a script to automatically sanity check the 4 different types of meters

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