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experience.

Southern California School of Interpretation

• Designed, built, and maintained the Sabio AI web application, which supports the management, testing, and grading of interpreter students and interpreters seeking re-certification, leveraging AI integrations for enhanced functionality.
• Developed and managed the Sabio AI backend architecture using Node.js, Express, and TypeScript, integrating with external systems like OpenAI, Vimeo, Synthesia, and other tools to streamline workflows and enhance automation.
• Built a responsive and intuitive frontend UI application with React.js, Next.js, and Material-UI, optimizing and creating an excellent user experience for both testers and students.
• Designed and managed a robust PostgreSQL database, enforcing data integrity and seamless interactions between frontend and backend systems.
• Managed deployment processes through Github Actions, ensuring streamlined and automated deployments, and set up server health monitoring to maintain optimal performance.
• Led sprint demos, clearly presenting progress and plans for future sprints while resolving legacy system issues using WordPress, Caspio, Zapier, and other platforms to ensure stability and improvement.

HP

• Maintained and managed HP's Cloud Bank payment processing system and invoice/PDF creation and archiving for their Instant Ink service and other HP services.
• Programmed in Ruby on Rails to build new feature requests and bug fixes, including new API endpoints and their Swagger docs, payload responses, data privacy and encryption, and application deployment.
• Operated as a Technical Lead to field questions and offer code feedback on PR reviews, and coordinated future sprint planning.
• Established clear communication between teams to ensure tasks are clearly understood and remain unblocked.
• Collaborated with Development team to unblock various issues and ensure work is completed by sprint deadlines.
• Designed future service workflows for Project Architect.
• Entrusted to interview future candidates for team growth and development.
• Work with QA team to ensure bugs are found and fixed, and put out "fires".

Lightmatter

• Built "Save Your City" website using Next.js/React, and Django/Wagtail; the site collects donations to support NYC businesses negatively affected by COVID-19.
• Built new frontend components, page templates, and features to complete client requests (HTML, React.js, Django, Wagtail, WordPress).
• Used CSS and applicable libraries (Sass, MUI, etc.) to style client work to match UI/UX designer's mock-up.
• Updated website content via code changes or WordPress management to support clients with new promos, specials, and business decisions.
• Displayed excellent communication with clients and co-workers by posing questions to ensure a clear understanding of a client’s needs, as well as with the internal team to unblock developers and ensure a sprint’s success.
• Proven experience live-demoing ticketed work in sprint syncs with clients.
• Consulted, supported, and maintained various websites taking care of SSL certificates, domain/hosting renewals, databases, etc.
• Oversaw completion of client work and ensured project sprints go smoothly and deadlines are met.
• Managed client relationships by sending sprint agenda/summary emails.
• Prepped upcoming sprint work by getting priorities from clients and creating tickets for developers.
• Scheduled and ran client sprint sync meeting to demo client work, etc.
• Supported blocked developers by getting assets, media, or decisions from the client.

projects.

AI Chat-Bot

Built with React.js, Vite, and CSS to allow users to have and save multiple conversations with an AI Chat agent.

Integrated with OpenAI's ChatGPT API and persists data in browser's local storage.

Weather App

Built with React.js, Vite, and CSS as a quick and easy live weather search by city.

Styled dynamically by searched city's forecast, with an imperial and metric toggle.

Save Your City

Save Your City is a non-profit website build to help NYC businesses struggling from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Users are able to nominate any local business they frequent and donate to them. The site was build with Next.js/React and Django/Wagtail CMS. It's integrated with a zip codes API and Stripe to search for businesses and submit donations.

The site also recorded all nomination and donation submissions into its own database for reference during donation payouts and future marketing.

Forgetful Notes

Forgetful Notes is a useless notes app that will gradually forget your notes as you continue to add them. This app was build with Next.js and React, and as you use it, just remember it's doing its best.