Qualifications

Certifications/Awards:

• Georgia Gwinnett College Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
• Got 2nd place at the 2023 National USITCC Database Design competition
• Have an Honorable Mention for the 2023 National USITCC Business Analytics contest
• Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification

Technical Skills:

• Python
• Java
• mySQL/Oracle
• R
• Gitbash
• HTML/CSS

Outside Events:

• 2023 National USITCC (view more)
  

  The United States Information Technology Colligiate Conference is a 3-day national competition in which different colleges throughout the nation fund a trip (in this case, to Plano, Texas) for a chosen group of students.
  During this conference, there are 3 competition blocks that feature 2 3/4 hour across a variaty of IT subjects such as database design, system design, business analytics, etc.
  For my school, 12 students were chosen through a couple of 1-2 hour tests and after being accepted (as well as doing the nessesary paperwork for travel) are required to attend multiple training/practice sessions taught by our professor(s).

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• 2023 CCSC:SE conference (view more)
  

  The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Southeastern Regional (which in 2023 was hosted in South Carolina by Furman University) is a 2-day conference separated into two parts:

  • Student Research: This event is similar to a science fair (but for IT related subjects) where groups of students set-up a poster at an assigned spot where the student(s) (max students per group is 4) talk about the project they have been working on over the semester as well as the results of the project to visitors/students/judges in front of a poster the students made and set-up. The project my group presented is called "Monster Makey" and information about this project can be found in the "Monster Makey" drop-down in the "Previous Projects" section of this webpage.
    
  • Programming: There is a 3/4 hour Programming competition where students earn points through solving practice problems. Each group has a maximum of 4 students however only 2 students can be in the competition room at a time; the students cannot use any IDE outside of the room (but you can inside the room). The competition site is set up similarly to CodingBat where the code is tested against multiple inputs; you can test the code with a provide sample, but when submitting the code tests against unknown inputs. When submitted code is marked as incorrect a hint appears about what went wrong (ex. formatting issue, runtime error, etc) and points are deducted from the group's total score.

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• 2023 GGC STaRS event (view more)
  

  The Georgia Gwinnett College's Science, Technology, and Reseach Symposium is similar to a science fair where groups of students set-up a poster at an assigned spot where the student(s) talk about the project they have been working on over the semester as well as the results of the project to visitors/students/judges in front of a poster the students made and set-up. During the 2023 STaRS event, my group's project was "Grizzly Insights" and information about that project can be found in the "Grizzly Insights" drop-downs in the "Previous Projects" section of this webpage.

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• 2020 UGA Hacks (view more)

  A hackathon is an event where the competitors are presented with a problem and must create a solution to it; in the 2020 University of Georgia hackathon, teams had 2-3 days to work on the project where the beginning of the last day is dedicated to demoing the project to judges. During the event, there are plenty of workshops to learn something new as well as plenty of networking opportunities with the sponsors of the event.

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• 2020 GSU Global Game Jam (view more)

  A game jam is an event where students/competitors are given a theme to build a game around and, in this case, have 2 days to work on it. During 2020's game jam at Georgia State University, each team was required to make a game centered around sound/music.

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