Boston, MA
09.2019 - 05.2024
B.S. Computer Science & Design
GPA: 3.7 / 4.0
Honors in Design
Extracurriculars: NUHOC (Huskiers and Outing Club) Oasis Software Accelerator
Madrid, Spain
09.2022 - 12.2022
B.A. Design Exchange Student
GPA: 3.72 / 4.0
Extracurriculars: IE Climbing Club
- Designed and implemented visually intuitive, interfaces botth improving existing pages or through new features across the platform.
- Maintained and improved infrasctucture of the web app, focusing on frontend layout and user experience.
- Created wireframes, user flows, process flows, and site maps to communicate design concepts effectively
- Participated in design discussions to ensure alignment and feasibility of design ideas
- Customized themes for platform templates, layouts, CSS, and JavaScript
- Assisted teaching underclassmen students, of various degrees, Processing programming language throughout weekly project sprints.
- Held workshops to teach students programming and version control principles including Git and basic functional programming.
- Presented weekly projects to showcase what Processing and P5.js are cabable of within a graphic design practice.
- Worked with professors to divide assistant responsibilities and make sure students were aware of course resources
- Designed and Developed a modular UI to search, filter, and analyze company data from Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank, to a rendered network and circular packing visualizations.
- Collaborated with other team members to properly implement visualization prototypes iterating off of feedback from team members and stakeholders
- Created an independent open-source ReactJS component library used throughout the visualization and in other Center for Design projects.
- Updated default brand styling when creating new brand marketplaces.
- Abstracted UI to more easily switch between brands and different visual styles.
- Added additional profile customization by allowing users to select and display items between brands.
- Created Olli, an open-source JavaScript library improving accessibility of data visualization with screen readers for blind and low-vision users.
- Implemented an adapter design pattern allowing the tool to be used alongside any visualization library such as Vega, Vega-Lite, and Observable Plot.
- Intentionally developed the library to be as light-weight as possible reducing overall dependencies and overhead when added to websites.
- Published the project to NPM and submitted the work as an academic poster that was accepted to IEEE VIS 2022.
- Contributed to the development of an open-source dynamic taint analysis tool for the JavaScript programming language.
- Added support to track program taint through JavaScript Promises and Async and Await operations through adding multiple function call stacks throughout the analysis and intercepting Promise events.
- Supported in part by National Science Foundation REU Project # 2109395.
- Graded assignments on a weekly basis providing thoughtful feedback on students code giving comments on both functionality and design of solutions
- Communicated with fellow TAs and faculty on assignment expectations and abnormal homework submissions
- Developed automatic documentation generation for CLI commands by scraping current documentation files in Markdown and modifying the format to better suite the command line.
- Used Docker simulate an Alluxio cluster in order to test and improve metric collection and dashboard layouts to better visualize the health of an Alluxio cluster.
- Authored a blog post about setting up new metric collection software with Alluxio
2024
skills: JavaScript HTML CSS ThreeJS D3
- Designed a 3D visualization exploring a new visual representation of code.
- Prototyped methods to visually represent complex networks.
- Wrote custom program to statically analyze JavaScript specifically searching for directory hierarchy and scoping between functions, classes, conditionals, and loops.
- Supported by URF Summit Award and Honors in the Discipline while at Northeastern University.
2024
skills: InDesign Figma Illustrator
- Led a small team of designers creating a comprehensive brand guideline for NEOCA a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
- Prototyped and Redesigned NEOCA's website to better convey the organization's message, mission and goals.
- Wrote an extensive outreach & fundraising strategy incorporating visual guidelines with the organization's mission and values.
09.2021 - 06.2024
Positions: President, VP Organization, VP Trips, VP Communication
- Organized dozens of day trips and weekend trips to the White Mountains keeping students safe while hiking and exploring various trails.
- Managed NUComers, a 120 person weekend at NUHOC's lodge property outside Shelburne, NH for underclassmen who have never been to the property before. Introducing them to the club and to the White Mountains.
- Facilitated an open and welcoming community for underclassmen to learn and get involved in the club.
- Hosted talks and workshops on outdoor prepardness, safety, and trip planning.
09.2021 - 04.2022
Positions: Program Coordinator
- Managed a cohort of upperclassmen mentors to advise groups of underclassmen in project development
- Led workshops on project development skills such as version control, front-end web frameworks, databases, and visual languages
- Planned weekly meetings for project work sessions for groups to get together make progess on their respective projects
2024. Exploring Hidden Worlds: Investigating a New Future of Code Northeastern University RISE 2024
2024. Harnessing Information Visualization as a Vehicle for Translational Design Design Research Society (DRS2024)
2022. Olli: An Extensible Visualization Library for Screen Reader Accessibility IEEE VIS2022 Posters
2022. Augur: Dynamic Taint Analysis for Asynchronous JavaScript ASE2022 Conference on Automated Software Engineering
2024. Meserve Award - Design
2024. URF PEAK Summit Award
2023. Honors in the Discipline
2020. Max Thomas Explore the World Scholarship
2019. Eagle Scout