Technical Skills

  • Languages:

    Experienced Some Experience Beginner
    CSS C C#
    HTML 5 Oracle SQL JavaScript
    Java PHP JSON
    Perl PostgreSQL JQuery
      R Objective-C
      UML  

  • Other Skills: Apache web server, git, Responsive UI Design, Bootstrap, Scrum, Web Applications, Prototyping, Sketch, Accountability, Rapid Learning, Creativity, Communication, Data Collection, Organization, Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Saddle Creek Records — Omaha, NE | Practicum Student, January - April 2017

  • Performed social media analysis on Facebook through sentiment and statistical analysis and pattern recognition.
  • Made recommendations for improvements to social media platforms.
  • Helped construct a dataset of national indie retailers for distribution.

Education

University of Nebraska at Omaha — Omaha, NE

Bachelor of Science, Major in IT Innovation | Graduated May 2017 | GPA: 3.67 magna cum laude

  • Honors: Honors Program; Regents Scholarship; Dean’s List (2012, 2014-2017), Chancellor’s List (2013)
  • Course Highlights: Advanced Composition for IS&T, Agile Development Methods, Applied IT Innovation, Entrepreneurial Foundations, Honors Colloquium: Hate & Terrorism, IT Ethics, ITIN Capstone I & II, Information Security, Policy, & Awareness, Interaction Design, Intro to C Programming, Intro to Computer Programming, Intro to Computer Science II, Intro to Information Assurance, Intro to Web Development, Managing the Database Environment, Mathematical Foundations of CS, Programming on the Internet, Social Computing Research Seminar

Projects

glinnO | August 2016 – April 2017

  • Senior capstone project, a calendar web application focused on local music events.
  • Allow users to create accounts and add, view, and delete events within user permission controls.
  • Built with UserFrosting (PHP), PostgreSQL, and Apache web server.
  • Conducted all sprint planning, development, testing, and sprint review and retrospectives.

Nebraska Watershed Network Web/Mobile Applications | January – April 2016

  • Created for the Nebraska Watershed Network operating at UNO.
  • Web, Android, and iOS applications for field data collection, specifically from non-scientists.
  • Oversaw sprint planning and use of SCRUM for web development team.
  • Ensured regular discussion between team members.
  • Lead review and retrospective sessions for web team.

Emmerse | January – April 2015

  • Virtual reality platform for the Oculus Rift DK2 to display videos in 360-degrees.
  • Oversaw sprint planning and lead Unity C# development.
  • Lead review and retrospective sessions.

Research

Understanding User Perceptions of Trust for Proceeds, Inc. | January – May 2017

  • Produced an academic paper as a study of user perceptions of trustworthiness of websites.
  • Used literature review to inform the building of various prototypes for a usability study.
  • Measured perceptions of trustworthiness of Proseeds, Inc.’s website at the UNO CAB Lab.
  • Provided Proseeds, Inc. with recommendations for changes to be made.
  • Produced a video summarizing the study and its findings for the stakeholder, Proseeds, Inc.

Networks of Music Fans on Facebook in Omaha, Nebraska and Austin, Texas | January – April 2017

  • Conducted social media analysis on Facebook.
  • Created two network graphs of music fans in both cities.
  • Performed analyses to draw conclusions about the networks.

Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism Competition | August 2016 – February 2017

  • Sponsored by The Department of Homeland Security and EdVenture Partners.
  • The Refugee Perspective Internet Campaign focused on emotional appeals to groups hostile to refugees.
  • Highlighting humanity and desire to work for a better life.
  • Helped organize and conduct a study on impact of campaign content with 25 participants in experimental and control groups at the UNO CAB Lab.
  • Gauged responses to find quantitative and qualitative impact metrics of differences between groups on the perceptions of refugees.
  • Received fourth place in the finals competition in Washington, DC.