Experience
July 2011 to December 2016
Undergraduate Education
University of California San Diego
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
High Tech High Programming Tutor
Taught basic programming concepts and guided students to completion of their first digital art project using Processing.
CSE 21 Tutor and Mentor
Tutored undergraduate students in algorithm design, time analysis, recursion, probability, trees, and graphs.
Alpha Phi Omega – Community Service Fraternity
I was the webmaster and maintained our fraternity website with 200 active members, bookkeeping community service hours, and creating events.
June 2016 to January 2017
Information Technology
IT and System Administrator Assistant
Center for Research in Biological Systems
I was very fortunate to get this job prior to my graduation because I got to learn so much about the hardware behind all the software that I had learned in school. I got to build my own server rack and manage existing servers throughout campus, including the ones located in the San Diego Supercomputer Center. I learned a majority of what I know as a system administrator, security practices, and the Linux environment which has become invaluable to me as a web developer.
January 2017 to January 2019
eCommerce Business
Sole Proprietor
After graduating college, I decided to start my own eCommerce business and built a store front website using the CodeIgniter framework. I got hands on experience running a business as a solo entrepreneur and had to learn the following:
Accounting
Customer Service
Logistics
Vendor Relations
Digital Marketing
Web Design
March 2020 to January 2021
Web Developer
Sciencell Research Laboratories
Sciencell Research Laboratories is medium sized company that produces cells to research institutions and biology companies for research and testing. Our department was small, so I had to wear a lot of hats as a web developer, system administrator, and IT support. I also worked closely with the marketing department with the technical parts of digital marketing. My main role at the company was managing the company website and migrating the website from Magento to Magento 2. I had to migrate over 30,000 different products and 7,000 existing customers.
You can view the old website at https://sciencellonline.com
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Magento 2
Magento
Site Ground
Digital Ocean
WordPress
MailChimp
SEM Rush
Authorize.net
Custom Coding
Responsive Design
User Accounts
Order Management
July 2021 to April 2022
Web Designer
Syndicate Labs
Syndicate Labs is a small digital agency that uses the WordPress engine and Elementor as the main content editor. My role at the company involved communicating with clients from inception of the project to receiving feedback while the website is being designed and built. A typical project starts with creating a mockup, sketched by hand, then designing each page using Adobe XD. Followed by building out each webpage using Elementor with responsive design in mind.
WordPress
Elementor
WooCommerce
Authorize.net
MailChimp
Google reCAPTCHA
Figma
Elastic Email
Tickera
Calendly
Live Social Feed
SSL Encryption
DNS Records
Responsive Design
Custom Coding
Adobe XD
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop