TECHNOLOGY
Even at age two, I was fascinated by intranet design.
At age 14, I designed and built Baymax, my desktop computer.
From a young age, technology piqued my interest. Like most children, I took my mom’s phone from her purse at dinner, but I then soon began teaching her how to use it more efficiently. This only continued when my dad and I took a sledge hammer to our broken gadgets to disassemble them and learn how they worked. I played with circuit science sets, Rasberry Pi kits, and Arduino boards with LED lights.
Once my parents realized this hobby was more than a passing phase, I began attending coding classes over the summer while friends went to soccer camp.
In addition, I’ve always taken a special interest in hacking (don’t worry, the white hat kind). Though I’ve read many books on the topic, after visiting DEFCON in Las Vegas in summer 2018, I’ve begun learning more about computer security.
I’m currently an Intranet Design Consultant at Fireman.
Leadership
I’m a Board Member of Lewis & Clark College’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. Founded in 1947, the ACM is the world’s largest scientific and educational computing society, with nearly 100,000 members.
In Training & Education
In addition to reading books on various computer science topics, I have completed the following computer science-related events and courses:
2019: Majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at Lewis & Clark College
2018: DEF CON in Las Vegas
2018: Code Academy online course in command line scripting
2017: Udemy online introduction to hacking
2016-17: AP Computer Science course at Sage Hill High School
2016: iD Tech Java Programming summer camp
2016: Harvard's CS50 online introduction to computer science
2015-16: STEM Careers course at Laguna Beach High School
2015: Code Academy online course in Javascript
2015: iD Tech Java Programming summer camp
2014: Tour of Google headquarters in Mountain View, California PHOTOS
2013: Pegasus Robotics Team competition at Legoland PHOTOS
Projects
Performed "gadget dissections"
Disassembled and analyzed the components of several discarded household electronic devices, including a printer, mobile phone, desktop computer, mouse, and keyboard.
Researched, designed, and assembled a desktop computer
Components:
Case: Thermaltake Core V51
CPU: Intel Desktop Core i7 Processor i7-4790 LGA1150
Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Power Supply: Corsair AX860 ATX power supply 860 Watt
Card Reader: Raidmax 75-in-1 USB 2.0 Internal 3.5" card reader
Card Reader Adapter: ICY DOCK Flex-Fit Trio 3.5" to 5.25" Front Bay Converter Kit MB343SP
Video card: GEFORCE GTX 950 EVGA with 2GB GDDR5
Monitors (2): LG 24M37H-B LED 24" Monitor
Monitor Stand: Suptek Quad LED LCD Monitor Stand
Wifi: ASUS PCE-AC68 802.11ac Deal-Band PCI-E Adapter
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A with USB 3.1
Hard drive: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB
RAM: PATRIOT VIPER 16GB 2X8GB Kit DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz
Keyboard: Lofree Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard
Mouse: Ajazz AJ52 Watcher RGB Gaming Mouse
Speakers: Creative Inspire T10
Built a coding keypad
During my freshman year STEM class, I bypassed the system driver of a numeric keypad and recoded the keys to enter common coding commands in html, Python, and Java.
Designed and coded a video game
During my 2016 ID Tech summer class on Java programming, I created a custom level of a Super Mario Brothers video game.
AP Computer Science projects
During my sophomore year AP computer science class, I coded:
A digital version of the classic Battleship board game
Several common arcade mini-games
A digital version of the classic toothpick strategy game, with "human vs. human" and "human vs. computer" options
A Harry Potter-themed text adventure game
Computer Graphics “Textbook”
In partnership with Ben Glick, and based on the excellent teaching of Professor Jeff Ely of Lewis & Clark College, I created the first version of an online book in Spring 2020 to complement Lewis & Clark’s computer graphics course (CS 367). You can learn more about the project on its github page.