March 2024 - Present

CFO & Content/Visual Design Manager

Whiting, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Overseeing all financial operations, including account setup, tax identification acquisition, and transaction management via QuickBooks.
  • Compile and provide financial statements and reports to partners on a monthly basis, detailing earnings, expenses, and outstanding obligations.
  • Utilize Paint.net to design and create visually appealing thumbnails and channel art to attract viewers and subscribers.
  • Assisted with the design of promotional game tokens featuring custom artwork and branded information, distributed as free marketing items to boost channel visibility and audience engagement.
  • Manage and maintain a consistent streaming schedule on Twitch, engaging with viewers and promoting the channel to increase followers and subscribers.
  • Produce high-quality video content from recorded streams, leading to a steady five-day upload schedule to YouTube.
March 2022 - May 2024

Full-Stack Engineer

Remote
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Reconstructed and modernized a dashboard widget allowing stock brokers to find entities willing to lend stocks to them at a particular price. Additionally hooked reconstructed frontend into newly reconstructed backend.
  • Implemented multiple contracts, controllers, and services revolving around complex user permissioning logic.
  • Monitored and tracked real-time user activity and errors using Watchdog and Sentry, ensuring immediate response to critical issues affecting user experience.
  • Customized FusionAuth theme templates with proprietary styles and components to allow a seamless integration of over 40 authentication pages with the existing product.
  • Parsed and converted Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol requirements into custom and dynamic forms that allowed users to place stock orders with fine-grained instructions.
  • Frequently communicated with our users (stock brokers using the website) to determine new tasks for both myself and others.
  • Utilized Jira to track and manage bugs, tasks, and user stories, maintaining a consistent weekly sprint schedule aligned with Agile methodoligies, enhancing team collaboration and project transparency.
August 2021 - May 2022

Course Assistant

Hoboken, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Provided comprehensive instruction to graduate students in web development, guiding them through complex programming fundamentals and web concepts.
  • Managed administrative tasks including scheduling and conducting weekly office hours, promptly grading labs and quizzes, and facilitating communication via email and Slack to create a supportive learning environment and offer timely assistance.
  • Mentored and guided students in troubleshooting technical issues, debugging code, and optimizing performance, cultivating problem-solving abilities and fostering a collaborative learning community.
June 2021 - August 2021

Zoom Instructor

Remote
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Delivered high quality instruction to a class of students between ages 8 and 14 in an online remote setting.
  • Created course outlines and lesson plans to teach young students programming fundamentals, Java, and Minecraft mod making.
  • Worked with students to troubleshoot and debug code, fostering a supportive and engaging learning environment.
  • Provided mentorship and guidance to students, encouraging them to explore their creativity and problem-solving skills.
September 2019 - May 2021

Clerk

Brick, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Conducted sales transactions, buying and selling collectible cards and merchandise, and maintained accurate daily transaction records using spreadsheets.
  • Organized and facilitated tournaments for popular card games, including Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Dragon Ball Super, to enhance customer engagement and drive repeat business.
  • Created visually appealing displays of cards and goods to attract customer attention and boost sales.
  • Maintained a clean, organized, and welcoming store environment, managing both the counter and play areas to optimize customer experience.
April 2019 - October 2019

Ride Operator

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Ensured the safety of children and adults riding amusements by enforcing strict safety standards.
  • Passed over 20 tests on the unique safety standards of each amusement after a brief learning period.
  • Operated and controlled unique functions of over 20 amusements to ensure correct and safe functionality.
  • Allowed patrons to enter the amusement only after checking the amusement requirements of height and weight, as well as collecting a number of credits unique to each ride.
July 2018 - August 2018

Senior Research Associate

Long Branch, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Created a Virtual Reality simulation of the Barnegat Bay that portrayed the effects of natural variances in the climate as well as the unnatural effects of human interference.
  • Simulated the environment and different environmental variables such as temperature, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen, in addition to over 10 species of wildlife residing in the Bay.
  • Conducted research within a team of associates across 6 weeks to gather data about the environmental factors and effects and develop an accurate and engaging simulation.
  • Presented the research and simulation at a final symposium with over 200 attendants, including both other staff and researchers, as well as family members.
  • More about the project here and in projects
January 2018 - May 2018

Assistant Teacher

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Skills
Professional Summary
  • Assisted in teaching students between the ages of 6 and 12 how to build and program to compete in the FIRST LEGO League challenge using LEGO Mindstorms EV3.
  • Set up and managed birthday parties to faciliate a safe and educational environment for the students.