Started at the University of Alabama at 17 years old after moving over 2,000 miles to a foriegn state with no friends or family around. As a biology and psychology double major, she already explored nursing career options over the summer by becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant and working to help pay for college expenses. She took 17 credit hours, one of which was a course on becoming a doctor. She realized she did not want to be a doctor.
During this semester, she joined Tri-Beta as well as AED, the biology and pre-heath honors societies on campus. She also explorered and prepared for potentially doing research on campus. By the end of this semester, she recongized not only does she not desire to become a doctor, but she also has no interest in pursuing traditional biology research. She did, however, get a creative writing piece publishd in the New College Review at the University of Alabama.
Fall of sophomore year was a difficult time. It forced her to reevaluate the fields she was majoring in and start considering a change of course. She was extremely involved in Alabama International Relations Club, Model United Nations Team, Black Belt Development Initiative, and International Coffee Hour. The increased presence in other areas on campus lead to a realization that she was unhappy with her forcasted future and ultimately herself. She spent her semester passing some of the most difficult biology and chemistry courses at the University while researching alternate opportunities she would be more passionate about.
After spending last semester and winter being uncertain about the future, she decided between two fields. She split her courseload between Political Science and Computer Science. After helping organize and host ALMUN, she helped organize and manage SGA's Green Week at the University of Alabama. She also helped layout the initial strategizing for the future CrimsonHacks in 2017. She also joined ACM this semester to continue being aware of Computer Science related activities on campus. She also initialized utlizing a groupchat system for students to meet up to study and recieve help from one another. This groupchat standard has continued every semester since and provided the University students with a strong networking system between similar leveled Computer Science students.
After deciding upon Computer Science, she decided to stay in Tuscaloosa over the summer where she landed a job initially working as a Campus Ambassador at the Supestore while taking courses over the summer at the University of Alabama. She was quickly promoted to the "Tech Team" within the Supestore. Selling primarily Mac's to incoming students.
After applying for a front-end development position at the University of Alabama within e-Tech, she quickly recieved an interview. At the interview she was given the opportunity for a higher position by being expected to have established knowledge in PHP and MySQL within two weeks. This was accomplished and she was given the job of a Full-Stack developer at eTech at the University of Alabama.
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After working for a few months as a Full-Stack Developer, this semester became a semester of consistency and networking. She learned basic algorithim and Object Oriented Programming this semester. She also learned about programming in assembly and VHDL(Very High Design Language).
While balancing the C-data structures library projects assigned in Data Structures and Algorithims, she also balanced her work load with work. Along with this she learned more about programming microcontrollers in C and assembly while also breadboarding. She attended CrimsonHacks this semester and created the UI for the CryptoMania Project.
Continuing her work at the University of Alabama debugging and maintaining stable sites. She also helped fix security issues and patches as well as create amazing documentation and a systematic approach to development. She also was able to help upgrade from PHP 5.5 to PHP 7.1 as well as switching from MySQL to mariaDB. Finally she spent most of the summer giving back to the local community in various ways.
While taking all Computer Science related courses, she still continued to work at the University. She decided to take up an extra job once a week for lab assisting so she could assist students on C++ issues as well as explaining algorithm and Object Oriented Programming problems. She joined Bama CubeSat and receieved the title of Outreach Lead and later was promoted to both Outreach Lead and Secretary. She also started Cohosting Houndstooth and Hardhats. Finally she finished programming "Mixed" and doing social media data analytic research comparing the volume of tweets between the Portugal and California Forest Fires of 2017.
Continuing her CubeSat and Houndstooth and Hardhats duties, she picked up assisting building an antenna for Fenrir's upcoming launch date. She recently purchases an Arduino that she has been playing with in her spare time and programming silly things. This semester she has her eyes set on finishing programming VastCast with her team. As well as programming "EBM", electric brain music, which will utilized BCI technology to allow specific brain signals to pay specific notes. Finally, she is doing research on Deep Space Network Protocols as well as future problems with interplanetary communications.
She is currently looking for a position within Software Engineering. She wants to expand upon her current skills and acquire new ideas and experiences. She wants to be pushed and encourages to create and achieve greatness.