Programmer & Consultant

Work Experience

Accenture, Accenture Federal Services (Aug 2018 - Current)

Specialist

  • Manage internal team tasks, release schedule, and weekly presentations to the client
  • Conduct research to augment the risk mitigation and blacklist models
  • Assist in routine testing efforts to ensure client products are working as designed

Senior Analyst (Promotion to Specialist > 1.5 years)

  • Create mockups, low-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes to propose for the client's management system
  • Perform assembly and regression testing in production to scan for website defects
  • Create Jira tickets to log all website defects during testing and communicate solutions with the development team
  • Ensure design requirements are addressed during the requirements and design phases of the project's system development life cycle
  • Host solution meetings between design, functional, and development teams to ensure all requirements are met in the proposed designs
  • Maintain the project's design system and establish guidelines for consistency across all the team's designs

Analyst (Promotion to Senior Analyst > 1.5 year)

  • Managed testing for all Demand Planning interfaces and communication of defects with the development team
  • Managed all legacy data uploads into the system and collaborated with the data team to resolve defects
  • Composed detailed test scripts, documenting all necessary steps to run each interface successfully
  • Revised functional design and field mapping documents with incoming interface updates during testing and defect resolution

Banana Republic (May 2018 - July 2018)

Sales Associate
  • Assisted customers on the sales floor with product questions and stock checks
  • Processed apparel shipments weekly for placement on the sales floor

FCH Enterprises (May 2018 - July 2018)

Restaurant Hostess
  • Directed customers to seating areas, appropriate for their party size
  • Assisted wait help with service management during work hours

The Pennsylvania State University (Aug 2015 - May 2018)

Learning Assistant
  • Logged attendance, update gradebook, and grade assignments/exams for over 150 students
  • Provided feedback and response to all student questions 

Student Engagement Network Grant Initiative

The Pennsylvania State University (May 2017 - Aug 2017)

 Undergraduate Data Visualization Researcher (Link To GitHub Repository) 
  • Awarded a grant, through the Student Engagement Network (SEN) Grant Initiative, to conduct research on exploring and analyzing user experience of Twitter data in 3D and immersive virtual environments (IVR)
  • Visualized 1,400 geo-referenced data entries on a rotating 3D model of the globe in Unity
  • Goal to create an immersive environment of each geo-referenced location using Google Maps API and C#

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program

The Pennsylvania State University (May 2016 - Aug 2016)

 SCRiM Summer Scholar & Undergraduate Data Visualization Research Assistant (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Assisted in research for the Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM)'s REU Summer Scholar Program, under Dr. Alexander Klippel
  • Sorted and cleaned DICE Snake Model data with R in RStudio
  • Analyzed climate change data using R functions for plots and graphs
  • Created a 3D data visualization of the DICE Snake Model using Unity and C#
  • Aided with incorporation into virtual reality devices (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Gear VR, Google Cardboard, etc.)
Poster Presentations

 Foundation For an Immersive Visual Analytics System to Support Climate Change Decision Making - July 2016 (Link To Poster)
  • Redila, G., Simpson, M., Wallgruen, J.O., Klippel, A.
  • Presented at SCRiM’s Annual Research Poster Symposium, University Park, PA, USA, 2016

Hawaii Urban Innovation (HUI) Lab

University of Hawaii at Manoa (May 2015 – Aug 2015)

 Undergraduate Research Assistant for Hawaii Urban Innovation (HUI) Lab (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Assisted in research under Dr. Dominik P. H. Kalisch
  • Utilized data research and analysis to develop better products, services and infrastructures that create a more sustainable and livable city.
  • Used RStudio functions and PostgreSQL to analyze real estate data of homes sold in Mililani, Hawaii
  • Used various R functions to plot data and predict future sell prices for houses based on the houses' attributes and current sell prices
  • Conducted batch geocoding of home addresses to obtain latitude and longitude coordinates
  • Organized application with source code control
  • Created Shiny and Shiny Dashboard web application prototypes to predict market prices for all Hawaii homes, based on user-entered data

Relevant Class Projects

Clickr - Classroom Response System (Aug 2017 - Dec 2017)

IST 440 - Information Sciences and Technology Integration and Problem Solving
  • Capstone project focused on implementing a solution to replace the i>clicker system at Penn State
  • Created a faculty/instructor Clickr website for managing Clickr use and questions for class
  • Used: React.js, HTML, PHP
FoodMood - Dietary Manager and Recommendation Application (Aug 2017 - Dec 2017)

IST 412 - The Engineering of Complex Software Systems (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Class Project
  • Java application that took into account the user's current mood in order to suggest dietary recommendations from a database and provide the user's dietary statistics
  • Used: Java, Apache Derby, Persistent Data, MVC, Unit Testing
MeTime - Personal Schedule Manager (Jan 2017 - May 2017)

IST 311 - Object-Oriented Design and Software Applications (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Class Project
  • Java application that served as a way for users to manage their personal schedules, contacts, and event alerts
  • Used: Java, Java Swing, Persistent Data, MVC, Unit Testing
THON Technology Control System - Event Manager (Jan 2017 - May 2017)

IST 261 - Application Development Design Studio I (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Studio project focused on implementing a solution for the THON Dance Marathon's event management
  • Created a Java application with Swing that allowed attendance monitoring, floor pass notification, and a communication system between THON committees during the event
  • Used: Java, Java Swing, MVC
AlgoRhythm - Music Player Application (Aug 2016 - Dec 2016)

IST 242 - Intermediate and Object-Oriented Application Development (Link To GitHub Repository)
  • Class Project
  • Java application that incorporated popular functionalities seen in music player applications such as Apple Music and Pandora
  • Used: Java, MVC