University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI

BS, Computer Science

• Graduated with summa cum laude distinction and a 3.98/4.00 GPA; UH Mānoa Dean’s List every semester
• Worked on multiple full-stack class projects including participating in 2 hackathons
• Created and moderated multiple Discords for online classes, facilitating study groups and peer discussions.
• President of PandA (Programming and Algorithms) club

Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2022

Software Implementation Consultant, Fast Enterprises - Maine Revenue Services

revenue.maine.gov/_/

Developing alongside a team of Maine's government employees and contracted FAST Enterprises employees on the internal STARS webapp and the public Maine Tax Portal website.

• Fixed complex, longstanding bugs in the tax underpayment penalty’s assessment and bill recovery’s reporting.
• Created the online submission process for Maine’s municipal governments to export/review and import new real estate transfer information for that year, available to them on the Maine Tax Portal.
• Regular demos of new functionality and discussions with business owners and management on implementation.
• their sense of humor and positive outlook boosted the morale of the Maine Tax team. – from my annual review.

Jun. 2023 - Present

System Programmer, Hawai'i Department of Taxation

tax.hawaii.gov/

Developing alongside a team of Hawai'i government employees and contracted FAST Enterprises employees on the internal GenTax webapp and the public DOTAX tax.hawaii.gov website.

• Worked on the 2022 Year-End Changes project, updating many forms and parts of the site for 2023.
• Collaborated with the team for multiple passes of end-to-end testing of the system and changes.
• Regular meetings with management discussing progress, prioritization, and requirements for tasks.

Jul. 2022 - Dec. 2022

Full Stack Developer, ISEC Society

www.isec-society.org/index.php

Independent contractor, working on ISEC website and providing IT support

• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) tech stack
• Hundred-thousand-line legacy code base with little documentation
• Interfacing with non-tech-fluent admin team on programming tasks
• Training new developer for work on the site

Dec. 2020 - Aug. 2022