CodeStepByStep Software Developer and Content Creator

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December 2015 - Current

I have helped to add new content and features to the CodeStepByStep educational programming tool aimed at teaching users new programming languages, supporting high-school and college courses and independent learners. Have helped add support for new languages, including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ML, Racket, and regex exercises.
Prior to CSBS work, implemented a variety of front-end and back-end features for its sister site Practice-It, a Java-learning tool developed at the University of Washington, and assisted in the redesign and testing of the site released in June 2016, including support for JavaScript exercises along with authoring 85 JavaScript exercises tailored towards college-level web development courses.

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UW CSE 154 - Web Programming

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Summer 2019 (Instructor)

Spring 2019 and Autumn 2018 (Co-Instructor)

Winter 2016 - Spring 2018 (TA)

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Example Teaching Materials

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Expedia Software Engineering Intern

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Summer 2017

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UW CSE 143 Teaching Assistant

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Spring 2015 - Summer 2018

As a 143 Teaching Assistant (TA) over 8 quarters, I have supported CSE 143 lecture content focused on Java programming (CS2). In this role, I lead course sections twice a week to a class of 15-20 students. My additional responsibilities include grading weekly homework assignments and course exams and helping students in the IPL (Introductory Programming Lab) outside of class. Since Summer 2016, I have held additional Head TA roles designing weekly section curriculum for all sections, writing exam problems, and supporting grading management.

Women in Computing Seminar

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Autumn 2016 - Spring 2017

As the teaching assistant for UW’s Women in Computing Seminar, I help lead weekly sections to discuss the STEM community and recent diversity efforts, covering issues such as cognitive bias, importance of role models, research opportunities, and available career pathways and offering tech company fieldtrips and alumnae panels. In addition to section contribution, I developed the website to be used for the 2016-17 academic year offering students a number of different pre-engineering and STEM diversity resources.

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Supplementary Teaching Materials

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UW HFS Residence Education Programmer

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August 2014 - June 2015

As part of the first REP team at UW, I helped plan, implement, and manage weekly educational programs for University of Washington students living on campus. These programs provided enrichment in the areas of academic success, wellness, and diversity and reached up to 70 students per program throughout the year.

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BuzzBee Technology Marketing Intern

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December 2014 - 2016

BuzzBee, a technology marketing agency in Seattle, has offered excellent opportunities to apply my passion for technology with my interests in design and business development. Working alongside the strategic and creative departments (and their four-legged canine friends), I've had internal responsiblities finding and presenting client and competitive market research, blog authoring and maintence of the company website. Externally, I've developed email and web templates for some of our clients, including Hedvig, Cloudera and Microsoft and assisted with technical copywriting for reports, e-mail campaigns and web pages. Throughout the experience, I've developed a unique perspective of the development, growth and success of both established and emerging technology companies.

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UW HFS Early Fall Start Community Leader

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Summer 2014 & Summer 2015

Early Fall Start (EFS) is a program that draws in more than 600 incoming freshmen to the University of Washington on-campus residence halls during the month before the academic year starts. As a Community Leader (Resident Advisor), I helped support these students transitioning to starting college and living on campus. My responsibilities included marketing important information for students in the halls, planning and managing social and educational events, and responding to any issues students may have faced during their transition.

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UW CSE 311 Teaching Assistant

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Spring 2015, Autumn 2017

As a CSE 311 Teaching Assistant (TA), I supported CSE 311 lecture content focused on introducing computational theory to CSE undergraduates. I lead course sections twice a week to a class of 15-20 students covering material including predicate logic, modular arithmetic, induction proof strategies, and finite state automata. My additional responsibilities included grading weekly homework assignments and course exams and holding several office hours each week.

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UW CSE 332 Teaching Assistant

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Winter 2017

As a CSE 332 Teaching Assistant, I supported lecture content covering advanced data structures, algorithms, and parallelism (Java) to CSE undergraduates. I co-led weekly sections with a class of 25-30 students and additional responsibilities included grading weekly homework assignments and course exams as well as weekly office hours.

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Protein Data Visualizer Capstone Project

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Spring 2018

As part of my cumulative CS Capstone Project, I integrated interests in computational biology, data visualization, and educational technology to work with a team of 4 creating a researcher-focused tool to help analyze player data for FoldIt crowd-sourced protein-folding game. By the end of the project, our team won the 1st Place Award for the Allen School Research Poster Fair.

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PLSE Lab Undergraduate Research

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2015 - 2016

The UW CSE PLSE Lab is comprised of research advisors, CSE graduate students, and undergraduate students working on a variety of programming language and software engineering projects. I have wored on the Incarnate project, which focuses on analyzing both the software and hardware involved in 3-D printing, with a goal of optimizing commericial 3-D printers. My specific role involves helping design and develop the G-Code (the instructions sent to 3-D printers from CAD software) Analyzer, which is written primarily in Java.

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Judgement-Based Grading Tools

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2016

Working with a team of 3 other students and a CSE lecturer implementing a Chrome extension to improve the quality of grading 300-level proof assignments. This tool integrates with the current grading platform but aims at providing more comprehensive student feedback as well as consistency between different graders on assignments.

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Pure Home Intern/Marketing Assistant

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December 2013 - March 2015

Pure Home is an e-commerce company that specializes in personalizing home decor. As a growing start-up company in Seattle, Pure Home sparked my passion for working in technology start-ups. Starting as an intern, I quickly developed skills in search-optimized content writing for over a thousand home-decor products, regular article authoring and editing for the company's blog, social media account maintenance, and eventually earned a position as Marketing Assistant with responsibilities that included strategic market research and managing new and existing products on our e-commerce platform, Magento.

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