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BSc Computer Science

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Cruise Ship Check-In Agent

Intercruises

• Courteously greet guests and complete their check in procedure using enterprise Fidelio cruise ship software
• Direct disembarking guests to bus transfers, manage line-ups, assist with baggage
• Help guests by answering questions and assisting them with wayfinding

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

University of British Columbia

• Teaching assistant for a 2nd year Software Construction course in Java
• Teach labs of approximately 30 students, grade labs and assignments
• Assisted students by explaining topics and answering their questions both in person and online through a Q&A forum

Jump Start Orientation Leader

University of British Columbia

• Led a group of 33 first year students through orientation by organizing and facilitating team building activities, workshops, and events
• Liaised with faculty fellow to better plan activities to aid their transition to university
• Organized, set-up, and facilitated social events and activities

Crew Member

Wendy's

• Courteously took customer orders and operated the cash register; bagged orders neatly and ensured that all orders were accurate; resolved customer complaints and escalated to manager on duty according to store policies; also responsible for inputting online orders from Skip The Dishes and Uber Eats
• Operated grill & fryer; maintained appropriate amount of beef, chicken, and fry products; followed First In, First Out policies to ensure freshness

Business Card Generator

• Developed an app that converts user input into a PDF file of a business card
• Utilized various packages to generate a vCard of the person’s name and contact information in QR code format. Scanning this QR code automatically adds the contact information to the user’s phone
• Utilized an abstract conversion function to convert human-readable units to pixels to aid in the development process
• Developed a Flask frontend with HTTP Requests to create a user-friendly experience
• Technologies: Python, Segno, Reportlab, Python unittest, Flask, HTML templating, HTTP

Insight UBC

• Developed an app that processes and extracts information from ZIP and HTML files
• Designed a recursive breadth-first-search algorithm to traverse through the recursive structure of HTML files and find all relevant data
• Utilized regression testing to continually check that changes do not break previously working code
• Implemented a web frontend using React
• Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Mocha, Chai, JSZip, JSON

Blokus DUO

• Designed and built a two player version of the popular board game Blokus
• Developed an algorithm to sort a user input of a list of coordinates and compare them with each other to validate the input against a database of game pieces
• Implemented an efficient way to organize Event Listeners by grouping them into an inner class, improving readability and making it easier to debug the program
• Utilized the clone function to resolve the problem that my algorithm needed to modify the user input while also retaining an unmodified copy
• Extensively tested the program using unit tests and achieved 80% code coverage
• Technologies: Java, JUnit, Java Swing

Shifty Quadtree

• Developed an app that pixelates a PNG image by partitioning the image according to a formula that minimizes the maximum variability.
• Implemented an auxiliary structure that would allow the program to run in time proportional to theta(size of image)
• Practiced good coding principles by dividing code into helper functions as appropriate
• Used Valgrind to detect and correct memory leaks and dangling pointers
• Technologies: C++, GDB debugger, Valgrind

Budgeting App

• Coded an app that allows users to store and manage their budget
• Used the Java Date and Calendar classes in order to reset categories on a monthly basis
• Implemented data persistence of all budget data through JSON
• Implemented a visual “checkmark” and “X” using ImageIO, which provided clear feedback to the user
• Achieved 100% code coverage using JUnit
• Technologies: Java, JUnit, Java Swing, JSON

• UBC Science Scholar Award

• Western Canada Chinese Schools Association - Advanced Level Mandarin Reading Competition - 2nd place