Other Projects

Interactive Resume (July 2010 – current): Provides videos, explanations and samples of previous projects

Non disclosed project (Jan 2010 - June 2010): n/a

Iphone Hand warmer app (Dec 2009 - Dec 2009): Produces heat to desired temperature for hands

Non disclosed 3d video Game Bot (Aug 2009 - Dec 2009): Simulated human interactions on a popular online game to automate character advancement (Code and Description available on request.)

Sale.com Projects (Dec 2008 - July 2009):

Back End Development

    • Product-crawler (as seen on the website): Pulls and compiles product information and images from the world wide web.

    • Log-ins: Sign on or update friends with Google/Myspace/Oauth/OpenID/Facebook accounts

    • Search: An evolutionary algo for product search

    • Product/Coupon scraping: Pulls products and coupon information from the world wide web.

    • Admin App: worked on a couple small add ons

Front end Development

    • Media Panel (as seen on the website): You Tube videos, Google Blogs and twitter feeds displaying targeted product information concisely beside sponsored links

    • Facebook App / Open Social App: Prototype applications to link Sale.com to the social world

Quality Assurance (QA)

    • Selenium testing: Simulated human interactions with Sale.com to compile latency reports under heavy load and periodically test functionality and emailed me if a failure occurred

    • System Health: Periodic targeted tests that emailed staff if software or hardware failures occur

    • QA Tools: analyzed several open source Quality assurance tools for usefulness and compiled and presented a report

Production

    • Apache optimization

    • mySQL benchmarking

    • Database clean up scripts

    • Built Dev machines

    • Helped with rack mounts

Psy research program (January 2009 – February 2008): Analyzed human behavior Currency Exchange prediction AI trader(July 2008 – Augest 2008): Used evolutionary Algorithms, Bayesian networks and a few new AI techniques to predict future currency prices. Psy research programs (November 2007 – March 2008): Three programs that analyzed human intellect for UCSD's psy department

Psy research program (November 2007 – March 2008): Analyzed human behavior in gambling for UCSD's psy department

Web page model checker v2 (June 2007 – November 2007): A Mozilla Firefox extension that checked iterations of websites for unwanted changes at Sony Online Entertainment.

Web page model checker v1 (June 2007 – November 2007): A Java tool using open source that checked iterations of websites for unwanted changes for Sony Online Entertainment

Data Structures Teaching Assistant (several quarters off and on from 2005 to 2007): At University of California San Diego

Bit Torrent / E-Donkey peer to peer stopping program (April 2006 – April 2006): A program that would stop file sharing for specific files. Created with one other person and I was not team lead.

A simple 3D Asteroids game (~ March 2005 – March 2005): A 3-D version of an Asteroids game using OpenGL

Bin Sort (Spring 2004): Reinvented bin sort when told quadratic sorts were the fastest possible sorts.

PC repair (~2001 - 2003) : fixed computers / network related stuff for money with LAN party people

Ascii graphic RPG (spring of 2000): A simple roll playing game with ascii graphics

Ascii sword in visual basic (fall of 1997)