Who I am
I am a university student, developer, and a general gov/tech nerd. You may also find me playing saxophone on national television (only during college basketball season). I am passionate about how governments and citizens interact with each other using technology.
Web applications are my weapon of choice. I’ve done most of my work in PHP or (more recently) Django but I am language agnostic. If given a choice, I would probably submit myself to the powers of Node.JS for any reasonable project.
What I do
At my on-campus job for the Santa Clara University Career Center, I redesigned their entire website layout within the CommonSpot CMS that led to a 10% growth in traffic. I also provide ongoing web support and advise the center on new technologies.
I am also a rising senior at Santa Clara University studying Political Science and Math. During the upcoming school year, I will be co-president of the Santa Clara Pep Band with this man. We are in charge of performances at all men’s and women’s home basketball games and women’s volleyball games. In the Spring, we will take a group of 30 musicians to Las Vegas for the WCC basketball tournament.
What I've done before
From June to August 2011, I worked with Code for America as a Google Summer of Code student developing a dashboard to visualize 311 requests made in the cities of San Francisco and Boston.
While interning for the Federal Communications Commission in Fall 2010, I helped the new media team develop a system to organize and tag existing pages on FCC.gov for import into the new site.
For two summers after I graduated high school I worked for Cubic Transportation Systems, helping implement an enterprise wiki system to organize their engineering design documents.
Things I'm playing with
Mapping Farmers' Markets
Code for America fellow John Mertens made a CouchDB based API on top of USDA’s farmers’ market information. I decided to use the data to learn about mapping and clustering as well as the Polymaps javascript framework. What I made was a visualization of the clustering of farmers’ markets around the 50 largest cities in the United States. See more…