Passion for Technology
For as long as I can remember, my father was bringing home tools and gadgets from work, and I was breaking them. I've always had a hard time keeping my hands off of anything with a power button. I always sought to cultivate this interest, and it evolved into hobbies such as photography, video games, and astronomy. However, I never formally learned any coding in high school, and my experience with hardware repair stemmed from my summer job, working with my dad.
I was never content with just one interest, and in my Junior year of high school I took a Survey of Mass Media class, in which I began to blend my love for photography with my interest in creative storytelling, and two years later I was a Film Production major at the Honors College at Miami-Dade College. I will always have a love for film, and in my year of cinematic study I learned many skills and fundamental principles which continue to serve me well with my photography, but in the summer after my freshman year I decided to switch my major and my career path towards my first love, technology. I became a Computer Science major and never looked back.
After rushing to finish my Associate's degree at the Honors College, I transferred to the University of Florida to complete my Bachelor's degree. Once settled, I filled the holes in my schedule by adding a minor of business administration, as Economics was always another interest of mine. The last couple of years have been a whirlwind, but I have learned more than I could have possibly imagined. I am now proficient in several programming languages, including Java, C++, and MySQL, and have experience with designing and building custom applications for business.
I competed in Engineering Competitions such as the Cuban Infrastructure Challenge, in which I designed a program that served as a functional concept model for a medical records database for Cuba. Last summer, I completed an internship for Game Changer tec, in which I designed and built a Java program that reads values from a MySQL table, generates thousands of data points, and writes those values into rows on another MySQL table, for use with a data mining and machine learning program called Weka.