Hello, I am currently a Solutions Architect at AWS. I just graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Computer Science and I have many years of self taught software development experience. I have a passion for music, mobile, and the internet of things.
Director of Product Development at an Atlanta based technology company. Created a method for sizing rings on a mobile device screen. Patent pending. In charge of development and all other technical aspects of the company. Please see the website for more information.
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During my 2018 summer internship at Verizon, I was tasked with developing a React Native, cross-platform app that would lay the foundation for converting their My Verizon mobile app. This app included many features like personalizing the layout and including Amazon’s Alexa and a Chatbot. I was on a team with 3 other interns and we all had a great time at Verizon. At the end of the internship, we had the opportunity to present to the CIO and it blew his mind when Alexa said "the best intern team is the Mobile Innovation Team"
I went back again in 2019 to work on a completely different project. This time, I was on a team focused on creating an augmented reality workflow for retail employees in the Verizon stores. We had the opportunity to work with special AR glasses and spent many hours looking around the room walking in circles. Our final product could locate any inventory in a store and direct an employee to that inventory without any knowledge of the store. I personally was in charge of the SLAM (Simultaneos Localization And Mapping) algorithm integration that allowed for indoor positioning using only the single, headmounted camera.
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Winner of the Georgia Tech College of Computing "Get A Move On" Hackathon, Zombie Run is an interactive augmented reality iOS app to encourage kids to get out and run. The goal of the game is to run away from the Zombies as they chase you in the real world. With the help of my teammates, we completed the app in 24 hours utilizing the Unity gaming engine and iOS's ARKit and HealthKit. We hope to publish it to the App Store within the coming months.
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For the past 7 years I have continuously developed a full home automation system for my family's home in Florida. The system currently handles all aspects of the home, including the alarm system, garage doors, smart locks, TVs, whole home audio, and much more. The entire house has many redundant safe guards for hurricane season and can be monitored and controlled remotely with Homekit. I worked with many different APIs, wrote many lines of code; most of the house is programmed with NodeJS. You can find some of my code on my github but it is always changing.
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Back in high school I was tasked with putting our school's newspaper, The Tiburon, on the web. Since then, I have maintained the website including moving the backend code to an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance. The website runs on Wordpress so the students can fully manage the look and post news stories as they get published. I am not affiliated with the content posted on this website, I just make sure it stays up.
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The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic little computer with many different capabilities. I have had many Pis going back to the original one when it first came out. I have used them in many projects like my home automation system, my car's bluetooth, and even running a little server to relay Alexa commands to my dorm's TV. One of my more recent projects is a LED light strip that responds to music being played. Using my knowledge of music from my DJ business, I was able to code the lights to respond to the beat and dance around and change colors. It is a very neat effect and the picture doesn't do it justice.
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Usually when a smart home builder like me wants to control stuff with Alexa, they need to go through the process of creating a custom skill and learning all the small details of AWS or following a tutorial and not really grasping the concept. I know because I went through that process and really hated it. So I created MQTT Smart Home, a bridge from Alexa's smart home API to any custom MQTT endpoint. MQTT is a very popular protocol for communicating to IoT devices and I currently use it to control the smart devices in my room. Once you setup the MQTT Smart Home skill, you can control your own devices by specifying the address, port, topic, and on/off messages. It automatically communicates with Amazon using OAuth 2 and it's completely serverless, meaning I can support an unlimited amount of users and devices. Click below to see it on the Alexa Skills store.
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