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Project:  Website - Mortality Rate
Class:  Information Systems Senior Project (67-475)
Date:  August 2007 - May 2008
Status:  Completed (2 semesters)
 
Description:  This was a team based project to design a system for calculating risk of death from various causes combining public data from both the United States CDC and European EuroStat, working with the Center for the Study & Improvement of Regulation.

I focused on debugging, performance efforts, and database design, with significant time spent programming some primary functions and graphs, as well as documentation.

Worked extensively with large MS SQL Server 2005 dataset as well as ASP.NET/C# and Adobe Flex Charting.

Death Risk Rankings    News Articles


Project:  Website - Carnegie Mellon Groups and Organizations
Class:  Information Systems Junior Project (67-373)
Date:  January 1st, 2007 - May 10th, 2007
Status:  Completed (1 semester)
 
Description:  This was a team based project with six team members where we designed a web project from start to finish including all documentation, design, and implementation.  My team choose to do a Groups and Organizations website.

We used .NET ASP/C#, ASP, SQL Server, AJAX, MS Access, and Javascript and also integrated the open source softwares ProntoWiki and aspCalendar Free, heavily modifing them.

My roles including coding, documentation and bug fixing.

Selected Sample Documentation (PDF) - 35 out of 332 Pages


Project:  Report - Tuning the Information Systems Capstone Project at Carnegie Mellon & Singapore Managment University
Class:  Global Project Managment (67-326)
Date:  January 1st, 2007 - March 2nd, 2007
Status:  Completed (1/2 semester)
 
Description:  This was an international team based project with four team members (two from CMU and two from Singapore Managment University).  Our goal was to research ways in which to redesign the information systems senior capstone project course at both CMU and SMU into one international course.

We not only redisigned the curriculm but also researched best methods for international team building and collaboration. We were able to test many of these methods ourselves as a long distance international team.

Sample from the Report (PDF) - First 7 Pages out of 36 Pages

 
Project:  Report - Market Research Report for Nomad Networks
Class:  Technology Entrepreneurship (88-390)
Date:  August 29th, 2006 - December 12th, 2006
Status:  Completed (1 semester)
 
Description:  This report was part of a three person team project.  The report examines current market opportunities for IP camera technology nationally and locally and how a startup company should best position itself in relation to current companies and competitors. 

It was done on the behalf of Nomad Networks, a local security equipment provider in Pittsburgh and focused on the office and warehouse market.  The full report is 39 pages. 

Sample Unavailable

 
Project:  Report - Faculty Course Evaluation System Effectiveness
Class:  Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems (88-223)
Date:  January 1st, 2006 - May 5th, 2006
Status:  Completed (1 semester)
 
Description:  This report was part of a three person team project.  The report compares the effectiveness level and general response of the student and faculty body at CMU to the online Faculty Course Evaluation as compared to the older paper based system. 

The report uses thousands of data points that include response rates, student satisfication with a class, teacher ratings, and more to generate a clear conclusion about the effectiveness of the online system. 

Sample Unavailable


Courses Completed at CMU:

* Course not completed for credit
 
Senior Year (Fall '07)

67-475 Info Sys Applications
80-241 Ethical Judg Prof Life
80-242 Conflict Dispute Resolution
88-345 Rise Indstrl Resrch and Devlp
88-260 Organizations

 Senior Year (Spring '08)

64-100 Critical Art History
67-301 Networks & Telecom
67-495 Adv Info Systems Project
70-366 Intel Property & E-Commerce
88-371 Entrp Tech Chng & Reglation
88-410 Global Economy: User's Guide

 
Junior Year (Fall '06)

98-007 PHP and Web Admin (STUCO)
67-271 Fundemental Sys Development
67-272 Applctn Design and Development
88-390 Technology Entrepreneurship
88-220 Policy Analysis I


 Junior Year (Spring '07)

67-309 Info Assurance and Archtcture*
67-326 Global Project Management
09-104 Fund Aspct Organic Chemistry
76-366 Critical Hist Travel Writing
67-373 Software Development Project
88-221 Policy Analysis II
 
Sophomore Year (Fall '05)

03-121 Modern Biology*
79-230 Technology in American Society
80-180 Nature of Language
76-245 Shakespeare: History and Tragedy

 Sophomore Year (Spring '06)

67-250 Information Systems Milleux
76-236 19th Century British Literature
85-102 Intro to Physcology
88-223 Dec An Dec Sup Sys (DADDS)
 
Freshman Year (Fall '04)

15-100 Intro Prog. (JAVA)
21-120 Differential and Integral Calc
36-201 Statistical Reasoning
85-100 Intro to Intelligence
73-101 Economics of Risk
67-100 Info Systems Workshop

 Freshman Year (Spring '05)

15-200 Adv. Programming (JAVA)
36-202 Statistical Methods
73-100 Principles of Economics
76-101 Interp and Arg. (Machiavelli)
79-104 Intro to World History


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