John Farnandez

• Working with a team of interns to upgrade a Drupal backend and React frontend for enhanced UI/UX and sustainability
• Delivering a ground-up Full-Stack implementation of Drupal (Backend) and React (Frontend) with JSON API integration
• Enhancing and retaining multilingual functionality for non-English speakers, enabling better accessibility
• Upgrading the web page version and optimizing its interaction with the database
• Enhancing the user interface while maintaining or improving functionality, ensuring a more engaging user experience
• Focusing on creating sustainability by mitigating potential deprecation issues
• Holding diverse roles, including:
• Designing UI/UX visual representations
• Implementing components and features in React
• Defining requirements amidst limited direction and ambiguity
• Managing scope expansion, adapting to new challenges as they arose
• Practicing Agile development through well-planned sprints, ensuring timely delivery
• Maintaining strong team cohesion and a balanced workload schedule
• Gaining expertise in new technologies to meet project goals

• Company Overview: Virtual
• Implementing AI for radiology reports to create rules and ensure accurate functionality using large, secure databases
• Developing decision flow charts for radiologists, focusing on CT scans and ultrasounds to streamline diagnostic processes
• Writing flow chart code with:
• Definitions, notes, and keywords for clarity and precision
• AutoIt for automation and scripting
• Excel for data organization and management
• Ensuring the AI is trained effectively to provide reliable and accurate outputs for clinical use

• Working as an English as a second language (ESL) tester, coordinator, administrator, data entry specialist, and assistant for multiple classes at Central Carolina Community College
• Address issues with unfilled attendance data by implementing weighted probabilities to estimate class attendance
• Improving the accuracy of reporting, ensuring more reliable data for funding purposes
• Played a key role in supporting the administrative and educational needs of the ESL program

Summer 2022: Agile Team at Freddie Mac

• Worked on implementing new cloud technologies into the Freddie Mac framework using EKS Amazon services
• Contributed to an application that enabled developers to create microservices with built-in clustering containers and cloud accessibility
• Updated outdated software to current versions and newer programming languages
• Collaborated with the team to gather requirements and create templates for AWS cloud containers
• Supported new builds and releases to improve system functionality and performance

Summer 2023: Business Application Team

• Operated in a full-stack environment to support a business application used by banks for loan risk assessment
• Created backend white box tests, implemented code changes, and fixed frontend bugs
• Worked on a webpage that interacted with MongoDB databases and algorithms to automate loan estimate information
• Helped banks assess property lending risks through a more efficient and accurate application

• Maintain commercial fish tanks following specific safety protocols and customer interface

• Worked in a lab to create CAD designs and used a mill to cut out MDF using machine code after creating a mini prototype using a balsa wood laser cutter