Phillip Drennan

I am currently working on a Django application for the UAA College of Health that helps health experts find and respond to COVID-19 misinformation on social media.

• Used Agile engineering principles to help define project requirements and add features to the application
• Implemented Scrum meetings to help the team stay organized
• Designed the application UI initially and periodically redesigned the frontend based on client feedback
• Hosted our web application using Apache

I worked as an IT assistant at the University of Alaska Anchorage off and on for a few years. My main responsibilities were recording and editing classes, but my job role was very fluid and I routinely helped professors troubleshoot computer problems.

• Edited class videos using Adobe Premiere
• Designed Department logos using Adobe Photoshop
• Recorded and uploaded classroom videos
• Organized computer files
• Helped Professors troubleshoot technical issues

As an intern at Karta Solutions, I learned how to make full stack applications using Angular, Node, Express, and PostgreSQL.

• Performed Quality Assurance to find bugs in their software
• Fixed bugs that I found and known issues with the software
• Helped the team do market research

This position was part of a scholarship I was awarded by the Alaska Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Our team researched and applied Machine Learning concepts to financial markets.

• Researched and designed machine learning applications to solve business problems
• Searched in scholarly databases to locate necessary information for research projects