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Gentle Ramirez (They/Them/Theirs) Resume
Education:
  • New York University College of Arts and Science Expected Graduation May 2022
    • Bachelor's Degree: Africana Studies, Web Programming and Applications, Crative Writing
    • GPA 3.728/4.000
  • Harvard University Spring 2020
    • Certificate: CS 50 Introduction to Computer Science
Experience:
  • JP Morgan Chase & Co Incoming Internal Audit Summer 2021 Analyst- Technology Track Summer 2021
  • Twitter #TechProud Cohort Participant and #BattleOfTheCamps Cohort Participant Summer 2020
    • 1 of 50 students chosen from 1,000+ applicants offered to participate in a two-day interactive program designed for second-year Computer Science students focused on professional and technical development and Twitter’s first ever virtual hackathon
    • Organized 30+ to do tasks between a team of 6 using Trello and ensure developers knew needed to be built and at what time in realtime
    • Collaborated with a team of 6 and back-end developed 1 twitter bot using TwitterAPI, Tweepy, Google News, Python3 and Java8 that connects users and circulates mutual aid efforts, and abolitionist readings to encourage liberation centered conversations and practices.
    • Built 1 “Magic 8 Ball” app using XCode, Swift, and Swift UI, Object-C.
    • Selected Achievements: ​Winner of the “Twitter for Everyone” Category, 3rd place winner in the #ReadySetCode challenge.
    • Advanced tech skills & tools: Python 3, Java 8, Swift, XCode, Object-C, TwitterAPI, Google News-API,
  • Kunhart Films Archive and Production Intern Summer 2020
    • Improved transparency by effectively completing 15 research projects on Barack Obama’s presidency and evaluated 100 events between 2008-2016 which assessed how implemented healthcare policies affected 30,000,000 Americans.
    • Crafted 100 alternative ways to document Barack Obama and his policies to weave narratives that center decolonization.
    • Pitched 5 editing projects and presented 10 overviews to the production and editing team increasing the ways in which the documentary examines the conditions of possibility for materializing new geographies of freedom
  • JP Morgan Chase & Co Software Engineering Virtual Internship Experience Summer 2020
    • Boosted functionality by pitching 3 solutions for client-side web applications to display a graph that automatically updates as it gets data from the server application saving 10 work-hours per month.
    • Used Perspective, Python3 and TypeScript to revamp data chart feeds for traders to monitor new trading strategies
    • Advanced tech skills & tools:​ Python3, TypeScript, Perspective, Front End Web Development, Data Visualization
Projects:
  • Black Lives Matter Hackathon: Coding to Combat Racial Ineqaulity and Systemic Injustices by the Minority Programmers Association Summer 2020
    • Joined a team to design and implement iOS Application using XCode, python in a 21 day hackathon to build an app that redirects users to buy the top amazon items ordered from Amazon to a similar listing from a Black owned businesses.
  • Twitter Academy Summer 2020
    • Instrumental in creating a bot from scratch Using Python 3 and Twitter API
Professional Development:
  • Gentle R. Poetry Founder
    • Full stack web developer responsible for a secure, visually appealing website from scratch for spoken word artist Gentle Ramirez.
    • Improved the number of sales of published work by 40% every 4 months through successful marketing strategies to increase the average time on page by 50%
    • Implemented Twitter API, Facebook API, and google analytics to increase and monetize website traffic by 20%.
    • Increased number of show bookings by 50% by incorporating user feedback every month to improve website experience
    • Created 1 monthly online survey and analyzed reports of site engagement to diagnosed poorly performing pages
  • Other Professional Development
    • Code 2040 Finalist, BVP Fellow Finalist, Goldman Sachs 2020 Possibilities Summit, JP Morgan Chase & Co 2020 Corporate & Strategy Diversity Summit, Prep for Prep Contingent XXVI, D.E. Shaw Connect 2020 PIMCO Rewriting the Code Virtual Summit, Tech @ PIMCO, Bright Network