Huntsville, AL
256-282-1762
amaya dot melissa at gmail dot com https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissaamaya1/

• Wrangle, clean, analyze data using Python.
• Manage 1mil+ in customer accounts.
• Onboard new customers and ensure smooth implementation.
• Interface with customer Engineers on technical components of implementation
• Articulate technical concepts in laymen's terms for for Trust and Safety persons

• Crafted reusable, scalable React components to provide enjoyable and efficient UX.
• Constructed clean, robust Django endpoints and logic for efficient handling of data.
• Meet and exceed client expectations for frontend functionality.
• Author full-stack specs to implement new client-requested reatures.
• Created Retool dashboards that doubled efficiency of data team.
• Led data team of 5, increasing productivity by 75% while maintaining quality and correctness of work output.

As Operations Manager at this start-up, I wore many hats

• Active in all phases of the sales funnel.
• Crafted and created both video and written tutorials/training material.
• Ensured smooth on-boarding for educational consultants who utilize our software.
• Planned and led webinars for prospective consultants, walking them through our platform.
• Utilized tech skills to problem solve user issues with the platform.
• Owned data collection process as we gather thousands of essay requirements across hundreds of schools.

• Lead weekly lectures and offer weekly open office hours to assist students in Computer Systems course.
• Covered topics: Digital Logic and Combinatorial circuits. Computer memory and von Neumann Architecture. Machine language and Assembly programming. C programming
• Held weekly office hours to answer student questions related to Operating Systems programming
• Covered topics: procesees, scheduling, caching, virtual memory, networked systems and protocols.
• Collaborated with TA team to meet and exceed the needs of students to ensure a delightful learning experience.

Ongoing work on personal projects:

• Published two books
• Founded a media company to create educational DVD's for children
• Developed an adaptive vegetable peeler to make life easier for congenital and medical amputees

Past work and projects:

• Leads Council Coordinator for the Wharton Club of NY.
• Advised mom-and-pop breakfast restaurant in Eastern Long Island during start-up phase including the creation of marketing material and internal documents, advised on pricing models, employee relations issues, and served as advisor during their successful sale when the owner retired.
• Created marketing materials and advised on sales strategy for a Nassau based trucking company.
• Crafted business plan for West Coast startup building new travel plaza in Northern California.
• Coached Middle School and Junior Varsity Girls Soccer. Conducted tryouts, made player selections, planned and implemented team strategies.

• Two implementations of server-client connection. Used Socket API to create server-client connection, and pthreads for multi-threading and event handlers. Completed in C

• Implemented shell clone in C

• React, Node, MySQL utilizing AWS RDS
• Styled with SemanticUI

• Utilized Twitter 4j API in this Java app to implement filtering of a Twitter feed based on keywords entered by users. Java, Junit, Maven

• GPA 3.74
• Coursework: Software Foundations; Computer Architecture; Data Structures; Computer Systems Programming, Algorithms; Wireless Technologies, Databases

• Full Stack Web Development program in Ruby on Rails and Javascript, covering React and Redux