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Software Engineering and Product Management Intern

Co-Founder

• Executed enterprise product management for State Farm’s AR/VR team, building web augmented reality experiences for Fortune 500 clients and over 100,000 users

Product Management Intern

SlicedAdvice's mission is to slice and serve the world’s most important, inaccessible knowledge to everyone. 
• Built a marketplace for bite-sized career advice, one that’s affordable for advice seekers and convenient for busy experts.
• Developed full stack web application utilizing Next.js (React framework), MongoDB, Redux, Express, and Tailwind CSS.
• www.slicedadvice.com

Founder, Product Manager, Full Stack Developer

Engineered software for the Launch Control System’s next-generation display services framework, supporting the Artemis mission.
• https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

Launch Control Systems Software Engineer

• Connecting the tech team to the founders, coordinating the development team, delivering seamless user interface designs, and much more to solve structural problems in the law journal review process.
-claudius.ai

Developed in React Swipo, a Tinder-like swipe-based music discovery app that makes finding new music fast and fun.

Frontend Developer

• Used HTML, CSS, and Javascript to fix 40+ issues in my company's eCommerce website theme.
• Fixes included adding a more prominent category hierarchy, adding a more responsive design to all pages, making advanced search more accessible, adding product carousels.
• Served as I.T. representative of the company, fixing any marketplace issues, assisting in new eCommerce ventures, and focusing on automating processes and uploading products to marketplaces faster.
• tx-intl.com

Software Developer and I.T. Specialist

• Redesigned and coded Rice CS Club website, adding completely new, fully responsive design for
mobile + tablet devices, utilizing React and TailwindCSS.
• Learned full-stack development and version control using Git through a mentorship-based program.
Live link: csclub.rice.edu

• Built a PDF parsing Python program, using PDFMiner and PDFPlumber APIs, that parses through voting ballots and retrieves the location of each individual word and voting bubble on the ballot. The program was used in tandem with a larger research project to automate the process of getting location information from ballots.
• Developed effective skills in reading API documentation, API usage, Python programming, and time management as a result of working in a deadline-oriented setting.
• Attended team meetings and full member lab meetings headed by Director Michael Byrne, to communicate and solve project problems and to gain exposure to the field of Human-Computer Interaction.

Computer Science Research Work

• Worked for 5+ professors during COVID-19 Pandemic, guiding them to best utilize software tools and hardware equipment to accommodate online college education.
• Helped teachers recognize and fix learning issues evidenced in both fully online and hybrid (online and in-person) education.

Alan Duong

Founder, Product Manager, Engineer | SWE and PM at NASA, State Farm | Rice CS