XIN LAI

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P : +1(412)539- 6013 E : ac0kq0@r.postjobfree.com Web: https://vagarii.github.io/

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh Sep. 2015 – Dec. 2016

Master of Science in Information Science, GPA: 3.6/4.0

Tianjin University of Commerce Sep. 2011 – May.2015 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.3/4.0(in the top 5%)

RELEVANT WORK & EXPERIENCE

Web Developer Intern – Rubitection, Inc. Sep. 2016 – Jan. 2017

• Implemented and updated a website for a biotechnology startup in Pittsburgh, PA

• Redesigned the website layout to obtain more modern features and page hits

• Optimized the user interface with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery by editing WordPress theme

• Maintained and enhanced site’s responsive to make it respond consistently on different size screens

• Provided suggestions that other did not observe throughout the website to enhance user experience

Web Application (Full Stack) Development – Traveler blogs Jan. 2016 – Apr. 2016

• Developed a MVC Java web application about a traveling blog for travelers sharing their stories

• Designed and optimized the user interface with HTML, CSS and using CSS framework Bootstrap

• Completed the logic tier using JSON, XML, jQuery and JavaScript to improve website dynamic

• Completed the data tier using PostgreSQL to store the website needed data

• Deployed it to cloud platform Heroku

Quantitative research – Privacy in Social Internet of Thing Oct. 2015 – Dec. 2016

• Analyzed the data from the interview of people concerns about the privacy of Social Internet of Thing

• Used Qualtrics to design a survey of 48 questions about considering privacy in different field including device types, device life-cycle phases, data storage location and data usage

• Distributed the survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk and Facebook

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project – E-Commerce Website Feb.2015 – May. 2015

• Developed a B2C Bicycle Shopping Mall, an online e-commerce website with a team of 10 people

• Focused on user experience design, database transaction problem and concurrency issues

• Designed and improved the website layouts for product detail page and checkout process pages

• Used MySQL, CSS and Adobe Photoshop to complete several tasks with satisfactory results

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Programming/Scripting Languages: JAVA, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, Python, Angular.js, React.js Protocols & Tools: RESTful API, Socket.IO, Bootstrap, Git, WordPress, Flask, Qualtrics Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

CERTIFICATIONS

Code School Shaping Up with Angular.js Certificate since 2016 Code School Powering Up with React Certificate since 2017