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Software Developer, Data Quality Assurance, Data Science

Location:
Portland, OR
Posted:
July 06, 2025

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James Bao

Phone: 971-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

LinkedIn: james-bao-7290a683/

GitHub: jambao24

PROFILE: Lifelong learner and software developer with QA and AI experience. Heritage Mandarin speaker EDUCATION

Portland State University, Portland, OR

M.S. in Computer Science, March 2023 (concentration in ML and AI) University of Washington, Seattle, WA

B.S. Biomedical Engineering, June 2018 (with Interdisciplinary Honors) SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

AI Development Intern at OpConnect (Nov 2024 ~ May 2025) Chatbot development, testing, and debugging with the AI team Shortcut, Notion, Microsoft Azure, VS Code, Python Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals course AI-900T00-A Engineering Technician at Thermo Fisher (May 2024 ~ Oct 2024) Operations/inventory and parts inspection + procurement with Analytical Instruments Procured and transferred parts between warehouse, cleanroom, and engineers as needed Manufacturing Technician (Mask Operations) at Intel Corp (Sept 2023 ~ Dec 2023) Ensured optimal utilization of factory tools for silicon wafer mask processing in cleanroom environment Location: Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, OR

Quality Assurance Specialist with Experis/Meta (Jun 2022 ~ Nov 2022) Inspected/verified data using specialized software, Excel and Python scripts Contract was extended due to demands of ongoing VR user research study Graduate Research Assistant at PSU (Jan 2022 ~ Jun 2022) Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Bates, PhD, Center for Urban Studies, Portland State University

● Performed database management and technical troubleshooting for team members

● Executed Python + R scripts for data retrieval and cleaning Internal Support Representative at Mobile Technologies Inc (Jun 2021 ~ Dec 2021) Provided internal remote customer support to field technicians for hardware and software installations Optimized data storage and record keeping techniques for auditing process Manufacturing Technician (Logic Technology Development) at Intel Corp (Aug 2019 ~ Jun 2020) Ensured optimal utilization of factory tools for silicon wafer processing in Remote Operations Center Learned specialized software applications to manage logistics and process automation Community Service Aide II (Intern) at the City of Portland (May 2019 ~ Aug 2019) Worked in Technical Support under the Bureau of Technology Services Assisted City of Portland employees with solving IT-related problems Learned how to use specialized administrative software applications (e.g. Cherwell) SKILLS

Programming languages: C/C++, JavaScript, Java, MATLAB, Python, Pascal, & HTML/CSS Software: Microsoft Office Suite, COMSOL, LabView, SQL, Git/GitHub, VS Code, RStudio, Power BI SELECTED PROJECTS

Data Visualization and Network Analysis for Regional Chinese Surname Distribution (Feb 2023)

● Used Networkx package in Python to analyze and display pairwise surname distribution similarity among Chinese provinces

Advanced Java Final Project: Toy Android Application (Feb 2022 ~ Mar 2022) Implemented features of a multi-stage Java application that used external libraries in an Android app AI Group Project: Mancala Player implemented with ML algorithms (Feb 2022 ~ Mar 2022) Implement Deep Q-learning, Minimax, and Monte Carlo algorithms in Python Ran tests and performed Scrum master role in group Voice Assistants Elective Final Project: Recipe Finder DialogueFlow App (Jul 2021 ~ Aug 2021) Created chatbot-type app for finding recipe suggestions using Google’s Voice Action tool Full-Stack Web Development Group Project: DnD Character Generator App (Feb 2021 ~ Mar 2021) Formatted UI and coded pages using TypeScript, CSS, and Bootstrap Learned Heroku (app deployment) and Firebase (app hosting) Redesigning the Bergin Prosthodontics Website (Jul 2020 ~ present) Tools/technologies used: Visual Studio Code, Node.js, React, JIRA Implemented design changes in CSS and JavaScript, added a Bootstrap Carousel functionality for images Undergraduate Capstone Project: Rewriting Enzyme Kinetics Calculation App (Apr 2017 ~ Jul 2017) Supervisor: Prof. Herbert Sauro, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Washington Developed a software library for implementation of the King-Altman method for enzyme kinetics. Wrote lab scripts using the Delphi programming language. SELECTED COURSEWORK

Programming Algorithms

Database Intro (SQL)

Computer Vision & Deep Learning

Artificial Intelligence (grad-level)

Algorithms and Complexity (grad-level)

Machine Learning (grad-level)

Operating Systems (grad-level)

Full-Stack Software Development (grad-level)



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