02Lead

Getting a room of people to build the thing

I ran Temple's club for hackers and makers and steered an eight-person capstone team to a launch. Most of what went wrong on both was scheduling and scope rather than code.

TUDev

President of Temple's hackers and makers club

Two years running Temple's developer student organization. Workshops, coordination with the department, mentoring students on portfolios and technical interviews, plus the less visible half of it — keeping the platform patched, booking rooms, and talking people into building something before they felt ready. I received the Computer and Information Sciences Student Leadership Award for that work in 2025. When winding the organization down became the right call, I filed the Articles of Dissolution to close its Pennsylvania nonprofit registration.

Capstone

Eight people, one deadline, one deployment

ChromoXplorer had a fixed launch date and eight contributors on very different schedules and skill levels. Scope discipline mattered more than any technical decision we made. What shipped was noticeably smaller than what we sketched in the first week.

ACM

Two organizations, one community

I was the web developer for Temple's ACM chapter while running TUDev. Two groups serving overlapping people works fine until they both want the same Tuesday evening, so a fair amount of it came down to talking to the other officers early.

The pattern

The blocker is almost never the technology

Across the org, the capstone and the workshops, what stopped people was almost never the technology. It was someone getting stuck and quietly deciding they were the problem. Noticing that early matters more than any call I made about tooling.

Where I've done this

April 2024 — May 2026
President & Workshop Coordinator
TUDev (Temple University Developers)
Led Temple's developer student organization. I designed and delivered hands-on workshops on web development, Git and GitHub, SQL, AWS, Linux and AI-assisted coding, and mentored students on portfolio building, technical interviews and career direction across web, cloud and IT tracks. When winding the organization down became the right call, I filed the Articles of Dissolution to formally close its Pennsylvania nonprofit registration.
August 2025 — May 2026
Web Developer
ACM Temple University Chapter
Maintained the chapter's official website in React and Next.js, handling content updates and front-end improvements.

Full work history

Work that shows it

Community·2024

TUDev Platform

A containerized multi-service platform — Directus and Wiki.js behind a Next.js front end — that I designed, deployed and still operate.

Community·2025

Temple ACM

The chapter site for Temple's ACM student chapter, which I maintained as the chapter's web developer.

Academic·2026

ChromoXplorer

A full-stack 3D genome visualization platform — React and Three.js over a Node/Express API, containerized and deployed to AWS.

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