Lamenting Elitism
This is my response to William Deresiewicz’s essay “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”. I form substance around the concept of elitism and try to figure out if elite education exists. Elitism, from my own experience, is broadly applicable, and possibly genetic.
The Academy of Management Executive
As the editorial assistant for The Academy of Management Executive, I learned the operations of an academic business journal. It wasn’t easy doing this re-design during my busiest semester in graduate school but it added another distinctive site to my portfolio.
Reno Server 1.0
My Senior Design class was the driving force behind this creation. It was the first website I designed that was fully coded in PHP and which stored data in a MySQL database.
TBP Florida Delta Chapter
When I was inducted into the Florida Delta chapter of Tau Beta Pi, I made a point of re-designing the old site. I think the result was much brighter and visually appealing.
Eggbomb
The Panasonic Eggcam provided the right inspiration for my Eggbomb. I loved the irony of this project. It’s a shame there’s no USB version of this campy device.
Web-Enabled, Automated Horse Feeder
Designing this web-enabled, automated horse feeder turned into a serious engineering project. Our Senior Design group consisted of six people. Dividing the work load was not easy because the hardware could only stay with one person.
Women’s History Month
The Women’s Studies Program at UCF was looking for a logo to represent Women’s History Month 2000. This was the design I submitted and which won the contest.
Java Data Base Connectivity (JDBC)
My undergraduate course on Communication Networks focused on the architecture of computer networks, their models, and protocols. The class required a brief research paper, so I coauthored this paper on JDBC.
A Linear Model for Number of Wins of NFL Teams
Why do some NFL teams win more than others? Using various regression techniques, I addressed this issue in my Statistical Methods class. This is the final version which I co-authored.
Analysis of Team Processes in 12 Angry Men
For my MBA class in Organizational Behavior I examined the communication between all the jurors in 12 Angry Men (1957) and presented the findings in a series of sociographs. The information presented here is quantitative information used in the appendix of my group’s final report.