Mack Cooper
I'm a software engineer based in Portland, OR.
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Hi there!
I am a software developer and recent graduate from the Master of Science in Computer Science program at Portland State University. My background in Classical History informs my drive to use a communication-centric work style and explore how software development can be used to advance ourselves humanistically.
I've Got Skills
I Speak Computer
Experience
September 2018 - August 2020
Computer Science Tutor
Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science, Portland State University
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Provided guidance to students seeking assistance with assignments and concepts in computer science
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Exercised knowledge in broad array of topics and subject matter, including but not limited to: C/C++/Java/Python syntax and conventions, Object Oriented Programming, basic data structure and algorithm implementations, and design ideation and specification
August 2016 – April 2018
Sales Associate
Time Vault Games, Portland, OR
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Managed inventory, including auditing and restocking across thousands of items
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Interfaced with customers to best ascertain desired product and give recommendations
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Organized and ran events and tournaments, including scorekeeping and judging
January 2016 – April 2016
Research Assistant
Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University
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Transcribed interviews to be used in qualitative research
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Provided Insights and impressions from transcribed interviews
August 2014 – May 2015
Marketing Assistant / Web Specialist
School of Extended and International Education, Sonoma State University
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Maintained and updated websites for multiple academic and professional development programs, overseeing site-wide style update
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Collaborated with program coordinators for development of tone, style, and audience ease of use
Projects
mackkcooper.github.io
My personal website, which you are viewing right now! I hosted it for free through GitHub pages and wrote it from the ground up using Bootstrap and Sass.
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Chat Application
A chat application written as a group project by myself and a classmate for our Internetworking Protocols course. Done entirely in Java using Sockets and Swing, it has a fully functioning GUI and makes use of asynchronous threads to handle incoming connections.
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Convex Hull
The term project for my Algorithms and Design Analysis course. I chose to implement various versions of the Convex Hull algorithm and test their performance by outputting csv tables. I also wrote a small Python application to take CSV tables and plot them into visual representations of the algorithm solutions.
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CATLAS
A web application for connecting you to neighborhood cats so you can visit them. This was a group term project for my Full Stack Development course. It was implemented using Bootstrap, Express, Node, EJS, Google Maps API, and MongoDB and was deployed on Heroku.
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Ouroboros
An open source terminal snake game and group term project for my Open Source Software course. Implemented in Python using pycurses and uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI).
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