Akili Thompson Hall

314 600 6165 | quaaysan@gmail.com | www.quaysan.dev

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Work Experience

Multi-Focus Advocate

BLOCK, INC

• Advocate for customers by identifying trends in issues and suggesting improvements to processes, policies and products
• Adaptable skill set, lending support to risk analysis, customer account management, dispute consolidation, and executive relations teams
• Creative problem-solver, an excellent multi-tasker, and a collaborative team member

Crowd Tester

TESTLIO and APPLAUSE

• Look for defects, bugs or improvement suggestions for the client's product
• Develop test cases and defect reports, define severity and priority for each defect
• Advocate for whole team approach, improve relationship/communication between indenpendent testers and engineers

Web Development Aid

THE.MICROGREEN.COMPANY

• Preliminary web design, web hosting, and web development, content management and publishing
• Utilize Javascript, HTML, CSS, and Git to provide website services
• Project management and lead for small scale hydroponic NFT system design team

Skills

Technical Skills

Certifications

Personal Projects

• An ongoing project where I design a few basic games using the javascript library PhaserJS
• Basic animations, input interactions, and physics simulations

• Portfolio project designed in HTML/CSS, Javascript, React, using the Spotify API
• Enabled users to connect to their account, search for songs, and add them to personalized playlists

• An ongoing project where I feed information about pokemon into a generative adversarial network to create new pokemon names/data
• Webscraping data from online encyclopedias, cleaning/reformatting data, DCGAN architecture

• Machine learning project that analyzes NOAA data to predict the weather within the St. Louis (Missouri) area
• Python model that utilizes scikit-learn (and tensorflow) and analyzes a few different types of algorithms

• Tableau visualization analyzing Youtube metrics for trending videos in 2018
• Analyzes Youtube channels with high levels of content creation for advertisement agencies

• Small automation script that helps organize the desktop and any screenshots
• Moves screenshots to folder named "Screenshots", creates folder if one doesn't exist

• Designed and developed proprietary app based upon occult and mysticism popular with youth and alternative lifestyles
• Figma used to create design for an app currently being built for app store publish

• SQL based data analysis of a sample database made using HackerNews ( news.ycombinator.com ) data from 2017
• Powerpoint/Slide presentation style of SQL queries and context of how data can be used to make business forward conclusions

• Business Analytics Project that examines highly sought careers based on 2016 LinkedIn Top 10 skill categories
• Insights about skill projection, analysis of comparative metrics, and explanation of important subjects

Organizations

Rising Innovator

• Google based community focused on fostering new skills to transition into technology and science focused roles
• Granting access to additional resources, including strategic, programmatic and operational support for transitional stages

Volunteer Organizer

• Organized and coordinated with local community gardens to develop small scale green initiatives and harvest opportunities
• Manage and maintain multiple community gardens in area

Education

Tulane University

2013 - 2015 -- 50 Credit Hours