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Developing relationships and listening to the client is key to success. 

In a semester long project, my four teammates and I worked with Hollywood Casino in St. Louis to help them improve their communication strategy.  In competition with four other teams, our team decided to arrange an on-location dinner meeting with the client. This meeting resulted in two key advantages:

• We received insights into specific solutions the client valued.

• We developed a relationship with the client.

Without these key elements, my team's communication strategy would not have been selected by the client.  Our final communication strategy included at 15-page slidedoc detailing our solutions.

Key Features:

• Use of Master Slides to create a cohesive, clean, and consistent format.

• Strategic use of columns and images to reduce the wordiness of each slide.

• Clear, short, to-the-point sentences with only the relevantinformation.

Technology Used: Microsoft Powerpoint

ConnecTic is the culmination of a semester long course, Rapid Prototyping, dedicated to developing various websites using new programming languages. ConnecTic is a multi-player online gaming website that allows users to create arbitrary usernames and play either Tic Tac Toe or Connect 4. 

Key Features:

• Create games of Tic Tac Toe or Connect Four or join existing games that are not in progress.

• Once a game has started players can forfeit the game.

• The losing player can challenge the winner to a rematch, and the winner can either accept or decline the challenge.

• Live updates of the results of other rooms are displayed to players.

• All-time leader boards can be viewed via a link. 

• Players in games can message their opponents, while other players can send a public message to everyone on the site.

Beyond the specifics of each programming language, this project taught me how to use and debug new languages as I used them.  With web development being so dynamic, the ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology is a necessity.

Technology Used: Node.js, Angular.js, Express.js, Socket.io, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML

Frogger was my first experience designing an entire program from scratch in Java.  From development to implementation, I controlled the entire process, including selecting which objects to make, characteristics of each object, and how to run the game. 

Key Features:

• Integration of images to enhance visual aesthetics.

• Multi-player function. 

Through this project, my understanding and abilities with object-oriented software programming was vastly improved, and allowed me to develop and implementmore efficient programs.

Technology Used: Java