Jia (Audrey) Chen

Experience

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  SheeshSeaglass

  Jun 2022 - Jul 2024

  Founder, Business Owner

  - Grew $17.99 to 2.1k in sales revenue, 65% net profit margin for product.- Media advertising

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  Culver's Restaurants

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Restaurant Chef

  -Built burgers in a fast-paced, team environment -Waited tables and enthusiastically helped dining guests -Organized the kitchen inventory with labels and expiration charts

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  Sparrow Health System

  Jun 2022 - Jul 2024

  Service Desk Specialist

  - Greeted 200+ club guests per shift- Managed member accounts, court scheduling, and sports equipment on a database- Answered 30 calls per shift to a multi-line phone system, answering questions and quickly transferring calls to enhance customer experience.- Calculated day monetary inventory on closing shifts-Worked unusual hours (ex. 4:45am to 9am)

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  Michigan State University Student Investment Association

  Sept 2022 - Jul 2024

  Financial Analyst

  -Interviewed into the competitive analyst position, took initiative to directly contribute and researched stocks to contribute to the 35k student portfolio-Presented stocks in a stock pitch

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  AI Club at MSU

  Apr 2023 - Jul 2024

  E-Board: Workshop Coordinator

  •Coordinated workshops for a prominent non-profit AI club with a membership base of over 1000 individuals.•Delivered weekly presentations to audiences of up to 300 attendees, fostering a deeper understanding of AI concepts.•Developed and designed educational slides that covered advanced AI topics, including prompt engineering and langchain, to enhance members' knowledge and skills.

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  MSU Women in Engineering Outreach

  May 2023 - Jul 2024

  Curriculum and Web Developer
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  SpartaHack

  Sept 2023 - now

  Operations - tracks, event planning Proposed and successfully implemented the “Exploratory” competition track to direct and enhance the innovative projects at the hackathon which was the most popular hacker track by 60%

  • Co-director

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Organizer - Operations Team

    Sept 2023 - now
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  Meta & Major League Hacking

  Sept 2023 - now

  Production Engineering Fellow
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  Avancez LLC

  Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

  IT Engineering Intern

  •Desktop Troubleshooting and End-User Support requests•Documented, implemented, monitored, and supported infrastructure and end-user issues•Worked through IT requests via phone, email or instant message and explaining and deploying solutions in technical and nontechnical terms•Assisted in responding to alerts or emergency issues during normal business hours•Provided and helped create end-user documentation and training as needed•Performed computer back-up procedures for data in accordance with backup policies•Provided preventive maintenance of all computer hardware and software, coordinating with external vendors•Coordinated with Corporate IT team on a regular basis for support resolution and project-based work•Assisted with new facility launches, upgrades and support•Completed daily IT checklists as required as part of preventative and proactive monitoring Show less

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  NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Feb 2024 - now

  Drone Research Software Engineer - NASA USRC

  Laser Energized Aerial Drone System (LEADS) is a NASA undergraduate research project with a solution to the limitations of current drone technology for monitoring wildfires.

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  Intel Corporation

  Apr 2024 - now

  Over 9 weeks, developed a machine learning model to diagnose diabetic retinopathy by creatively implementing transfer learning and finetuning the resnet50 model on a kaggle dataset of 3360 images with npu, resulting in boosting accuracy from 67% to 80%. Delivered high-performance computing (HPC), or visualization-focused training and workshops to over 33k+ in person and online students, accelerating participation and visibility in Intel programs by 30%.Recognized with level two certification for using the OpenVINOTM Toolkit and Intel® Cloud .Wrote Medium blogs showcasing documentation and creative technical solutions.

  • AI Student Engineer @ AI PC Pilot Program

    Jul 2024 - now

  • OneAPI Ambassador

    Apr 2024 - now
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  MLH Fellowship

  May 2024 - Sept 2024

  DevOps/SRE Fellow @ Meta

  Collaborated with Meta engineering mentors on the Meta project and contribute to Meta open source initiatives.Developed a website using Python, Flask, Jinja, MySQL, Docker, NGINX, and unittest.Implemented a CI/CD pipeline utilizing Bash scripts, Docker, and GitHub workflows for automated testing and deployment.Configured system and container monitoring, alerting, and visualization with Prometheus and Grafana.

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  The Tech Cadets

  May 2024 - Jul 2024

  Mentor
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  Instagram

  May 2024 - now

  Content Creator and Speaker (67k followers)

  -64k following under the account @jia.seed, top individual video 5M views- 10M+ views on all reels combined-Educational content about technology, hackathons, and other engineering tips-15 brand deals (mobile pixels etc.), $3500 in earnings

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  WeCracked

  Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

  Internal Affairs Director (Founding Team)

  -directing a team of 6 on a startup that makes hackathon travel more accessible to students and builds community -content creator for hume.ai partnership-1,300+ users-LLC under three sponsorships

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  Sprint.dev

  Dec 2024 - now

  Co-founder, CEO (backed by vcs, 5 figure mrr, 10,000+ users)

  AI organization software for hackathons and developers. We're disrupting the AI company distribution market solving the problem of ai companies having a disconnect in communication with onboarding users, particularly low-code. Backed by Boost VC, Earthling VC, and 13 angels, including 2 YC founders and unicorn leaders. Hehehaha startup fun. Profitable btw

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  Intuit

  Jan 2025 - now

  Software Engineering Intern

  2025, Lead Management & Planning team in VEP Sales & Growth, doing predictive AI!MailChimp, TurboTax.Turbotaxxing instead of Fanumtaxxing

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  Various Companies

  Mar 2025 - now

  Angel Investor

  Invested in xoul.ai