Michael Perry

Experience

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  Chili's

  Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  Team Member

  • Assembled orders, took payments, communicated with staff, and brought food to guests• Fostered a pleasurable takeout and dine-in experience for all customers

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  Carnegie Mellon University

  May 2023 - now

  Collaborate with CMU faculty to improve course curriculum via direct communication about course goals with professors, observation of lectures, co-creation of course design, and additional oversight of implementation Host weekly office hours, teach weekly labs to ~20 students, grade homeworks and exams, actively contribute to improving course curriculum via content creation / development • Through the Student Academic Success Center of CMU, I assist many students with struggles regarding classes including Linear Algebra and Mathematical Concepts and Proofs. • Help students enhance quantitative skills, create confidence in ability to succeed at CMU, instill a sense of belonging and knowledge of resources available and academic skills needed •Gathered, cleaned, and processed data for text mining project focused on evolution of children's literature using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)•Concluded with text mining and visualization of text using R and Python scripts

  • Eberly Student Partner

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Teaching Assistant for 15-150: Introduction to Functional Programming

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Peer Tutor and Mentor

    May 2023 - now

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    May 2023 - Jul 2023
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  The Depo App Company

  Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  Software Developer Intern

  Develop software, improve efficiency, and fix errors of front-end, back-end, and database of website including numerous APIs to reach MVP viable for Beta testing.