Michael Leonida

Michael leonida

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location of Michael LeonidaBergenfield, New Jersey, United States
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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineering background mostly through academics

  • Education

    • Bergen community college

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      Accounting

      Took two accounting courses in consecutive semesters. (non-degree)

    • Zero to mastery academy

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      Completed several software engineering courses, taught by Andrei Neagoie and other colleagues.

    • Massachusetts institute of technology

      1999 - 2000
      Master of engineering - meng computer science

      One-year degree designed to prepare students for the workforce. This degree included thesis on neural networks. (TDNN - time delayed neural networks)

    • Massachusetts institute of technology

      1995 - 2000
      Bachelor of science - bs computer science and math (two separate degrees)

      Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi academic honor society, varsity and junior varsity soccer, junior varsity tennis, Nu Delta fraternity Relevant coursework: Software Engineering, Paradigms of Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence

    • Freecodecamp

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      Watched several YouTube videos advertised through email newsletter related to various topics such as web design, Python programming and more.

  • Experience

    • Oracle

      Sept 2000 - Dec 2001
      Software engineer ii, mobile applications group

      • Initial duties included many bug fixes and managing Bugzilla tickets. Several bugs were fixed successfully• Tested Mobile Apps Group software on wide range of devices and browser types, successfully completed• Assigned and completed project involving declarative style programming using Beans framework shipped out by group• Was given project involving configuration merging with another group within Oracle. This task was done within tight deadline

    • Acedsl

      Jun 2005 - Oct 2005
      Support and development engineer

      • Duties included coding/updating the internal website for keeping track of DSL provider customer data, and phone support• Internal website served 4-5 company employees with multiple KBs of data for each of 50-200 customers• Successfully completed project quickly, including designing the system with input from DSL provider owners. (CEO and CTO)• Other duties included DSL line customer phone support, with hardware and software troubleshooting

    • New milford board of education, hackensack board of education

      Jan 2006 - Apr 2010
      Substitute teacher

      2007 - 2011 • Substitute teacher on a per diem basis for wide range of subjects (as needed) in Bergen County, NJ• Location was usually New Milford, NJ or Hackensack, NJ (as well as occasionally others)

    • Cofinch trading inc.

      May 2007 - Dec 2013
      Office staff member

      May 2007 - December 2013• Created error-free MS Office documentation for orders, statements, inquiries, invoices and more for auto parts wholesaler• Warehouse team member for first 2 ½ years, checking ingoing and outgoing goods• Trained new staff members, mostly in Excel spreadsheet creation as needed• Business trips using company vehicles to New York City to submit shipping documents to appropriate embassies in order to obtain container approval signatures and seals• Other business trips for domestic shipping purposes to shipping docks for sending pallets or to shipping companies' locations such as FedEx, UPS and other carriers Show less

    • Apache trading llc

      Jan 2008 - May 2008
      Software engineer

      • Wrote large financial text file parsing scripts (ETF CUSIP data)• Contributed to the design of a new proprietary trading app and re-engineering the existing one• Supported existing in-house trading system code base• Liaised with all employees of the company in order to collect requirements for new trading system, including trading company CEO and all traders

    • Lidl us

      Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
      Store associate

      December 2019 - December 2020• Grocery store associate (essential worker) with mostly cashier duties, as well as some cleaning, mostly at closing time• Other duties included tidying up shelves and customer service at times, mostly helping customers find items and prices around the store

    • Apton inc. and classboxes

      Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
      Java full stack boot camp trainee

      Boot Camp Trainee and Volunteer Java Full Stack Engineer• Participated in a Java full stack development boot camp. This training consisted of daily projects involving Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Microservices, SQL, NoSQL and OOP. Completed all daily assignments, projects and hackathons• Promoted to volunteer project by manager at Apton to redesign and reimplement the Classboxes learning website using Java • Learning site hosted videos uploaded by 5-10 instructors and monitored student performance for hundreds of students Show less

    • Freecodecamp

      Sept 2022 - Nov 2022
      Boot camp trainee

      • Participated in and completed a Javascript Algorithms and Data Structures boot camp which included several weekly sessions, assignments and projects related to the topic at hand.• Also participated in and completed a Responsive Web Design boot camp which also included sessions, assignments and projects.• Responsive Web Design final project URL: https://mikeleonida.github.io/Web-Design-Bootcamp-FCC/

    • Boundless, inc.

      Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
      Solar assessments setter agent

      • Main duties include canvassing to provide leads to sales department• Liaise with other setter agents and sales agents in order to increase company solar sales in Northern New Jersey • Participate in weekly meetings and receive training and directions from multiple supervisors and trainers

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Front Desk and Data Entry Volunteer

      Issued by Adler Aphasia Center on Aug 2017
      Adler Aphasia CenterAssociated with Michael Leonida
    • Income Tax Preparer

      Issued by VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE - VITA - FOUNDATION INC on Jan 2019
      VOLUNTEER INCOME TAX ASSISTANCE - VITA - FOUNDATION INCAssociated with Michael Leonida