Alyzee Sosa

Experience

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  Minds Matter Southern California

  Sept 2019 - May 2022

  Class of 2026 Student/Mentee

  Minds Matter is a highly-competitive, rigorous three-year college access and mentorship program that connects high-achieving, low-income high school students from underserved communities in Los Angeles to the skills and opportunities needed to apply to and succeed in college. Minds Matter Southern California strives to provide a wide support system and to cultivate the sense of community and camaraderie among its students— many of them first-generation college students— as they navigate higher education.Throughout the three years of high school in which I participated in Minds Matter, I:• Learned valuable leadership skills, cultivated critical thinking and learned how to approach challenging discourse, developed an aptitude for public speaking, refined my essay-writing abilities, and —with the guidance of my wonderful mentors— gained insight into future career prospects in technology and all the universities that I could potentially attend.• Learned about personal finance and navigating college financial aid, career networking, and internship researching skills, all of which are taught by volunteer mentors coming from a variety of fields and industries.• Enrolled and successfully completed a computational biology course as an attendee of UCSD Academic Connections Summer Program in 2021; learned about basic statistics and methods in data collections, as well as the use of predictive modeling programs to track the spread of viruses. Show less

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  Qoom

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2021

  Qoom Creator

  The Qoom Creator Program is a technical mentorship program where high school and university students with interest in computer science and programming are provided with the resources and mentorship to bring their creative ideas to life and develop community-centered projects to be hosted on the Qoom platform. Throughout my time in the program I collaborated with other Qoom creators to develop a variety of projects, including a time-zone converter to efficiently schedule meetings in a virtual workspace and a time management study tool. For my final project with the program, I worked with a partner to build Cranial Check, an accessible online medical symptom checker tool for head and eye conditions, in response to the spike in high overuse of computers for school and work during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. In the development of this project, I:• Thoroughly researched common chronic head and eye conditions and overlapping symptoms with project partner, sourcing medical journals and blogs, in order to develop our symptom survey with accuracy. • Primarily designed front-end interface of Cranial Check website, utilized HTML, CSS, and Figma software to construct and implement a design for a condition glossary, symptom survey, main menu, and results page on personalized user interface and dashboard. • Utilized JavaScript and the Qoom database to develop a point-based formula that used survey questions to calculate the likelihood of a user having a certain condition based on their selected symptoms. Modeled survey results and suggested treatments using DOM manipulation and data queries from Qoom database.• Implemented a posture checker feature using Google Teachable Machine to create an instance of Google's pre-existing image classification model and training it on image data of healthy and bad posture. Show less

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  CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTERS

  May 2021 - May 2022

  Intern

  Chinatown Service Center is the community center that provides youth development and community engagement opportunities, financial services for individuals and small businesses, including tax return preparation, workforce development resources, healthcare and medical assistance, legal assistance for citizenship and immigration, and other critical social services for the residents of Chinatown in the Los Angeles Metropolitan region. I interned in the Youth Center Department for over a year, seeking to be an active participant in my neighborhood community and an advocate for my community's collective well being. As an intern and tutor, I:• Facilitated homework assistance sessions with students ranging from 2nd to 10th grade, as well as students who spoke English as a second language, as part of the Youth Center's afterschool program for elementary, middle, and high school students. • Tutored students in the subjects of elementary math, pre-Algebra and algebra, basic reading and comprehension up to middle school level, high school history, and many additional subject matters pertaining to each student’s personal academic needs.• Created personalized learning activities in order to increase student motivation and academic resilience, as well help maintain their emotional wellbeing while working through difficult assignments. Show less

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  Accenture

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Skills2Succeed Program Intern

  Skills2Succeed is summer internship program with Accenture, one of the world's leading consulting enterprises, that provides exposure that provides work and career exposure, builds business acumen and technical skills, and connects interns to its extensive client network and the opportunity to work on industry-level projects. I participated in S2S the summer after I graduated high school, where I:• Interned for a digital application development team under a public utilities client company, worked alongside product manager and programmers to strategize and plan for the production and maintenance of various mobile and web applications.• Conducted various analyses on existing mobile applications currently in client operation, in order to extract the value of a proposed proof-of-concept for a new weather mobile application to track power outages and other utility impacts among consumers, analysis findings were presented to stakeholders in pitch meeting.• Assisted in coordinating various discovery and brainstorming sessions with stakeholders to solidify the proposed application’s core features and purposes.• Explored UI principles by designing screen wireframes for client applications utilizing Figma. Show less

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  America On Tech

  Sept 2023 - Jun 2024

  Peer Mentor

  America on Tech's TechFlex Leaders Program is an immersive year-long program for high school juniors and seniors in NYC and Los Angeles; the program aims to introduce industry-relevant technical skills, including programming, design, marketing, and data science, to facilitate a pathway towards a career in technology for students from low income backgrounds and underserved communities. I am an former participant and graduate of the TFL program from the 2021-2022 schoolyear. I returned as an alumni to work as a peer mentor for the TFL 2023-24 program, with the goals of giving back directly to a community that inspired my pursuit of STEM and helping make the program as enriching and transformative of an experience for current students as the it was for me. Alongside the rest of my team, I helped facilitate the weekly online technical sessions for the Advanced Web Development cohort by:• Creating and presenting engaging ice breakers and preparing our "Voices in Tech" lecture activity, where students learn about current industry leaders of color in the tech world who are breaking barriers and creating an impact with their work.• Creating cheat sheets or supplemental demos/exercises of the weekly lecture topics in our curriculum— which include intermediate JavaScript concepts, the basics of the Fetch API, data querying and formatting, and DOM manipulation— for students to reference during projects or assignments.• Providing an attentive support system for students as they navigate the rigorous technical content by monitoring engagement, working one-on-one with students to answer questions or clear up difficulties, and helping run office hours for students needing extra support on projects. Show less

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  LA-Tech.org

  Feb 2024 - May 2024

  IT and Cybersecurity Scholar

  LA-Tech strives to connect LA's expansive tech community to talented students with the potential to make an impact in the tech world. LA-Tech's IT and Cybersecurity Academy is a 12-week program that facilitates career building, connecting with and learning from industry experts, and obtaining skills in the latest cutting-edge industry technologies to facilitate career pathways in IT. As a participant in and graduate of the program, I:• Networked with a variety of speakers and panelists coming from a variety of industries, subsequently learning about careers in Systems Maintenance and Administration, Network and Systems Security, Data Science, and more. • Successfully completed LinkedIn x Microsoft certifications in Generative AI Essentials and Systems Administration Essentials, obtaining a wide breath of knowledge in topics like servers, networks, databases, Microsoft Active Directory, prompt engineering, natural language processing, and much more.• Collaborated with fellow scholars to build a virtual machine network for final project. Utilized VirtualBox and pfSense to set up three virtual machines (Firewall, Server, Client Machine) on the same network. Configured machines with appropriate IP assignments, set up Domain Controller and Active Directory System on Server, and verified login authentication and security measures via client machine connection. Show less

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  Minds Matter Southern California

  Sept 2024 - now

  Program Intern

  • Assists in overseeing on-site program operations during Saturday sessions for 75 students and 100+ volunteers.• Administers attendance policies, organizes supplies and technology, monitors site safety by conducting routine inspections, and communicates with leadership teams and volunteers to ensure successful completion of program activities.• Designs and updates infographics, flyers, and program decks in tune with branding guidelines, organizes and standardizes data related to student and alumni metrics, and proposed and executed new approach to annual Book Drive addressing book bans and censorship in public education.• Collaborates with catering companies to order lunch and snacks for students and staff on a weekly basis, ensuring consideration of dietary restrictions and student requests. • Assists in organizing special events, including the end-of semester Holiday Party, annual Community Picnic, Volunteer Open House, and Parent Orientations. Show less