Michael C.

Lead a team of five informatics and software engineering students for my capstone senior project. We built a suite of tools for Speech Language Pathologists aimed at gamifying treatment for 3-7 year old patients. The two main goals of the system were to increase patient engagement, and improve the convenience and ease of use for clinicians so that the suite served a wide range of patient- and session-specific needs. I had taken the lead in synthesizing requirements, creating workable issues… Show more

Lead a team of five informatics and software engineering students for my capstone senior project. We built a suite of tools for Speech Language Pathologists aimed at gamifying treatment for 3-7 year old patients. The two main goals of the system were to increase patient engagement, and improve the convenience and ease of use for clinicians so that the suite served a wide range of patient- and session-specific needs. I had taken the lead in synthesizing requirements, creating workable issues, and assigning tasks; guided system design to maintain flexibility while meeting deadlines; and built out a majority of the system, also helping to resolve any and all major issues as the lead developer of the team.

Features:
• Robust suite of tools that encompasses real-time, assigned, and/or heavily metricized speech therapy treatment.
• Lightweight, responsive web UI written using React.
• Fast, reliable API written using Flask-SocketIO, exposing various REST endpoints and WebSocket events for syncing of game state/data, character state, session data/metrics, and import/export of session templates. Show less

I designed and implemented a desktop/mobile application that is meant to be a sophisticated virtual therapy assistant for therapy patients working through mindfulness and/or CBT exercises.

Features:
• MoodMonitor, which leverages biofeedback and facial expression metrics, to help prompt users with exercises when they are distressed.
• Closed loop camera mechanism so that evaluations are done client-side and results are stored server-side (no client imaging is ever stored).
•… Show more

I designed and implemented a desktop/mobile application that is meant to be a sophisticated virtual therapy assistant for therapy patients working through mindfulness and/or CBT exercises.

Features:
• MoodMonitor, which leverages biofeedback and facial expression metrics, to help prompt users with exercises when they are distressed.
• Closed loop camera mechanism so that evaluations are done client-side and results are stored server-side (no client imaging is ever stored).
• Sync options to sync journal and log entries with a therapist.
• Allows logging/tracking of various CBT exercises as well as thought records and other helpful tools. Show less

Lead designer and developer for a Pomodoro browser extension that accrues users points to be donated towards various charities and non-profit organizations. These points could represent cash donations, services offered, discounts applied, or other tangible benefits to the recipients.

Winner - Entrepreneurial Hack - HackUCI 2021
Quarter Finalist - USC New Venture Seed Competition

Features:
• Users can specify which sites they would like to avoid during their session in order… Show more

Lead designer and developer for a Pomodoro browser extension that accrues users points to be donated towards various charities and non-profit organizations. These points could represent cash donations, services offered, discounts applied, or other tangible benefits to the recipients.

Winner - Entrepreneurial Hack - HackUCI 2021
Quarter Finalist - USC New Venture Seed Competition

Features:
• Users can specify which sites they would like to avoid during their session in order to accrue FocusPoints.
• If a blocked site is visited while a Pomodoro session is active, the user will be prompted to either: continue to site or keep earning FocusPoints.
• Users can adjust pomodoro timers (productive length and relaxation length), proportionately affecting the amount of FocusPoints accrued.
• Fast, responsive web/extension UI, written in pure Javascript, that leverages Bootstrap for design efficiency and consistency.
• Reliable and trusted API, using Django Rest Framework, to handle user account associations, related sessions, points accrual, partnered/listed charities, and redemption of points towards a respective charity.
• Built with scalability in mind to handle expected, and reasonable levels of unexpected, user loads.
• Secured with trusted and well-maintained cryptographic and cybersecurity technologies. Show less