Reetu Parikh

• Facilitated weekly workshops using active learning techniques and encouraged peer facilitated group work to reinforce concepts from discrete structures; prepared lecture content, problem sets, and activities to foster engagement among students

• Assisted students with lecture content and assignments in office hours; responsible for grading problem sets and exams • Mentored three groups of students in creating unique information retrieval web applications

• Responsible for assisting students with lecture content/assignments as well as grading problem sets and exams

• Expanded user interests from entity knowledge graphs by mapping related FB pages and integrating these page mappings into the Community Connections Department’s debugging system for user profiles to improve content recommendations for FB Groups • Created data pipelines with Python and SQL queries to create a mapping between FB Group Pages to related group pages • Built and integrated expansion component into an existing service linked to users’ real-time ranked interests using C++ with unit tests • Created a demo web page with Hack in the department’s debugging console to readably display a user’s top ranked expanded interests

• Saved engineers 200 minutes a month by improving development speed on the Safety Case web application in ASP.NET Core and C# by restructuring error statuses for importing patient cases and added clearing functionality allowing users to remove uploaded files • Wrote and tested scripts to preprocess data and subsequently generate statistics on the top 10+ most frequent errors made by QC reviewers manually inputting patient data to improve efficiency and accuracy of QC reviewers during quarterly reviews • Led development and encouraged collaboration among business technology interns to use agile methodologies and work jointly on designing an internal companywide tool for future interns visible to over 25,000 people

• Worked closely with the director of Human Resources, Town Attorney, as well as collaborated with many other employees • Ensured sufficient applicant identification, performed background checks, and managed hiring spreadsheets for seasonal hires • Provided technical assistance to town hall employees, such as troubleshooting IP connections between computers and printers • Reviewed and analyzed healthcare and insurance claims to identify potential calculation errors

• Worked closely with the head of Human Resources • Created and updated salary and employment spreadsheets • Managed job applicants' resumes and sent candidate rejection emails • Gave training presentations to summer camp counselors • Filed documents

• Collaborated with the IT Department to update a network with over 100 devices and server for the Secaucus School District • Set up and inventoried over 200 Chromebooks with school management software and network connection for distribution to students

• Worked closely with the town attorney and prosecutor to understand the legal process • Created dynamic presentations and information sheets regarding consumer affairs viewable to the entire town • Researched legislation from surrounding town municipal codes and subsequently drafted ordinances and resolutions to implement those changes in Secaucus • Filed documents

Minors in Linguistics and Cognitive Science