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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

2023 - Present

Mānoa Career Center

Tech & Web Coordinator

09/2025 - Present

Software & Web Development
  • Replaced the legacy Career Fair system as sole developer with a full-stack PHP/MySQL app that handled 69 employer applications and 70 registrations in its first live fair.
  • Automated event reports and the employer email sequence, replacing hand-built spreadsheets and manual Gmail sends.
  • Led the Career Center website migration from WordPress to Cascade CMS.
  • Delivered biweekly progress reviews to leadership and folded staff feedback into the site.
  • Configured Jira with GitHub integration and a portal for staff feature requests.
IT Infrastructure & Security
  • Evaluated server, NAS, and cloud storage options with UH ITS, recommending Dropbox and Microsoft 365 over a costly server expansion.
  • Migrated the office from a Windows Server file server to UH Enterprise Dropbox and retired the server.
  • Designed role-based team-folder permissions.
  • Strengthened Active Directory administration and ran a domain health assessment with UH ITS.
  • Monitor endpoints with SentinelOne EDR.
  • Leading the move to Microsoft 365 A3 with Entra ID.
Endpoints & Support
  • Provide help desk support for staff.
  • Established the office's first hardware inventory.
  • Managed the Windows 10 end-of-life transition.
  • Created a Notion IT knowledge base.

Dept. of Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures

Web Designer (Casual Hire)

06/2025 - 08/2025

  • Led the department's website migration from WordPress to Cascade CMS.
  • Built the new site with Cascade's block-based templates, aligned with UH branding.
  • Redesigned language program pages with a modular structure for easier navigation.

Student Assistant / Web Designer

02/2023 - 05/2025

  • Maintained the department's WordPress sites and proposed an early move to Cascade CMS.
  • Served as the department's primary IT contact, setting up workstations and accounts for faculty and staff.
  • Set up AV systems for events such as the IPLL Public Lectures 2025.
  • Wrote IT guides and onboarding documentation for the next student assistant.

Tagnawa

2024 - Present

Tagnawa Hawai'i

Freelance Web Developer

07/2026 - Present

  • Rebuild the nonprofit's website with Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
  • Set up continuous deployment to Cloudflare Workers, with preview builds per branch.
  • Proposed a new information architecture and sitemap, approved by the client.
  • Collaborate with a UI designer, building accessible, semantic page structure in parallel with the visual design.
  • Prepared the site for Ilokano and Tagalog with locale-based routing.

Tagnawa for Maui

Freelance Web Designer

07/2024 - 02/2025

  • Designed and launched tagnawa.org on Webflow to support awareness and relief efforts after the 2023 Maui wildfires.
  • Structured the site mobile-first, with responsive layouts across screen sizes.

First Hawaiian Bank

2024

Software Engineer Intern

06/2024 - 08/2024

  • Built a serverless certificate-management API in Go on AWS Lambda and API Gateway, generating X.509 certificates and tracking them in PostgreSQL on RDS.
  • Implemented create, read, update, and delete routes with GORM, loading database credentials from AWS Secrets Manager.
  • Built a Go (Gin) REST API that extracts content links from fhb.com pages and reports each link's clicks and impressions from the Google Search Console API.
  • Authenticated to Google with an OAuth2 service account and fetched stats concurrently with goroutines and channels.
  • Wrote unit tests with mocked HTTP clients for both API routes.