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Ryan Schmid

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I'm Ryan, a Technology Consultant at EY

About me

My name is Ryan Schmid, a recent computer science Master's graduate of Lehigh University. Before my time as a graduate student, I completed two Bachelor's degrees at Lehigh, one in Computer Engineering and the other in Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) with a major in Finance as part of the university's IBE Honors Program. During my time at Lehigh, I completed a Technology Consulting internship at Ernst & Young (EY). I built this website from scratch using React and a few MUI components as a virtual resume to better showcase my experiences while practicing my web development skills.

Experience

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Technology Consulting Intern, Ernst & Young

June 2021 - August 2021

Following my third year of college, I completed a summer internship at Ernst & Young (EY). As a Technology Consulting Intern, I worked with a team of consultants and software engineers to build four websites for an EY client. The majority of my work involved frontend programming and was my first experience with React. The most impactful task I was assigned was building the client's homepage from an image I was given. The client is a global, Fortune 1000 company, so seeing my work presented on their website's homepage was very rewarding. The feedback from my project manager was positive as well, saying the following. "[Ryan] is quick in learning new technologies and skills and does not shy away from challenges…. He also communicates well and [is] very pleasant to work with…. He is a great team player, always ready for new tasks and [to] help out on the project as much as he could. He is able to utilize the resources offered by EY and the immediate team to ramp up his skills quickly. Overall with his positive attitude, cooperative spirit, and quick learning aptitude, Ryan will be a great addition any team."

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Academic Tutor, Lehigh University

February 2021 - May 2021

During one semester, I was a tutor for two classes related to my computer engineering major – Intro to Electrical Engineering and Programming and Data Structures. These group tutoring sessions were a great way for me to reinforce my knowledge of the subjects while working on my technical communication skills. It was also rewarding to see the students succeeding with my help.

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Education

M.S. Computer Science

June 2022 - May 2023

Lehigh University

GPA: 4.00/4

Presidential Scholarship

B.S. Computer Engineering

August 2018 - May 2022

Lehigh University

GPA: 3.85/4

Highest Honors

B.S. I.B.E. Finance

August 2018 - May 2022

Lehigh University

GPA: 3.85/4

Highest Honors

At Lehigh, I was a student in the University's Integrated Business and Engineering (IBE) Honors Program, a highly selective and rigoruos curriculum that awards each student an AACSB-accredited business degree in their major of choice (e.g. Finance).

Coursework

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  • CSE 440 - Advanced Algorithms
  • CSE 475 - Parallel Programming
  • CSE 447 - Data Mining
  • CSE 426 - Fundamentals of Machine Learning
  • CSE 411 - Advanced Programming Techniques
  • CSE 342 - Fundamentals of Internetworking
  • CSE 492 - Independent Study
  • CSE 303 - Operating System Design
  • CSE 241 - Database Systems & Applications
  • CSE 340 - Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • CSE 216 - Software Engineering
  • CSE 392 - Independent Study
  • CSE 264 - Web Systems Programming
  • CSE 140 - Discrete Structures & Algorithms
  • CSE 109 - Systems Software
  • CSE 017 - Programming & Data Structures
  • CSE 002 - Fundamentals of Programming
  • CSE 012 - Survey of CS (AP Credit)

Total classes: 68. Total credits: 198.

Skills

Python
HTML/CSS
C/C++
SQL
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Verilog
MATLAB
Less
MS Office Apps
Figma
MS Excel
Adobe Illustrator
LabVIEW
Minitab
PSpice

Leadership

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President, IEEE - Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society

March 2021 - May 2022

Treasurer from March 2020 - March 2021.

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Vice President, IEEE (Electrical & Computer Engineering Society) Student Branch

March 2020 - May 2022

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Co-Founder & Treasurer, Lehigh Tea Club

February 2020 - May 2022

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Vice President, Residence Hall Council

September 2019 - May 2020

Achievements

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Presidential Scholarship

Awarded May 2022

Free tuition up to one year following undergraduate graduation. Awarded for earning above a 3.75 cumulative GPA.

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Member, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

November 2020 - May 2022

Top eigth of engineering class invited.

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Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Awarded December 2019

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Dean's List

6 times

Projects

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Parallel Programming Final Project

March 2023 - May 2023

In the final semester of my graduate study, I took a parallel programming course. Parallel programming involves finding ways to break down an algorithm into parts that can be run simultaneously or concurrently in hopes that it will reduce the algorithm's runtime. For our final project, two other students and I examined how parallel programming might be applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). To quote its Wikipedia page, the TSP asks the question: “Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city?" For example, if a musician on tour wants to visit 20 cities in North America, what is the most efficient order for them to do so?

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Truman Project

Truman Project - Cornell Social Media Lab

Summer 2022, Fall 2021

At Lehigh, I completed two independent study (research) courses - one during my senior year and the other for my graduate study. Both times I worked on something called the Truman Project under the direction of Professor Dominic DiFranzo. The Truman Project is a platform that allows researchers to conduct social media experiments in a controlled environment. It is an open-source project that can be downloaded from GitHub (linked below) and adapted for various experiments. Its appearance resembles a typical social media site in which users can create, view, read, and like posts developed by the researchers conducting the experiment.

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Computer Engineering Senior Lab

August 2021 - May 2022

For my computer engineering senior lab project, we were allowed to pursue any project of our choosing if it involved the appropriate level of computer engineering work and was something relatively novel. My group and I chose to make a safety system for bicycles. We designed it to have a distance sensor and camera mounted under the seat, facing backward. The sensors were wired to our microcontroller, the Nvidia Jetson Nano, which was wired and mounted to the back of a small monitor on the handlebars. Near the monitor, there were a yellow LED, a red LED, a blue LED, and a speaker. The system was powered by a portable power bank battery mounted to the body of the bike.

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Data Science for Finance Final Project

March 2022 - May 2022

In my last semester of undergraduate study, I took a course called "Data Science for Finance," which applied data science concepts in analyzing financial data. The course's final project was open-ended. My group and I decided to create a website that would determine the user's optimal investment portfolio from a list of S&P 500 stocks, popular ETFs, and a risk-free asset (10-year T-bonds) by having them complete a risk aversion assessment. The assessment resulted in a numeric answer which was scaled to a reasonable risk aversion variable. We then used a quadratic utility function along with the assessment-determined risk aversion variable to calculate and plot the optimal makeup of this user's investment portfolio. Our group was the first to make an online dashboard as our final deliverable in the three years of the course being offered.

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IBE Capstone Project

January 2021 - December 2021

In 2021, I completed my IBE Capstone project, which involved working with a local community center's new digital makerspace to help bring it business. The first semester of our work focused heavily on research and conducting interviews with members of the community and professionals in the VR space. Our ideas around a business model and target audience for the space pivoted multiple times throughout the semester before we settled on developing a virtual reality learning curriculum for special needs individuals.

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Blackjack Web App

January 2021 - December 2021

As part of my Web Systems Programming course in the fall semester of 2020, my classmates and I were tasked with building a Blackjack web application. The assignment was a test of our understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and required us to use a Deck of Cards API to manage the deck, animations for the cards, and an opponent that operated based on a set of rules given by the professor. Play the game using the link below. Enjoy!

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