Michael Bido

A software engineer seeking to create great things – always learning.

Education

University of North Texas

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

Graduated May 2018 – Cum Laude

GPA 3.54

Experience & Projects

Work

Seer Media

Content Manager, Social Media Manager

Jan. 2015 – Present

With Wordpress, I managed content, edited CSS and integrated services for Seer Media and their clients. I also published content from Seer Media to social media. I then analyzed website feedback/statistics from Google Analytics and Facebook Insights for internal auditing and reporting.

Academic Projects

Bloom Healthcare Record System

Made with React.js, Firebase and Semantic UI

A web-app designed to provide patients and medical staff access to relevant patient records from multiple healthcare organizations. This includes allowing patients to create a profile, and keeping track of their medical history while allowing doctors to examine information of a patient over time.

Restaurant Point-of-Sale System on iOS

Made in Xcode with Swift and Firebase

A restaurant point-of-sale system that integrates three different iOS apps for customers, wait staff, and chefs. All three apps would inter-connect using Google Firebase, and would enable customers to place orders and help restaurant staff to fulfill those orders.

Two Factor Auth. (Password and Face Recognition) Webpage w/ OpenCV

Made with Node.js, OpenCV and HTML/CSS/JS

A Node.js project that utilizes the OpenCV library for facial detection and recognition in order to authenticate a user to a service. When a user attempts to log in using a username and password, the user is prompted to authenticate with facial recognition via a webcam snapshot.

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Learning Module

Made with React.js

A learning module made for UNT students to teach the basic concepts of OOP with Java. The module is broken into six parts: Introduction, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction, Encapsulation and Quizzes.

Non-Academic Projects

UNT Focus Group Assistant Tool

Made with React.js and Firebase

An online tool that streamlines the check-in process for Supplemental Instructor (SI) Leaders during their bi-weekly focus group meetings. Normally, focus group info is collected via paper forms. This also provides analytics for and SI leaders, including student attendance over SI effort graphs.

Color Picking Challenge on Android

Made in Android Studio with Java and XML

A fun brain teaser where players have to select the correct color button as a random string displayed is the target color, but the color of the text is also random. Users have 20 seconds to play for a high score.

Disaster Relief Project Asyt.me

Made with jQuery, Google Maps API and Firebase

An ambitious proof-of-concept designed to be a platform for crowd-sourced disaster relief – allows people to be notified when a person in need of rescuing broadcasts that they need help.

Skill Set

Programming Languages

C / C++

Java

HTML / CSS

Javascript

JSON / XML

Swift

Python

Bash

mySQL

Platforms / Software

Git / GitHub

Node.js

React.js / React Native

Xcode

Android Studio

Google Firebase

Wordpress

Adobe CS6

Operating Systems

Mac OS X / macOS

Ubuntu / Linux

Windows 7 / 10

Productivity

Agile methodology and Scrum

Gathering user requirements

Developling prioritized feautes

Validating requirements based on output

Awards and Certifcations

Awards

Best Disaster Relief Project - HackUTA 2017

Awarded for the Asyt.me project

2nd Best Overall Hack - HackUNT 2018

Awarded for the UNT Focus Group Assistant Tool project

Certifications

Technical Writing Certificate

Earned through the TECM Department at UNT, from the the Department of Technical Communication.

Security Certificate

Earned through the CSCE Department at UNT, following the standards from the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS).

Organizations and Volunteer Work

Organizations

UNT Engineering / Engineers United (Aggregate of UNT Engineering Orgs.)

Alumni Member

May 2018 - Present

UNT IEEE Computer Society

Member

Jan. 2016 - May 2018

UNT Association for Design and Code

Social Media Officer

Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2017

UNT Cybersecurity Club

Member

Nov. 2016 - Dec. 2017

Volunteer Work

UNT - The Big Event

Volunteer

Each Spring, UNT hosts a day of service where volunteers contribute over 10,000 man-hours for charities and several cities in Denton County.

Habitat for Humanity

Volunteer

Habitat for Humanity volunteers continuously help families in their local communities build a decent and affordable place to call home.

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