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- engagekit.io to boost your LinkedIn outbound and organic inbound traffic
- geekgrind.co to ace your next IGCSE and A-level exams with real exam question banks and AI tutors

And 4 more apps to launch in 2025.

Ky-Nam 🧑‍🚀

City of New Brighton

Serving on a youth council to strategically increase accessibility and engagement in City programs through networking, gathering feedback, and participating in board meetings.

✦ Learned more about local governance structures

✦ Met City Admin, New Brighton City Manager and City Clerk & Council members

Youth Community Connector

FRC Team 2052, KnightKrawler Robotics- FIRST Robotics Competition

✦ Focus on developing and managing training materials and new member onboarding

✦ Facilitation of inter- & intra-subteam communications

✦ Coordinating with External Relations Captain to oversee team scheduling, projects, and documentation.

Operations Captain

✦ Working with programming our 2024 robot's controls system in Java

✦ Focus in engineering efficient and competitive autonomous behavior for FRC competitions

✦ Presented 2x about autonomous programming tools (ex. PathPlanner) and strategies; accumulating 1.4k+ views

Autonomous Programming Lead

SPS Commerce

✦ Gained experience with Atlassian, software testing, & cloud management tools: Jira, Confluence, Postman, VMWare, mRemoteNG

✦ Fulfilled 44 Salesforce tickets based in database transfers, user provisioning, and EDI environment configurations

✦ Finalized onboarding and environment setup of 5 new clients

✦ Completed 3-day bootcamp training in EDI, DMEDI, and appropriate use of SQL Server Management Studio

✦ Completed Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course

Microsoft Market Team (MMT) - Technical Deployment (Intern)

Strategic Training Endeavors

✦ Created 18+ unique infographics / content for use on various social sites

✦ Completed extensive market research to create full 6-page marketing plan & and outreach to 30+ tech-based companies for growth

✦ Authored a 10+ page research paper on cultural frameworks & the role of AI in international negotiations + repurposed as a full-length course slide deck for clients

✦ Shaped and gave a 1st place final presentation to business executives

✦ Volunteered 4+ hours @ Nourish Food Shelf in St Paul to combat food insecurity

Research and Marketing Intern

National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA)

✦ 2-year participant in the Irondale High School Speech Chapter

✦ Placed #6 in State-level competition for the Great Speeches category, analyzing speeches by Angela Davis & Bella Abzug

Irondale Speech

Passionate STEM-aligned student with a strong interest in the ethicality, environmental impact, and social influence of tech development and AI / ML. Experienced in multiple coding languages (C++, HTML, JavaScript, Java, CSS), leadership, and project management through community-based tech programs like FIRST Robotics and Technovation.

💌 afomiamesfin29@gmail.com

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