Jaymes Garbe
Education
University of California - Berkeley
- Sophomore, expecting to graduate in 2025
- Studying Computer Science/Electrical Engineering under the College of Engineering
- GPA: 3.15
- 42 units completed
Foothill High School
- GPA (unweighted): 3.95
- GPA (weighted): 4.42
- total of 12 units taken either over the summer or dual-enrolled at Shasta College (CC)
Extracurriculars/Volunteer Work
- FHS Track and Field | 9th-12th grade | spring semester
- Learned teamwork and the feeling of unity that being part of a team brings.
- FHS Cross Country| 9th-12th grade | fall semester
- Tested my mental and physical strength, learned endurance and time management through having practice and homework every day.
- FHS Science Bowl| 11th-12th grade | all year
- Practiced all year for a national competiton in the late spring. Teamwork and quick, critical thinking were essential to our success.
- FHS Science Club| 9th-12th grade | all year
- Weekly meetings discussing events; Our main event Starry Night was where students laid under the stars and we provided snacks, telescopes, and music.
- Nature Bridge
- 40 hours of volunteer work to help Downtown Redding become a more people-friendly place. Designed flyers, set up booths, and planned community events every week.
Work Experience
SUHSD Information Technology Dept. | Summer Intership '22
Synopsis:
For the three months of my summer, I worked 40 hour weeks plus overtime assisting my former high school district's IT department with multiple software development projects.
Projects:
- Data Metric
- I tore into an existing Virtual Machine that was used for displaying the amount of tickets our department had to accomlplish on a monitor within our office. We use a new service, FreshService, to track these tickets, and the VM was pulling from the deprecated service. My coworker and I wrote a Powershell script to pull tickets and devices from SUHSD services using my SPSFreshService and SPSImmyBot modules I built prior. The data is arranged contingent to InfluxDB, a time series database that we pipe out ticket data into. A pipeline containerizes our code using Docker, and sends it to the VM which runs every 10 minutes. We finally built a Grafana instance to query and display our InfluxDB data on the monitor.
- SPSFreshService/SPSImmyBot
- Using the FreshService API documentation, I built my first fully fledged powershell module that queries tickets, agents, requesters, departments, and most other data that our department stores within FreshService. The module is able to create new instances of each object, update existing objects, and collect groups of items based on many different parameters. I then built a similar module based around the ImmyBot service.
- Clever Toolkit
- I was tasked to build a Chrome Extension to add modularity to the service Clever. I worked in Javascript, CSS, and HTML, all languages I had little prowess in prior. I used a popup that allows the user to add, delete, show, and hide columns of Application data displayed on the Clever Developer portal.
- Aeries-FreshService Sync
- Using my SPSFreshService module and the public AeriesApi, I pulled the data of all the teachers in our district and compared their similar attributes, overwriting the FreshService entries with the much more populated and trustworthy Aeries entries.
Miscellaneous Skills:
- Powershell
- I knew nothing of the Powershell language before starting this job. I've learned nearly as much about the basics of the Powershell language in these three months than I learned about Python my first year at college. I even began to dive into slightly more advanced concepts that Powershell allows such as dynamic variables, Pester testing, and logging.
- Azure DevOps
- My partner and I worked almost solely within the Azure Devops environment. I learned a ton about using Azure boards for project cooperation, Azure Pipelines for automation of numerous different tasks, and, of course, Azure Repos for all the lovely version control. I was also introduced to Virtual Machines, Azure SQL, and used Azure Virtual Desktop to do some overtime from home.
- Google Workspace
- I worked a lot with the Google APIs Explorer, as well as Google Apps Script for automation of all of my applications. My final project, Clever Toolkit, introduced me to the Chrome Developers environment as well.
- Teamwork
- The most valuable thing I learned this summer was how to program as part of a team. It became second nature to document my code thoroughly, and I would never make a commit to the main branch without peer review of a pull request or something of that manner. I learned Pair Programming in school, and my partner and I used it often to work through bugs or complex issues that we could not figure out by ourselves.
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