Yvette Palacios

A recent CS graduate with hands-on experience in web development, mobile app development, game development, and machine learning, looking for a software development role on a collaborative team.

Front-End Developer, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Aug 2024 - December 2024 

• Developed the front-end of a tutoring service application for the UTSA CS department using HTML, CSS, and PHP, ensuring a user-friendly and responsive interface. • Collaborated with a team using GitHub, Trello, Figma, and Discord to manage version control, track progress, and communicate effectively throughout the development process. • Followed Scrum methodologies and best web development practices, including agile sprints, code reviews, and iterative design improvements, to ensure a structured and efficient workflow. 

Intern Global Affairs: Coding for Web, Global Career Accelerator, San Antonio, TX May 2024 - Aug 2024

 • Developed and designed responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap, ensuring modern UI/UX principles and accessibility standards. • Integrated hero images, carousels, and dynamic hover effects to enhance interactivity and user engagement. • Designed and implemented structured web layouts with well-organized header, body, and footer sections for seamless navigation. • Converted Figma prototypes into functional web pages, ensuring consistency between design and implementation. • Optimized website elements for responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility, improving the user experience across multiple devices. 

Dental Laboratory Technician, United States Air Force, Various Locations July 2002 – June 2007 

• Collaborated in a high-pressure environment, consistently meeting deadlines for custom dental prosthesis production. • Managed intricate workflows requiring precision and adherence to safety protocols. • Honorable discharge and obtained top-secret clearance, demonstrating reliability and integrity. • Fabrication of fixed and removable appliances/prostheses such as gold and gold with porcelain crowns and bridges, dentures, nightguards, bleaching trays, mouthguards, sleep apnea appliances, costume mouth impression trays. • Produced and mounted dental casts used for the manufacturing of restorations and diagnosis on articulators as specified by doctors’ instructions. • Followed practices to salvage scraps for precious metal value recovery. • Achieved Dental Lab Journeyman experience.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, minor in Biology - The University of Texas at San Antonio 

Graduation: 12/2024 GPA: 3.66 

• Software Engineering: Software Engineering, Programming Languages, Web Technologies, Object Oriented Design Patterns, Senior Design I. 

• Data Science: Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning. 

Associate of Science - Northwest Vista College, SA, TX, Graduation: 05/2021

Associate of Art - Northwest Vista College, SA, TX, Graduation: 05/2021