About Me

I was born in the border town of El Paso, Texas, into a hard-working and loving Mexican-American household in the summer of 1997. It is in El Paso, that I developed instincts for bringing crazy ideas to life and a desire to make a difference in the world around me. For a long time, I thought that meant I'd be a professional basketball player. Even though that didn't exactly pan out, to this day, I credit basketball for teaching me discipline and for showing me what it's like to work hard every day for something I love. After graduating from high school in 2015, I moved to Austin to pursue a degree in computer science at the University of Texas. Four years later, I graduated from UT with so much more than an education. Nowadays, I dedicate my time to creating the future of sport at my dream company, Nike.

Contact Details

Javier Banda
Beaverton, OR US
javierbanda11@gmail.com

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Education

University of Texas at Austin

B.S. in Computer Science & Business Foundations Certificate • May 2019

Distinguished graduate for efforts in Diversity & Inclusion. Also earned a certification in Business Foundations from the McCombs school of business at the University of Texas. Relevant coursework includes Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Software Engineering, management information systems, finance, accounting, international business, business law.

Work

Nike Digital Employee Experience (DEE)

Product Owner• March 2020 - Present

Oversaw and facilitated the deployment of various internal use products. Biggest wins included the launch of Nike's new Diversity & Inclusion self-service sign up platform and events calendar. Also served as a product owner in the rapid release of Workvivo. This work was put together from conception to production within a matter of weeks. Responsibilities then included being a consultant and product owner for Workvivo, Nike's new Classifieds project, and facilitating relationships with DEE and various orgs across the Nike matrix for collaboration efforts.

Nike CIS

Automation Engineer • August 2019 - March 2020

Developed automation scripts to maintain and execute various security tools employed by Nike Corporate Information Security (CIS). The main project assimilated thousands of cloud resources into a report that associated these resources with teams across the Nike matrix.

Google Cloud

NCAA Basketball Developer Fellow • January 2019 - May 2019

Selected as one of 30 students around the U.S. to participate in a Google Cloud initiative to understand the data that's been collected over the previous 80 years of NCAA basketball. The project culminated in a live TV commercial in which we revealed 3 real-time predictions at halftime of the 2019 March Madness final 4 and championship games. These commercials were filmed over the course of a week of shooting in a set in Hollywood. Check it out here. and here. (Hint: I'm in by the basket in the orange sweatshirt!

Nike

Software Engineering Intern (Converted to ETW) • May 2018 - May 2019

Proposed a series of projects that could maximize the efficiency of the Retail Operations Center. Upon discussion with manager and team, pursued a web app to develop and assess the knowledge levels of Nike retail support teammates. Then led a small team of developers to build a full stack website implementation of the platform.

Verizon

Software Development Intern • May 2017 - August 2017

Worked on a mobile app development team on a cross (iOS and Android) platform internal-use application for the furthering of Verizon FiOS. While at Verizon, a team of interns and I also won the Texas intern hackathon by writing a now-patented and indisclosable algorithm. Upon completion of the mobile app project, our app was projected to increase FiOS revenue by $62 million annually.

University of Texas, Computer Science Dept.

Student Assistant • August 2017 - Present

Responsible for managing the budgets and handling the logistics of the various student organizations within the Unviersity of Texas' Computer Science department. Responsibilities include managing an array of substantial databases, maintaining a budget for each organization, and maintaining regular contact with student leaders and local Austin food/retail vendors.

Jamba Juice

Team Leader/Evening Manager • August 2015 - April 2017

After beginning as a team member in August 2015, was promoted to team leader and then evening manager of Jamba Juice. As such, I was responsible for all of the intangibles and daily practices that kept the store profitable after 5pm 4 nights a week. Within months, successfully boosted the store's average net income/labor hours ratio and then implemented employee processes to maintain the ratio after my departure in 2017.

Skills

My skill set is diverse, broad, and always growing. The skills I've chosen are listed because I've been developing and refining them for years and I've grown confident in my ability to apply them to projects of the real world. As depicted below, my prioritized areas of focus are my technical skills and my leadership abilities but I am always excited by opportunities to add more tools to my toolbox.

  • Project Management
  • Leadership
  • Agile
  • Web Development (Full Stack)
  • Database Management & SQL
  • Public Speaking
  • Python

Client Testimonials

  • I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers!

    Larry Page

  • When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

    Elon Musk

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