About Me

Welcome to my portfolio! My name is Nick and I'm a sophomore DIGIT Major at Penn State Behrend. I am focusing on Human Factors and Data Visualization. On this website, you can see my resume below, enjoy many of the photos I have taken over the years in the gallery, see some of my school projects, and maybe experience some joy and whimsy along the way.

Also, if you're interested, you can paste any YouTube link below and it (should) let you play it as an audio track. Just once though, and only on this page. I'm not doing anything too fancy. I just felt the dancing skeletons needed something to dance to. Enjoy!

Resume

Education

The Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA

• Bachelor of Arts in Digital Media, Arts, and Technology
• Academic Minors in Data Visualization, Management Information Systems, and Psychology
• Certificate in Human Factors

North Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, PA

• AP Computer Science (A)
• AP Psychology (A)

La Roche University College in High School (CHS) Courses

• POLI 3033, American Foreign Policy, 3 credits, B
• PHIL 1021, Intro to Philosophy, 3 credits, A
• MATH 1004, Statistics in Healthcare, 3 credits, A

Standarized Test Scores

• SAT score of 1440 (98th percentile)
• ACT score of 34 (99th percentile)

Employment

Personal shopper at Walmart, Erie PA (May 2025 to present)

• Accurately selecting and picking hundreds of grocery and general merchandise items daily using the GIF app on Zebra TC-70X and TC-72 handhelds
• Ensuring quality and freshness for all products, and managing efficient substitutions when items are unavailable
• Preparing and staging orders for timely customer pickup, ensuring proper temperature control for frozen, chilled, and ambient items
• Assisting customers and Spark delivery drivers during pickup, verifying orders, loading vehicles, and resolving minor order discrepancies promptly

Customer Service at Kuhn's Market, Pittsburgh PA (June 2024 to April 2025)

• Supervising all front-end staff and handling technical issues and register malfunctions
• Assisting customers with questions, refunds, exchanges, and complaints
• Selling restricted specialty items (e.g., tobacco, alcohol, bus passes, particular theft-prone items)
• Operating the PA lottery machine and doling out winnings up to $1000
• Handling thousands of dollars worth of cash transfer per day whilst ensuring a balanced drawer
• Phone response and referral, including paging the managers of each department when needed

Cashier at Kuhn's Market, Pittsburgh PA (June 2023 to June 2024)

• Serving customers in all means to ensure they are satisfied with their shopping experience
• Operating an NCR POS with a card reader and cash register, memorizing large varieties of produce codes
• Presiding over the NCR self-checkouts to prevent errors and theft from disrupting business
• Filling and taking out curbside orders through the eGrowcery app, handling substitutions while picking
• Performing various housekeeping tasks such as cleaning registers, zoning shelves, mopping floors, and returning carts

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

• C++, Java, Python

Markup Languages

• HTML, CSS, XML

Applications, IDES, Websites

• Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, Oxygen, Figma, Hypothe.is, Miro

Google Workspace Programs

• Sheets, Docs, Slides, Meet, Gmail, Calendar, Sites

Microsoft Office Programs

• Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Teams, Outlook

Artificial Intelligence Programs

• ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Copilot