Shannon Hire
- Scott Scholar
- UNO, Information Science & Technology
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Bio
Shannon is from Omaha, NE and is studying cybersecurity. Her leadership experience includes serving as an officer for The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing. ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates for women in technology fields. As an officer, she recruited members, planned meetings, and other social events. Her internship experience includes working on the Network Design Team at Union Pacific from March 2018-January 2020. As an intern, she used network design concepts to document and configure switches, server clusters, hypervisors, and other network devices. She also worked with technicians in the field to coordinate outages with minimal service impact. Lastly, she wrote scripts in Perl to automate networking tasks. During the summer of 2019, she worked as a software engineering intern at Northrop Grumman. There, she worked on a classified project to evaluate and test software automation tools built by the company to gather data, find bugs, and improve the software's tools. During this project, she worked mostly in a Unix environment. In January of 2020, she began as an application developer intern at Mutual of Omaha. She wrote automated tests for an internal application using Groovy, Spock, and Geb to ensure the company was meeting customer expectations. During this time, she was working in an Agile environment and regularly wrote stories and tasks and participated in stand-up meetings. During the summer of 2020, she began interning at RetailMeNot. She is currently working on a project that will allow users multiple ways to authenticate themselves when logging into the RetailMeNot website. To implement this feature, she updated the existing back-end database schema and code to store and authenticate users who have multiple authentication methods with their accounts. She also updated the front-end code to design the webpage a user sees when adding an authentication method to their account. During this project, she used Node.js, Postman, SQL, and Knex scripts and worked in an Agile environment. Her career interests include web design and mobile programming. She hopes to work as an Imagineer at Disney World, designing software used in the parks.
Additional Information
Bio
Shannon is from Omaha, NE and is studying cybersecurity. Her leadership experience includes serving as an officer for The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing. ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates for women in technology fields. As an officer, she recruited members, planned meetings, and other social events. Her internship experience includes working on the Network Design Team at Union Pacific from March 2018-January 2020. As an intern, she used network design concepts to document and configure switches, server clusters, hypervisors, and other network devices. She also worked with technicians in the field to coordinate outages with minimal service impact. Lastly, she wrote scripts in Perl to automate networking tasks. During the summer of 2019, she worked as a software engineering intern at Northrop Grumman. There, she worked on a classified project to evaluate and test software automation tools built by the company to gather data, find bugs, and improve the software's tools. During this project, she worked mostly in a Unix environment. In January of 2020, she began as an application developer intern at Mutual of Omaha. She wrote automated tests for an internal application using Groovy, Spock, and Geb to ensure the company was meeting customer expectations. During this time, she was working in an Agile environment and regularly wrote stories and tasks and participated in stand-up meetings. During the summer of 2020, she began interning at RetailMeNot. She is currently working on a project that will allow users multiple ways to authenticate themselves when logging into the RetailMeNot website. To implement this feature, she updated the existing back-end database schema and code to store and authenticate users who have multiple authentication methods with their accounts. She also updated the front-end code to design the webpage a user sees when adding an authentication method to their account. During this project, she used Node.js, Postman, SQL, and Knex scripts and worked in an Agile environment. Her career interests include web design and mobile programming. She hopes to work as an Imagineer at Disney World, designing software used in the parks.