My name is Javier Rojas, and I am an American student who has completed his Associate Degree in Accounting at MDC Honors Inter-American Campus, and his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics with Minor in Computer Science at St. Thomas University. Currently, I am a recent Graduate student who completed his Master of Science in Big Data Analytics at St. Thomas University, and my intentions are to become a data scientist and analyst for an organization that generates and consumes large amounts of data to solve their corresponding big data problems.

     Before entering my first semester of graduate coursework, in Summer 2016, I interned at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Al where the general task of the project I completed alongside my NASA mentor was to develop products that support Centennial Challenges’ technical development needs by creating a comprehensive communications strategy, maintaining a compelling web presence, and public engagement activities to recruit teams. Meanwhile completing my Master’s degree, I worked as a graduate assistant for St. Thomas University’s Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness where I contributed to the development of research/conference proposals to support STU’s status as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI); created institutional enrollment dashboards using Power BI software; prepared annotated bibliographies on topics of interest to the STU executive leadership team; conducted surveys of current students and STU alumni using Survey Monkey software, and provided logistical support for the annual STU Fact Book. Afterwards, I was transferred to the School of Science, where I provided introductory tutorials on how to work and setup the R programming language in your computer, how to create data visualizations in R, how to work with R’s ggplot package and how to create reproducible reports in R with R Markdown.

Contact Information

Javier F. Rojas, M.S. in Big Data Analytics

School of Science

St. Thomas University

16401 NW 37 Avenue

Miami Gardens, FL 33054

Cellphone: 786.447.7663

Email: jrojas@stu.edu | javyrojas@comcast.net