👋 Hi, I’m Phuong Ho (Finn)

Welcome to my personal website!
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Houston with 7+ years of customer-facing technical support experience. Passionate about software development, data structures & algorithms, technical support and building practical, user-friendly solutions. Bilingual in English and Vietnamese, with hands-on experience in software development.

🚀 About Me

• 🎓 Currently studying Computer Science (B.S.)
• 🌱 Learning advanced algorithms and system design
• 💻 Interested in software engineering and problem solving
• 📍 Based in Houston, Texas
• 🗣️ Languages: Bilingual in English and Vietnamese

💼 Projects

Cyber Risk Assessment Platform

• Collaborated in a team of 2 developed a full-stack web apllication using Node.js, Express.js, and MySQL that that guild organizations through a 25-question cybersecurity assessment mapped to NIST and CIS frameworks, delivering a scored risk profile across 5 security domains.
• Engineered a multi-mode authentication system supporting JWT-based login, bcrypt password hashing, and Google OAuth2 SSO, with middleware-enforced access control protecting all API endpoints.
• Integrate the OpenAI GPT-4.1-mini-API to dynamically generate plain English risk report with category-level breakdowns, prioritized remediation steps, and structured Markdown output normalized server-side.
• Implemented client-side PDF report generation allowing users to export their full risk assessment result as a formatted PDF.

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COVID-19 Data Analysis

• Collaborated with a 4-person team to cluster U.S. COVID-19 records into pandemic severity phases using K-Means (k=3) across 7 epidemiological features.
• Reduced 7-dimensional feature space to 2D using PCA for cluster visualization, enabling interpretable analysis of pandemic phase transitions over time.
• Standardized heterogeneous health metrics using StandardScaler and handled missing data with median imputation prior tomodel training.
• Exported clustered dataset and centroid coordinates to CSV for downstream team analysis.

Enterprise Web Application

• Collaborated in a 4-person agile team using Git/GitHub for version control and feature branch coordination.
• Built a full-stack university management system with a 7-table relational PostgreSQL schema managing students, courses, enrollments, grades, and tuition payments.
• Implemented ACID-compliant payment transactions with row-level locking to prevent concurrent overdraft race conditions.
• Designed a SQL audit logger by intercepting the PostgreSQL connection pool to log all queries and transactions with timestamps.
• Developed a RESTful Express.js API with dedicated endpoints, keeping all business logic server-side.

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Vending Machine Simulation

• Built with Java Swing
• Simulates vending machine operations with user interaction and change calculation
• Added reset and quit functionalities for improved UX

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Hotel Reservation System

• Developed a Java Swing-based reservation management system
• Implemented file I/O to store and retrieve reservation data
• Designed with clean UI and usability in mind

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🛠️ Skills

• Programing Languages: C++, Java, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS
• Tools: Git, Github, Visual Studio Code, Elipse
• Microsoft Office 365: Word / Excel / Outlook / Teams

• Core Skills: Data Structures, Algorithms, Database Systems, Data Science.

📄 Resume

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