About
How to use the Fairfax County African American History Inventory:
This site has been set up for users to explore the inventory through a variety of ways. Users can search the collection, browse by collection or tag, or explore the mapped items.
Items make up the foundation of this inventory and have been collected to reflect people, locations, literature, ideas, events that make up Fairfax County African American history. More information on items in Omeka.
Collections are groups of items curated by the types of items that appear in the inventory. More information on collections in Omeka. Examples include:
- Notable Individuals
- Historic Markers
Tags are keywords that help identify items by thematic material and location. More information on tags in Omeka. Examples include:
- African American Communities
- Impact of Legislation
- Burke
About the members of Alpha Team 4 Fall/Spring 2021-22 GMU IT Capstone project:
Akbar Suri | Team Leader | Database Programmer: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating on Database Technology and Programming. Recently accepted an offer to begin at KPMG as a Data Engineer Advisory Associate post-graduation, and currently work as a Senior Event Support Specialist with George Mason’s Science and Technology Campus. Relevant background experience includes time as an IT intern at a local doctor’s practice, as well as time as both an Operations Agent and Advanced Repair Agent with Geek Squad/Best Buy. In my current role, I work directly with clients of George Mason to help execute their events seamlessly on campus, providing them with IT and AV support. As an intern, I led projects to modernize the practice, digitizing records, launching a website, and implementing other technology tools to help serve business needs.
Brian Do | Web Development + Database Integration: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating in Cyber Security and Web Development. Interned at Share Our Strength as an IT Technology Implementation Intern. Created an IT New Hire Orientation video and combined HR Forms into one form as well as digitizing the forms online. Used Asana with the IT team to view Project Management and shadowed the Chief Information Officer, Rich Kostro. Goal after graduation is to find an entry level job at a company that I enjoy working at and career goal is to be a Chief Information Officer like Rich from my internship.
Steve Cheuko | Cybersecurity Analyst: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating in Cyber Security. Interned at the office of the Deputy mayor in Washington DC. During my internship, I completed integral data collection through extensive research ahead of the creation of an internal proposal to the city to increase department funds by $250,000. Also, I Conducted a massive transfer of over 3,000 physical city records to an online database to modernize the department’s documentation abilities. Finally, working on my senior year capstone project which involves creating a database that will highlight African American accomplishments in Fairfax county. On-campus, I am the event creator for the African Student Association and part of NSBE. In my leisure time, I like to read, play soccer, or stream TV shows.
Fernando Galarza | Database Programmer: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating in Database Technology and Programming. Skills include SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, PHP, Python, and HTML. Related experiences include migrating one database to another using PL/SQL, and T-SQL scripting, and creating a functional website through PHP and HTML.
Roman Patrick | Cybersecurity Analyst: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating in Information Security. As of November 2022, he is working as a Technology Consultant at EY. Previously held internships at Protiviti as a Technology Consulting Intern and at K12 Inc. as an Enrollment Services Intern. On campus, he served as the Vice President of the Pi Kappa Phi Zeta Epsilon chapter, an upper-division Resident Assistant, and part of the support staff for MasonLIFE, a GMU program intended to help students with disabilities.
Samuel Pitch | Cybersecurity Analyst: Recent graduate of the Information Technology major at George Mason University concentrating in Cyber Security. My skills include Linux, AWS Solution Architect, CN/CI, MySQL, Amazon RDS. I work as a security guard in one of the largest data centers in Manassas. I spend most of my time at work, school and taking care of my children.