Andre Chiquito
andre.chiquito@gmail.com | +1 919 638 9753
Employment | Accomplishments | Education | Certifications | References | Testimonials
Employment
Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides | Mountain Guide
2024 & 2025 Seasons
- Led traditional rock climbing trips for individuals and groups of various skill levels
- Conducted thorough risk assessments and made informed decisions regarding route selection and weather conditions
- Communicated effectively with clients to understand their goals and tailor climbing experiences to meet their needs
- Conducted emergency high angle rescues for injured climbers
- Provided personalized instruction and coaching to clients to improve their climbing skills
- Instructed the following:
- High angle rescue clinic
- Trad climbing fundamentals course
- Introduction to big walling course
- Introduction to multipitch climbing course
NRocks Outdoor Adventures | Adventure Guide
2024 & 2025 Seasons
- Facilitated via ferrata tours for up to 14 guests
- Trained guests to safely and independently navigate a via ferrata
- Assisted in staff high angle emergency rescue training
- Coached and supported novice climbers through mild to intense fear and anxiety
- Effectively coached guests with mobility issues
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life | Communications Assistant - Part Time
November 2022 - May 2024
- Used Beaver Builder to migrate/adapt Wordpress based web content
- Created graphics using Photoshop and Canva
- Coordinated with team members remotely through Trello and MS Planner
- Assisted in managing academic talks and symposia, both livestreams and in person
Apogee Adventures | Northeast Support Staff - Seasonal
June 2023 - August 2023
- Composed blog posts on trip activities to keep parents updated
- Independently identified and resolved office computing bottlenecks
- Facilitated backcountry trips for children ages 11-15
- Supported and supervised children experiencing specific difficulties on trip
Deepest Beliefs Lab | Research Assistant - Part Time
July 2021 - June 2023
- Procured and synthesized literature
- Researched, obtained, and collated data in excel
- Composed queries and retrieved Reddit data with PushShift.io
- Lead a group to learn and implement Python, Pandas, and NumPy to solve data problems
- Presented research in a poster session at APS 2023
University of North Carolina - CH | Technology Support Technician
July 2018 - July 2021
- Oversaw student employees
- Troubleshooted account issues with Office 365
- Provided chat support to as many as three clients at a time
- Wrote client-facing troubleshooting documentation
- Assisted in reworking a walk-in structured organization to accommodate Covid-19 concerns
- Troubleshot and resolved both student and teacher issues in Sakai
The Computer Cellar | Repair Technician
October 2015 - July 2018
- Frequently interacted with customers by email, phone, and walk-in traffic
- Diagnosed and replaced motherboard components, such as ports, ICs, and capacitors
- Chiefly responsible for data recoveries from healthy, failing, and/or nearly destroyed storage media
- Installed networking infrastructure in a business setting
- Diagnosed and repaired issues in Linux, Windows, MacOS, as well as Outlook, Quickbooks, Office 365, and many other applications
Accomplishments
- Independently learned to diagnose and repair motherboard level issues on Apple laptops using freely available resources and basic tools
- Designed and curated a digital archive for Bull City Fair Trade to preserve and display 30 years of history
- This website was built from scratch using HTML, TailwindCSS, and JQuery
- Designed a robust database using SQLite to track my personal climbing with basic data visualization
- Designed curricula and taught introductory aerial silks to college students at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Led an exploratory climbing expedition to establish traditional style multipitch climbs ground up - Guidebook
- Assisted in training a racing team of 15 sled dogs, at times in adverse conditions
- Co-authored a journal article published in PNAS Nexus
- Duolingo Portuguese score of 44 (CEFR level A2) See More
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graduated May 2024 - 3.76 GPA
- Information Science Major, B.S.
- Psychology Major, B.A.
- Transcript
Durham Technical Community College
Graduated July 2020 - 3.72 GPA
- Associates in Arts (AA)
- Transcript
Certifications
References
Tom Cecil - Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides
- 304 940 3631 | tomcecil@gmail.com
Chris Conger - NRocks Outdoor Adventures
- 803 792 5743 | cconger548@gmail.com
Felicity Gancedo - Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
- 919 618 7174 | feliganc@unc.edu
Will Robertson - Apogee Adventures
- 651 276 7636 | will@apogeeadventures.com
Curtis Puryear - Deepest Beliefs Lab
- 270 723 0361 | cwpuryear12@gmail.com
Jan Williams - Bull City Fair Trade
- 919 906 7055 | jan.adams.williams@gmail.com
Patrick Kiernan - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 919 923 5309 | kiernan@unc.edu
Gabriel Caviness - The Computer Cellar
- 336 417 7408 | gabrielcaviness@gmail.com
Customer Testimonials
5-Star Google Review of Seneca Rocks Mountain Guides
- “My husband and I had a wonderful experience climbing at Seneca Rocks thanks to our guide Andre! . . . We had such a great time and it’s thanks to Andre’s excellent planning of each day; he considered our interests and abilities, and chose routes that were challenging yet enjoyable for us.”
- Kristen K.
5-Star Google Review of NRocks Outdoor Adventures
- “This was a fantastic experience. Andre was an incredible guide and made the adventure even more fun!”
- Julie C.
5-Star Anonymous Survey at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- “Quick, excellent service- good listener as well as fixer.”
5-Star Yelp Review of The Computer Cellar
- “They went above and beyond, backing the items up while I went and bought a new hard drive and answered other computer questions I had along the way. Andre saved our Saturday and what felt like our lives in the moment. I would recommend any friend or family member.”
- Mallory M.