Albany, NY--Russell Sage College has announced that Barryn Shark (New York, NY/Mount Saint Joseph Academy) is joining the office of athletic communication as a graduate assistant. Shark, a 2020 graduate of Clarkson University, will be working towards his MBA as a student in the Russell Sage Graduate School and will assist in numerous facets of the athletic communication department with coverage and projects for the 21 varsity teams.
A four-year letterwinner at Clarkson on the men's basketball team, Shark excelled in the classroom and on the hardwood for the Golden Knights' basketball team. Handing out over 200 career assists, he ranks among the program's career assist leaderboard, while also having earned numerous Dean's List citations. He was the president of the Clarkson Chess Club and the recipient of a Leadership Award, while earning his bachelor of science degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics as well as a minor in Quality Based Project Management.
Shark worked for three years in game day operations at Clarkson, garnering experience in volleyball and soccer. He also assisted with the video live streaming for the men's and women's lacrosse programs at Clarkson. In addition, he brings additional skills and experience having completed several academic projects including a Data Analytics Project, where he planned and built a data driven application in Python. Shark also created a narrative, ERD diagrams and wrote basic HTML that was centered around the creation of an online sneaker store. In the fall of his senior year, he was also involved with a Big Data Architecture project that web scraped and parsed information from espn.com's NBA box scores using Python coding skills. The open-ended project was graded based on usability, unit testing, complexity, and documentation/questions and Shark earned a 100% for his efforts and work.
