Undergraduate Researcher at University of Virginia Department of Computer Science
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Undergraduate Researcher at University of Virginia Department of Computer Science
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- Resident Adviser at U.Va. Office Of Residence Life
- Web Development Intern at NavigationArts
- Student Web Developer at University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Web Development Intern at NavigationArts
- Network Security Intern at Naval Research Laboratory
- SEAP Intern at Naval Research Laboratory
- Education
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- University of Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson HSST
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Andrew Wang’s Summary
Software developer experienced in end to end design and implementation of web sites. Knowledgeable about the LAMP stack and web development frameworks such as CakePHP and Django, as well as content management and blog systems. Interested in open source application development and standards based web design.
Andrew Wang’s Specialties:
(X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, PHP, C#, ASP.NET, Java, C++, standards based design, content management systems, MySQL, Gentoo and OpenSUSE Linux, Subversion
Andrew Wang’s Experience
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Undergraduate Researcher
University of Virginia Department of Computer Science
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Undergraduate research with Professor John Knight on a software dynamic translator as part of the Helix next-generation computer security project. Involves a mix of high and low level programming with a grounding in operating systems and security concepts.
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Resident Adviser
U.Va. Office Of Residence Life
(Education Management industry)
September 2008 — May 2009 (9 months)
Adviser and coordinator for 20-odd first year students in U.Va. housing. Responsible for maintaining a safe environment conducive to studying, organizing hall and dorm events, handling emergencies and interpersonal conflict, and enforcing university policy.
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Web Development Intern
NavigationArts
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Front end development for the Sacramento Bee redesign, internal development work in Javascript with the jQuery library, visual refresh of the NavArts client extranet
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Student Web Developer
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — March 2008 (6 months)
Posting news stories and online publications, redesigning existing pages, and responding and reacting to feedback from users. Tools and skills used include Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
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Web Development Intern
NavigationArts
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Development of an internal intranet on top of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform, with the goals of semantic markup and a flexible CSS-based design.
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Network Security Intern
Naval Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)
Configured site-wide automated security scanning using Nessus, developed a graphical malicious binary analysis tool in Python, maintained Fedora and Windows servers running Apache, Snort, and firewall software.
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SEAP Intern
Naval Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)
Performed systems administration for three CentOS desktops, ported solar image processing software written in IDL from Solaris to Linux, and wrote an image processor in IDL for whitelight solar images from the Mount Wilson solar observatory.
Andrew Wang’s Education
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University of Virginia
Computer Science , 2007 — 2011 (expected)
GPA: 4.0
- Activities and Societies:
- ACM, Eta Lambda Chi
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Thomas Jefferson HSST
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Andrew Wang’s Interests:
Standards based web development, LAMP, open source software, rowing, classical and jazz music.
Andrew Wang’s Groups:
Eta Lambda Chi
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End to End Web Developers
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