David Tran

Resident Assistant at Stanford University

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
Education
  • Stanford University
Connections
114 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

David Tran’s Summary

I am currently a senior at Stanford University, pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science with an emphasis on the Information track.

Keep entrepreneurship simple: understand people's problems. Solve them.

David Tran’s Specialties:

C/C++, Java, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Cocoa Touch/Obj-C, HTML, CSS


David Tran’s Experience

  • Resident Assistant

    Stanford University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    August 2009Present (5 months)

    Resident Assistant in Florence Moore Hall - Gavilan

  • Co-Founder

    Startup

    (Computer Software industry)

    June 2009Present (7 months)

  • CTO

    Business Assocation of Stanford Entpreneurial Students

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year 5 months)

  • Student Assistant

    Stanford University Career Development Center

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 2006Present (3 years 4 months)

    Assist employers and students/alumni in creating accounts for the online job and internship search services. Organize and set up career fairs and on-campus recruiting.

  • IT Tools Intern

    Mozilla Corporation

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    June 2009August 2009 (3 months)

  • Resident Computer Consultant

    Stanford University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    September 2008June 2009 (10 months)

    Co-Resident Computer Consultant for Florence Moore Hall - West.

  • CTO

    International Development Through Environmental Accountability and Sustainabilty

    (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    November 2008April 2009 (6 months)

  • Technical Intern

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

    June 2008September 2008 (4 months)

    Technical Intern with the Content Systems team within Yahoo! Search Technology.

  • NASA Ames Research Center Summer Intern

    Mission Critical Technologies

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 2007September 2007 (4 months)

    Researched and developed a document-oriented telemetry data processing and compression technique involving Discrete Fourier Transforms and Lempel-Ziv-Welch/Huffman coding for possible use in future space telemetry processing. Gave a presentation on this research to members of the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames. Research paper accepted for the 2008 IEEE/AIAA Aerospace Conference.


David Tran’s Education

  • Stanford University

    Computer Science 20062010 (expected)

    Activities and Societies:
    Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), Residential Computing, Career Development Center, Residential Computing

Additional Information

David Tran’s Websites:

David Tran’s Interests:

Information management on the web, social networking

David Tran’s Groups:

Stanford University, LyQuSay.com

  •    Mozilla Project
  •    Entreprelliance
  •    BASES
  •    Mozilla Campus Reps

David Tran’s Contact Settings

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