
Intern at VMware
San Francisco Bay Area

Intern at VMware
San Francisco Bay Area
I am currently a middler Computer Engineering student at Northeastern University. I'm still trying to decide if I want to focus on hardware, software, or both.
(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Software development in the Partner Engineering group.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)
Designed a temperature gradient system to be used on experiments with microfluidic devices. Wrote LabView software to control, monitor, and log data for this system. Provided assistance to others in the lab with writing LabView code, and general troubleshooting. Implemented a wiki for streamlining the lab.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Perform software and occasional hardware repairs of students’ computers
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; NENG; Computer Hardware industry)
May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)
Compared the performance of an IP-PBX appliance running on hardware, the VMWare ESX hypervisor, and the XenSource Enterprise hypervisor. Utilized many different performance analysis and benchmarking tools to characterize this application.
(Computer & Network Security industry)
October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)
Learned about common spam filtering methods (mainly for SpamAssassin). Devised a method of benchmarking effectiveness and overhead in spam filtering. Applied for and received a Provost’s
Undergraduate Research Grant. Submitted a paper to, and attended the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam 2007.
(Public Company; Retail industry)
March 2006 — October 2006 (8 months)
While working at this job, I sold computers, and assisted the technicians with working on computers brought in for repair.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)
I performed virus removals, computer reformats, and home visits such as new computer setups and networking setups.
BS , Computer Engineering , 2006 — 2011 (expected)
I am currently majoring in Computer Engineering, entering my third year.
2002 — 2006
Computers, Research, Learning New Things, Music, Longboarding
IEEE, NUCAR (Northeastern Computer Architecture Research)
I graduated Braintree High School in 2006, I was on the honor roll every term, and I was a member of the National Honor Society.
At Northeastern, I am on the Dean's List, and I am a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.