Taylor Groves

Current

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of New Mexico

Past

• Campus Ambassador-Intern at Sun Microsystems
• Research Assistant at Texas State Department of Computer Science
• QA Development at Kulabyte

• ITS at CSCD Data Services

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Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos
• The University of New Mexico

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Taylor Groves’s Summary

My skill sets range from marketing events and products to programming applications for commercial deployment. With experience in quality assurance, research, marketing and development I've been able to work on a spectrum of projects with a wide range of individuals.

Taylor Groves’s Specialties:

C++\C, C#, Java, Python on both a Linux and Windows environment, Requisite Pro, ClearCase, Bugzilla, Tortoise SVN, Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio, MediaWiki, Nullsoft Installer, Image Quality Analysis.

Taylor Groves’s Experience

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of New Mexico

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Campus Ambassador-Intern

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2007 — September 2009 (2 years )

  Student evangelist for Sun Microsystems at Texas State University.
  Organized events and led Sun related student groups.
  Worked closely with students and faculty to promote the usage of Sun products.

• Research Assistant

  Texas State Department of Computer Science

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

  Research assistant under Dr Xiao Chen at Texas State University, doing research in mobile network algorithms.
  Paper: Probability Delegation Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks (Published IEEE ICCCN'09)

• QA Development

  Kulabyte

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Testing and documenting bugs (bugzilla), configurations, optimizations, and updates for the Kulabyte Video Encoder.
  Developing applications in C# to monitor/debug actively running environments.
  Created/managed multimedia library.

• ITS

  CSCD Data Services

  (Government Administration industry)

  August 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  IT for Comal, Hays, and Caldwell Counties Probation Dept.
  Maintained computers/networks for over 100 employees spread over 3 counties including HelpDesk, and Windows Server.

Taylor Groves’s Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos

  B.S. , Computer Science , 2005 — 2009

  Minor in Mathematics
  3.22 GPA

  Activities and Societies:

  Vice President of Sigma Chi Sigma - Student Computer Science Organization

• The University of New Mexico

  Ph.D , Computer Science , 2009

Additional Information

Taylor Groves’s Interests:

swimming, cycling, unicycle football, camping, traveling.

Taylor Groves’s Groups:

ACM

•    Texas State Alumni
•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    University of New Mexico Alumni Association
•    Sigma Chi Sigma
•    Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Taylor Groves’s Honors:

Undergraduate Research Excellence (2009)
Dean's List (2008, 2009)
North American CA of the month (March 2009)
Service Award - Sigma Chi Sigma (2008, 2009)
Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America (Highschool)
1st - Digital Animation - TTSA (Highschool)

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