Student Research Assistant at ARL Penn State
Greater Philadelphia Area
Student Research Assistant at ARL Penn State
Greater Philadelphia Area
Senior in Computer Science with great interest in the field of Software Development. Experienced in object oriented development and other good software engineering practices. Relevant courses taken include many in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Software Engineering, C++, Java, PHP, MySQL
(Higher Education industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Data Analysis (May 2009 – Present)
• Created a fully featured program in C for reading and analyzing large data sets
• Constructed MATLAB routines for producing informative and understandable presentations of data
• Participated in a team conducting a research project
GPU Performance (October 2008 – May 2009)
• Investigated performance of a graphics card on a Linux platform in performing signal processing routines
• Implemented code on the GPU, benchmarked performance, and compared with that of the native processor
• Developed code in C and C++ under the Linux operating system
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
• Support students in applying for, creating, and maintaining their internet connections
• Install Anti-Virus and Spyware removal information
• Help format computers
• Provide general computer information
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CMCSA; Telecommunications industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
• Redesigned and organized a content management system to handle thousands of documents produced by six team members
• Worked with the IT Governance team to help increase communication efficiency
• Created contact and requirements forms for submitting data to the team
• Learned the methodology of developing a service oriented architecture
(Entertainment industry)
June 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 1 month)
• Maintained electronic and computer equipment for entertainment company
• Interacted with customers to help enhance entertainment and party environment
Computer Science 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Relevant courses taken:
Data Structures and Algorithms
Operating Systems
Systems Program
Communication Networks
Computer Organization and Design
Statistics
Intro and Intermediate C++
OOP with Java and Databases
Discrete Math for Computer Science
Numerical Analysis
Pi Kappa Alpha