Software Engineer

Joaquin (Kino) Aguilar

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EDUCATION

Northwestern University (NU), Ph.D. in Communication Studies, Evanston, IL 2007 to Present

Communication Studies GPA: 3.97/4.00; Overall GPA: 3.68/4.00

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), B.S. in Computer Science, El Paso, TX 2003 to 2007

Computer Science GPA: 3.80/4.00; Overall GPA: 3.72/4.00

Recipient of University Honors Degree (30 honors credits completed, including honors thesis)

Admitted to Alpha Chi National College Honor Society (top 10% of undergraduates ), Golden Key, and Mortar Board

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Power2Switch, Chicago, IL

Software Engineer Intern October 2012 to Present

Developed software that facilitated the processing of customer information from electricity suppliers to manage revenues

Wrote software to integrate house database with external customer ticketing system to accelerate customer s ervice processes

Technology Stack: Ubuntu Linux, Django/Python, Javascript

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Research Assistant 2007 to Present

Developed quantitative models to identify how communication in relationships is related to infidelity

Examined relationship between cynicism towards advocates of vaccines and vaccination behavior using statistic al analyses

Presented 2 refereed papers as lead author at major national communication conferences

Technology Stack: R, SPSS

Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA

Research Assistant Intern Summer 2008

Developed research website to display videos and collect survey data

Analyzed data to identify perceived communicative intent associated with differenc es in head nod motions

Technology Stack: Windows, HTML, PHP, MySQL

The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

Research Assistant 2006 to 2007

Wrote software to download, parse, and format data into a Google Earth file

Updated and troubleshot geographic information systems website

Technology Stack: Windows, C#, HTML, KML

Web Site Editor Fall 2005

Created and updated web sites for University departments to improve visibility

Technology Stack: HTML, DotNetNuke

SELECTED PERSONAL PROJECTS

Indirect Effect Statistical Tests Winter 2012

Wrote functions to perform one or two mediator variables indirect analyses tests using bootstrapping

Technology Stack: Fedora Linux, R

Vestick Fall 2010

Wrote software to download, parse, and store stock market data in database

Technology Stack: Ubuntu Linux, C++, MySQL

Nonverbal Behavior Tagger Winter 2010

Developed software to tag nonverbal behaviors

Technology Stack: Ubuntu Linux, C++, OpenCV, Xerces-C++, CodeSynthesis XSD

Automatic Grader Winter 2009

Developed software to grade English essays based on syntax and semantics

Technology Stack: Windows, Java, Stanford NLP Part-Of-Speech Tagger

Lukis Tales Winter and Spring 2007

Programmed computer agents to communicate with each order in order to replicate dialogue in a play

Technology Stack: Windows, C++, Soar

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