Computer Science Software

Objective

To obtain a job that can provide a diverse learning experience and has a

significant impact within the company.

Education

Boston University, Graduate College of Arts and Science January 2009 - Sept

2010

Master of Arts in Computer Science: GPA - 3.4

Boston University, College of Arts and Science September 2004 - May 2008

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science: CS GPA - 3.2 Overall GPA - 2.83

Experience

Technical Staff Member June 2008 - Present

Beechwoods Software

DirecTV consults Beechwoods Software to help maintain, port, and develop the

embedded linux enviornement found on their set top boxes.

Upgrade the kernel when needed and create patches to track fixes in JIRA.

Maintain and support customers using DirecTV stress rack software. Traveled on

site to Thomson HQ in Indiana to install and demonstrate the software to their

employees. Develop new scripts and add functionality as needed by my employer

and customers.

Test set top boxes and assess the risk involved with any bugs found. Follow a

strict procedure of test cases and update them as needed. Use bitstreams to

test edge cases that are hard to reproduce otherwise.

Identify and develop solutions to fix the bugs found on the set top boxes. Use

the resources of the source code, print statements, core files, stack traces

and console output to find and solve the situation.

Communicate with customers to provide them with feedback, assess their needs

and determine realistic scheduling so that deliverables can go out in a timely

manner.

Terminal Assistant & Grader October 2005 - May 2008

CAS Computer Science Department

Helped to maintain the Linux and Windows machines and troubleshoot issues.

Help users with programming or technical issues.

Graded assignments for a web programming class that consisted of over 200

assignments a week. Inspected both the web pages and code to identify correct

solutions.

Academic Projects

Cloud Computing May 2010 - August 2010

Setup a fully distributed Hadoop system using VMs on a local computer.

Learned about using windows Azure, the worker role and web role and how to

deploy applications to it. Deployed an updated picture and thumbnail

application to the live web.

Used Amazon SC2 to deploy a web application that puts on pictures into a

storage area and can be managed and deleted.

Used Google App Engine to create and deploy small sample applications to the

web such as a proxy server and guestbook.

Importance of Groups in Social Networks January 2010 - May 2010

Used a facebook application to mine data on friends and group information.

Use na ve bayes to determine how groups and friendship ties relate to each

other and if they can actually determine friendship ties.

Burrow's Wheeler Transform September 2009 - December 2009

Implemented the Burrow's Wheeler Transform in Javascript and html. It can

detect substrings and their positions in a text file. Used in trying to find

patterns in genome sequences.

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Streaming Torrents January 2009 - May 2009

Performed a directed study under Professor Bestavros to research and develop

novel techniques to stream video using torrents.

Designed a tree architecture to download torrents that provide streaming

video/audio. Developed a policy to deter people from lying about upload rate.

Performance Analysis January 2009 - May 2009

Programmed queue strategies in Java and recorded results of how performance is

affected given various conditions of events and time variables.

Artificial Intelligence January 2008 - May 2008

Developed a computer to recognition program that can differentiate numbers and

letters in a variety of shaped and sizes.

Used C# to develop a program that can accurately determine if a person was

standing, crouching, waving arms, or walking.

Networking Simulations January 2007 - May 2007

Tested the TCP protocol by building a server/client, developed a stop and go

protocol, simulated routing protocols, explored package handling, and created a

variation on TCP in Java.

Software Engineering September 2006 - December 2006

Developed in a team a paintball game that worked over a network. Performed

system design and documented various component interactions. Evaluated risks

and created milestones for different tasks and people in the group.

Courses and Skills

Courses

Web Design Analysis of Algorithms Discrete Math Computer Systems Data

Structures Linear Algebra Artificial Intelligence Networking Software

Engineering Computer Architecture Performance Analysis Data mining

Pattern Matching Network Cryptography

Operating Systems

Windows Mac OS X Linux Unix

Programming Languages

Java C/C++ Shell Scripting C# MaxPlus + Matlab Haskell HTML PHP

MYSQL

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