Macire Diakite
Silver Spring, MD 20901
*******@***.******.***
Career Objective
Looking for challenging opportunities as a Software Developer
leveraging my academic and professional skills
Education
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2010
Howard University, Washington DC
Current GPA: 3.46
B.S. in Computer Science, 2005
IGA, Casablanca, Morocco
Graduated with a GPA of 3.58
Languages and Technology
. Advanced Object-Oriented development, Java/J2EE, JDBC, Servlet
and Adobe Flex Builder
. Apache Tomcat, JDBC, and JUnit
. Using tools: Eclipse IDE, Visual Studio, and Adobe Macromedia
. Proficient with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and WinDev
. Highly skilled in HTML, AJAX, CSS, ASP/ASP.NET, PHP and Drupal
. Experienced with Windows and Unix/Linux system administration
and networking
Work Experience and Projects
Intern Developer in Web Strategy and Operations Dept, May 2010 to
present (4 months)
American Chemical Society, Washington DC
. Help testing the new release of the website as well as
providing solutions to current problems of the web refresh.
. Created a tool to help WSO contributor to push content in the
site as well as update current posts. The application will be
deals with complex XML and text files. Technology used: Adobe
Flex Builder 4.
. Working on an Ant script that checkout from Subversion and
build for different environment (development, staging and
production) build
Graduate Research Assistant, August 2007 to April 2010 (3
years)
Physics Department at Howard University, Washington DC
. Cluster and Lab Administrator.
. Developed plug in which was use to upload and view a local
data into a server in Indiana. Also developed convertors that
convert an upper-air text file into NETCDF format. Programs
were written in Java.
Assistant IT Manager, January 2007 to August 2007 (8
months)
Research Center for Minority Institution, Howard University
. Create, update, and maintain CCBB (Center for Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics) website using PHP, CSS, HTML,
JavaScript, and XML/XSLT.
. Assist users' with programming, software and networking
issues.
. Provided software support for internally developed programs
and tools.
Software Developer, September 2005 to September 2006 (1 year)
Mali System, Bamako, Mali
. As a part of a team, updated and improved the existing payroll
software. In addition, design and implement new application
for clients. Technology used: WinDev
Senior Class Project
Web application using ASP and SQL SERVER
. Created a web application that controls the company
production using ASP and SQL Server. The development requires
getting requirement from every stage of the production.
Computer Engineer Internship, July 2004 to September 2004
(3 months)
BCEAO (Banque Central des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest), Bamako,
Mali
. Developed an Information Management tracking system currently
used in CERES departments. Technology used: Visual Basic and
MS Access.
. Helped setup network and shared resources (printers, files,
etc
Junior class Project
Web application using ASP and MS ACCESS
. Design and implement an application that allow user to reserve
a computer in a Lab.
Extracurricular Activities
. President of Computer Science Graduate Student Board, 2009 to
2010
. Member, Association for Computing Machinery, Student Chapter,
2008 to 2010
. Member of Howard University ACM Programming teams, 2008 to
2010
Personal
International Student (F-1); also fluent in French (reading,
writing and speaking)