Matthew L. jung
New York, NY
E-mail: ****.*.****@*****.***
objective
Seeking Software Engineering opportunities involving interesting Computer Science,
Math, or Statistics problems; a great work/life balance; and teammates with several
years of industry experience.
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder, December 2010
Master's Candidate, Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley, August 2000
Bachelor's Degree, Cognitive Science
Work experience
Software Engineer, Factset Research Systems, Mar 2009 - Present
o Financial text mining in Perl and Java.
o Financial XML (XBRL) processing system: multi-threaded system for parsing XBRL,
reconstructing financial
tables, and exporting into other formats (such as XHTML and XML).
o Named Entity Recognition for financial newswire: involved locating period end
dates in newswire using OpenNLP for
sentence detection, word tokenization, and classification.
Software Engineer, Mobile Foundry, Boulder, CO, Aug 2008 - Mar 2009
o C# .Net software development
o Data workflow process control system: A system for configuring report-generation
queries for a very large database,
and running the scheduled automation of a multi-step process for dowloading,
querying, packaging, and delivering the data.
Software Engineer, Campus IT Dept, UC Berkeley, IST, 2000 - 2008
o Developed and maintained web-based systems to model business processes in Perl,
Java, and Ruby.
o Created Perl scripts to support projects from different units within the dept.
o Provided help and training to internal staff for applications, Unix use, and web
development/authoring.
o Online survey generator: web interface for admins to create new surveys and
respondents to submit responses to surveys.
o RSS channel management system: web interface to enable creating, editing, and
display of RSS channels
o Job posting system: web interface for HR staff to manage job listings website
o Departmental procurement system: web interface for staff to submit procurement
requests w/ login, auth, approvals, search
o Dial-up modem service account admin system: web interface for students and admin
to manage campus dial-up ISP accounts.
o Webpage content-management system: web interface to enable a distributed
population of users to create/update their own pages.
o Web application development framework featuring session management,
exception-handling system, templating system with
custom scripting language, database interface layer, Secure Login and LDAP
Directory integration, simple portal-generation,
dynamic PDF generation, and other features.
Skills and strengths
Operating Systems/Programming Languages/Technologies:
o Unix, Linux, Windows.
o Java (2 years; my preferred language), Ruby (2 years), Perl (7 years), C# (1
year), Python (.5 year), R (1 year),
OOD (10 years), SQL (7 years), XML (3 years).
Software Applications:
o Unix Shell, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Ant, Perforce, SVN, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL
Server, LDAP.
Additional Strengths:
o Experience working effectively in a team and independently.
o Experience working with end users throughout software development cycle.
o Ability to build an open-source application server from scratch.
Relevant Coursework and Grades:
Operating System Design (UC Berkeley): B
Compiler Design (UC Berkeley): B
Probability Theory (UC Berkeley): B
Database Systems (UC Berkeley): A-
Statistical Computing (UC Berkeley): B+
Mathematical Statistics (UC Berkeley): A-
Data Mining (Connecticut State University): A-
Software Engineering (CU Boulder): A-
Artificial Intelligence (CU Boulder): A
Software Engineering of Distributed Systems (CU Boulder): A
Natural Language Processing (CU Boulder): A
Neural Network Design (CU Boulder): A-
Computer Graphics (CU Boulder): A-
Interests: Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Algorithm Design, Data
Mining, Statistical Approaches