Engineering Project

Aimen Al-Refai

Masters Candidate

Address

Bionics lab

Dept. of Computer Engineering

University of California, Santa Cruz

Office: 201 Engineering 2

Phone:831-***-****

Email: ********@***.****.***

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Aimen Al-Refai

831-***-**** ********@***.****.edu860 Woodside Dr

Watsonville, CA 95076

Objective:

I am currently a masters computer engineering student in robotics and controls as

well as a dynamic programmer with tremendous creative talents and years of

experience. I develop on multiple platforms, (namely Win, Mac, Unix). I'm goal

oriented, deadline driven, and a team player. I m looking for a position that can utilize

and enhance my skills. I also am a designer. I have a BFA in Commercial Arts and a minor

in graphic design. What I can do for you: Head up and/or be a part of a team designed to

produce the

highest quality work and meet deadlines appropriate to the client and employer's

needs and do what I love: CODE!

Education:

University of California: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA Sep 2010 expected Jun 2012

Major(s): MS Computer Engineering

University of California: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA Sep 2008 - Jun 2010

Major(s): BS Computer Engineering

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO Sep 1987 - Jun 1990

Major(s): BFA Commercial Arts

Experience:

Bionics Lab -UCSC, University of Santa Cruz, Santa Sep 2009 - Present

Cruz, CA

Research Assistant

Articulation of Lower limb exoskeleton

Helping with other's research

Installation of Motion capture system

Area of Research: Algorithm for redundancy in a 7 DOF robotic arm

Self,

Santa Cruz, Ca Aug 2003Dec 2003

Consulting

Lucky Stone Designs: Created the on line presence and hooked the shopping cart and

credit card backbone to the site using PayPal APIs

World Prayers: I was engaged in building on line editing system using Java and mysql

db.

Sesame Technology, Scotts Valley, CA Feb 2001 - Aug 2003Software Eng

Code review and refactoring

Building the presentation layer classes which write out to the browser html

Create APIs for Administration and Report/Charting of product

Sesame Technology produces web-based bug tracking software.

Building the applogic classes which interface with a sql database

Integrating the product into customers business flow

Go.com (Disney), Sunnyvale, CA Jul 2000 - Feb 2001Software Eng

Global Personalization API using java to write and read to SQL7 Database

Experience with writing: servelets, applets, jsp, javabeans, jdbc

Developing Prototypes of new pages using Java

Infoseek, Sunnyvale, CA Jan 1999 - Jul 2000Senior Web Developer

developing standardization of systems and processes

HTML production / Mixed with C++ language in proprietary language

QAing Web pages

Work with Producer/Project Managers on various client and internal projects

creating image maps / animated graphics

Imagesmith, Santa Cruz, CA Apr 1998 - Jan 1999Senior Graphic Designer

Web design specific creation of illustrations and graphics

Art direction

HTML production

Thunder Press, Scotts Valley, CA Jan 1997 - Apr 1998Graphic Designer

Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

Art direction / ad placement / layout for East Coast paper

Copy fitting / production

Jonathan Peck Typographers, Santa Cruz, CA Jan 1995 - Jan 1997Graphic Designer

Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

Art direction

Copy fitting / production

Arete Press, Claremont, CA Jan 1990 - Jan 1993Art Director

Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

Art direction / ad placement / layout

Copy fitting / production

Awards:

"Most Technical Project" in the Senior Design Project Competition

Skills:

Java, C/C++, python, assembly, html, javascipt, SolidWorks, OrCAD, Allegro, Pspice,

MatLab,

and Simulink. I am capable of soldering and have used Cypress PSoC development kit for

rapid board prototyping and the dsPic33, Photoshop, Illustrator

Programming language skills ranking (10 expert 1 can run hello world )

Java (8), C++ (7), C (7), Python (2)

Professional Affiliations:

Tau Beta Pi, IEEE

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