Kathryne Hawthorne 919-***-**** abpcii@r.postjobfree.com

Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fall 2009-

May 2013

B.S. in Computer Science, Information Science; Minor: Chemistry

GPA: 3.847/4.0

Graduate coursework: Usability Engineering, Human Computer Interaction

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Experienced with: Java, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Skills

Familiar with: Python, Ruby, C, Assembly

Software: Axure, Balsamiq, Photoshop, Eclipse, Git, SPSS

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Technical Intern, IBM Extreme Blue, RTP, NC Summer 2012

Related

Learned Dojo and refined code archaeology skills to redesign Rational Team Concert

Experience

for improved usability through a web-

based interface.

Delivered code for handoff tested by Selenium automation

Brainstormed mockups of an alternative simplified interface (http://db.tt/SQscppnw)

Worked as a part of an agile and interdisciplinary team

Research Assistant, Dr. Robert Capra, School of Information Science, UNC Fall 2011-

present

Used PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, and Javascript to build a collaborative search system

to study group information seeking behavior

Designed the system s interactions using Axure and iterative feedback

Conducted controlled experiments and user studies

Research Assistant, Dr. Prasun Dewan, Computer Science Department, UNC Fall 2011

Expanded a multi-

domain collaborative toolkit in written in Java for SWT, AWT, GWT,

and Swing, to the Android mobile platform ]

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In Vitro Pharmacology Intern, Merck, Rahway, NJ Summer 2011

Other

Compared biochemical assays for methods of reliability and determined enzyme

Experience

kinetics of twelve human AMPK complexes (a therapeutic target for diabetes)

Macromolecular Structure Group, National Institute of Health, RTP, NC Summer 2010

Purified and mutated PUF-

6 protein to analyze the effect of the cytosine binding

pocket, and prepared crystalized samples for X-

ray diffraction

Barista, Starbucks, Cary, NC February 2008-

May 2010

Production & Materials, Balanced Scorecard Institute, Cary, NC May 2005-

May 2010

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UNC Computer Science Club, President

Activities

Organized and managed events, guest lecturers, and hack nights for a club of

approximately 75 student members.

UNC Women in Computer Science, Founder

Led outreach efforts to teach middle school girls introductory Javascript as a weekly

after school activity

Alpha Chi Sigma, Webmaster

ACM Programming Competition

Phi Beta Kappa

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Capra, R., Chen, A., Hawthorne, K., Arguello, J. (2012). ResultsSpace: An experimental

Publications

collaborative search environment. To appear: Proceedings of the 75th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

Capra, R., Arguello, J. ,Chen, A., Hawthorne, K., Marchionini, G., Shaw, L. (2012). The

ResultsSpace collaborative search environment. Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-

CS joint

conference on Digital Libraries. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2232817.2232929

Hawthorne, K., Cromity, J. (2012, Mar/Apr). Social Search for Market Intelligence. Online

Magazine, 36:36-

39. http://www.infotoday.com/online/mar12/index.shtml

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