Engineering Project

James Grosso

Permanent Address: *** Burns Avenue Syracuse NY 13206

Mailing Address: 109 Colony Manner Road Rochester NY 14623

Phone:315-***-****

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

Goal:

To get a part time position working on web applicationsRelevant Experience:

Research Assistant, RIT Software Engineering Department March 2011 to present

Developing introduction activities using Lego Mindstorm Robots for students who are visually impaired.

Lego Cannon: Designed, built, and programmed a robot using Lego Mindstorms using touch sensors and motors to aim and fire a Lego cannon piece.Minesweeper: Designed an activity using Lego Mindstorms using an Ultrasonic and Infrared sensor to maneuver through an obstacle field to find an Infrared ball.Represented RIT and the Software Engineering department at the NFB Youth Slam conference as an instructor presenting one of our activitiesRelevant Courses:Software Engineering Process and Project ManagementSoftware Engineering SubsystemsSkills:

Languages:

Familiar in Java, C, Ruby, Python, Not eXactly C (NXC), ROBOTCUnderstanding of Eclipse, SVN, BricxCC, ROBOTC IDEProjects:Quoridor-Worked with a fellow student on a multiplayer puzzle game for Data StructuresSSEkemon-Participated in a rapid development project to develop a Pokemon style game.

Worked with XML files to store data for testing purposes.Battleship- Developed a basic one player battleship game that tracks ship placement, hits,

misses, and sunk ships.Education:

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY PFOS GPA: 3.2

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering GPA: 3.0

Recipient of the RIT Merit Based Scholarship Expected Graduation May 2013

Activities:RIT Players (theatre arts club)

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship

Small Group CoordinatorEagle Scout

Headed up a project to renovate a pavilion for use by the SPCA.

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