Computer Science Assistant
Resume:
Cole Sherer
Athens, GA *****
E-mail: ********@***.***
EDUCATION
PhD Computer Science
In Progress University of Georgia (UGA), expected graduation August 2012
BS Mathematics, BS Computer Science emphasis in Software Design
May 2007 - University of Georgia (UGA), Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
WORK EXPERIENCE
Instructor (Discrete Mathematics), (January 2012 Present)
Instructor (Software Development), (August 2011 December 2011)
Teaching Assistant (Software Development), (January 2011 May 2011)
Teaching Assistant (Operating Systems), (August 2010 December 2010)
Computer Science Department, UGA
Hold weekly office hours to answer questions and assist with projects
Grade homework, quizzes, summary papers, and programming projects
Instructor (Programming for the Web), (July 2010 August 2010)
Instructor (Java for Video Games), (May 2011 June 2011)
Instructor (Team Programming for Video Games), (June 2011 August 2011)
Talent Identification Program, Duke University
Write and present lectures to a class of 7th - 10th grade gifted students
Teach a 3-week introductory course with over 100 hours of instruction
Teaching Assistant (Java for Video Games), (May 2008 June 2010)
Talent Identification Program, Duke University
Assist instructor in leading class discussions and planning lessons
One-on-one tutoring with the students (7th-8th grade gifted students)
Owner / Lead Developer, (September 2009 Present)
Ginger Magic Games, LLC Athens, GA
Hire and manage all team members for multiple projects under simultaneous
development
Handle all legal and financial matters for the company
Act as the core developer for projects in C# and Flex for iPhone, XBox 360 and FaceBook
IT Professional Associate, (January 2007 January 2008 & July 2008 May 2010)
Web Developer, (September 2006 January 2007)
Southern Regional Extension Forestry, College of Ag. & Environmental Sciences, UGA
Used Plone content management system along with Zope, CSS, HTML, JavaScript,
Python and Flash to create and maintain websites
Ported websites from older Plone versions and from MySQL / PHP to Plone 2.5 & 3.0
Research Assistant, (January 2008 May 2008)
Computer Science Department, UGA
Researched the parallel and distributed capability of the Cell Broadband processor for
high performance computing (HPC) with Dr. David Lowenthal (***@**.***.***)
Worked with IBM s Cell SDK 2.1 on a Sony PlayStation 3 running Fedora 6
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PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE
SASSY Scalable Agent-Based Simulation System (Java), (Spring 2010 Present)
Currently implementing the Agent-based programming interface on top of a pre-existing
parallel discrete event simulation core
Using the Agent-based PDES to study social animal behavior and financial markets
Nachos (C/C (Fall 2007)
A simulated 64-bit Operating System running on a Linux machine
Implemented threads, semaphores, system calls, multiprogramming, virtual paging and
a filesystem
Mooch (Java), (Fall 2006)
Engineered a Jabber and Google Talk instant messenger with a five-person team.
Mooch contains voice chat, text-based chat, and screen-sharing that allows one to view
and interact with another person s screen remotely
Over 15,000 lines of code
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mooch/
PROGRAMMING COMPETITIONS
TopCoder Algorithmic Programming Contests, (October 2005 - Present)
Contacted TopCoder s collegiate recruiter to bring the College Tour to UGA
Placed 1st (2007), 3rd (2006), and 2nd(2005) at the local College Tour contest
Passed the qualifying round in the 2006 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, (2005 2006)
Placed 6th of 67 teams at the 2006 Southeastern US Regional
Placed 21st of 63 teams at the 2005 Southeastern US Regional
Wrote a scoring script to simulate competition during team practices
UCSB International Capture the Flag Hacking Competition, (Fall 2007)
Placed 28th of 35 teams in our school s first attempt at the contest
Patched python bugs on our server and exploited these bugs on the other teams servers
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
High Proficiency (5+ years)
Java, C++, C, HTML, CSS
Medium Proficiency (1 5 years)
Python, JavaScript, PHP, C# (XNA and Unity), Flash/ActionScript, SML, Scheme,
Prolog, TorqueScript, MIPS Assembly, 6502 Assembly
COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES
UNIX Systems Programming, Theory of Computing, Data Structures, Software Engineering,
Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, Graph Theory, Computer Architecture,
Computer Graphics, Computer Animation (Maya), Compilers, 2-D Game Programming, 3-D
Game Programming, Operating Systems, Algorithms, Database Management, Computer
Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing, System Performance Evaluation, Computer
Vision, AI and the Web, Simulation and Modeling, Parallel and Distributed Simulation,
Computer Network Attacks and Defenses, Interactive Media as Drama (iPhone Programming)
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