Computer Science Software Engineer

Joshua Lim (http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~joshlzh)

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EDUCATION University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Masters of Science, Computer Science Dec 2011

Concentration in Software Systems

Cumulative GPA: 7.857/8.0

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

Bachelor of Science, Actuarial Mathematics & Economics May 2010

Minor in Computer Science

Cumulative GPA: 3.975/4.0 (Highest Distinction)

RELEVANT AskNomster

EXPERIENCE http://asknomster.com

Co-founder, Web Developer Nov 10 - Present

Designed a Malaysia-based social platform for restaurant reviews

Turnaround time of 8 months, involving design prototyping, building code

from scratch, promotion, and maintenance work

Computer Science and Engineering Department Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.cse.umich.edu Sep 10 Dec 10,

Graduate Student Instructor Sep 11 Dec 11

EECS 370: Introduction to Computer Organization

Led 2 discussion sections (class size of 30 each), held weekly office hours,

involved in preparation and grading of 7 homework and 3 exams

Facebook Inc. Palo Alto, CA

http://www.facebook.com

Software Engineer Intern Jun 11 Aug 11

A member of Core Systems Monitoring Team

Gained first-hand experience in operational data stores, multithreaded

applications and internet-scale programming

Harvest Mission Community Church Ann Arbor, MI

http://hmcc.net

Web Developer Jun 08 Apr 11

Collaborated with Publications Team to redesign the church website for 4

different location sites, coding from scratch and over a span of 4 months

Designed an administrative website to allow privileged users to modify

contents in hmcc.net

Gained first-hand experience in MySQL database system, php techniques for

dynamic contents, search engine optimization techniques and administrative

programming

Demonstrated excellent organizational and communication skills working on

team-oriented projects to roll out new features for the website

Space Physics Research Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.sprl.umich.edu

Programmer Feb 11 Apr 11

Supported instrument operations, monitoring and data processing for

space-probe-based plasma mass spectrometers

Extended software for instruments on ACE, WIND and MESSENGER

spacecraft

Prepared data visualizations for engineers and scientists

Computer Science and Engineering Department Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.cse.umich.edu

Student Researcher May 10 Aug 10

Title: Electronic Design Automation for Social Networks

Implemented a C++ program to efficiently abstract a large twitter network

into smaller components for analysis

Gained first-hand experience in handling large datasets, analyzing social

graph, using perl, bash scripts and unix commands

Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu

Course Grader Sep 08 Apr 10

Courses Graded: Linear Algebra, Mathematics of Finance, Matrix Algebra and

Life Contingency II

Mathematics Tutor Sep 08 Apr 10

Provided walk-in tutoring service for students and athletes on courses such

as College Algebra, Calculus, Linear Algebra and Probability

SKILLS Fluency in written and spoken Mandarin, Malay and English

Ability to perform arithmetic operations using mental arithmetic, i.e. mental

calculation without the aid of external tools

Obtained LabVIEW Associate Developer certification in Aug 2010

Literacy in Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), UNIX, Stata

10, C, C++, java, perl, bash scripting, prolog, lisp, (X)HTML, php,

javascript, jquery, CSS, and MySQL

ACTUARIAL Society of Actuaries (SOA)/ Casualty Actuary Society (CAS) Certification

EXPERIENCE Completed Examinations P/1 (May 2008), FM/2 (Nov 2008), MFE/3F (Nov

2008), MLC (May 2009) and C/4 (Nov 2009)

Obtained a score of either 9 or 10 (out of 10) in each of the actuarial

examinations above

Obtained VEE Certification for Economics, Corporate Finance and Applied

Statistics

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