Management Assistant

Kevin Yao

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EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science Expected June 2015

Minor: Web Programming and Applications

MASSANUTTEN MILITARY ACADEMY Woodstock, VA

Valedictorian, President’s List: 2007-2011 June 2011

Battalion Executive Officer, Major of the Academy

EXPERIENCE

SERVICENOW (Enterprise software company providing platform-as-a-service) Santa Clara, CA

IT Applications Intern June 2014 – August 2014

- Developed both client-side and server-side applications for the ServiceNow Service Management software

- Worked with a team to modify and improve about 20 features to ServiceNow products, including:

- Improvements to user-interface allowing users of different credentials to view different data

- Modifications to the process in which the system automatically created new forms for users

ELMER HOLMES BOBST LIBRARY (NYU) New York, NY

Desktop Support Assistant February 2013 – September 2013

- Provided IT support and assistance with software and hardware troubleshooting

NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER Silver Spring, MD

Research Intern June 2009 – August 2009

- Conducted wet lab experiments

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Bethesda, MD

Research Intern June 2008 – August 2008

- Worked with high-intensity microscopes for visualization of fluorescently stained cells

SELECTED COURSEWORK

iPhone Programming

Topics: Objective C, iOS SDK, and OpenGL in the Xcode development environment

Project: Created an interactive puzzle game for iPhones; added animation and sound to enhance the game

Parallel Computing

Topics: Learned how to use MPI, OpenMP, and CUDA

Projects: Created numerous programs, e.g., modified traveling salesman problem using OpenMP

Physical Computing

Topics: Explored different approaches to HCI using Arduino, Processing, laser cutting, and 3D printing

Projects: Viewable here https://ky573.wordpress.com, e.g., an interactive rock paper scissors game (hand

positions detected via flex sensors in a glove) and using a potentiometer to control the speed of a toy dc motor

Operating Systems

Topics: Worked with general concepts including kernels, processes, threads, concurrency, synchronization,

deadlocks, file systems, memory management, virtual memory

Projects: Worked with memory management and I/O to create a round-robin scheduler with interrupt handlers;

created a translation lookaside buffer and a two-level page buffer within a simulated management system

Object Oriented Programming

Topics: C++ language, inheritance, method overriding + overloading, virtual method dispatch, garbage

collection, unit testing

Project: Using Java and xtc toolkit to implement a C++-to-Java translator

Algorithmic Problem Solving

Topics: Code performance analysis, advanced data structures, graph algorithms, dynamic programming,

computational geometry

Project: Solved numerous competitive programming problems on UVA

Database Design and Web Implementation

Topics: Data manipulation and database design for a relational database and web-based implementation of

database applications

Project: Created a MySQL database to manage data along with PHP to create user interfaces; also used Flash to

create animation for websites

Web Development and Programming

Topics: Learned about client and server side technologies for web browsers and xHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP

Projects: Created numerous JavaScript applications to run on websites, including product and restaurant sites;

worked extensively with CSS to create appealing web pages

Computing in Humanities & Arts

Topics: Learned about digitization of text and image; hypertext design and delivery; working with multi-lingual

texts and topics in machine translation; electronic publishing and dissemination; OCR; designing databases of

images, documents, and text

Projects: Created programs and websites analyzing different pieces of art as well as other documents

Computer Vision

Topics: Used Matlab to analyze images using Mortlet Wavelets and Stereo

Projects: Worked on programs that did facial recognition and symmetry detection.

Basic Algorithms

Topics: Learned algorithms regarding numbers, trees, sorting, and graphs as well as times and efficiencies of

basic data structures

Projects: Worked with theoretical solutions to algorithms

OTHER SKILLS AND ACTIVITIES

Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Python, Objective C, Matlab

Web, Database, and Design Tools: HTML, Javascript, XML, PHP, CSS, JSON, MongoDB, MySQL, Flash,

Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Arduino

Languages: Chinese (advanced, fluent in speech, reading, and writing), French (intermediate)

Sports: Tennis (Varsity team captain, 2011), Wrestling (Varsity team, attended state championships, 2011),

Raiders (Attended national championships, 2010)

AWARDS AND HONORS

McCauley Award1, Massanutten Military Academy 2011

Sergeant at Arms, National Honor Society 2009–11

American Legion General Military Excellence Award, American Legion 2010

American Legion Scholastic Excellence Award, American Legion 2009

1 Awarded for outstanding moral character, truthfulness, courage, unselfishness, conscientious and promising academic work, and fondness for and

success in sports

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