Technical Support

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CARYN MCMILLIN

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a job in the Information technology/programming/computer engineering fields

COMPUTER SKILLS

Languages

C, C++, Java, OOD/OOP style of programming

Exposed to: assembly, and UNIX

Software

Microsoft Office [word, excel, power point, outlook],

IDE’s: netbeans, Microsoft visual studio, code warrior

EXPERIENCE

Technical Support

Nov 2014 – Dec 2014

DXP Enterprises

Provided technical support by answering phones or responding to tickets

Would supply toner, and handle renting of laptops/projectors

Would send replacement computer equipment

Lab Proctor

Oct 2013 – May 2014

University of Houston

Signed students in/out of lab stations

Assisted students who request help

Checked in/out special equipment for labs

Volunteer

June 2010 – Aug 2010

Rosenberg Animal Shelter

Clean cat and dog kennels

Watch cats while outside kennels

Volunteer

June 2007 – Aug 2007

Century 21 Real Estate Solution

Performed data entry into excel documents

General administrative duties such as sorting mail

Assisted in training employees in use of CRESTEDGE

EDUCATION

University of Houston

2006 - 2014

Houston, TX

BS for Computer Engineering graduated May 2014

GPA: 2.818

ACTIVITIES

Student Alumni Organization 2006 - 2010

PROMES - for mastery in engineering studies 2006 - 2014

Anime no Kai – anime club 2006 - 2014

SHPE – Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers 2006 - 2007

IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 2009 - 2010

Robotics Club at UH 2009 - 2010

Addendum

ECE 4437 robot project

It was a 3 person team project that lasted all semester long which involved building and programming a robot from scratch in C++ to perform a final routine by the end of the semester. We used the stellaris tiva launchpad board for the brain of our robot. We had to write all of our drives ourselves as we slowly added the proper functionality to our robot needed for its final routine. The robots routine consisted of following a black line and then going up to a cup in a “room” to detect the color and then to navigate to the courses define room for that color and then continue to do that until it has been to all 4 rooms.

I and one other person in our group were responsible for writing the drivers for our robot. The drivers I had written a significant portion of the code for were the driver for our robots motors, a driver for timer threads, and a distance sensor. I had a part in writing/testing most of the other drivers except some that were already done and working when I joined the group. One of the other drivers I helped to write was for our color sensor.

The way we tested our code was first by compiling it to catch compiler errors. We would test each function one at a time to make which function was having issues. Once the compiler errors were caught we would make a test run by loading it onto the robot and testing if it would work as intended at run time. If the code didn’t work as we wanted it to we would go over our code and made adjustments as necessary and test again.

COSC 4330 homework assignments

This was my computer architecture class and for our homework assignments we would have to write programs in a UNIX/LINUX simulated environment in either C or C++. I personally chose to write my programs in C++ due to having more familiarity with it.

Our first assignment, the hardest one, was to write a program simulating the execution of processes by a computer system with a large memory, one terminal window per user, a quad core cpu, and one disk drive. We had to run this in a simulated LINUX/UNIX environment which we uploaded our programs to in order to run them. We could use other software to write and test our programs before testing them in the environment.

Our second assignment was to write a client program that can connect with a server program using sockets in a LINUX/UNIX environment. We were given access to a specific server to use in writing our program to make sure that it works properly.

Our third assignment was learning how to use UNIX semaphores and shared memory segments in which we would simulate the behavior of customers at the checkout counters of a small market that has two checkout lanes. We also had to have our program read from its argument vector.

COSC 4351 SQA

This was my fundamentals of software engineering class and we has a semester long project involving creating a website using a programming language of our groups choosing. Each groups members had specific roles which are leader (1), Database (2), SQA (2), programmers (2+). I was one of the 2 Software Quality Assurance (SQA) members of our team. I checked over all of our documentation we had to turn in for our project assignments and checked with all who were programming that everything was working as stated in our documents. The purpose of the semester long project was to experience what it was like to go through a software production lifecycle in which our professor was the client. The importance of proper documentation and planning was made apparent.

Freelance

I have been practicing my java skills through use of codingbat at http://codingbat.com/prob/p132134 in which I have been working on getting through the warmup section of the website. Concerning C++ I have been practicing by programming small problems. I have recently started using sphere online for simple C++/C exercises at http://www.spoj.com/problems/classical/sort=0,start=0 which I practice Java on Sundays and C++ on Mondays.

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