Bill Presant
**** ******* ****** *** *****, CA **109
Cell: 408-***-**** acxjuy@r.postjobfree.com
Experience
*/**** – present MadCap Software San Diego, CA
Software Engineer
Works with a team of developers in a C#/.NET Windows environment, releasing industry-leading software for technical content creation and single-source publishing
Implements both server- and client-side functionality for an upcoming Cloud-based project management utility (MadCap Central)
Helped build Central from its initial design phase to its first Beta release
Creates features for Computer Aided Translation [CAT] products (MadCap Lingo)
Specializes in cross-product development; added new multilingual functionality to MadCap Flare by integrating features of Lingo
Facilitated the company’s acquisition of rival Doc-To-Help by building new translation tools for native Doc-To-Help file formats
Was named lead developer for MadCap’s image-editing software (MadCap Capture) within first 6 months with the company
Handles more products across the MadCap suite than any other junior engineer
3/2013 – 12/2013 UCSD Computational Psycholinguistics Lab San Diego, CA
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Conducted eye-tracking experiment trials and discussed new research
Wrote Python scripts and tagged linguistic data for ongoing projects
Skills
Programming Languages: C#, AngularJS, C/C++, Python, Java, SPARC assembly
Technical Tools: .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, RESTful APIs, EntityFramework,
HTML/CSS/LESS, KendoUI, XLIFF, WPF/XAML, Aspose, TFS
Natural Languages: Fluent in Spanish (written and verbal)
Education
2009 – 2013 University of California, San Diego Cumulative GPA: 3.98
B.A. Spanish Literature
Minors: Computer Science, Psychology
Sample Coursework: Software Engineering, Advanced Data Structures, Parallel Computing,
Computational Psycholinguistics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of California Regents Scholar,
Friedman Arts and Humanities Award
2011 – 2012 Complutense University of Madrid
Studied abroad in a year-long immersion program
Independent Study
UCSD Extension Automata and Computability Theory [CSE 105]
Coursera Machine Learning [Stanford]
Bioinformatics Algorithms (1 & 2) [UC San Diego] – Certificate with Distinction
Introduction to Natural Language Processing [Michigan] – Certificate with Distinction