Assistant Software

NOAH A. RAHMAN

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Unit C

Tigard, OR 97223

OBJECTIVE

To leverage my analytical skills in the support of disruptive research and education at the intersection of

software, mathematics, biology and energy.

SKILLSETS

C++, C, Java, Perl, PHP, Lua, Ruby (entry-level Rails),

HTML5, CSS, LAMP (mySQL, Apache)

MATLAB, Mathematica, Origin, Igor (Data analysis and modeling)

EDUCATION

Degree: Chemistry, Master of Science

University: University of California, Santa Barbara

Spring 2012

GPA: 3.44

Degree: Chemistry, Bachelor of Science

University: California Institute of Technology

Class of 2009

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT & RESPONSIBILITIES

Saltire Software - Tigard, OR Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

Software Developer - Responsible for testing and assurance of 25K line Lua script

User interface layout for widely used graphing calculator educational software - C, Ruby (esp. in build

system), Java, JNI, Swing, AWT

Heavy use of Ant and CVS

University of Pennsylvania - Dept. of Chemistry - Philadelphia, PA Jun 2011-Sep 2011

Visiting Research Assistant - Acquired experience with MPI (parallel compiler) and shell scripting

University of California, Santa Barbara - Dept. of Chemistry - Santa Barbara, CA

Research Assistant – Physical Chemistry Sep 2009 - Dec 2011

Teaching Assistant – General Chemistry Sep 2009 - Dec 2010

Quantum Mechanics Oct 2010/11-Dec 2010/11

California Institute of Technology - Department of Biology -Pasadena, CA Aug 2006 - May 2007

Work-Study Placement - Wrote an interface layer between ImageJ (open source Java) image processing

software and Zeiss microscope API for automated timeseries processing of zebrafish embryo images -

used PHP, Apache, Java, Subversion

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND AWARDS

Presentations- Sep 2009 – Present

Using symmetry to search for ferroelectric phases of perovskite sulfides

UCSB Chemistry and Biochemistry Research Seminar

November 2011

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Dye-Sensitized solar cells - (invited speaker)

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany December 2009

Awards- Mar 2005 – Present

Harry Gray Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (California Institute of Technology)

for inorganic synthesis w/ D.G. Nocera of MIT (now Harvard)

Summer 2008

Cambridge-Caltech exchange - St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

awarded to 10 students each year, on the basis of outstanding academic or research potential

October-December 2008

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