Chicago, IL *****
EDUARDO BERROCAL
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EDUCATION
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL
M.S., Computer Science, December 2009 (joint degree w/ Madrid Polytechnic), GPA: 3.59/4.0
Madrid Polytechnic (UPM), Madrid, Spain
Computer Engineer December 2009
• Award Second of my class (380 students).
• Scholarship for high achievement from the State of Madrid (Spain). 4,500 €. 2004-2005.
• Scholarship from Vodafone to earn a master s degree in the United States of America and Canada. $7,500.
EXPERIENCE
Full Time, Applications Programmer, Human Genetics Department (University Of Chicago). May 2009 – Present
• Design and implementation of an interactive interface to visualize genomic information on the web using CSS and javascript (involving Ajax and jQuery).
• Design and implementation of a web-based system’s backend using RESTful services programmed in Java.
• Database schema design using MySQL.
• Collaborated in small programming projects for scientists using Python, Perl and C.
Internship, Madrid Super Computation and Visualization Center (CESVIMA). October 2006-December 2007
• Worked in the visualization area of the Blue Brain Project to produce software to visualize the state of the neurons. Used technologies such as C and POV-Ray to generate images by ray tracing.
• Lab’s server administrator. For some time I was responsible of installing new software, registering new users and making sure the lab’s server was working properly. I learned how to administer a GNU/Linux machine in a shared local network.
SKILLS
• Computer Languages: JAVA, C, Perl, Python and Ruby on Rails.
• Web: JavaScript (jQuery, Ajax), HTML, PHP and CSS.
• Programming environments: Eclipse, Maven, SVN, Trac.
• Operating Systems: UNIX Operating Systems (Mac, GNU/Linux), Windows.
• Relational Data Bases: MySQL.
• Bilingual English-Spanish