Overview
Biography
Projects
Blog
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Candidate for Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2010
Skills
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows XP / Vista, Mac OS X
Programming Languages: Java, C, Python, Scheme, JavaScript, ActionScript
Additional Working Knowledge: HTML, CSS, XML, XUL, PHP, MySQL
Relevant Coursework
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Computer Systems Engineering
  • Computation Structures
  • User Interface Design and Implementation
  • Laboratory in Software Engineering
    • Won Best Design Award
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • The Human Intelligence Enterprise
  • Machine Learning
  • Mathematics for Computer Science
  • Probabilistic Systems Analysis
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Work Experience
Mozilla Corporation
Mountain View, CA
Software Intern
June 2009 - August 2009
Worked with a small team developing Ubiquity, a natural language command-line interface to the web.
  • Wrote extensive code in Javascript for handling asynchronous information retrieval and storage
  • Led weekly meetings, while helping schedule releases and formulate objectives for the future
  • Developed several of the features seen in the current public release of Ubiquity
EMC Research China
Beijing, China
Software Intern
June 2008 - August 2008
Developed a framework for managing hard drive power consumption in virtual machine based environments aimed at conserving energy in web servers.
  • Produced a set of algorithms to be used at the kernel level of operating systems to decide when disk drives should transition between states
  • Wrote a server simulation in C and co-authored two research papers based on the proposed algorithms
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Arlington, VA
Software Intern
January 2008
Developed a set of pattern detection algorithms in Java used to discover uniquely networked structures of association.
  • Took the product from design to release over the course of a month
  • Recieved outstanding reviews from product managers and department heads within the company
MIT User Interface Design Group
Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Research
June 2007 - December 2007
Worked on a Firefox web browser extension known as Chickenfoot, which embeds a programming environment in the browser's sidebar so that the user can manipulate web pages and automate web browsing.
  • Made improvements to the extension's development environment and extended its capabilities
  • Worked on a seperate extension which displays a grid of headshot images within the compose window of an email client corresponding to the people to which the user is sending an email
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