Cornell University, College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Concentration in Linguistics
Cumulative GPA: 3.35. Major GPA: 3.72.
Spring 2003
EMPLOYMENT
Software Development Intern Speechworks, Inc., Ithaca, NY
Developed & maintained debugging and performance analysis
programs for a speech synthesis system.
Developed phoneme-maximization program to reduce a set of
150,000 sentences to under 5,000 for recording.
Assisted in merge of rule-based synthesis system and
concatenative system.
Summer 2001
Software Developer QuickBase.com, Acton, MA
Worked on primary codebase for Web-based database software.
Fulfilled customer feature requests, responded to bug
reports, and improved performance.
Part of a fast moving two-developer team.
Summer 1999
Computer Lab Intern GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA
Developed web-based lab status system to track resource
usage by project teams.
Maintained 135 Solaris and SunOS machines and installed OS
software.
Summer 1998
Computer Repair Specialist Self-employed, Acton, MA
Repaired and maintained personal computers for individuals.
Installed hardware and software on 15 IBM PC and Apple
Macintosh machines.
Summer 1997
Computer Lab Operator Merriam Elementary School, Acton, MA
Assisted 20 1st-5th grade students
in an afterschool program to use Apple Macintosh computers
for research and educational games.
Spring 1996, 1997
ACTIVITIES
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest:
Won first and second place in two local contests, first
place at regionals on a three-person team, and went to
world finals on a three-person team.
Newview Cohousing: Helped to build a 24-household Ethernet
network for shared high-speed Internet access.
SKILLS
GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, SunOS, other UNIX operating systems,
Windows 95/98, Windows NT, C, C++, GNU gcc, Microsoft Visual Studio,
Perl, Tcl, Java, Scheme, Bourne Shell, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CGI,
CVS, SourceSafe, Emacs, vi, TCP/IP.