Jacob S. Hoffman-Andrews

http://jacob.hoffman-andrews.com/resume.html
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
(978) 844-0409


EDUCATION     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.

REFERENCES Available upon request