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To leverage my IT skills in a finance-oriented environment and learn more about financial products and services. Interested in opportunities to improve spoken Mandarin Chinese.
Cornell University: College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. in Computer Science, with concentrations in English
and East Asian Studies
Tempe Preparatory Academy: Tempe, AZ
High School Diploma, graduating summa cum laude and
salutatorian.
OS: Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows. ProgrammingLanguage: C, C++, C#, Java, J2EE, SML/NJ. ScriptingLanguage: Matlab, Perl, Shell, PHP. DB: dBase, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, (T)SQL. CompilerTheory: lexers, parsers, compilers, translators, simulators, optimizing compilers. CompilerTools: CAST, CUP, JFlex. CompilerArchitecture: MIPS, x86. Web: AJAX, CSS, Flash, Javascript, Photoshop, RSS, Wordpress, (X)HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPATH.
English: An excellent command of English. Spanish: Intermediate ability in Spanish and classical Spanish. Chinese: Beginner's knowledge of written and spoken Mandarin Chinese (中文). Latin: Formerly classically trained in Latin grammar and reading. General: A strong interest in linguistics, language, semantics, etymology, grammar, and the evolution of language and dialect.
Associate:
Morgan Stanley, Enterprise Applications Systems
Management
Designed, implemented, and maintained high-volume alert
management and metrics reporting systems
enterprise-wide. Improved performance and stability. Trained in
IT, proprietary technologies, and finance.
SDE Intern: Amazon.com, Procurement Workflow
Scoped, designed, implemented, and deployed a large
metrics project. Modeled high-volume logical and
physical Oracle databases. Delivered an ETL demon, the
database instance, and a fault-tolerant metrics web
service. Created cost-savings reports and perl scripts
that demonstrate Supply Chain software efficiency.
Teaching Assistant (AI): Cornell University, Department of CS
Instructed object oriented programming (OOP) and Java
language fundamentals in section class and office hours.
Proctored, wrote, and graded examinations and
assignments. Utilized automated solutions to strictly
enforce academic integrity.
Production Assistant: Cornell University, CIT
Completed more than a dozen Faculty Innovation Grants
projects. Employed W3C valid CSS, (X)HTML, and XML with
database-driven interfaces in PHP, MySQL, and Zope.
Designed thin-client browser interfaces in Flash.
Applications Programmer: Cornell University, Olin Library
Wrote PHP, SQL queries, and regular expressions to
synchronize databases, perform intelligent searches, and
customize a 30,000 line open-source project. Created a
custom web-proxy to the Library gateway.
Database Programmer: Arizona State University, AFDP
Implemented a modern relational database upgrade by
migrating old 16-bit dBase code to the latest version,
normalizing database tables, writing queries, and
creating an extensive GUI. Optimized run and start
times.