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Objective

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.

Education

05/2006

08/2002

Cornell University: College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. in Computer Science, with concentrations in English and East Asian Studies

05/2002

08/1998

Tempe Preparatory Academy: Tempe, AZ
High School Diploma, graduating summa cum laude and salutatorian.

Technical Skills

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.

Language Skills

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.

Experience

01/2008

08/2006

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.

08/2005

05/2005

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.

09/2005

08/2003

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.

08/2004

05/2004

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.

08/2004

05/2004

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.

08/2003

05/2003

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.

Interests

Portfolio simulations (up 31% this fall!), electric guitar, recording, and music production, english literature or modern fiction, skiing and canada, chinese culture, history, people, and language, anything new.