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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Masters in Human-Computer Interaction
Expected graduation, August 2006
Cumulative GPA: 3.92/4.0 |
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University of Washington, Seattle, WA
M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
Graduated, March 2005
Cumulative GPA: 3.84/4.0 |
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Business Administration
Graduated with University Honors, May 2000
Cumulative GPA: 3.60/4.0, Major GPA: 3.52/4.0
Dean’s List for School of Computer Science, Fall 1998 & Fall 1997 |
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Software Design Engineer
Office Division, Microsoft Corporation
June 2001 – August 2005 |
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Designed and implemented various features for a server application that serves HTML to web browsers |
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Designed and implemented various features for a client application |
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Designed and implemented various UI components, including dialogs |
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Software Design Engineer in Test
Subscription Services Division, Microsoft Corporation
June 2000 – June 2001 |
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Designed and implemented automated tests of a fundamental object model component |
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Software Developer
Chemistry Department, Carnegie Mellon University
April 1998 – May 2000 |
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Assisted in development of virtual chemistry lab written in Java using Swing and JDBC |
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Web Application Developer
GPU Service, Inc., Reading, PA
May 1997 – August 1997, December 1997 – January 1998 |
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Developed web front-ends to databases using C++ and ASP |
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SKILLS & TECHNIQUES |
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Contextual Inquiry
Contextual Design
Directed Storytelling
Affinity Diagramming
Personas
Wireframing
Card sorting |
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Think-Aloud
Heuristic Evaluation
Cognitive Walkthrough
KLM & GOMS
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Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe GoLive
Macromedia Flash |
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Windows 2k3/XP/2k
UNIX
Mac |
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AJAX
ASP.NET
XML
XML Schemas
COM
ASP |
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C#
Java
C/C++
JavaScript
VBScript
SQL
XPath
XSLT
XQuery |
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