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Bio

I am currently the  President of the Entrepreneurship Club at Georgia Tech. I have extensive experience in project management and software engineering. I am interested in international affairs, business, travel and sports.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology     Atlanta, GA                  Fall 2001 - May 2004                                 Candidate B.S. in Computer Science & candidate Minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship.

Kennesaw State University            Kennesaw, GA                Fall 1999 - summer 2001                           Candidate B.S. in Computer Science.

Employment

www.SmartITConsulting.com                         Roswell, GA                02/2002 – 05/2002              

President                                                                                                                              

Managed website projects, developed and designed websites.

1)    Georgia Institute of Technology www.cc.gatech.edu: Consulting work in redesigning the            College of Computing Website.

1)       www.mcycles.com: Worked on HTML, forms, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Microsoft      Front Page, Macromedia Ultradev, and build a M.S. Access Database to track customer information.

 

IBM, Software Group www.IBM.com               Raleigh, NC                 05/2002 – 08/2002    Software Engineer Summer Internship                                                                        Websphere Communication, Host Access Client Development: C/C++ Windows GUI Development.     Build an HTML website for tracking defects and tested accessibility and usability in PCOMM and          API Testing. Wrote java API Test case for a badge reader.

Coop Team Lead: Organized and planned a Coop Team presentation and Skit/Play for IBM’s       Second Line Managers that was for 90 min and consisted of a total of 15 coops and interns.

 

Synchrologic Inc www.synchrologic.com       Alpharetta, GA            01/2002 – 05/2002

Software Engineer Coop

Tested the DataSync product, mostly worked with Database testing: M.S. Access, SQL Server          and Sybase. Wrote test cases and automated tests.

ASP, JavaScript and VB Script web development: fixed usability and functional defects.

 

Six Flags Over Georgia www.sixflags.com       Austell, GA                   04/2001 – 11/2002

POS Tech Coop

Provided Technical Support for the POS software and IBM POS hardware in the park.

Provided help desk support, A+  hardware, and networking: Novell 2001, Windows NT 4.0,          Windows 2000, trouble shoot hubs and install networked workstations.

Worked on the company’s corporate Intranet (M.S. Access and Macromedia Ultradev).

 

More about me

  • My primary interest lies in Databases and Web Services.