Objective
I am currently a senior at Westmont College studying for a major in computer science. I am also minoring in French. I am interested in exploring different fields within computer science to determine the direction of my career.

Experience
Research_________________________________________________Summer 2009
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

• Ran performance testing on a distributed system
• Increased the robustness and efficiency of an existing C++ program
• Coauthored a paper with a professor
• Presented the paper at the IASTED 2009 conference in Cambridge, MA

• Tutored several students with homework and projects in the first computer science introduction course which uses PLT Scheme
• Graded homework and projects for the second computer science introduction course which uses C++

• Implemented a security layer on an existing communication protocol
• Used C and C++ to program
• Coauthored a paper with a professor and other students
• Presented the paper at the '08 World Comp Conference in Las Vegas

• Read books to children and helped them read
• Assisted in updating the library catalog
• Helped manage the summer reading program
• Organized and shelved books and magazines

Education
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA_____________________________2006-2010

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (in progress)
• Minor in French (in progress)
• Computer Science Classes:

• CS010: Introduction to Computer Science I
• CS030: Introduction to Computer Science II
• CS050: Information and Computation: History and Ethics
• CS120: Data Structures and Algorithms
• CS116: Artificial Intelligence
• CS120: Data Structures and Algorithms
• CS150: Machine Learning
• CS045: Computer Organization and Architecture
• CS105: Programming Languages
• CS150: Distributed Systems

Activities
• Roller hockey/roller blading
• Reading fantasy
• Playing video game

Last updated: 2/23/10