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Work Experience:

            Greenbeacon Solutions Watertown, Ma

                Consultant May 2004 – August 2007

Customize each of the 3-tiers of Onyx: XML/com, SQL, ASP layers; Designed and implemented
various
.NET based windows application that integrate with Onyx to perform user initiated imports.
Created system integration points between multiple systems on-site and off-site via SQL andVB/COM+

Concentra Integrated Services Waltham, Ma

Technical Assistant for Client Services May 2003 – May 2004

Project Manager for client based extranet site creation; Redesigned internal application documentation
template
for Application Deployment Process(ADP); Completed ADP documentation for various
internal
applications; Researched and assisted in development for streamlining ADP documentation
into
a web-based solution using ASP.NET

Brandeis University Waltham, Ma

Researcher/Writer Summer 2001

Investigated new approaches to lossless dictionary-based encoding of text files, resulting in published

paper presented at poster session at Data Compression Conference 2002.

Published Works:

               “A Character Elimination Algorithm for Lossless Data Compression”
Data Compression Conference Proceedings 2002

Skills:

• Programming Languages: C#.NET 1.1, Javascript, VBscript, vb6 COM, T-SQL, ASP, HTML, Java

• Applications: Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, SQL Server Enterprise Manager

• Spoken Languages: intermediate Japanese (JLPT level 3 certified in 2003)

Education:

            The Yamasa Institute: Okazaki, Japan
            AIJP Acceleration Program Sep 2007-Oct 2008
            13 month intensive Japanese study

            AIJP Acceleration Program July-Nov 2006
            4 month intensive Japanese study

International
Academy of Youth: Sapporo , Japan
            Short Program, September 2003
            4 week intensive Japanese study with home-stay

Brandeis University : Waltham, Massachusetts
            Master of Arts in Computer Science, 2002-2003

IES Tokyo : Tokyo, Japan
Summer Program, June – Aug. 2002
6 week intensive study of Japanese with home-stay

Brandeis University : Waltham, Massachusetts
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors, 1999-2002
Honors Thesis: “A Lossless Data Compression Algorithm for EKGs”

Courses Include: Analog & Digital Electronics; Computer Graphics; Data Compression; Database Systems; Interface Design; Machine Learning; Streaming Database Systems

Coursework Includes: Simulating a file system’s disk and cache I/O, Java 2D based shooter game, Using a neural network to design a better poker player, Groupware for a shared planning system, Completely redesign of TiVO, Lossless text compressor (led to research internship and published paper)

Interests:

            Snowboarding, Multimedia editing, Subtitling, Translation, Photography