Experience
Math Teaching Assistant at UCSC [12/2007-4/2008]
-Served as teaching assistant for Calculus and Matlab programming for differenti
al equations.
-Prepared discussion material, go over lecture material, grading exams, and held
office hours.
Software Engineer at Beckman Coulter [6/2005-7/2006]
-Found errors persistently on a large biomedical software project and submitted
error reports to the official website, thus reducing time/effort/cost on debuggi
ng after the software is released to clinical agencies.
-Wrote SQL queries to access data on the software database.
-Configured client nodes to connect with SQL database server on a LAN network fo
r software testing.
-Debugged a module/function in the instrument software simulator written in Visu
al Basic.
-Configured biomedical instruments to connect with the software for proper funct
ioning.
-Reimaged and repartition disks space for proper installation of the software.
-Wrote an elaborate protocol on diluting samples and testing them on the softwar
e with other team members.
-Performed data analysis on error reports and wrote summaries of them.
-Isolated and reproduced software defects using ad hoc and computational testing
methodologies.
-Power Point presentation to systems validation group on certain critical error
reports.
Programmer/Researcher at CSUSB [4/2002-12/2003]
-Designed and implemented a large software metrics program in C++, using STL, va
rious search techniques and recursion to understand coding and design efficiency
in object oriented languages.
-Translated a large software project from Lisp into C++.
Education
Curriculum Graduate Studies in Applied Math, at University of California, at Sa
nta Cruz [12/2007- 4/2008]
B.S. Applied Ecology (joint with Biology program), at University of California,
Irvine [9/1994-6/1998]
Awards: NSF MII Stipend
NSF CSEMS Scholarship
Languages: read and write Cantonese (conversational Mandarin)
also took 4 years of High School Spanish