Education | Skills | Technical Experience | Honors | Publications | Leadership/Extracurricular Activities
Education
MS, Computer ScienceColumbia University School of Engineering, New York, NY, May 2005
BA, Computer Science/Spanish
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, May 2003 (Cum Laude)
Skills
An organized and self-motivated team player with experience in the following areas:Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, OpenGL, IDL, SQL, PostgreSQL
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, and Unix
Applications: Microsoft Suite, GoLive, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, HTML, PHP, JSP, Javascript, and Photoshop
Languages: Working knowledge of Spanish
Technical Experience
| July 2005 - present | Technical Staff Member Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM |
| Summer 2004 | Web Technician Columbia University School of Public Health, NY, NY Enhanced/updated website for Student Affairs. Maintained Career Services database. |
| Summer 2004 | Research Assistant Los Alamos National Laboratory - Los Alamos, NM Developed software in C to monitor data from a serial radiation detector and ported to a network of Linux PDA devices. |
| Sept 2003 Jan 2004 | Technical Assistant/Webmaster Columbia University Slavic Department New York, NY Maintained website. Developed new web layout to enhance appearance. |
| Summer 2003 | Research Assistant Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM Built a PostgreSQL database to consolidate a massive amount of text files. Produced an intuitive and user friendly IDL graphical user. Documented code and created a manual defining program use. |
| Aug 2000 May 2003 | Assistant Webmaster Wofford College - Spartanburg, SC Maintained department website. Created and restructured sites to provide online class material. |
| Aug 2000 - May 2003 | IT Assistant Wofford College Mellon Cadre Program Developed websites for faculty members and staff. Assisted with campus-wide IT projects. |
| Aug 2000 - May 2003 | Lab Manager/Technical Consultant Wofford College Foreign Language Multimedia Lab Scheduled, trained, and supervised lab employees. Provided technical. |
| Summer 2002 | Research Assistant Computing Research Association Duke University, Durham, NC Participated in Distributed Mentor Program with Duke professor and student. Enhanced and re-documented JAWAA software. Released new version. Created website documenting work. |
| Summer 2001 | Research Assistant Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA Joined with University of Oklahoma professor and student to modify code of cognitive assessment task battery. Enhanced code to be adaptive to users performance. Presented final results of work. |
Honors
Gates Millennium Scholarship Recipient, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish National Honor Society) member, Wofford College Computer Science Departmental Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory Nonproliferation & International Security Division Scholarship Recipient
Publications
Mielke, A., Jackson, D., Brennan, S.M., Smith, M.C., Torney, D.C., Maccabe, A.B. and Karlin, J.F., Radiation Detection with Distributed Sensor Networks, SPIE Defense and Security Proceedings 2005 
Akingbade, A., Finley, T., Jackson, D., Patel, P., Rodger, S.H., JAWAA: Easy Web-Based Animation from CS 0 to Advanced CS Courses, Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2003
Leadership/Extracurricular Activities
| Mentor | Big Brother, Big Sister: 2006-present | |
| Webmaster | Association of African-American Diversity Working Group (LANL): 2005-present Student Programs & Advisory Council: 2006-present |
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| Vice President | National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE): 2006 - present Association of African American Students: 2000 - 2002 Association of Computing Machinery: 2000 - 2001 |
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| Team Leader | Wofford College Transitions Program: 2000 - 2003 | |
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