Kathryn's Portfolio

Summary

A highly motivated application developer with a strong desire to create new and exciting web and mobile applications.

MS in Web Sciences - University of San Francisco (expected May 2010)

Bachelor's Degree in Genetics - UC Davis (2003)

Summer Enrichment Program Coordinator - University of San Francisco (Jan 2010-present)

Coordinating all efforts to successfully run the Summer Enrichment Program. This includes:
- Redesigning the website (http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~sep/) and flyers.
- Creating a skeleton application on both Google App Engine and Android as a basis for the student's coursework.

Research Assistant - University of San Francisco (June 2009-Sept 2009)

Helped develop the MRE, a communication framework for the Android phone.
The framework consists of the following features:
- Broadcast discovery to find peers.
- Communicator library acts as a bridge between discovery and the application.
- Application implements a Receiver class as a callback mechanism when data is received.
Implemented an application, Distributed Contact Search, to test the framework.
Also studied the effect of ultrapeer status on battery life of laptops participating in a P2P network.

Teaching Assistant - Summer Enrichment Program, University of San Francisco (Jun 2009)

Web Producer - Check Point Software Technologies (Apr 2008-Jan 2009)

Worked with the Applications team to update the JSP applications on the website (http://www.checkpoint.com).
Developed and updated web pages for the "About Us" section of the company website.
Achievement: Received a score of 5 on my performance review for my dedication to learning.

Intranet Associate - Check Point Software Technologies (Sept 2006-Apr 2008)

Maintained the materials on the company's Marketing intranet site.
Performed card sorting and other information architecture techniques to better organize the materials.

Data Management Associate - MedImmune Vaccines, Inc. (Jun 2004-Sept 2006)

Website Design Intern - UC Center for Animal Alternatives (Apr 2003-Jun 2003)

Developed a portion of the Center's website on service dogs (http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/service_dogs.html)..
Recently redesigned the pages using CSS (2007).
Achievement: My webpages were among the top-viewed pages on the Center's website.

Photo-bot - a photo sharing and editing web application (Feb 2010)

MRE Framework - a communication framework for mobile devices (Dec 2009)

Ported the Android MRE to the iPhone. (see Research Assistant position for more details regarding the MRE)
Utilized JmDNS for discovery on the Android phone.
Implemented 2 test applications: Distributed Contact Search and 8-puzzle.
Achievement: Successfully demonstrated the framework at the USF CS Department's Computer Science Night event.

SPAM Filter - a filter for classification of emails (Nov 2009)

Used Paul Graham's A Plan for Spam as the foundation for the algorithm.
Developed with python
Achievement: My spam filter was in the top 3 classifiers in my class, classifying emails with a higher F-measure than the rest.

INSync - a file sharing application (May 2009)

Application allows users to sync files with other devices, including Android devices.
Files can be downloaded or backed up to any device.
Login using Google AuthSub
Developed with Java, Restlet, jQuery, CSS, and HTML

Threads - an email client (Oct 2008)

MobiSys (Jun 2010)

Google I/O (May 2009, May 2010)

CRA-W Grad Cohort - presented a poster on my research (Apr 2010)

MentorNet - participating as a mentoree (Mar 2010-Dec 2010)

ACM Member (Feb 2010-present)

USF Women in Computer Science Club "CEO" (Sept 2009-present)

Girls In Tech (Sept 2009-present)