Michael Whidby

• Master's in Computer Science
• GPA: 3.5
• Courses Taken: Computational Linguistics I, Program Analysis and Understanding, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization
• Expected Completion: May 2012

• Major: Computer Science
• Minor: Cognitive Science
• GPA: 3.32
• Degree Received: December 2009
• Relevant Electives: Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Innovating in Technology, Cognitive Processes, Intro to Cognitive Science, Computer Security, Independent Research

Research Assistant - iOpener/ASE

• Working on multi-document summarization of scientific articles. Researching effective ways of compressing citation sentences to create better citation sentence candidates for selection in a multi-document summary.
• Reviewer for ACL-HLT 2011 Summarization Workshop.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Created Ning social network site to be used for collaboration between research faculty and other collaborators . Coded CSS to match the look and feel of the IntelliMedia website.
• Prototyped a teacher dashboard where teachers can view student's progress and various statistics as they play through an educational game.

CSC 499 Independent Research

• Real-time open-source recommendation decision engine using Python, Tornado, and MySQL
• Created open-source black box testing script in Python, that , given an input XML file with a set of test cases with requirements and specifications, makes HTTP requests and compares the output against expected results.
• Authored wiki with documentation, installation instructions, and usage.

NCSU Senior Design Project

• Web application for college recruiting that utilizes social networking principles using C#/ASP.NET with MySQL
• Authored extensive requirements document with 18 use cases
• Personally implemented 4 use cases, with 80% NUnit test coverage on all relevant non-UI classes
• Co-authored Development Environment Setup Guide, Black Box Test Plan, Coding Conventions, and Developer and User Guides

Software Engineer Co-op, NetView for z/OS

• Created full-featured Twitter widget following IBM's iWidget standard. Widget also implements eventing with other widgets, allowing status updates to be populated by other widgets. Twitter widget was demoed at IBM Pulse 2010.
• Implemented NetView version of REST provider to feed information into Tivoli's Common Topology team's topology widget. Made several tweaks to topology widget's source code to produce behavior required by NetView.
• Designed and implemented navigation tree widget (NetView Navigator) using Dojo.Tree that was populated by live data from NetView machines. Clicking on a node in the tree fired a widget event that could be used to update other widgets. Converted widget to an iWidget to enable deployment into TIP and Mashup Center environments.
• Designed and implemented dashboard proof-of-concept that included Common Topology's topology widget, NetView Navigator, and several dojox.AnalogGauge's. Implemented eventing such that clicking on a node in topology would update the other widgets, as would clicking a node in the NetView Navigator. Proof-of-concept is being used to demonstrate eventing and CSS for creating a dashboard to other developers. Also packaged dashboard as an iWidget for deployment into TIP and Mashup Center.

Software Engineer Co-op, WebSphere Portal

• Filed four patent applications (one published internally, three approvals pending)
• Created example sites using WebSphere Portal's Web Content Management, and documented procedures used to help serve as tutorial and illustrated value to customers and coworkers
• Resolved five defects of varying severity levels, on backend and frontend code

Software Engineer Co-op, ITCAM for SOA

• Designed and developed new, UI-driven application that generated traffic through WebSphere Application Server, Data Power, Message Broker, and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus using self-authored web services; Demoed application to 2nd and 3rd-line managers; Application is used for testing and in demoes to clients
• Completed Build Verification Tests on Windows 2000, AIX, and Solaris to ensure weekly builds were stable for use in testing
• Founded a Co-op Tennis club where co-ops could meet and play tennis

Helpdesk Consultant

• Customer service and technical support, hardware troubleshooting, Novell client, Windows XP/software installs, Oracle Calendar, Office 2000 applications, and printer support for the CALS Administrative staff at NCSU.

CSC 116 Lab TA

• Taught introductory Java lab, where students program to reinforce concepts learned in class
• Tutored students, graded and debugged programs.