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<resume name="Jeffrey Yasskin">
  <email>jyasskin@mail.utexas.edu</email>
  <address type="local">
    <street>900 Olive St.</street>
    <city>Austin</city>
    <state>TX</state>
    <zip>78702</zip>
    <phone type="cell">979-575-4530</phone>
    <phone type="home">512-472-3324</phone>
  </address>
  <address type="permanent">
    <street>2901 Jennifer Dr.</street>
    <city>College Station</city>
    <state>TX</state>
    <zip>77845</zip>
    <phone>(979)696-6661</phone>
  </address>

  <section title="Objective">
    To write open source software that solves interesting problems using powerful languages.
  </section>

  <section title="Education">
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      A&M Consolidated High School, 1801 Harvey Mitchell Parkway, College Station, TX 77840
      GPA: ??
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      <tr><td colspan="2">The University of Texas at Austin</td></tr>
      <tr><td>B.S. in Computer Science</td><td>B.A. in Plan II</td></tr>
      <tr><td>May 2005</td><td>GPA: 3.91 / 4.0</td></tr>
    </table>
  </section>

  <section title="Skills">
    <area name="Preferred Programming Languages">C++, Python, Haskell, XSLT, Lisp/Scheme</area>
    <area name="Other Programming Languages">Java, Perl, Bash, LabVIEW, C#, Visual Basic, Maple, ASP, SQL, XML, HTML</area>
    <area name="Operating Systems">Linux; Mac OS X; Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP</area>
    <area name="GUI Frameworks">Gtk, Gtkmm, Swing, MFC</area>
    <area name="Certifications">A+, MCSD</area>
    <area name="Natural Languages">Four years high school Spanish, Two semesters college Japanese</area>
  </section>

  <section title="Experience">
    <job>
      <employer>Google</employer>
      <date>August 15 2005 - Present</date>
      <title>Software Engineer</title>
      <pay>$83000/year</pay>
      <mentor>Sean Knapp</mentor>
      <supervisor>Ben Smith</supervisor>
    </job>
    <job>
      <employer>IBM Extreme Blue</employer>
      <date>June 2004 - August 2004</date>
      <title>Technical Intern</title>
      <pay>$21.75/hr</pay>
      <mentor>Jeremy Redburn</mentor>
      <mentor>Alyssa Wolf</mentor>
      <supervisor>Karen Picone</supervisor>
      <description>
	<item>Designed a grid provisioning solution based on package management</item>
	<item>Implemented a prototype of this solution</item>
      </description>
    </job>
    <job>
      <employer>National Instruments</employer>
      <date>May 2003 - August 2003</date>
      <title>Intern</title>
      <pay>$17/hr</pay>
      <mentor>John Field</mentor>
      <supervisor>Brian Powell</supervisor>
      <description>
	<item>Improved the configurable key navigation in LabVIEW Virtual Instruments</item>
	<item>Wrote a C++ library to read and write TEDS (Smart Sensor) data</item>
	<item>Wrote a Virtual Instrument to get a reference to an arbitrary subVI.</item>
      </description>
    </job>
    <job>
      <employer>The University of Texas at Austin Phylogenetics Lab</employer>
      <date>May 2002-January 2003</date>
      <title>Undergraduate Research Assistant</title>
      <description>
	<item>Researched the disk covering method of reconstructing phylogenetic trees.</item>
	<item>Refactored code to reduce a 700-line main() function to 200 lines by replacing procedural code with polymorphism and inheritance.</item>
      </description>
    </job>

    <job>
      <employer>Texas A&amp;M Oceanography Department</employer>
      <date>August 2002</date>
      <title>Consultant</title>
      <pay>$18/hr</pay>
      <description>
	<item>Accurately estimated and implemented a data processing application in FORTRAN.</item>
	<item>Learned enough FORTRAN in 3 days to complete project.</item>
      </description>
    </job>

    <job>
      <employer>Applied Computing Services, Bryan, TX</employer>
      <date>June 2000-August 2001</date>
      <title>Developer</title>
      <pay>$12/hr non-billable; 20% billable</pay>
      <description>
	<item>Learned Visual Basic in the week before starting.</item>
	<item>Developed Database Management Systems using VB on SQL Server.</item>
	<item>Wrote reports using Crystal Reports.</item>
	<item>Helped network administrator with troubleshooting in the office and at clients' sites.</item>
      </description>
    </job>

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      <employer>Texas A&amp;M University Chemistry Lab</employer>
      <date>Summer 1999</date>
      <title>Lab Assistant</title>
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	<item>Filled liquid nitrogen dewars</item>
      </description>
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  </section>

  <section title="Activities">
    <activity>1st Place Team at 2002 and 2003 ACM Regionals</activity>
    <activity>21st Place Team at 2003 and 27th place team at 2004 ACM World Finals</activity>
    <!-- <activity>2nd Place Individual on the 2001 UT Bennett Math Exam</activity>
	 <activity>10 points on 2001 Putnam Mathematics Exam</activity>
	 <activity>Topcoder: Rating 1682; Rank 224</activity>-->
    <activity>ACM Officer, 2003-2005</activity>
    <activity>Visited local middle school to teach Lego Mindstorms as part of ACM Outreach</activity>
    <activity>Council Member, Dean's Scholars, 2002-2003</activity>
  </section>

  <section title="Projects">
    <project>Rhythmbox, an integrated music management application, inspired by iTunes. See http://rhythmbox.org/</project>
    <!--<project>Plato, a sentential logic proof editor in C++ using Gtkmm and the STL.</project>-->
  </section>

  <section title="Coursework">
    <class>Compilers</class>
    <class>Networks</class>
    <class>Computer Architecture</class>
    <class>Automata Theory</class>
    <class>Data Management</class>
    <class>Operating Systems</class>
    <class>Information Retrieval</class>
    <class>Programming Languages</class>
  </section>
</resume>
