Steve Nguyen

Current:                                                                                                                                                                                                Permanent:             

3800 Parkview Ln. Apt. 26C                                                                                                                                                               14915 Doty Avenue

Irvine, CA 92612                                                                                                                                                                                 Hawthorne, CA 90250

(949) 726-9325                                                                                                                                                                                   (310) 644-7672 

email: nghian@uci.edu

 

CAREER               Obtain an entry-level position or in the field of software development.

OBJECTIVE        

 

EDUCATION        UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Irvine, CA

                                Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer Science.  Graduation June 2000.

               

COMPUTER         Programming Languages:                   Operating Systems:

SKILLS                 C++             HTML                                Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0

                                Java                                                        Mac OS ver 7.x, 8.x

                                UML

                                                                                                                                               

Applications:

                                Microsoft Visual C++                           Symantec’s Visual Cafe

                                Borland C++                                          ClarisWorks

                                CodeWarrior C++                                 Adobe PhotoShop

Microsoft Office 97, 2000                    Norton’s Ghost 5.1

                                                 

EMPLOYMENT

Zenographics – Irvine, CA               March 1999 November 1999                            

·         Developed test matrices and procedures for QA testing.

·         Performed benchmark testing on Zenographics and competitors’ printer drivers.

·         Formatted and installed various operating systems on networked computers.

Ingram Micro – Santa Ana, CA       December 1998 – January 1999

·         Performed black box testing of company’s websites on the Internet.

·         Logged errors that have been detected into a database.

Kaplan – Costa Mesa, CA                 October 1998 – December 1998

·         Assisted students

·         Proctored examinations

Jamba Juice  Irvine, CA     November 1997 – November 1998 

·         Cashier

·         Juice preparation

 

COURSE WORK

Software Engineering: Learned the concepts, methods, and current practices of software engineering.  Designed and implemented an automated substitute scheduling program using Java.

Software Tools and Methods: Learned concepts and techniques of constructing software in a systematic fashion using detailed designs and specifications, various development tools, and object oriented design and analysis with UML.

Computer Networks: Learned the concepts of computer network architectures, the layering of communication protocols, and the function(s) of each layer.  Performed an evaluation of the efficiency of coaxial cable versus twisted pair cable through switched and shared Ethernet. 

Computer Graphics: Learned the concepts and techniques of computer animation.  Developed animated programs using OpenGL APIs in C++.

Organizational Information Systems: Performed a self-analysis of UC Irvine OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogs) systems that included Antpac and Melvyl to determine the systems’ effectiveness and feasibility and provided recommendations for improvements on the systems based on the analysis.