EDUCATION:

Howard University, M.S. in Computer Science, December 1997, GPA: 3.57/4.0
Elizabeth City State University, B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, May 1996, GPA: 3.49/4.0

Tandem Computers, Cupertino, CA (06-97 - Present)
Summer Intern
Developping CGI/Perl programs to generate dynamic web pages.
Developed a 5000 lines of code database program with Perl.

McDonnell Douglas Aerospace and Howard University (5/96 - 5/97)
Research Assistant
Performed benchmark tests (Netperf, TTCP, DirectChannel) to illustrate the performance of the fibre channel cards on Silicon Graphic Indigo 2 under TCP/IP, UDP/IP and Direct Channel interface.
Developed test code to utilize the UMP(Unified Message Passing) protocol over the ethernet and fiber channel networks.

Institute for Multimedia Applications (08/96 - 5/97)
Lab Assistant
Created and managed file systems, user accounts.
Installed and managed NIS/NFS and other software for the network.
Upgrated SGI platforms(indy, Indigo2, Onyx, Challenge) from IRIX 5.3 to IRIX 6.2.
Constructed and tested 10BaseT ethernet cables.
Redesigned the web page for the Department of Systems and Computer Science,

NC-REN/NCIH Videoconference Center, Elizabeth City, NC. (8/95 - 1/96)
Assistant program coordinator, responsible for schedule and operating the Grass Valley Video Switcher which is used for computer generated graphics.
Responsible for operating the Macintosh performa 466 which controls the network.
Timing and white balancing all the camera equipment for proper video signals.

ECSU Student Support Services. (9/93 - 4/96)
Tutored fellow undergraduate students in math and computer science courses.

Computer Graphics/Virtual Reality Research Teams, ECSU. (1/95 - 5/95)
Defined scenes using the tools we built, and describe the surface details like shading and texturing using Renderman shader language.
Developed frames for animation by either moving part of the scene or moving the camera, and putting these frames together for playing.