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Nick Richter
1 West Shore Drive __Grayslake, Il. ____(224) 381-3915 [email protected]
SUMMARY
Adaptable, dependable and goal oriented software engineering intern with demonstrated expertise delivering project
results including a prize for team game design. Knowledgeable in completed computer science coursework as well as upper
level graduate courses. Objective is to secure a software engineering internship utilizing skills and education to gain hands-
on experience towards realizing career goal of serving a role in software development.
EDUCATION
University of Michigan College of Engineering, Ann Arbor Anticipated Graduation: May 2014
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Computer Science
Courses
General Calc I, Calc II, Calc III, Chemistry 125/126, Chemistry 130, Physics 140/141, Physics 240/241
ENGR 100 Introduction to Engineering
ENGR 101 Introduction to Computing
EECS 215 Introduction to Electrical Circuits
EECS 270 Introduction to Logical Design
EECS 280 Programming Elementary Data
EECS 281 Data Structures and Algorithms
TCHCLCM 300 Technical Communications EECS 370 Introduction to Computer Organization
EECS 376 Foundations of Computer Science
EECS 482 Operating Systems
EECS 484 Database Management
Projects
Game Developer - Volunteer Student Project, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
w Created a 20 level platform based game to help rehabilitate children with muscular dystrophy.
w Communicated closely and problem solved with a four person team of engineering students.
w Responsible for ensuring a uniform and realistic physics engine throughout the program.
w Communicated with client base of nurses to ensure product satisfaction.
Engineering Essentials
w Developed inventory management system with automatic restocking and intelligent cash management
functionality.
w Implemented basic physics engine to ensure theoretical safety in roller coaster design.
w Created a 'gene splicing' program to determine possible mutations or defects from parent genes.
w Wrote program to simulate a game of change and collect statistics across any desired amount of runs.
w Developed a program to read input data and store in an easily accessed structure. Allowed reordering and
grouping of any input data to a new container.
w Wrote image modification functions including a negative filter, a threshold filter, a mirror filter, a moving
average filter (Gaussian blur) and an edge detection filter (highlights edges, sets non edges to black).
w Developed a program that simulated a dynamic stock market.
w Created a program that calculates the actual net payment on a loan with variable input parameters.
w Created finite state machines and converted them in to code to simulate the machine.
Data Structures
wWrote recursive functions that operate on recursively-defined data structures and mathematical abstractions
w Created a program to model the board game 'Sorry!' for multiple simulated players. Created a structure to
hold a player's hand with corresponding functions to determine the best move for the player to make.
w Developed a blackjack simulator. Included dealer and player 'strategies' which behaved according to input.
w Designed a set of template container classes to simulate a doubly linked list. Implemented this structure to
create a Reverse-Polish Notation calculator and a 'Call center' that completed requests based on priority
w Wrote basic path finding with both a queue based and stack based method to ensure shortest path is found.
w Created a 'cheat checker' program that compared multiple files to search for lines that were similar.
Omitted lines that all had in common as lines of code supplied by an instructor or prompt. Created custom
implementations of unions, standard and N-way intersections, and Radix Sort to maintain data.
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w Developed a log managing system that enforced low runtime on complex functions. Allowed ranged searches
by any of the fields in a given log such as timestamp, entry number, or keyword. Also allowed lexicographic
sorting of the log and reordering of entries.
w Wrote path finding algorithms by implementing minimum spanning trees, the nearest neighbor method, and
other common Travelling Salesman Problem solutions. Ensured lowest run time for determining the solution.
Hardware Interfacing
w Programmed automated traffic light to respond to the number of cars at an intersection which ensured
standard operation of a stoplight. Output result to a circuit board's LED lights to visualize correctness.
w Programmed a circuit board to interface with a Super Nintendo controller. Read pulse signals from controller
and gave output on LED lights and hexadecimal displays. Used these pulse signals to generate 'Easter eggs'that could be read from a sequence of input from a user to output a message.
w Developed multiple programs including a program that swapped data from disk to memory and cache and vice
versa. Kept a bit to denote if data was dirty or not and would require a write on eviction from memory.
w Worked in a three person group to write a program to support multiple threads to run on multiple CPUs,
simulated by creating our own version of the thread library. Allowed for locking, yielding and waiting within
threads to properly test the threading.
w Implemented an external pager in a three man team, which managed virtual memory for application
processes. Handled address space creation, arena management, read and write faults, address space
destruction, and argument passing between address spaces.
w With a team of three engineering students, worked to implement a multi-threaded secure network file server.
Provided clients would interact with the file server via network messages. Ensured that a socket could be
established between machines. Utilized encryption to ensure basic security protocol, as well as a session and
sequence setup to protect against replay attacks.
Databases
w Set up the database structure for a social networking site spoofing Facebook. Created links between users who
were friends, users tagged in images, users attending events, and user information like location or education.
Populated tables to ensure relational data was correctly linked as a foreign key.
w Combined SQL searches with Java code to retrieve data from a mock Facebook database, and output the
resultant data. Searched for things like common names, towns and education. Also searched for people a user
may know based on being friends with someone they're friends with, people who had zero friends in common,
the oldest or youngest friend of a friend, and possible relatives based on shared last names.
w Optimized queries through the use of PostgreSQL to determine the quickest run times for various methods by
analyzing common join methods.
w Used a Minirel2k Processor to parse statements to simulate a small set of SQL operations. Wrote functions for
inserting data in to a table, selecting data by both scan and index selection method, and three different joinmethods selected in optimal order between simple nested loops, sort merge join and index nested loops.
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Languages
C++, Java, SQL, HTML, C, MATLAB
Software/Environments
Eclipse
Microsoft Office Suite
Mechanical Drawing Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Adobe Photoshop
Systems
Microsoft
Linux
WORK EXPERIENCE
Blue Marble, LLC 2011- 2012
Web Development Intern
Assisted in coding websites.
Byron Colby Barn at Prairie Crossing 2008 - 2010
Event Host
Prepared event area along and maintained facilities during and after each event.
Developed client relations to develop repeat business.
Handled problems and client emergencies during events.