Chris Whitney
                                                                   521 Anza St
                                                       Mountain View, CA 94041
                                                       	      crwhitney@me.com
                                              
Profile
	I am interested in working with people whose intellect, creativity, and passion drives me to never stop learning, to never stop stressing over details, and to never stop being inspired by conversations with my peers.
 		  
Education
    * B.S., Electrical Engineering, June 2009
	  Computer Architecture and Software Systems Depth Field
      University of California, San Diego
      GPA: 3.34

Experience
    * Microsoft Office Labs [1] - Redmond, WA
      Software Development Engineer Intern, Summer 2008
            
            - Concept testing related to email ranking and filtering
            
            - One of two primary developers on the project
            
            - Learned Windows application development (C#, Windows Forms, TFS, SQL Server)
    
    
    * Google Summer of Code [2] - San Diego, CA
      JTileCache Developer                                         Summer 2007
            
            - Created JTileCache, an open-source Web Map Service (WMS) raster image cache implemented as a Java servlet
            
            - Benchmarked against competitors and focused on delivering fast responses times despite large datasets
            
            - Presented at the Google booth and demo theater during the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSS4G 2007)
            
            (The project was taken over by The Open Planning Project, greatly improved, and renamed GeoWebCache [3])
            
    
    * NASA ISS EarthKAM [4] - San Diego, CA
      Software Team Lead                            September 2006 - June 2008
      Orbits Team Lead                           September 2006 - October 2007
      Software Engineer                                            Summer 2006
            
            - Managed a small team of undergraduate software developers
            
            - Recruited and interviewed perspective engineering hires
            
            - Lead a team responsible for generating International Space Station flight paths and ephemeris
            
            - Designed a new, cross-platform software infrastructure for photo request processing
            
            - Developed database schemas, Java web applications, and in-house GIS libraries
            
            - Maintained and improved existing C, C++, and Perl code
    
    
Activities
    * Sixth College Student Council - San Diego, CA
      Webmaster                                                      2006-2007
            
            - Added dynamic features-- a meeting notes archive and user submitted funding requests-- to an existing PHP site
    
    * FIRST Robotics Team 691 HartBurn - Santa Clarita, CA
            - Designed and machined a robotic arm which was recognized with a Xerox Creativity Award
            
            - Built a custom content management system (a naive failure)
            
Awards
    * BAE Systems Scholarship                                        2008-2009
    * 5th, UCSD Programming Contest                                Spring 2008
    * 4th, Programming C++, FBLA Nationals                                2005
    * Eagle Scout                                                         2005

[1] http://www.officelabs.com
[2] http://code.google.com/soc/2007
[3] http://geowebcache.org
[4] http://earthkam.ucsd.edu

Personal Website: http://cwsquared.net