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William Holtkamp
Holtkampw [at] Gmail [dot] com

Objective

A position allowing me to further my knowledge in Computer Science while working to obtain corporate goals.

Education

University of Houston-Downtown
B.S. in Computer Science
GPA: 3.49/4.0
Graduated: Spring 2007
Graduation Honors: Cum Laude, Nancy T. Rich “Outstanding Senior in Computer Science” Award

Skills

C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX, Have worked in Windows, Linux, and Macintosh environments

Experience

6/2007 - 8/2007
Title: Houston PREP Instructor
Location: University of Houston - Downtown
Description: Taught Middle School to High School aged students Web Programming, Robotics and Visual Basic.

1/2005 - 5/2007
Title: Scholars Academy Peer Mentor
Location: University of Houston - Downtown
Description: Guided a group of 8-10 students for a few years of their collegiate career. Held regular group meetings, status reports, and overall just a person they could confide in and ask questions.

1/2005 - 5/2007
Title: Tutor
Location: University of Houston - Downtown
Description: Maintained computer lab and tutored students in Math and Computer Science.

6/2006 - 8/2006
Title: Research Assistant
Location: University of Houston - Downtown
Description: Create a new, intelligent traffic controller. Used fuzzy logic to make decisions about traffic conditions based on a threaded multi-agent backbone system. Allows communication between different traffic nodes to share environmental data that is built using a custom randomizer.

6/2005 - 8/2005
Title: AGEP Research Assistant
Location: University of Houston - Central
Description: Study different types of cache replacement techniques, focusing on their reaction using a Video On Demand Server. Studied Least Recently Used, Least Frequently Used, and the Adaptive Replacement Cache policies.

6/2004 - 8/2004
Title: Research Assistant
Location: University of Houston - Downtown
Description: Study the affects of Interneuron inhibition in the Cerebellum, particularly inhibition directed towards Purkinje cells. Used a program called “NEURON” and had to learn its programming language in order to make long lists of code to produce the cell dynamics.

Presentations

Agile Development
University of Houston - Central, Houston, TX

Deterministic Finite Automata Theory
University of Houston - Central, Houston, TX

Intelligent Traffic Controllers
CAHSI (Computing Alliance for Hispanic Service Institutions) Conference, El Paso, TX

Intelligent Traffic Controllers
UHD Graduate Student and Internship Fair, Houston, TX

Interneuron Inhibition of Purkinje Cells
Tapia Conference, Albuquerque, NM

Cache Replacement on a VOD Server
UHD Graduate Student and Internship Fair, Houston, TX

Interneuron Inhibition of Purkinje Cells
UHD Student Research Conference, Houston, TX

Interneuron Inhibition of Purkinje Cells
University of Houston - Downtown, Houston, TX

Honors

Carle C. Conway Scholarship, UHD Scholars Academy, UHD Scholars Academy Honors Corp, National Deans List, GAAN Fellowship, UHD Cum Laude graduate, Nancy T. Rich “Outstanding Senior in Computer Science” award, Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)