Gabriel Rodriguez

grodrig *AT* CS dot UMB dot EDU
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~grodrig/

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Education

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

• B.A., Computer Science, June 2001
• M.S., Computer Science, June 2003
• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science

Professional Experience

• MISTsoft, Corporation. Waltham, MA.

Software Engineer, August 2003 to Present

Worked as a Software Engineer (in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET, MS Access, and MS SQL Server), and was on the principal development team for the Company's set of core products: EasyTouch-IS, EasyTouch-IS Risk Software, and EasyTree Pedigree Software. Designed and implemented  a .NET plug-in that allowed client applications to use multiple database engines without altering/recompiling the client source-code. Developed a clinician data entry application that manages high risk patients, and produces reports indicating patient risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, as well as categorizes "High-Risk" cancer patients into different levels of Hereditary Cancer Risk, based on statistical cancer models.

•  Contract Software Engineer, August 2002 to July 2003

Worked on a contract basis (in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET, MS Access, and MS SQL Server)  for Doctors and Researchers at The Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Developed a data entry application that manages patient demographic information for the Breast Evaluation Center. Implemented Statistical Analysis algorithms to identify "High-Risk" cancer patients.

• Changsoft, inc. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Software Engineering Intern, May 2001 to September 2001

Main functions included testing and debugging a suite of applications, in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, as well as enhancing the user interface to meet client demands. Provided on-site software training to multiple law firms, conducted user interface studies on a series of applications and implemented various customer requests in an effort to enhance the user interface. In charge of conducting usability testing for a suite of Visual Studio 6.0 applications.

• University of Massachusetts at Boston - Department of Computer Science, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant, September 2001 May 2004

As a UMass/Boston teaching assistant, I have taught the following courses:

• Introduction to Data Structures in Java - an introduction to the design, analysis, and implementation of data structures in Java, covering vectors, linked lists, stacks, queues, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps, and sorting algorithms.
• Introduction to Java Programming - an introduction to OO programming using Java, covering the Java syntax, the concepts of data abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, and the use of basic data structures, exceptions, and I/O streams.
• Programming in C - topics covered include representation of integer and character data, bitwise operations, masking, memory allocation methods, pointers, dynamic data structures, file I/O, separate compilation, program development tools and use of debuggers.

Awards

• Student Leadership Award, from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, April 2002.
• NSF CSEMS Scholar, at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, September 2001 to May 2003.
• Randall Gates Malbone Fellowship in Mathematics and Computer Science, at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, January 2003.

Technical Experience Summary

• Programming languages: Visual Basic 6.0, VB .Net, C#, C++, Python, Java (Core Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC)
• Software development tools: Borland Jbuilder 6.0, Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET
• Source code control systems
• Database Management Systems: Oracle 8, MS Access, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
• Operating systems: UNIX (Linux, Solaris, SunOS), MS Windows, MS-DOS, MacOS
• Other: SQL, STL, ASP, HTML, Javascript, VBScript

Languages

• English, Spanish

References

• Available upon request

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