Nicholas L.

## BIO **OBJECTIVE** Develop a professional portfolio by engaging in freelance work. **EDUCATION** ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Rensselaer | Troy, NY | Expected May 2006 **PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE** [login to view URL] ITEMNIST (NEWS BLURB WRITER) [login to view URL] | Summer 2004 - present - Write daily summaries of important semiconductor technology news items. FREELANCE DESIGNER/DEVELOPER/ENGINEER (CONSULTANT) Various | 2002 - present - Created performace-oriented implementations of advanced data structures. - Managed teams efficiently to decrease product development time. - Developed a vector-based drawing program from the ground up using Java technologies. - Wrote web articles on technological advancements in consumer electronics. - Developed sound sampling and streaming applet using Java technologies. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR VA Medical Center in West Roxbury, MA | Summer 2004 - Established entirely wireless intranet infrastructure. - Made documents availableonline for remote access by employees (extranet). FREELANCE WEB SPECIALIST/DESIGNER Various | 1998 - 2002 - Designed, revised, and maintained small websites. - Worked on both front-end (design) and back-end (coding). - Improved web presence of clients' web sites. ## Area of Expertise **Programming Languages**: C/C++, D, Java, Perl, PHP, Tcl/Tk, ECMAScript, Ruby, Haskell, Lisp **Libraries and APIs**: STL, OpenGL, OpenAL, Xerces, Win32, etc **Architectures**: x86, PIC (8bit), MIPS, ARM, MC68HC11, 8051 **Markup Languages**: XML (and extension languages), XHTML, LaTeX, Cascading Stylesheets, XSL **Database Systems**: MySQL **Operating Systems**: Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux based, FreeBSD, BeOS