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Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Performed code reviews and mentored younger developers.• Fielded users’ questions on bugs and feature requests.• Facilitated camaraderie among team members by organizing regular social events.• Assumed leadership role in creation of web application built on GWT, PureMVC, and PHP.

Springfield, Illinois Area

• Gained business knowledge regarding Workers’ Compensation & Health Insurance.• Responsible for fixing and implementing system configurations permitting businessin California where 67% of company’s policies are based.• Helped maintain and update Java and PHP web applications used for managingpolicies and claims.• Effectively analyzed & optimized SQL based batch jobs improving system run times.• Used project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Git, Gerrit, and Jenkins.• Trained new-hires.

• Independently designed and created a Sudoku Puzzle GUI called YuSuDoKu. – Java source code and JAR available at github.com/nnard1616/YuSuDoKu.• Designed and implemented an “ant colony simulation,” using the TDD paradigm. – Java source code, JAR, and UML diagrams at github.com/nnard1616/UIS.• Completed Tim Roughgarden’s Algorithms Specialization on Coursera. – See projects & certs at github.com/nnard1616/OSSU.• Completed OOP with Java MOOCs from University of Helsinki. – See github.com/nnard1616/UoHelsinki--Java_Programming_MOOCs.• Completed Dan Grossman’s Programming Languages on Coursera. – Studied OOP and FP within ML, Racket, & Ruby. – See projects & certs at github.com/nnard1616/OSSU.

Greater Chicago Area

• Tutored students in many subjects of math and science in person and online.• Influenced and enabled students of all ages to improve academically.• Worked with companies: Varsity Tutors, Tutor.com, Sylvan Learning.• Specifically tutored: Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics.

University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Collected genomic information for a widely disseminated biosynthetic gene clusterusing self-written data mining computer program (utilized the NCBI database).• Presented data mining program at P&G sponsored event.• Screened 500 bacterial strains for new natural products via degenerate PCR.• Undertook individual project exploring a potential new thiopeptide natural product.• Aided graduate students with their projects (growing cultures, cleaning, etc.)

Leading discussion sections, foster learning environment, supervised laboratory activities to help students apply chemical theory in a safe manner. Volunteered to host optional review sessions to ensure students grasped difficult concepts.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Collaborated in a team of six members to create a bio-engineering webtool.• Won “Best Software” award for IGEM competition held at MIT.• Played key role in data organizing and graphics/appearance of webtool.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Computer Science

I took a couple computer science courses here in preparation for my admission to UIUC's professional MCS program.

Bachelor Of Science, Majors: Molecular And Cellular Biology, Chemistry; Informatics Minor, 3.77/4.0

Activities and Societies: Inervarsity, iGEMGeneral chemistry teaching assistant and undergraduate researcher for biochemical lab.