Resume - quick grammar check? - Writers Forum

gatoatigrado · 06-30-2006, 05:14 PM

This is a short resume for an internship. I am a high school student so it's probably not as good as all of yours.... If anyone has a second, any grammer corrections would be much appreciated. This is a resume, so I'm not using complete sentences. If you have a different standard, then feel free to argue. The formatting isn't great because it's pasted.

Nicholas Tung

http://www.ntung.com
gatoatigrado@myrealbox.com
Education

Attended Loy Norrix (2003-2006), the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center (2003-2006), Western Michigan University (2004-2006), and Kalamazoo College (2004-2005).
Accepted to UC Berkeley for undergraduate studies in January 2007.
College level computer science classes
- Data Structures 331 (WMU) after 9th grade
- Programming Languages 320 (K College) during 10th grade fall, Machine Learning 486 (K College) during 10th grade spring
- Networks 555 (WMU) and Operating Systems 454 (WMU) during 12th grade fall, Games Programming 595 (WMU) during 12th grade spring
Other challenging classes
- AP History and AP Statistics 9th grade
- AP Calculus and Linear Algebra (K College) 10th grade
- AP Chemistry, AP Government, Advanced Composition, Russian 100, Advanced Calculus, and Research Team 12th grade
Only A's and B's on transcript, 3.71 GPA. Graduating in 3 years with 31 credits (28 necessary).
Equivalent of a minor in CS through dual enrollment during 3 years of high school.

Research / Projects

All of my research and projects are documented at my website, http://www.ntung.com.

Extended a Haskell interpreter project using lexical interpretation to parse real sample code, instead of relying on a hard-coded data structure. (Programming Languages)
Completed project using Gaussian Mixture Models to separate colors in an image. My implementation used circular and conical HSV color-space transforms to group similar colors. It successfully grouped several objects from the sample images. (Machine Learning)
Used the Kalman filter to track multiple moving objects sampled at discrete time intervals (simulated), whose paths would intersect. (Machine Learning final project)
Used the Hough transform and many auxiliary algorithms in an attempt to find ellipses in an edge map. (Research Team)
Simulated bit error recovery in a simple network by comparing two randomly corrupted packets. (Networks)

Skills / Experience

Independently learned JavaScript, CSS, PHP, XML, XSLT, SQL, shell scripting, Cg/HLSL, C#, and Matlab.
Learned HTML, Java, and C++ in 6-8th grade, and Haskell in Programming Languages 320.
Experience using debuggers.
Familiar with Linux, Apache, PHP, on website use of SQL for table of contents, SSL, and MD5 password hashing for custom upload forms, which I use to maintain my website (http://www.ntung.com).
Built a game time monitor using .NET Application SQL libraries independently.
Built a TCP socket communication application using the .NET framework independently.
Improved Kalamazoo College's music website by creating a Table of contents, using server-generated subpages, and creating an automatically-updating "Current Events" (using CSV files, which are easy to export from Excel).
Interest in DirectX in high school, later experience in Games Programming.
Knowledge of hierarchical object groups with stack matrix operations, ray intersection / bounding boxes, HLSL, Effects framework.
Worked with large amounts of code from other programmers. (Open Source Physics work, Operating Systems)

galt · 06-30-2006, 06:04 PM

Impressive. No grammatical errors that I could find. Maybe delete "All of" in the sentence below Research/Projects. Leaving those words out is more consistent with the compact writing style of the rest of the resume. But that's being fastidious. Very good job.

FrankBlissett · 06-30-2006, 07:54 PM

Looks pretty good to me - better than mine looks!

I had a friend who went through the business program at K'azoo U in the mid-90s. He really liked Western, though having started at LSSU he had trouble adjusting to a big school.

Good luck.

-Frank

gatoatigrado · 06-30-2006, 09:51 PM

yeah I suppose it's not too complicated as there are no complete sentences...I will get rid of the "all of" - you're right, thanks. I also like Western; the professors are inspirational. At first I thought there wasn't that much personal attention, but most of the professors stay around after class and talk with a few of the students. It's quite a contrast to the math and science center there. The students at Western are nice and much less snobby, but maybe the math and science students are young; i don't know.

aspiring · 07-01-2006, 02:32 AM

Looks impressive to me - one suggestion though - take your name, address and phone number off this public site! You'd probably be fine, but there are some strange people out there, and you really don't want millions of people knowing all your personal details...

Kamisama · 07-01-2006, 09:11 AM

I wish I had a resume like that. You have an interesting resume relating to computer science and mathematics. I question if you're doing cognitive science along with A.I. within various programming languages. You ought to get into Python.

You might want to use a colon in a few places. Then again, that's stylistic. I don't know if there's a Strunk and White method for doing resumes. Heh.

galt · 07-01-2006, 01:16 PM

Hey yeah, follow Aspiring's advice - get your email adress, phone number, home address, and name off there. Just replace them with fake ones or something.

gatoatigrado · 07-02-2006, 01:27 PM

yeah I hear python's pretty popular. I started learning a bit of it but at the time I was too busy. It's sort of like Matlab, but faster I think. IronPython is another reason; apparently with non-parsing code it's 70 percent faster or something. I haven't done any cognative science things unfortunately.

name? what about ntung.com is private? lol. I've had my email on my site forever. If you want to find out my address, you use something like http://www.geoiptool.com/?IP=70.226.83.219, then use a phone book.

aspiring · 07-02-2006, 03:36 PM

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name? what about ntung.com is private? lol. I've had my email on my site forever. If you want to find out my address, you use something like http://www.geoiptool.com/?IP=70.226.83.219, then use a phone book.

Yes, but that means that anyone really interested enough can do the legwork themselves. Don't make it easy for people to know where you live and how to contact you. It's just common sense.

gatoatigrado · 07-02-2006, 05:23 PM

uh...right. the document's on my website, but i guess it's a good idea.

Selorian · 07-03-2006, 03:26 AM

In the Rules and Guidelines WF highly recommends not making such personal information public. In the end it is your decision, but it is better to err on the side of caution and make it harder for those who would use it for evil to get it. We want you too have fun but be safe while doing it during your time here at WF.

gatoatigrado · 07-03-2006, 03:30 AM

i already removed it, thanks for your concern. however the document's on my website so it's not much of a point...oh well.