Resume

Last updated: 23 January 2010

— Paul A Hansen —
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Employment
Experience
Education
Skills
References

Employment

Staff Software Engineer, Measurement Studio
June 2007 — present

David Rohacek, Group Manager
Group Manager (Measurement Studio, National Instruments)

Current employer

Internship, Error Bands graph feature
June 2006 — August 2006

David Rohacek, Internship Mentor
Group Manager (Measurement Studio, National Instruments)

Abhishek Ghuwalewala, Internship Mentor
Software Engineer (Measurement Studio, National Instruments)

Researched current graph implementation
Worked on design, implementation, documentation, and testing of error bands graph feature
Performed other testing and documentation activities after finishing error bands feature

Developer, CALIsys project
May 2003 — August 2003

Scott Morton, Project leader
Research Scientist (Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming)

Robin Hill, Project manager
Instructional Computing Services Coordinator (Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Wyoming)

Designed and implemented customizable experiment Diagram Editor
Designed and implemented Instructor Interface
Helped to design Student Interface

Grader, Discrete Mathematics (COSC-2300)
February 2004 — May 2004

Diana Gordon-Spears, Course instructor
Associate Professor (Computer Science, University of Wyoming)

Experience

Volunteer Developer, Warb Game Engine
December 2005 — February 2008

Isaac Squires, Project Leader
Software Developer (Warb Inc, Austin, TX)

Designed and implemented resource management, file format, and cache
Designed and implemented custom serialization for saving game state to files, and state deltas for network transfer
Developed concept art and ideas for demo levels
Helped migrate resources from Managed DirectX to XNA

Project Lead, Genetic Programming Engine
August 2004 — June 2005
Led a team of four developers to design and create an extensible program for conducting experiments in Genetic Programming.

Prototype developer
Refinement work on requirements
Main work on design, development, documentation, and testing of project
Development tree maintenance
Website and graphics

Lab Assistant, Artificial Physics Research
February 2003 — August 2003

William M. Spears, Distributed Robotics Laboratory Co-director
Associate Professor (Computer Science, University of Wyoming)

Diana Gordon-Spears, Distributed Robotics Laboratory Co-director
Associate Professor (Computer Science, University of Wyoming)

Rodney Heil, Researcher
Graduate Student (Computer Science, University of Wyoming)

Established baseline robot performance
Designed and conducted experiments on sensors and object detection
Adjusted code to improve object detection
Developed new economical robot platforms

Authorized Explorer, D’ni
November 2003 — February 2004
2nd tier beta tester for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst ( www.cyanworlds.com).

Open Source Projects

Project Lead, Boilen
December 2008 — present
Crated a T4 template library for generating boilerplate property, interface, and constructor code.

CodePlex Project

Project Lead, Type Resolver
21 August 2008 ~ December 2008
Completed an extension to xUnit.net to enable contract-based testing against interfaces, base classes, and generic types.

CodePlex Project

Project Lead, NCodeX
16 September 2007 — 2 March 2008
Started a project to create a declarative method for generating .NET source code.

Google Code Project

Personal Programming Projects

Designer and Developer, NPR Listener
October 2007
A quick WPF program I wrote for listening to the national NPR show archive (allowing me to wake up at a more convenient time and still not miss any of the stories ;).

NPR Listener, Source Code

Designer and Developer, Reminder
November 2006
A simple utility program for raising an alarm at a specific time, or after a specified number of minutes. I have a shortcut set up in my tools folder so that I can, for example, launch r 11:30 lunch from the Run dialog to remind me to eat :)

Reminder, Source Code

Designer and Developer, Sudoku Solver
29 July 2005 — 17 August 2005

Sudoku Solver, Source Code

Designer and Developer, Handmade Set of Last Exile CDs
Summer 2005

Last Exile example disc, Source Code

Designer and Developer, Find That Prime!
~ 2002
Simple console program for finding prime numbers, factoring numbers into primes, finding greatest common denominators/least common multiples, etc.

Find That Prime!, Source Code

Designer and Developer, Ice Breaker (first project)
June 1999 ~ December 2002

Other Programming Projects

Programming Languages final project, Comparing Functional and Object-Oriented Programming
Spring Semester 2006 — Spring Semester 2007

Why Objects Matter, Source Code

Compiler Construction and Graduate Compilers final projects, Ada Compiler and Pointer Analysis
Spring Semester 2005 and 2006

Ada Compiler, Source Code
Ponter Analysis, Source Code

Database Systems class project, Schema Normalizer
Fall Semester 2004

Schema Normalizer, Source Code

Operating Systems class projects, various simulators
Spring Semester 2004

CPU Scheduler, Source Code
Dining Philosophers, Source Code
Memory Manager, Source Code

Education

University of Texas (Austin, TX)
August 2005 — May 2007
Masters of Science in Computer Science

GPA: 3.53 (30 hours)
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Diploma

University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY)
September 2001 — May 2005
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics (double major)

College of Engineering Alumni Scholarship (2001 – 2005)
Dean’s List (2001 – 2005)
GPA: 3.80 (128 hours)
GPA in Computer Science: 3.94 (52 hours)
GPA in Mathematics: 3.47 (20 hours)
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Diploma

Front Range Community College (Westminster, CO)
September 1999 — May 2001

GPA: 4.00 (28 hours)
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Skills

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Primary: C#, .NET, LINQ, WPF, Silverlight, XAML
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Secondary: PowerShell, Windows Forms
• Additional Experience: HTML and XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML and XSLT, JavaScript
• Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio, Corel Graphics Suite
• Older Experience: C++, MFC, Windows API, C and Interactive C, G (LabVIEW), ASP and VBScript, SQL