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The below resume is up to date as of March 2008. This is not my full resume, some details were left out in order to protect against certain things --- like spam. If you to view a complete resume, I will be more than happy to send it to you.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - May 2007
Samford University, Howard College of Arts and Sciences, Birmingham, AL
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Music
Overall GPA: 3.133
Honors: Chick-fil-a Award Scholarship 2003, Alabama Baptist Church Scholarship 2003, Greg Walker Memorial Scholarship 2006, Band Scholarship 2006-2007, Dean's List: Fall 2004, Spring 2007.

Experience

Application Developer (June 2007-Current)
Infinity Insurance, Birmingham, AL
Maintain and develop applications on the company intranet using J2EE programming.

Summer Programming Intern (May 2006-August 2006)
Infinity Insurance, Birmingham, AL
Helped developed portals under the JSR-168 specification for the company intranet using the struts framework, and J2EE under Java.

Student Lab Assistant (October 2005-December 2006)
Samford University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Birmingham, AL
Helped with managing a database of students on a Windows 2000 Server Computer. Also fixed lab and classroom computers, and performed regular maintenance updates.

Student Teacher (August 2004-Current)
Private Piano Studio/Self Employment, Chelsea, AL
Teaching a private studio of piano students, with a wide range of young beginner students, to older intermediate high school students. Studio size started at 2 students, and has grown as large as 11 students.

Student Recruiter (June 2004-August 2004)
Samford University, Admissions Department, Birmingham, AL
Using a call list, calling prospective students interested in Samford University. Provided information as needed about the degrees they are interested in, as well as answering questions about Samford University.

Retail/Sales Cashier (June 2001-Janurary 2004)
Chick-fil-a, Birmingham, AL
Various store activities such as, managing cash registers, performing store inventory/restocking, and cooking in the kitchen.

Activities

Baptist Student Missions Volunteer
World Changers, Southern Baptist Association
- Savannah, GA (June 1997)
- Charleston, SC (July 1998)
- Warrenton, VA (July 1999)
- Augusta, GA (June 2000)
- Madisonville, KY (July 2002)

Student Assistant
Samford University, Preparatory Department, Birmingham, AL (July 2002, June-July 2003, June-July 2004, June-July 2005)

Political Involvement
TeenPact, Jefferson, GA (2001-2002)

Skills

Foreign Languages
Japanese

Computer Skills
HTML/XHTML
Java
CSS
PHP
Perl
SQL (namely experience with MySQL)
AJAX