Jaime Acosta
12908 Fire Fighter
El Paso, Tx. 79938
United States
http://geocities.com/jbl4d

OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position in an organization requiring the strong analytical, mathematical, and programming skills attained in the field of Computer Science.

EDUCATION
University of Texas at El Paso
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science Expected Spring 2010
  • M.S. in Computer Science August 2004 - May 2007
  • BS in Computer Science, August 2000-December 2003
  • Undergraduate GPA: 3.9/4.0
  • Graduate GPA: 4.0/4.0

Relevant Courses
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Software Engineering
  • Advanced Object Oriented Programming
  • Towards Zero-Defect Programming
  • Advanced Computer Architecture
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Data Structures
  • Operating Systems
  • Computer Graphics
  • Video Game Programming

SPOKEN LANGUAGES
Fluent in English
Proficient in Spanish

SECURITY CLEARANCE
Summer 2004 Obtained United States Government secret-level security clearance.

WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-present Test Director, White Sands Missile Range
Led three interns to design, execute, and analyze several preliminary tests that set the foundation for a new Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System used for tracking and monitoring several soldier entities in a real-time environment.
2004-present Computer Scientist, White Sands Missile Range
Worked on 21st Century Target Control System, which involved remote communication with aircraft and vehicle. Utilized TENA Middleware, Oracle, and C++ on a Redhat Linux operating system to implement Range Interface Controller.
2002-2003 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Worked on IBM funded research concentrated on investigating sampled memory traces in order to optimize multiprocessor memory utilization.
2001 Tutor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
Worked as a tutor in the UTEP athletics department for a student taking the Programming and Algorithms course.

PUBLICATIONS
2004
  • D. Villa, J. Acosta, P. J. Teller, B. Olszewski, and T. Morgan, “Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces,” Proceedings of the 5th Los Alamos Computer Science Symposium (LACSI 2004), October 2004.
  • D. Villa, J. Acosta, P.J. Teller, B. Olszewski, and T.Morgan, "A Framework for Profiling Multiprocessor Memory Performance", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Newport Beach, CA, July, 2004, pp. 530-538.
  • D. Villa, J. Acosta, T. Morgan, P. Teller, and B. Olszewski, “Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces,” Proceedings of the IBM-Austin ACAS 2004 Conference, February 2004.
2003
  • Trevor Morgan, Diana Villa, Patricia J. Teller, and Jaime Acosta, “L2 Miss Profiling on the p690 for a Large-scale Database Application”, Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACAS conference, Austin, Texas, February 21, 2003.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages
  • Proficient in Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, SQL
  • Knowledgeable with Motorolla HC6811, MIPS
  • Familiar with Pascal, Matlab, Awk, Perl
Selected Application Programing Interfaces
  • Knowledgeable TENA, DirectX, OpenGL, Qt, PAPI,Windows,Raknet,SOX,SpeexEncoder,Quake3
Operating Systems
  • Proficient in MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
  • Knowledgeable in Fedora
  • Familiar with SunOS, AIX
Selected Applications
  • Proficient in Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Virtual Dub, WEKA, Real Producer Pro, MySql Front 2.5, ULead Movie Factory 7.0, Q3 Radiant Map Builder
Databases
  • Proficient with Microsoft Access, MySql
  • Knowledgeable in Oracle, Codebase

AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Recipient of Federal Chief Representative, Competitive Professional Development Long-Term Training Assignment. 2008.
  • University of Texas at El Paso Commencement Student Marshal for the College of Engineering. 2007.
  • Interactive Systems Group (University of Texas at El Paso). 2005-2008.
  • Dean’s List for the College of Engineering. 2000-2003.
  • Stipend Award for IBM research. 2002-2003.
  • Member of Association for Computing Machinery (University of Texas at El Paso Student Chapter). 2000-2002.
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