From: carrie@penny.WPI.EDU (Carrie A Ayers)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: Software Engineer/Programmer/Support
Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:41:33 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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                                 CARRIE AYERS 
                              114 Vadnais Street
                              Chicopee, MA  01020
                                (413) 533-9823

PROFESSIONAL       
OBJECTIVE          Entry level position in the area of scientific programming

EDUCATION 
1988-1992          B.S. Computer Science
                   Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA

                   Major Qualifying Project (MQP)
                   "An Expert System for Inflectional Morphology"
                   Wrote an expert system to aid with the learning of
                   foreign languages using inflectional morphology.

                   Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
                   "Campus Compact at WPI"

                   Humanities Sufficiency (SUFF)
                   German

1984-1988          Chicopee Comprehensive High School, Chicopee, MA

EXPERIENCE
Co-op              Massachusetts Electric Company, Worcester, MA
1991               T&D Staff, wrote dBASE programs; upkeep of pc's;
                   installing software and solving general pc problems

Part-time
1985-1992          Leon Davids Fashion Unlimited, Fairfield Mall,
                   Chicopee, MA - Stock Person, Sales Clerk

1990               WPI Alumni Office - Telemarketer

Summer
1992, 1990,        United States Air Force Reserves, Westover ARB
1989               Chicopee, MA - Office Automation Clerk

LANGUAGE 
SKILLS             Pascal...Basic...Fortran...Scheme...C...Assembly
                   dBASE IV...LISP

ACTIVITIES        Women's Bowling Club (1, 2-4 President)...Van Committee (2)
                  Intramural Bowling (2)...WPI Pen Pals (3)...WPI Big Sister/
                  Little Sister (2-3)...Volunteer at South Worcester 
                  Neighborhood Center (4)





EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Following is a list of computer science classes I have taken:

Intro to Programming, Modern Programming Concepts, Modern Programming Concepts
II, Intro to Computer Organization and Assembler, Advanced Assembly Language
and Computer Organization, Data Structures, Discrete Structures, Operating
Systems, Advanced Operating Systems, File Structures, Human-Computer
Interaction, Social Implications of Information Processing, Intro to Artificial
Intelligence, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Software Engineering,
Finite Automata, and Intro to Programming in C. 

In addition I have taken Calculus 1-4, Ordinary Differential Equations,
Matrices and Linear Algebra, Applied Statistics, Physics 1-3, Engineering
Design Graphics, Sociology 1-2, and German 1-6.

IQP:  Campus Compact at WPI

This IQP started as an effort to create a volunteer organization, Campus
Compact, at WPI.  Although no Worcester College is a member of Campus Compact,
much volunteerism is done in Worcester and the surrounding area by Worcester
college students.  A questionaire was taken of the Worcester colleges to see
how the schools supported and advertised volunteerism and a handbook to help
any students interested in starting a volunteer program at WPI was created.

MQP:  An Expert System for Inflectional Morphology

This project deals with computer-aided instruction for language learning.  The
objective of the project was to develop an expert system for inflectional
languages.  The main outcome of this project is two-fold: first the development
of a knowledge representation language for inflectional morphology; second the
development of a prototype computer-based tool for learning inflectional
morphology.  Project results include a user's manual and knowledge bases.

Sufficiency:  German


I graduated from Chicopee Comprehensive High School in 1988.  I took college
oriented classes and graduated fourth in a class of over 300.


PROGRAMMING PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

I have used C to complete projects in Operating Systems, Advanced Operating
Systems, and Graphics.  In graphics, each individual had to design a park by
writing the proper functions to create various shapes and using these functions
to create different size shapes for different park objects.  I programmed in
LISP for Artificial Intelligence.  In AI, I worked with a partner to create a
language parser.  My Major Qualifying Project was written in Scheme, a dialect
of LISP developed at MIT.  The MQP was an expert system to aid in the learning
of foreign languages.  My partners (2) and I developed a program to take rules
written in scheme from any inflectional language (German and Portuguese in
our case) and use the rules to produce nouns in the plural form, adjectives
with the proper endings, and verbs in the correct tense and number.  I was
personally responsible for the German verb rules and helped in the writing of
the expert system. 



CAREER OBJECTIVES:

Currently, I wish to obtain an entry-level position doing some kind of
programming or support.  In the future, I would like to go to law school and
come back to the computer industry because I feel the industry is lacking in
lawyers knowledgable in the field and there is so much legal territory yet to
be explored in this field.


REFERENCES:

Professor Lee A. Becker   WPI                          (508) 831-5408

Professor Michael Gennert WPI                          (508) 831-5476

Michael J. Lastella       Massachusetts Electric Co.   (508) 791-0041 ext. 4466
                          939 Southbridge Street
                          Worcester, MA 01610 

Freeman P. Wiley Jr.      Civilian Personnel Office    (413) 557-1110 (ask for
                          Westover ARB, MA 01022       Civilian Personnel)

Donna Wishart             Leon Davids, Fairfield Mall  (413) 593-3396
                          Chicopee, MA 01020