Ben Newton

2555 Carson Lane                                                                                                      (801) 255-5415

West Jordan, UT, 84084                                                                         BenNewton1@Yahoo.com

 

Objective                                                                                                        

 

Full time employment that would allow me to use my knowledge and skills to help develop and

test computer software systems and components for a unique and innovative company. 

 

Work Experience                                                                                                               

 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah                             January 2001 - December 2001

Natural Language Processing Research Assistant                                                  

 

·         Developed a user interface to test a spoken language programming system

·         Oversaw user test sessions, and compiled research data

·         Maintained user interface code

 

Pro Storm Media Solutions, Hazlet, New Jersey                          May 2000-August 2000

Video Editor / Multimedia content Producer

 

·         Edited short video segments on a digital editing system

·         Mixed sound effects and updated audio on informative videos

·         Created Flash Animations

·         Assisted in video reproduction

 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah                                           June 1996-June 1997

Teaching Assistant                                                                        August 1999-May 2000

                                                                                    and August 2000-December 2000

 

·         Assisted in organizing and operating the Summer Computing Institute

·         Helped students create Computer Graphics projects

·         Answered questions about the Unix Operating System and applications       

·         Assisted students in creating personal web pages

·         Tutored students in an Introduction to Java class - graded program assignments

 

Center for High Performance Computing, Salt Lake City, Utah

Visualization Lab Assistant                                                      September 1996-June 1997

 

·         Assisted in the creation of visualization models for sophisticated data sets from research

projects

·         Designed layouts for the presentation of research findings

·         Transferred images from the computer to film using a Laser Film Writer

·         Experimented with 3‑D graphics and other new technologies

 

 

 

Education                                                                                                                                            

 

University of Utah                                                                    Expected Graduation Spring 2002

Pursuing a B.S. Computer Science

Related Courses: Introduction to Computer Science(Using C++), Software Practice,

Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Data Structures(Using Java), and  Models of

Computation, Operating Systems, Compilers, Robotics, Networking, Programming Language

Concepts, Computer Electronics, Web Programming, Senior Project Lab.

 

Skills                                                                                                                        

 

·         C++                 

·         Java                 

·         Typing 55 WPM

·         HTML  

·         LISP/Scheme

·         Macromedia      

·         DOS

·         Windows 98/2000         

·         Robotics

·         UNIX

 

Church Service                                                                                                                             

 

Honorable, Two year LDS mission in Ireland with experience maintaining missionary databases in the

mission office.  Several other church Leadership and organizational positions and responsibilities.

 

Special Awards                                                                                                                     

·         Outstanding student award for excellence in Computer Graphics and Expert Systems.

·         Eagle Scout

·         Computer Science Special Departmental Full Tuition Scholarship

·         High School Academic Excellence Award – Among top 5 students in my graduating class

 

References                                                                                                                                          

 

Available upon request