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Kevin Conroy kevinconroy at gmail dot com Experience Senior Java Web Developer GlobalGiving / ManyFutures, Inc., Washington, D.C. April 2007 - Present • Designed, developed, and maintained all aspects of www.globalgiving.com including user experience, graphic design, business logic, and web development. • Worked with business team to design and develop co-branded intranet web sites for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Gap Inc, Applied Materials, and other Fortune 500 companies. Research Specialist Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, IL August 2006 – Present • Worked in Systems Integration group researching software engineering, collaborative development, Web services, and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). • Developed extensible framework for adapting legacy applications into Web services using a drag-and-drop interface. • Developed a search engine and interface for finding relevant code samples and applications from a large repository of projects. • Proposed and developed research projects on software engineering, collaboration, and next-generation IDE capabilities. • Helped define Accenture’s 2007 Technology Vision for software metrics and collaborative software development. Lead User Experience Designer and Software Engineer Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, MD June 2004 – August 2006 • Developed award-winning user interfaces for next-generation television and home entertainment product (HoME™). • Designed, prototyped, and implemented interface for all television related components in product. • Contributed over 80,000 lines of Java and 20,000 lines of JavaScript to core software framework. • Implemented object-oriented MPEG-2 encoder/decoder in Java. • Incorporated latest human-computer interaction research in prototypes and production systems. • Developed full-featured prototypes and conducted user studies. • Created corporate human-computer interaction guidelines and interface design process. • Managed software engineering development for application layer. • Composed coding standards and software development life-cycle for user experience software engineers. • Developed custom plug-ins for Eclipse to help programmers adhere to coding standards and develop code more quickly. • Ported software to J2ME platform for customer demonstrations. • Mentored college intern for Fall 2005 semester. • Represented company at conferences and in business meetings with several Fortune 500 executives. Research Assistant Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland, College Park, MD Advisor: François Guimbretière February 2003 – May 2004 • Researched techniques that allow users to import hand-written annotations into digital documents. • Expanded AbiWord word processor to incorporate proposed interactions and validate research. • Presented research at ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Conference 2004 and submitted paper to ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). • Received J.R. Dorfman Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Project in College of Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences for 2003-2004. Teaching Assistant Computer Science Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD September 2002 – December 2003 • Created and managed class projects using SCRUM methodologies. • Answered students’ questions and provided corrective feedback during office hours. • Supported Computer Science II (CMSC 214), Computer Organization (CMSC 311), and Data Structures (CMSC 420). User Interface Designer, Programmer/Analyst ProList, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD June 1998 – August 2003 (Summer and Winter Breaks) • Designed, implemented, and integrated web-based customer relations management (CRM) system with mass mailing facility. • Created systems that improved relationships with existing customers and earned company certification as a Microsoft Premiere Vender. Education • B.S. Computer Science with Honors, Magna Cum Laude – May 2004
University of Maryland, College Park
GPA: 3.9/4.0 • B.A. Economics, Magna Cum Laude – May 2004
University of Maryland, College Park
GPA: 3.9/4.0 • International Baccalaureate Diploma – May 2000
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD Publications and Patents • Conroy, K., Levin, D., Guimbretiere, F. ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor. Interacting with Computers. Submitted Nov. 2006. • Conroy, K., Levin, D., Guimbretiere, F. ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2004 Companion (Peer-Reviewed Demonstration), Oct. 2004, pp. 29-30. • Hunleth, F., Gritton, C., Conroy, K., Stoner, R. Client-server architectures and methods for zoomable user interfaces. United States Patent Application #20050283798. Filed June 2005. • Gritton, C., Aufderheide, D., Conroy, K., Goyal, N., Hunleth, F., Scheirey, S., Simpkins, D. Distributed software construction for user interfaces. United States Patent Application #20060176403. Filed August 2006. • Hunleth, F., Moshiri, N., Napier, W., Simpkins, D., Wroblewski, F., Conroy, K., Gritton, C. Methods and systems for enhancing television applications using 3D pointing. United States Patent Application #20060184966. Filed August 2006. Awards • J.R. Dorfman Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Project in College of Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences – May 2004 • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences – May 2004 • Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the first and only international honor society for the computing sciences, UMCP Chapter – May 2004 • University of Maryland Honors Citation – April 2003 • National Society of Collegiate Scholars – April 2003 • Golden Key International Honor Society – September 2003 • President’s Scholarship, University of Maryland – 2000-2004 http://www.globalgiving.comshapeimage_2_link_0
Programming Languages • Java • JavaScript,
ECMAScript • JSP • C/C++ • C# • SQL • ASP/ASP.NET • VB .NET • Perl • XML/HTML • SVG Skills • Human-Computer Interaction • User Interface Design • Object Oriented Programming • Test-Driven Development • Rapid Development • Paper Prototyping • Agile Techniques • SCRUM/XP Technology Proficiencies • Eclipse • Eclipse Plug-ins • Eclipse RCP • Tomcat/Apache • Web Services (SOAP and REST) • Google Web Toolkit (GWT) • JUnit • Log4J • Ant • Axis/Axis2 • Hibernate • Velocity • J2ME, J2SE, J2EE • OpenGL/JOGL • OpenAL/JOAL • CruiseControl • JIRA/Bugzilla • MySql • Visual Studio .NET • SQL Server • Macromedia MX Suite • Photoshop • Premiere • Windows XP • Unix/Linux Professional Activities • CHI 2006 (Computer-Human Interaction Conference) • UIST 2004 & 2005 
(User Interface Software and Technology) • CES 2005 & 2006
(International Consumer Electronics Show) • D3 2005
(The Wall Street Journal’s D3: All Things Digital Conference) • Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2004 – 2006 • Reviewer for CHI 2006 Work-in-Progress Papers
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