Atul Varma
4795 Wynwood Ct.
Columbus, OH 43022
Telephone: (614) 442-0400
E-mail: varmaa@kenyon.edu

Objective:
Receive a job in public service, possibly taking advantage of my skills with computers.

Experience:

  • January-February 1998: Worked for the Kenyon College Mathematics Department, programming a fractal parser. The application provided an interface to receive a polynomial equation, parse it, and create a fractal based on Newton's method from it. The program also supported exploration of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.
  • Spring 1998: Mathematics Department Liason to the Department of Information and Computing Services at Kenyon. This involved speaking with the Mathematics Department faculty and creating and maintaining the webpage for the Kenyon Department of Mathematics.
  • Summer 1998: Worked as a Media Specialist for Laureate, Inc. Created a website for them, as well as an interactive promotional CD-ROM presentation in Macromedia Director, and a Laureate-sponsored multimedia CD-ROM tutorial on learning assessment for the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (NCTLA). Also developed a website development system to facilitate the process of creating table-based websites using "virtual frames."
  • Summer 1998: Worked as a website designer for Kenyon College. Helped create the Proximity Learning website, the Kenyon-Denison Mellon Grant website, the Department of English website, and the Department of Religion website.
  • Winter 1999: Developed MusicTicker, a plug-in for WinAmp. MusicTicker was used by Grand Royal Records, as well as several commercial radio stations around the world.
  • Summer 1999: Researched as Summer Science Scholar at Kenyon College, in an independent study project entitled Visualization algorithms for three-dimensional computer graphics. An extensible object-oriented raytracer was written in C++. The raytracer, called ATrace, used a phong reflection model and supported procedural textures, Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG), and depth cueing, among other features. A 3D voxel engine was written in C, which converted bitmaps into voxel height fields and rendered in real-time. Finally, a 3D polygon engine was written in C; the engine supported directional and point-based light sources, flat and goraud shading, as well as texture and bump mapping. All of these programs were written "from scratch," with the exception of a 2D graphics library for basic pixel-drawing routines.
  • Fall 1999: Worked as a student tutor for the Introduction to Computer Science course at Kenyon.
  • Spring 2000: Worked as a grader for the Introduction to Computer Science course at Kenyon.
  • Spring 2001: Tutored mathematics to "at risk" children in the Americorps Study Table Program in Mount Vernon, OH, for a period of one week.

Skills:

  • Fluent programming in C, C++, Java, Pascal (including Object-Oriented variants such as Borland Delphi), and PHP. Also experience programming using Lingo for Macromedia Director, JavaScript, various dialects of BASIC, MUD Object-Oriented programming. Basic experience with Lisp, x86 assembly, SQL.
  • Experienced using MS-DOS, Win95/98/NT, MacOS, and Linux/UNIX platforms.
  • Proficiency with Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, Photoshop 5.0, Macromedia Director 6.0, 3D Studio MAX v2.0, Form-Z, CorelDRAW! 7.0, Adobe Premiere 4.0, Macromedia Flash 3.0, and other digital content creation tools.
  • Proficiency with GNU Emacs, gcc, and other GNU utilities. Compilers used include Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, DJGPP, Borland Turbo Pascal, Borland Delphi 2.0.

Education:

  • Currently a senior undergraduate at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
    Pursuing a major in Mathematics, with a minor in Philosophy and a concentration in the Integrated Program for Humane Studies (IPHS), with a 3.81 cumulative GPA.



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