Thomas W. Leavey Jr.

School Address: 97 Andrews Memorial Dr.  Rochester, NY 14623  (845) 641-7266

Permanent Address: 59 Jolliffe Ave.  Congers, NY 10920  (845) 268-7120

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OBJECTIVE To solve business problems using technology creatively and effectively.

Availability: November 2004 (Full Time)

EDUCATION Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, November 2004, High Honors

GPA in Major: 3.64 / Overall GPA 3.55

EXPERIENCEMandel, Katz, Manna and Brosnan Valley Cottage, NY

Software Development and Support

  • Designed, tested and implemented business solutions at debt trading law firm to track clients, attorneys, assistants, and billable hours to generate invoices and streamline billing.
  • Within the first month, I was put in charge of development and day to day maintenance of the entire international billing system used in New York, London, and Singapore.
  • Worked directly with attorneys, legal assistants, and office administration customers to analyze requirements and build robust solutions within a three tiered .NET framework.

Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA

Software Development Engineer Intern

  • Lead developer for the design and implementation of document undelete functionality in Microsoft SharePoint using Microsoft C++ .NET, SQL, and ASP programming
  • Designed and implemented recycle bin user interface to interact with new feature
  • Worked with the Microsoft Development team to map out global design issues

IBM Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC

Co-op Pre-Professional Programmer

  • Configured AIX and Solaris machines in simulated customer environments to provide a number of services, including LDAP, Access Manager, and Websphere Portal Server
  • Ensured security compliance of networked systems and fixed security holes

RESEARCHRIT Laboratory of Applied Computing Rochester, NY

Student Research Associate

  • Conducted computer vision research with the goal of simulating biological eyesight, novelty recognition, and focus of attention in a computer vision system.

SKILLS Data Mining

Projects included implementing algorithms published in the latest data mining research papers, the primary language used was C++ .NET with some C# and Java.

  • First project required search of over 20,000 documents for query terms using concept based query expansion and common node decision trees for smarter search results.

Programming Languages: Java, C++ / Visual C++, C#, ASP, SQL, Basic / Visual Basic, dBase, 80x86 Assembly, VAX Assembly, JavaScript, PHP

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/XP/2000/NT, UNIX/Linux, DOS

Areas of Knowledge: .NET Framework, Websphere Everyplace Suite, DirectX Programming, OOD, UML, XML, Network Programming, Serialization, Networking and Network Security

AWARDS / Dean’s List12/01 – Present

ACTIVITIESComputer Science House Member9/00 - Present

Editor for Computer Science House Newsletter12/00 – 1/02