Lixhjideny Méndez Ríos

Computer Engineering

Undergraduate Student

Objective

Obtain an Internship or COOP and provide the knowledge gained in college studies, research, and past internship experiences while acquiring new skills and getting involved in deeper areas within Computer Engineering.

Education


University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Relevant Courses : Capstone, Database Systems, Computer Architecture and Organization, Microprocessors and Embedded Systems, Structures and Properties of Programming Languages, Operating Systems Programming, Advanced Programming (Java), Data Structures, Algorithms and Programming (C, C++), Discrete Mathematics

Major : B.S. Computer Engineering

Expected Graduation Date : December, 2016

GPA : 3.10/4.00 – Major GPA : π/4.00

Skills

Continuous Integration

Experienced with Continuous Integration techniques consisting in hardware-oriented software testing.

Script Development

Able to create, manage and enhance useful Ruby and Shell Scripts.

Software Development

Fully equiped with essential tools in order to develop software based on given specifications.


Web Development

Server Management

Database Management

Languages

English

Profesional proficiency.

Spanish

Native speaker.

German & Italian

Limited proficiency.

Technical

  • Java
  • C and C++
  • CUDA C
  • Ruby on Rails
  • HTML
  • Eclipse
  • Jira
  • Bamboo
  • PuTTY
  • Telelogic Doors
  • Linux servers
  • Windows NT
  • Android
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Visual Studio

Experience

Verizon Data Services – Temple Terrace, FL

IT Cloud Services Intern

June 2014 – August 2014

• Entrusted to certify patches, upgrades, and new solutions on both CS software and hardware.
• Developed new standards documentation and processes that meet enterprise quality.
• Successfully deployed newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on existing IBM Power Servers,
  substantially prolonging their lifespan and reducing unwanted decommissioning.

National Building Maintenance, Corp. – Ponce, PR

Freelance Web Developer

April 2014 – August 2014

Web-based Administrative Dashboard development using Twitter Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, and
PostgreSQL as frontend, framework, and backend respectively. Experience consisted on two
major modules:
• Periodic Tasks Manager - Development of the task management system to be used by the
  company's employees, as well as serving as the report system for their clients.
• Payroll Manager - Development of the payroll management system to keep track of each of the
  company's employees, as well as tracking down project budgets and performance.

Harris Corporation – Rochester, NY

Continuous Integration CE COOP

January 2013 – May 2013

• Entrusted to solve lack of user interaction capabilities in several automation scripts for code
  building and reliability testing in the Continuous Integration project.
• Performed thorough research on the performance impact of a vast variety of software updates,
  including code stability and requirements coverage, voice testing, and issue tracking.
• Optimized implementations of Ruby scripts in order to obtain straightforward, user friendly,
  and fully automated scripts, while improving user interaction and source code portability by
  83%.

CUDA-GPU Research Program – Mayagüez, PR

Undergraduate Research Assistant

August 2012 – Present

• Design and development of sparse matrix algorithms targeted towards Computational
  Electromagnetics applied to Conformal Antennas using NVidia’s CUDA OpenCL.
• Currently developing Computational Electromagnetics software based on the cuSPARSE
  library of NVidia’s CUDA Parallel Computing language. Expected completion by the end of
  semester.

Activities

IEEE Society - Mayagüez, PR

President - Computer Society

August 2014 – Present

• Involve fellow Computer Engineering and Sciences members with emerging companies and
  technologies, as well as supervising and improving networking between members.

Volunteer Usher/Assistant – WIE’s STAR Program:

• Served as an usher to escort and keep students in an orderly manner in the conferences given
  by various professors to promote engineering studies among high school students.

Lixhjideny Méndez Ríos — lixh...@upr.edu— (787) 309-3099