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Education

The University of Tulsa, B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics – Graduating May 2018

GPA: 3.97

Internships

Software Development Engineer Intern, Amazon

Summer 2017

Last summer I interned as a engineer for FEDS (Fulfillment Execution Data Science) working to improve Amazon’s supply chain. My accomplishments at Amazon include:

  • Developed an internal tool to help managers track employee attendance automatically
  • Performed full-stack development using AWS technologies EC2, S3, and DynamoDB.
  • Managed project from design to launch, plus deployed multiple features post-launch
  • Wrote and tested a secture Spring MVC application to safeguard employee information.
  • Participated in and contributed to departmental skill development workshops.

Information Systems Technical Intern, Edward Jones

Summer 2016

  • Took projects through design, development, QA, and deployment.
  • Multithreaded mainframe data-fetching process for over 150% speedup.
  • Brought legacy applications up to date with modern automated testing technology.
  • Worked with J2EE, IBM MQ, JUnit, and an enterprise tech stack.
  • Mentored team members to share knowledge and solutions I had researched.
  • Presented projects and processes to senior leadership within the company.

Software Engineering Intern, BacterioScan

Summer 2015

  • Implemented solutions to production challenges in an ISO certified environment.
  • Managed issue tracking and QA testing for hardware and software using Jira.
  • Researched and solved communication issues from embedded devices to Windows.

Research

I work under Dr. Sandip Sen in his artificial intelligence lab at the University of Tulsa.

“Gesture-Based Control of Autonomous UAVs” – AAMAS 2017

Projects

What’s My Vote Worth? Interactive D3 data visualization about the weight of votes across the US. Placed first at TU ACM 24 hour code-jam in 2016.

Statblock Shop A webapp for creating custom Dungeons & Dragons styled statblocks. Written in javascript.

ClockHUD & Network Minecraft mods with over 80,000 downloads.

Paper The front-end of a compiler for a subset of Pascal, written in C. This was a project that spanned the semester for my compiler construction course.

samvbeckmann.com: Static website to host a simple blog and other information about me. Made with Jekyll.

Extra-Curricular

  • Organized TEDxUniversityofTulsa for two years, managing a team of students, selecting speakers through a competitive process, and organizing a conference throughout the year.
  • President of ACM SIGGRAPH, University of Tulsa chapter – 2016-2017
  • Operations Chair of ACM, University of Tulsa chapter – 2016-2017
  • Media Chair of ACM, University of Tulsa chapter – 2015-2016
  • Webmaster of MAA, University of Tulsa chapter – 2016-2017
  • Competed in International Collegiate Programming Competition regionals – 2015, 2016
  • Writer, podcaster, and graphic designer for The Collegian, student newspaper - 2015-2017

Selection of Courses

Machine Learning, Social Media Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Operation Systems, Compiler Construction, Embedded Systems.