Aimen Al-Refai

(831) 334-0227 aalrefai@soe.ucsc.edu

860 Woodside Dr

Watsonville, CA 95076

 

Objective:

I am currently a masters computer engineering student in robotics and controls as

well as a dynamic programmer with tremendous creative talents and years of

experience. I develop on multiple platforms, (namely Win, Mac, Unix). I'm goal

oriented, deadline driven, and a team player. I’m looking for a position that can utilize

and enhance my skills. I also am a designer. I have a BFA in Commercial Arts and a minor
in graphic design. What I can do for you: Head up and/or be a part of a team designed to produce the

highest quality work and meet deadlines appropriate to the client and employer's

needs and do what I love: CODE!

 

Education:

 University of California: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA       Sep 2010 – expected Jun 2012

Major(s): MS Computer Engineering

 

University of California: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA        Sep 2008 - Jun 2010

Major(s): BS Computer Engineering

 

University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO             Sep 1987 - Jun 1990

Major(s): BFA Commercial Arts

 

Experience:

Bionics Lab -UCSC, University of Santa Cruz, Santa       Sep 2009 - Present

Cruz, CA

Research Assistant

• Articulation of Lower limb exoskeleton

• Helping with other's research

• Installation of Motion capture system

• Area of Research: Algorithm for redundancy in a 7 DOF robotic arm

 

Self, Santa Cruz, Ca                                                      Aug 2003 – Dec 2003

Consulting

• Lucky Stone Designs: Created the on line presence and hooked the shopping cart and

credit card backbone to the site using PayPal APIs

• World Prayers: I was engaged in building on line editing system using Java and mysql db.

 

Sesame Technology, Scotts Valley, CA                          Feb 2001 - Aug 2003

Software Eng

• Code review and refactoring

• Building the presentation layer classes which write out to the browser html

• Create APIs for Administration and Report/Charting of product

• Sesame Technology produces web-based bug tracking software.

• Building the applogic classes which interface with a sql database

• Integrating the product into customers business flow

 

Go.com (Disney), Sunnyvale, CA                                   Jul 2000 - Feb 2001

Software Eng

• Global Personalization API using java to write and read to SQL7 Database

• Experience with writing: servelets, applets, jsp, javabeans, jdbc

• Developing Prototypes of new pages using Java

 

Infoseek, Sunnyvale, CA                                                Jan 1999 - Jul 2000

Senior Web Developer

• developing standardization of systems and processes

• HTML production / Mixed with C++ language in proprietary language

• QAing Web pages

• Work with Producer/Project Managers on various client and internal projects

• creating image maps / animated graphics

 

Imagesmith, Santa Cruz, CA                                           Apr 1998 - Jan 1999

Senior Graphic Designer

• Web design specific creation of illustrations and graphics

• Art direction

• HTML production

 

Thunder Press, Scotts Valley, CA                                   Jan 1997 - Apr 1998

Graphic Designer

• Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

• Art direction / ad placement / layout for East Coast paper

• Copy fitting / production

 

Jonathan Peck Typographers, Santa Cruz, CA                Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

Graphic Designer

• Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

• Art direction

• Copy fitting / production

 

Arete Press, Claremont, CA                                           Jan 1990 - Jan 1993

Art Director

• Creation of illustrations and graphical headlines / ad design

• Art direction / ad placement / layout

• Copy fitting / production

 

 

Awards:

 "Most Technical Project"  in the Senior Design Project Competition

Skills:

            Java, C/C++, python, assembly, html, javascipt, SolidWorks, OrCAD, Allegro, Pspice, MatLab,

and Simulink. I am capable of soldering and have used Cypress PSoC development kit for

rapid board prototyping and the dsPic33, Photoshop, Illustrator

 

Programming language skills ranking (10 expert – 1 can run “hello world”)

Java (8), C++ (7), C (7), Python (2)

 

Professional Affiliations:

Tau Beta Pi, IEEE