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Education

Tecnológico De Monterrey
Campus Estado De México
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering
Graduating in December 2012
Cumulative GPA: 96%

Colegio Colombo Británico
Cali, Colombia
International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, 38 points
Graduated in June 2008
Cumulative GPA: 4.7/5.0

Major Projects

January 2009 – Present
Tec de Monterrey, Computer Graphics Department
Assistant. Working with a team of other computer graphics students on numerous C++ and OpenGL projects. Helped develop a GUI in GLUI for creating XML descriptions of human faces to send parameters to OpenGL vertex shaders. Added augmented reality capabilities to an OpenGL crowd simulation system using AR Toolkit. Currently working on shoaling simulations using OpenGL and CUDA to produce realistically looking behaviour on virtual fish.

October 2009 – November 2009
Capacitación y Desarrollo Integral, A.C.
Web and database developer. Developed a system for managing the organization’s cafeteria menus. Worked in a team of four. In charge of web application implementation using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with the jQuery library on the client side and PHP with a MySQL database on the server side. Used Ajax to communicate between client and server. Project available at http://julianapena.com/projects/cadi/

August 2009 – November 2009
Tec de Monterrey, Programming Project Class
Mobile game development with Java ME. Developed a cross-platform mobile 2D game. Worked in a team of three. Did most programming, including graphics and front end. Designed the program architecture using Object Oriented Programming principles.
Project available at http://julianapena.com/projects/metal-vs-pop/

February 2009 – November 2009
International Game Developers Association.
Lead of the Systems team for the local IGDA club. Developed a cross-platform minigame collection with a team of about 20 digital art and computer engineering students. Created a PBWorks workspace for team communication. Managed a Bazaar versioning system and an FTP server for code control.

Septemper 2008 – November 2008
Tec de Monterrey, Web Applications Development Department
Designed and implemented the campus’s mobile web site using JavaServer Pages with a team of other developers. Developed a system in which professors could post multiple-choice quizzes that students could solve on the go. Site: http://m.cem.itesm.mx

Spring 2008
IB Extended Essay
“An empirical comparison of the runtime of five sorting algorithms”
Developed, analyzed and compared sorting algorithms in Python.
Full text available at http://julianapena.com/projects/ib-extended-essay/

September 2007
Game development with Python
Developed a clone of the popular Breakout arcade game using the Pygame library.

August 2007
Centro Psicopedagógico Números y Letras
Web designer and developer. Designed and coded the business’ website using standards-compliant XHTML and CSS and an existing JavaScript Ajax library. Site: http://numerosyletras.com

For a further list and details of my projects, visit http://julianapena.com/projects/

Technical Skills

Languages
HTML/CSS/JavaScript – Advanced
C/C++ – Intermediate
Python – Intermediate
Java – Intermediate
PHP with MySQL – Beginner
C# – Beginner

Graphics and Game APIs
OpenGL – Intermediate
Java ME – Intermediate
CUDA – Beginner
XNA – Beginner

Operating Systems
Windows XP, Vista (user)
Linux (user)

Awards

August 2009
Award for Academic Excellence during Spring Semester, 2009

January 2009
Award for Academic Excellence during Fall Semester, 2008

August 2008
Excellence Scholarship for academic merit (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

July 2008
Merit award for best IB Diploma score in school’s graduating class (Asociación Andina de Colegios del Bachillerato Internacional)

June 2008
Excellence Award for best GPA in high school graduating class (Colegio Colombo Británico)