My Experience
- Qualcomm
Modem Software Engineer - Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Computer Engineering Major, Mathematics Minor - Undergraduate Research with Dr. C. Jules White
Algorithm Developer - Independent Study with Dr. Tom Martin
Product Developer - Fashion Show
Hardware/Software Engineer - Undergraduate Honor System
Associate Justice, Web Application Developer
- Embedded System Design
Hardware/Software Engineer - Koofers.com
Software Developer Intern - Blacksburg Electronic Village
Web Developer - concrete5 Content Management System
Freelance Web Developer
Qualcomm
The Spotlight
Pocket Talk: Read text messages aloud, or vibrate them in Morse code.
Pocket Talk is an open source
(GNU GPL v3)
Android application that reads text messages as they arrive. The application can be
configured to read the messages aloud, or vibrate them in Morse code. If the messages
are vibrated in Morse code, the speed of the vibration is configurable. The goal of
the application was to straddle the line between useful and silly, so people wouldn't
know what my motivation was. I'm still not going to tell you.
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Notable Projects
24, an automatic solver to a popular math puzzle
Audiovisual Display, A circuit designed for an HKN competition. The entry placed third and was presented to the department head.
Cannon, an Android-controlled pneumatic cannon powered By Arduino
Ecémon, a Pokémon-inspired Verilog project featuring ECE faculty at Virginia Tech
Graph Theory, a demonstration of Dijkstra's breadth-first search algorithm
Grid, a simplified drawing program
Interview Questions, a collection of my favorite interview questions I've encountered since 2007
Location, an example of geolocation in Javascript
Maintenance, a placeholder page made for Koofers.com
Math, a collection of scripts related to discrete math
Password Generator, a secure password generator written in Javascript
Pocket Talk, an open source (GNU GPL v3) Android application that reads text messages aloud and vibrates them in Morse Code
POV, a message generator for the MiniPOV3 kit
Quarternote, a video describing Quarternote, an Android music player designed to work in a car
Speed Test, a typing speed test
Statistics, a demonstration of hypothesis testing set to the tune of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Syncrod, a paper about an energy-minimization method for distributed file synchronization algorithms. The paper debuted at PECCS 2012.
WebBlaze, a web interface to program a Xilinx S3E board [offline]
XStitch, a program that converts any image into cross-stitch patterns
Zip Code, a RESTful interface to JSON zip code data given latitude and longitude. Database adapted from Boutell.
Real Life
Zach is one of the most talented and intelligent colleagues I have ever met.
- Matthew Hughes, Associate Chief Justice at the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Honor System
