Daven Hiskey
resume 3/01/2008
daven@hiskey.us
www.hiskey.us
Everett, WA USA

Experience
2007 - Present Graduate T.A. for the Computer Science Department, WWU
- T.A. for CS 140 two quarters (Programming with C++)
- T.A. for CS 138 one quarter (Programming with Visual Basic)
- T.A. for CS 202 one quarter (Basic Web Development, HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc)
- T.A. for MIS 314 one quarter (Web Development using PHP and MySQL)
2005 - 2008 Web Programmer at the Center for Instructional Innovation, WWU
- Design web applications to assist WWU professors and the Center for Instructional Innovation.
- Primary technologies used are Visual Studio, SQL Server, and ASP.NET
2006 WWU Sumo-Robotics competition.
- My robot "Rocky" vanquashed all it's foes and I won the Sumo competition. Check it out here
2001-2005 Hollywood Video, Bellingham, WA
Senior Shift Leader
- opening/closing duties, balance all registers, change security tapes, oversee house money and candy concession.
- Deal with customer concerns and complaints
- Perform physical inventory every three months.
- Oversee performance of associate GSRs and Shift Leaders. Create work schedule for the store on a weekly basis.
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Western Washington University
- Senior Project focused on creating an online community portal using ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX technologies (Yogurt Spread).
Web Certificate issued by the Computer Science department at Western Washington University
M.S. Computer Science, Western Washington University (anticipated Winter 2009)
Exemplary Projects
Won the 2006 WWU Sumo-Robotics Competition with my Sumo-bot, Rocky
Designed, maintain, and host RateMyEverything.net which currently receives over 4 million hits per month
Create a web spider / search service as a final project in Computer Science 442
Built an online application "Calypso", that allows professors to create and maintain syllabi.
Currently building an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (more details coming soon)
Relavant Coursework
- Win32 Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Computer Networks
- Robotics
- Operating Systems
- Web Development / Design
- Design/Analysis of Algorithms
- Formal Languages / Automata
- Parallel Computing
- Machine Learning
- Windows and BSD Driver Development
- Information Retrieval
- Research Methodologies
- Physical Computing