Running Start

I was in the Running Start program during my Junior and Senior years of High School which meant that I was taking college level classes at my local community college and receiving dual credit for both high school and college. So by the time I started at the University of Washington I was considered a Junior based on the number of college credits that I already had.

I applied to and was accepted into the Computer Science & Engineering program during my first year at the University of Washington.

Intel Research

I spent a quarter working on a research project at Intel Research in Seattle. We were working with these little battery powered sensors called motes that ran the TinyOS operating system. My research focused on time synchronization protocols between the sensors.

Windows 2000 Kernel Hacking

In my Operating Systems Capstone course we got to do some hacking on the Windows 2000 Kernel. There was a clean room setup with development machines that contained the Windows 2000 source code. No code or print outs of code were allowed to leave the room. My Capstone projects focused on making improvements to the Executive Memory Allocator inside of the Kernel. We experimented with lowering the bookkeeping overhead required for memory allocations.

Just missed the brand new CSE Building!

I graduated in 2003 after just 4 years at the University of Washington. Of course, a few months later a nice brand new Computer Science and Engineering building opened up. Meanwhile I had been stuck with the Beautiful Sieg Hall.

Sparkart

I started working for Sparkart in early 2001 during my first year at the University of Washington. By my final year I was working 40 hours a week as well as taking on a full time course load. I was completely immersed in all things computers and I loved it! I continued working for Sparkart for about 6 months after I graduated before moving over to Amazon.