about me

about

My name is Kara and I'm a small-town girl from Western Florida who moved to the D.C. area. I'm now studying Computer Science at Virginia Tech. I am looking for a full time job on the West Coast in order to develop my technical skills and focus on software engineering and systems level software development.

Strengths

Learner Individualizer Ideation Command Responsibility

Virginia Tech

Computer Science, BS May 2017
Minor in Mathematics
College of Engineering
GPA: 3.44

Meyers Brigs

INTP

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

internships & work experience

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Managed project record keeping and team communications of 17 members including undergraduates, graduates, and faculty. Worked on large scale collaborative computing problems including system networking, image processing, human and computer interaction (HCI), data storage, and motion tracking
December 2013 - December 2014

Project Manager

Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology

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Prototyped social selling tool called Cart to help small businesses connect with customers via social media for direct sales through Facebook. Featured in Inc. Magazine.
April - November 2014

R&D Intern

Heyo

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Worked on Samsung Galaxy S7 modem chips to analyze and improve media download speed to preserve battery. Projects done in Perl, Python, and C#
May - August 2015

LTE SW Integration Team Intern

Qualcomm

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Invite only Android class by Udacity with Google mentoring and expense paid summit. Worked in teams to create applications to be completed in mini hackathon and compete at the summit.
March - August 2015

CodeU Student

Google

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Scaled and migrated internal tools for CPU and SoC Project Managment Teams
January - March 2016

Software Engineering Intern

Apple

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Designing and implementing 3D printer drivers to alter printing techniques that will lead to improved print stability and quality. Lead in technical decision making, design, and programming for Virginia Tech research project.
Spring 2017

Technical Lead

Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies

experiences & awards
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Grace Hopper Celebration
Sponsored by AWC@VT 2013
Google Travel Grant Recipiant 2014
CRA-W Research Scholar 2016
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Apple's World Wide Developers Conference
WWDC Scholar 2015 & 2016
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National Award for Aspirations in Computing from the National Center for Women and Information Technology
National Winner 2013
Speaker at 2014 VA/DC Affiliate Award Ceremony
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VTHacks
Steering committee member of iOS team 2015
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Virginia Tech Undergraduate Reserch in Computer Science
Award winner for Mirror Worlds Project 2014
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MHacks 6
Winner of Namecheap award 2015 for Finger Yoga iOS watch app
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Interciplinary Reasearch Honor Society
2nd place for Undergraduate Research 2014
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Qualcomm Women's Colligiate Conference
Attendee 2015
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Virginia Tech Honor's Residential College
Junior Fellow 2013
Creator of motto: "In fellowship all things grow."

Skills

Extensive Projects
~ 10k lines of code
  • Java
  • C
Moderate Projects
~ 2k lines of code
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Perl
  • Python
  • SQL
Small Projects
< 1k lines of code
  • Swift
  • Objective C
  • ActionScript
Small Exercises
< 300 lines of code
  • C++
  • Arduino
  • PHP
  • MATLAB
  • Ruby

projects

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Mirror Worlds
Undergraduate Research Project
2103
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Cart
Social Selling Tool for Facebook
2014
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Wheel of Eats
Android App
2015
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sysstatd Web Service
Basic HTTP 1.1 protocol web server
2015
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Bubble Pop
iOS game for the visualy disabled
2016
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Pintos
80x86 architecture operating system framework
2017

Organizations

AWC
Association for Women in Computing
SWE
Society of Women Engineers
NCWIT
National Center for Women and Information Technolgoy
CSSA @ VT
Computer Science Student Ambassador

LinkedIn

linkedin.com\karavaillancourt

Github

github.com\kvaillancourt

Email Address

kvaillancourt@vt.edu

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