James W. Easton
(361) 484-1245 |
jweaston99@gmail.com
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http://jweaston99.myddns.me/aboutme.html
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant Internship, University of Houston-Victoria
, Victoria, Texas | Summer 2018
Duties: Researcher for the Army Educational Outreach Program on background subtraction algorithms
and parallel processing with GPUs through NVIDIA’s CUDA API. Worked on a group project to build a
virtual environment for drone control and operation.
Maintenance Contractor, Liberty Group
, Austin, Texas | Summer 2019
Duties: Make ready for apartments, trash compacting and pickup, pool maintenance, miscellaneous tasks
Ranch Hand, Gordon Equites
, Victoria, Texas | Summer 2016 & Winter Break 2018
Duties: General maintenance, painting, hauling, pasture burning, firewood splitting
Greeter/Cashier, Victoria College - Museum of the Coastal Bend
, Victoria Texas | Summer 2015
Duties: Greet guests, answer questions about exhibits, oversee gift shop, atlatl throwing demonstrations
EDUCATION
University of Texas - Austin, B.S. Aerospace Engineering |
2017 to 2021 | GPA:3.5
Engineering Design Graphics, Engineering Computation, Applied Thermodynamics, Mechanics of Solids,
Engineering Communication, Low-speed Aerodynamics, Structural Dynamics, Linear System Analysis,
Spacecraft Dynamics, Compressible Flow, Flight Dynamics, Applied Orbital Mechanics, Feedback Control
Systems, Elements of Software Design, Intro to Scientific Computation, Attitude Dynamics, Propulsion,
Electromechanical Systems
PROJECTS
Built prosthetic hand for an 8-year old girl using 3D printer
Lead Rocksim modeler and designer for rocketry class for J motor size rocket
Reverse engineered wind-up car, modeled using SolidWorks, and 3D printed
Built headless SSH server, using Ubuntu and old PC parts for home use
Operated wind tunnel to collected data for flow over airfoils and other bodies and compiled data with
Excel for lab report
SKILLS
Strong computer skills, including operating systems (Windows 7, Windows 10, Linux, macOS)
Competitive knowledge of MS Office products (Word, Excel, and Access)
Basic knowledge of Python, Java, C++, MatLab, LabView, HTML, CSS
Working knowledge of LaTex, SolidWorks, 3D printing
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Place, Hydraulic Arm Competition, SPARK Engineering, Texas A&M University| 2017
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Place, Rube Goldberg Machine Competition, SPARK Engineering, Texas A&M University | 2016
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Place, UIL Computer Science District | 2016, 2017
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Place, Math/CompSci Awareness Day Computer Science Test, U of H-Victoria, Spring 2017
Author on two papers pending publishing by International Symposium on Visual Computing on
background subtraction algorithms | Summer 2018
