KEVIN CONROY

14110 Stanwood Terrace #302 kevinconroy@gmail.com

Rockville, MD 20850 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~meesh/kmconroy
Cell: 301-520-1104

EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMING
Senior Java Web Developer LANGUAGES
GlobalGiving / ManyFutures, Inc., Washington, D.C.  Java
April 2007 - Present  JavaScript,
 Designed, developed, and maintained all aspects of ECMAScript
 JSP
www.globalgiving.com including user experience, graphic design,  C/C++
business logic, and web development.  C#
 Worked with business team to design and develop co-branded  SQL
intranet web sites for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Gap  ASP/ASP.NET
 VB .NET
Inc, Applied Materials, and other Fortune 500 companies.  Perl
 XML/HTML
Research Specialist  SVG
Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, IL
August 2006 – April 2007 SKILLS
 Human-
 Worked in Systems Integration group researching software Computer
engineering, collaborative development, Web services, and Interaction
Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).  User Interface
 Developed extensible framework for adapting legacy applications Design
 Object Oriented
into Web services using a drag-and-drop interface.
Programming
 Developed a search engine and interface for finding relevant code  Test-Driven
samples and applications from a large repository of projects. Development
 Proposed and developed research projects on software  Rapid
engineering, collaboration, and next-generation IDE capabilities. Development
 Paper
 Helped define Accenture’s 2007 Technology Vision for software Prototyping
metrics and collaborative software development.  Agile
Techniques
Lead User Experience Designer and Software Engineer  SCRUM/XP
Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, MD TECHNOLOGY
June 2004 – August 2006 PROFICIENCIES
 Developed award-winning user interfaces for next-generation  Eclipse
television and home entertainment product (HoME™).  Eclipse Plug-ins
 Designed, prototyped, and implemented interface for all  Eclipse RCP
 Tomcat/Apache
television related components in product.
 Web Services
 Contributed over 80,000 lines of Java and 20,000 lines of (SOAP and
JavaScript to core software framework. REST)
 Implemented object-oriented MPEG-2 encoder/decoder in Java.  Google Web
Toolkit (GWT)
 Incorporated latest human-computer interaction research in  JUnit
prototypes and production systems.  Log4J
 Developed full-featured prototypes and conducted user studies.  Ant
 Created corporate human-computer interaction guidelines and  Axis/Axis2
 Hibernate
interface design process.
 Velocity
 Managed software engineering development for application layer.  J2ME, J2SE,
 Composed coding standards and software development life-cycle J2EE
for user experience software engineers.  OpenGL/JOGL
 OpenAL/JOAL
 Developed plug-ins for Eclipse to help programmers adhere to
 CruiseControl
coding standards and develop code more quickly.  JIRA/Bugzilla
 Ported software to J2ME platform for customer demonstrations.  MySql
 Mentored college intern for Fall 2005 semester.  Visual Studio
.NET
 SQL Server
 Represented company at conferences and in business meetings with
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several Fortune 500 executives.  Microsoft Office
 Macromedia MX
Research Assistant Suite
 Photoshop
Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory  Premiere
University of Maryland, College Park, MD  Windows XP
Advisor: François Guimbretière  Unix/Linux
February 2003 – May 2004
 Researched techniques that allow users to import hand-written PROFESSIONAL
annotations into digital documents. ACTIVITIES
 CHI 2006
 Expanded AbiWord word processor to incorporate proposed (Computer-
interactions and validate research. Human
 Presented research at ACM User Interface Software and Interaction
Technology (UIST) Conference 2004 and submitted paper to ACM Conference)
 UIST 2004
Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). & 2005
 Received J.R. Dorfman Prize for Best Undergraduate Research (User Interface
Project in College of Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Software and
Sciences for 2003-2004. Technology)
 CES 2005
& 2006
Teaching Assistant (International
Computer Science Department Consumer
University of Maryland, College Park, MD Electronics
Show)
September 2002 – December 2003  D3 2005
 Created and managed projects using SCRUM methodologies. (The Wall
 Answered students’ questions and provided corrective feedback Street Journal’s
during office hours. D3: All Things
Digital
 Supported Computer Science II (CMSC 214), Computer Conference)
Organization (CMSC 311), and Data Structures (CMSC 420).  Member of
Association for
User Interface Designer, Programmer/Analyst Computing
Machinery
ProList, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD (ACM), 2004 –
June 1998 – August 2003 (Summer and Winter Breaks) 2007
 Designed, implemented, and integrated web-based customer  Reviewer for
relations management (CRM) system with mass mailing facility. CHI 2006
Work-in-
 Created systems that improved relationships with existing
Progress Papers
customers and earned company certification as a Microsoft
Premiere Vender.

EDUCATION
 B.S. Computer Science with Honors, Magna Cum Laude – May 2004
University of Maryland, College Park
GPA: 3.9/4.0
 B.A. Economics, Magna Cum Laude – May 2004
University of Maryland, College Park
GPA: 3.9/4.0
 International Baccalaureate Diploma – May 2000
Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

 Conroy, K., Levin, D., Guimbretiere, F. ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word
Processor. Interacting with Computers. Submitted Nov. 2006.

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 Conroy, K., Levin, D., Guimbretiere, F. ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word
Processor. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2004 Companion (Peer-
Reviewed Demonstration), Oct. 2004, pp. 29-30.
 Hunleth, F., Gritton, C., Conroy, K., Stoner, R. Client-server architectures and
methods for zoomable user interfaces. United States Patent Application
#20050283798. Filed June 2005.
 Gritton, C., Aufderheide, D., Conroy, K., Goyal, N., Hunleth, F., Scheirey, S.,
Simpkins, D. Distributed software construction for user interfaces. United States
Patent Application #20060176403. Filed August 2006.
 Hunleth, F., Moshiri, N., Napier, W., Simpkins, D., Wroblewski, F., Conroy, K.,
Gritton, C. Methods and systems for enhancing television applications using 3D
pointing. United States Patent Application #20060184966. Filed August 2006.

AWARDS
 J.R. Dorfman Prize for Best Undergraduate Research Project in College of
Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences – May 2004
 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Computer, Mathematics, and
Physical Sciences – May 2004
 Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the first and only international honor society for the computing
sciences, UMCP Chapter – May 2004
 University of Maryland Honors Citation – April 2003
 National Society of Collegiate Scholars – April 2003
 Golden Key International Honor Society – September 2003
 President’s Scholarship, University of Maryland – 2000-2004