Software engineer with a knowledge of computer forensics and security, and a passion for music and sports. Specialties: Ruby, RoR, RSpec, Cucumber, HAML, JavaScript. Experience with: Java, C#, C++, C, XML, SQL, HTML, PHP, CSS, SASS, AJAX, JSON, Perl, XQuery, ASP.NET, Verilog, Assembly. Tools: Vim, Git, CI, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Android SDK, EnCase, Dreamweaver, MS Expression, XML Spy, Apache, SVN, SQL Server, MySQL, JDBC, MSMQ, PC Duo, Bugzilla, MS Office, Oracle, Facebook API, Android SDK, Java Native Interface, Xilinx.

Software Engineer @ From February 2012 to Present (3 years 11 months) Web Developer @ Helped code back-end foundation of a startup e-commerce/social marketing website (PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript). From June 2011 to September 2011 (4 months) Technical Director @ Provided QA, added content to an entertainment startup website led by TV executive Fred Silverman. Provided technical support for hosts and users, provided all-around IT support in-office. From January 2011 to June 2011 (6 months) Webmaster @ Created and maintained a website for a family photography business. From July 2010 to December 2010 (6 months) Software Development Intern @ • Helped create tests for software concerning financial trading applications • Exposure to test driven development From December 2009 to January 2010 (2 months) Software Development Intern @ • Worked three consecutive summers as an intern in a 40-person I.T. department within a global futures brokerage firm. • Updated several background processes on servers, created Windows Forms, fixed bugs (C#). Assisted in Quality Assurance. • Lead developer of a task involving the trial version of the company’s trading software (C#, SQL, ASP.NET). • Assisted another developer in coding to receive trade information from a third party vendor, parse it, save it to a local database, and ultimately send the necessary information to a national clearing house (Java, Java Native Interface, C++, MSMQ, SQL). • Worked on a second project similar to the above (C#, managed C++, MSMQ). Code that I wrote during the summers of 2007 and 2008 is still in use within the company. From May 2007 to August 2009 (2 years 4 months) Counselor @ From June 2006 to August 2006 (3 months) Volunteer @ • Volunteered throughout most of high school junior year. Assisted a graduate student with designing graphics to model data concerning electron correlation in excited magnesium atoms. • Co-author of published article in the international science journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The graphics that I helped design were featured both in the article and on the cover of the journal. From August 2004 to May 2005 (10 months)

M.S., Computer Science @ University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering From 2010 to 2011 B.S., Computer Science @ University of Southern California From 2006 to 2010 University of Chicago Lab High School From 2002 to 2006 Christopher Gordon is skilled in: Java, C#, C++, XML, SQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HAML