Member of Technical Staff @ Performing applied research in the domains of computer vision and audio. From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Research Intern @ • Created C# program to parse 25,000+ gpx files, clean waypoints of satellite acquisition jitter, and categorized routes based on calculations of average speed, max/min velocity, and distance to populate an internal database used for machine learning training and test data.
• Worked in a team to implement and test machine learning methods to produce route recommendations. From June 2013 to May 2015 (2 years) Owner, Photographer @ Services for: weddings, events, engagements, and high school seniors. From March 2008 to December 2014 (6 years 10 months) Software Development Engineer Intern @ • Designed and developed an internal Amazon service utilizing Java, Spring, AWS, SQS, and SNS.
• Designed and developed customer facing widget using Perl, Mason and JQuery, which used information requested from a back-end service.
• Participated in an internal computer vision and machine learning hackathon using Python and OpenCV to produce confidence values for binary classification. From May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) Greater Seattle AreaGraduate Teaching Assistant @ • Instructed students in Intro to Computing and Programming Concepts using Python and Data Structures using Java.
• Answered student questions, wrote homework and lab assignments, created program test cases, graded and provided feedback on student work.
• Created Python scripts for use in the intro computer science courses to automatically check for incorrect submissions, run grading test cases, and output feedback as a csv file to expedite feedback and simplify class management. From September 2013 to May 2014 (9 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.33 @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities From 2013 to 2015 Computer Science @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities From 2012 to 2013 Bachelor's Degree, Art, Anthropology @ University of Minnesota-Twin Cities From 2003 to 2008 Jessica McMillan is skilled in: Computer Science, Java, C++, Python, Software Development, CSS, Photography, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite, Image Editing, Portraits, Wedding Photography, Lightroom, Event Photography