Austin Thiel
GitHub | LinkedIn | hello@austinthiel.com | 949.300.2580
EDUCATION
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | BS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
EXPECTED DEC 2016
Minor in Mathematics • Major GPA: 3.4
YONSEI UNIVERSITY | SEMESTER ABROAD
FALL 2015
Seoul, South Korea
EXPERIENCE
CHAPMAN IS&T | SUPPORT ENGINEER
MAY 2015 - AUG 2015
• Resolved 20-40 support tickets per week regarding VMWare, web connectivity, and hardware troubleshooting
on both Windows and OS X
• Managed thousands of deployed computers and printers in Active Directory
• Recovered $150,000 worth of Mac computers lost in inventory by executing targeted IP scans in Recon
CHAPMAN SERVICE DESK | SERVICE DESK ENGINEER
FEB 2014 - FEB 2015
• Built a web service with C# and Bootstrap that uses a barcode scanner to empower 40 employees to handle
web-based checkouts
• Maintained over 2000 campus computers both remotely and physically
RESEARCH
MLAT AUTISM LAB | UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER
MAY 2015 – AUG 2015
• Led the development of the first ever virtual reality game for treating Autism Spectrum Disorder that captures
metrics for user interaction, joint attention, and anxiety. Advised by Dr. Erik Linstead. Written in Java and C#
• Implemented speech recognition for user input and a state pattern for dynamic responses
• Presented a research poster and gave a talk on the future of virtual reality as an assistive technology
SKILLS
LANGUAGES (PROFICIENT)
Java • Python • C++
FRAMEWORKS/LIBRARIES
Bootstrap • MVC • PyML
LANGUAGES (FAMILIAR)
C# • Javascript • CSS • PHP • SQL
SOFTWARE
Linux • Git • SVN • SSH
PROJECTS
WAYPOINT | AWARD WINNING ANDROID APP
MAR 2015 – MAY 2015
• Utilized Google Maps API to build a navigation app in Java for users prone to getting lost or disoriented. Won
first place at UC Irvine’s 3rd Autism App Jam
MINIC COMPILER | COMPILER DESIGN FINAL PROJECT
AUG 2015 – DEC 2015
• Designed a scanner and parser in Java that performs full syntactical and semantic analysis of programs based on
a subset of C
FACEBOOK WEB | SNAP DATA ANALYSIS
OCT 2014 – DEC 2014
• Constructed several graph analysis algorithms in C++ to analyze a SNAP data set from Stanford and evaluate
connections between social circles on Facebook