markhosang.com

e-mail:hosang@alumni.brandeis.edu

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Work Experience:

Greenbeacon Solutions Watertown, Ma

Consultant May 2004 – Present

Customize each of the 3-tiers of Onyx: XML/com, SQL, ASP layers; Designed and implemented

various .NET based windows application that integrate with Onyx to perform user initiated imports

or integration points between multiple systems on-site and off-site

Concentra Integrated Services Waltham, Ma

Technical Assistant for Client Services May 2003 – May 2004

Project Manager for client based extranet site creation; Redesigned internal application documentation

template for Application Deployment Process(ADP); Completed ADP documentation for various

internal applications; Researched and assisted in development for streamlining ADP documentation

into a web-based solution using ASP.NET

Brandeis University Waltham, Ma

Researcher/Writer Summer 2001

Investigated new approaches to lossless dictionary-based encoding of text files, resulting in published

paper presented at poster session at Data Compression Conference 2002.

Published Works:

“A Character Elimination Algorithm for Lossless Data Compression”

Data Compression Conference Proceedings 2002

Skills:

• Programming Languages: C#.NET 1.1, Javascript, VBscript, vb6 COM, MSSQL, Java, C/C++,

Perl, Scheme, Lisp, Matlab

• Applications: Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, MS Project 2002,

Netbeans 3.5, Matlab R13, Dreamweaver

• Spoken Languages: intermediate Japanese (JLPT level 3)

Education:

The Yamasa Institute: Okazaki, Japan
AIJP Accelleration Program July-Nov 2006
4 month intensive Japanese study
International Academy of Youth: Sapporo , Japan

Short Program, September 2003

4 week intensive Japanese study with home-stay

Brandeis University : Waltham, Massachusetts

Master of Arts in Computer Science, 2002-2003

IES Tokyo : Tokyo, Japan

Summer Program, June – Aug. 2002

6 week intensive study of Japanese with home-stay

Brandeis University : Waltham, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors, 1999-2002

Honors Thesis: “A Lossless Data Compression Algorithm for EKGs”

Courses Include: Analog & Digital Electronics; Computer Graphics; Data Compression; Database

Systems; Interface Design; Machine Learning; Streaming Database Systems

Coursework Includes: Simulating a file system’s disk and cache I/O, Java 2D based shooter game,

Using a neural network to design a better poker player, Groupware for a shared planning system,

Completely redesign of TiVO, Lossless text compressor (led to research internship and published paper)

Interests:

Rollerblading, Snowboarding, Photography, Multimedia editing, Video games