David B. Calhoun
15520 Loretta Dr, La Mirada, CA 90638
(562) 706-4510
david.b.calhoun@gmail.com

Homepage: http://www.themaingate.net
Job History

April 2008-Present
WEB PROJECTS FOR HEADLINE MEDIA (CONTRACT WORK)

  • Small projects - updating and adding content to various websites.

November 2007-January 2008
QA TESTER AT ATLUS USA (Irvine, CA)

  • Tested Persona 3 FES for the Sony Playstation 2 prior to the game's release.
  • Captured video and still pictures from Persona 3 FES for use on the Atlus website.

February 2007-October 2007
QA TESTER AT JAVAGROUND USA, INC (Irvine, CA)

  • Administered J2ME Java-based "profilers" that profiled various aspects of cell phone capabilities, such as memory, audio, and fonts. This information was used to develop games tailor-made to each phone.
  • Revised and rewrote technical documentation for operating the profilers
  • Thoroughly tested games made (or ported) by the developers. Testing involved loading each game onto the phone and thorougly testing the game according to a test-plan.

September 2005-December 2006
IT HELPDESK STUDENT WORKER (Biola University in La Mirada, CA)

  • Assisted faculty, staff, and students diagnose and repair software and hardware issues on their computers (both PC and Mac OSX).
  • Reimaged computers to be used as stock.
  • Looked over a computer lab (helped patrons print documents, etc.)

September 2003-January 2005
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER (ITC) STUDENT WORKER (University of La Verne in La Verne, CA)

  • Designed and implemented the following PHP/MySQL databases: ULV Plant Database (relational database structure), Senior Project Database, ULV Recycling Database
  • Helped design database structure for SmartTracker, ITC's internal equipment tracking system
  • Setup computer equipment for educators, assisted with software and hardware problems
Education
Master's Degree
(Computer Science)
(In Progress)
California State University, Fullerton
Spring 2008 to Present
Fullerton, CA
     
Bachelor's Degree
(Philosophy)
Biola University
Fall 2004 to Fall 2006
GPA: 3.35
La Mirada, CA
     
  University of La Verne
Fall 2002 to Spring 2004
GPA: 3.81
La Verne, CA
     
High School Diploma La Serna High School
Fall 1998 to Spring 2002
Whittier, CA
Skills HTML Coding (plain text and WYSIWYG editor)
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Photoshop
CSS
JavaScript
PHP/MySQL
C++
Other Accomplishments

Webmaster of wwiaircombat.com. The website is all built from scratch (except for the gallery), and the news system runs on a custom-made CMS (content management system) that I also developed.

Designed the layout for megallana.com for a friend's portfolio.

PHP/MySQL Call Database for AMK Web (freelance project) (March-June 2007)

PHP/MySQL equipment tracking system for use in DTS QA department. (2005)

Converted online biological reference database from ASP/SQL database to PHP/MySQL database for Elasmoworld.org (now offline), which is linked by various academic websites (2004)

Wrote a PHP Tutorial for internal ITC use (2004)

References
Mark Marquez
(QA Lead at Javaground, Inc)
mark@javaground.com
   
Cedric Tisserand
(Former Manager of the Instructional Technology Center)
Ctisserand@aol.com
   
Steve Earle
(Manager of Biola Computer Support)
Steve.Earle@biola.edu