Key Skills

• Software Quality Assurance web application reliability, development of test cases that span applications/databases
   
• Design and development of spatial information and mobile computing systems, databases and software engineering projects
   
• Programming in Java, JSP, C++, CORBA, SQL, Prolog, Haskell, Smalltalk, assembly language, HTML, BASIC, NSBASIC and Visual Basic
   
• Environments: MS Windows, Macintosh OS, Linux, UNIX Shell, Palm OS, Windows CE, and Garmin, Magellan and Trimble GPS
   
• Proficiency Using: ArcGIS, UN PopMap GIS, GPS Pathfinder Office, Satellite and Pendragon Forms for creating palm computer data collection systems, PostgreSQL, MS Access, Office and FrontPage; JBuilder, Adobe PhotoShop and GoLive
   
• Languages: English (Native); Indonesian, Malaysian (Fluent); French, Javanese, Sundanese (Limited Working Proficiency)

Experience

• Teska and Associates Inc., Racine, Wisconsin
  As Principal Software Engineer, designing IT components of web-provided business quality management services, integrating NASA technology.
   
• Clark for President Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
  Project Manager for IT Quality Assurance
   
• Dynamic Alternatives Inc., Racine, Wisconsin
  Contracted programming and software component design and testing
   
• University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  Projects at the Spatial Information Research Centre
   
• Ministry of Welfare of Women and Children, Republic of Indonesia
  Data Collection and GIS Analysis
   
• US Department of State, Washington D.C.
  National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Internship
  Implemented electronic surveys, redesigned and made content updates as requested to Curriculum and Staff Development Intranet website, 2001
   
• SC Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin
  Global Information Services, Internship
   
• Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, Florida
  Redesigned and implemented MESI web site
   
• Kenosha County, Kenosha, Wisconsin
  Creation of Court Data Analysis and Reporting System under UW-Parkside guidance.  With 4 fellow students, designed and created software to identify trends and patterns in judicial action, 2001
   
• Community Educational Technology Labs, Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin
  Neighborhood & University Alliance (NUA/HUD) Project Manager UW - Parkside Work/Study - designed and structured a business/university collaborative to provide computers and training in their use to inner-city residents in two cities, 1999 – 2000
   
• Careers Industries, Racine, Wisconsin
  Contracted Researcher - investigated utilizing palm computers to access and update client records for this non-profit company serving mentally disabled adults, 1999
   
• Howard Hughes Science Foundation Research Grant recipient, West Java, Indonesia
  Studied Indonesia's family planning system for applicability to the U.S., 1998
   
• Howard Hughes Science Foundation and Beloit College Work/Study, Beloit, Wisconsin
  Researched products/platforms to develop a cost-effective system for connecting palm computers and GPS; integrated devices to create a mobile instrument for collecting mapping data in the field; wrote user manuals; successfully transferred data from palm to desktop computer and used GIS to convert the data into a map that could be overlaid with other data. (Similar commercial programs became available a year later), 1997- 1998
   
• Howard Hughes Young Science Scholars Grant Recipient Beloit, Wisconsin
  Developed a mobile electronic data collection application for scientific field research.  The application connected a temperature probe and other sensors to the Apple Newton and allowed researchers to collect temperature data and record their research notes in the palm of their hand, 1996
  

Honors

• Awarded NASA Software Use Agreement, 2003
   
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Spatial Information Science, University of Otago -- Spatial Information Research Centre (New Zealand), 2002
   
• First Place, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility: Student Essay Contest, Privacy,  2001
   
• Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for international humanitarian work, 2000
   
• First Place Winner, NS BASIC international mobile computer application programming competition, 1997
   
• Proposal accepted to conduct palm computer project with World Wildlife Fund, Indonesia, 1997
   
• Winner, The Tandy Prize: 1 of 100 top students in math, science and computer science, photo published in Time, Fortune, Forbes magazines, 1996
   
• Exchange Student of the Year, Rotary Indonesia, 1996 - 1997
   
• Winner, "Living the Dream" Speech and Essay Contest; met with Coretta and Dexter Scott King, 1995
   
• Selected for and participated in Presidential Classroom, Washington, D.C., 1995

Publications and Presentations

• Presenter/Teacher: Women in Technology Program for hands-on technology experiences for young women, UW-Parkside2004
   
• Teska, C. (2000), Field Test of Integration of Palm Computer-Collected Data with a Geographic Information System Database for the Republic of Indonesia, in 'Proceedings of the12th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand', pp. 253-258
   
• Work profiled in Beloit College Magazine, 1997
   
• Guest lecturer: UW-Parkside Geography 110 and 330, 2000
   
• Poster Presentations:
  • Australasian User Interface Conference, 2001
  • 12th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, 2000
  • University of Wisconsin System Research Symposium, 2000
    

Education

• Cum Laude B.Sc. Major Computer Science, Minor Biology 3.52 GPA, University of Wisconsin - Parkside (USA), 2002
   
• Conferences:
  • OpenGIS/GITA Emerging Technologies Summit: Spatial Web Services, 2003
  • GeoHealth/Spatial Information Research Colloquium, 2002
  • ALGIM Mobility and Wireless Seminar, 2002
  • Mobilizing the Enterprise, Mobile Computing Society, 2001
  • SC Johnson Global Information Services Conference, 2001
     
• SMA 4 Public High School, Exchange Student, Cirebon, West Java Indonesia, 1996-1997
   
• Walden III (Magnet) High School, Valedictorian 3.98 GPA, Racine, WI (USA), 1996