Stacie Merz

stacie.merz@gmail.com


co-op or other experience and responsibilities

  • Project Manager, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA (4 quarters):

    • Helped create and manage a database in MS Excel and MS Access to hold data from observations. Held a lead role in creating and managing this temporary reporting tool that created more than 500 reports each month. Observed the permanent online system being created and was involved in the testing of this system.

    • Programmed a scheduling system consisting of 60 facilitators and 25 classes per day with VBA in MS Excel. Decreased the time spent on this process from approximately 16 hours to 3 hours. Observed this project grow in size as it was being automated because of changes in organization.

  • Software Engineer, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR (2 quarters):

    • Worked in a security group creating a fuzzer that will be used to find security vulnerabilities on Intel products. A fuzzer is a security tool that enters random input into an application as an attempt to break it. Gave to internal customers who will use it to fuzz their products.

    • Researched third-party fuzzers and created a reference document to be used by all team members.

  • Engineers Week Co-Chair, Engineering Tribunal, University of Cincinnati (3 quarters):

    • Organized 2008 Engineers Week which included planning a banquet for 350 people, finding sponsors, and organizing competitions between students throughout the week.

skills/expertise areas

  • Knowledge of C++, C, Python/C extension, Java, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), HTML, CSS, PHP, Assembler, Lisp, Fril

  • Experience with Adobe Photoshop 6.5 and 7.0, Adobe PageMaker, Mathematica 5.0, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Hyperion (Brio)

areas of interest

  • Software development

  • Web development

  • Secure code development

  • Computer Science education for high school students

type of project sought

  • To create a tool that will provide a metric for moving from one state to another in a deterministic finite state automata in order to analyze processor security.