Michael Schmidt

schmidm2@email.uc.edu


co-op or other experience and responsibilities

  • Performance Intern, Apple Inc. (2 quarters):

    • Ported Mac OS X command line benchmarks to Windows and Linux

    • Examined cross operating system high precision timers

    • Worked on graphics and game benchmarking in OS X and Windows

    • Investigated software performance issues

    • Ran performance workloads and analyzed results

  • Software Intern, Northrop Grumman Xetron (4 quarters):

    • Planned and created Windows applications

    • Expanded, debugged, and optimized existing Windows software applications

    • Developed Windows applications that interface with hardware devices

    • Worked with a technical writer to make a major revision to a user manual

skills/expertise areas

  • Programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic

  • Experience with cross operating system programming in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

  • Analyzing and optimizing software performance

  • Visual Studio GUI creation and integration

areas of interest/type of project sought

  • Portable electronics

  • Embedded microprocessors

  • Social networking

  • Software performance