Jeff Walden

• Objective

  To obtain employment at MIT while furthering my knowledge of operating systems and software with which I am (or may not yet be) familiar.

• Formal Education

  Walled Lake Central High School

  Walled Lake, MI

  • 1st in class of over 500, June 2004 — 4.0 unweighted GPA
  • ACT: 34; SAT: 780 verbal, 800 math; 5/5 on physics, calculus, chemistry AP exams, 4/5 on English, European history exams
  • National Honor Society; varsity soccer, 2002/2003 seasons; spotlight operator in 3 musicals, stagehand during 4 plays

  MIT

  Cambridge, MA

  • Seeking SB in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Relevant classes: Introduction to Technical Writing (21W.732), Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (6.001), and currently Mathematics for Computer Science (6.042), Circuits and Electronics (6.002), and Artificial Intelligence (6.034)

• Work Experience/Training

  • Boy Scout Junior Leader Training Conference (July 2002)
  • CAD designer for architecture firm (June 2002–Aug. 2004)
  • Refereed youth soccer games for two local leagues (Spring 2000–2004)
  • Moved furniture and boxes for a moving company (Summer 2005)

• Leadership

  • Organized two Boy Scout backpacking trips as a Vice–Chief of Activities (Spring 2002–Spring 2003)
  • Served as senior patrol leader during a week-long Boy Scout summer camp (Aug. 2002)
  • Developed a 6–hour leadership course based on JLTC and used it to teach other youth Boy Scout leaders (Oct. 2002)
  • Coordinated and directed an Eagle Scout service project to purchase and construct 6 benches for a 100–person outdoor amphitheater to benefit a local church (Feb.–June 2004)
  • Coordinated the Mozilla Firefox Help Viewer and End-User Help projects (Sept. 2004–present)

• Skills

  • End–user documentation creation, critiquing, and proofreading
  • Website creation (http://whereswalden.com/, http://web.mit.edu/spinningscience/bs/, one-time webmaster for http://www.troop326.us/)
  • Web linguae: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, W3C DOM scripting ("DHTML")
  • Server-side programming: PHP, Perl, SSI, some Python, database-driven web applications
  • Mozilla development: XUL (XML UI Language), a little XBL (a binding language), some XPCOM
  • General-purpose: some C/C++, a little C# and Java, the Lisp derivative Scheme

• Honors/Awards:

  • Eagle Scout (Aug. 2004)
  • Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (2004)
  • National Merit Semifinalist (2004)
  • National Spelling Bee finalist, 1998–2000 (85th, 50th, and 5th of roughly 250)