Jeff Walden

• Education

  Walled Lake Central High School

  Walled Lake, MI

  • Graduated 1st in class of over 500, June 2004 — weighted GPA 4.2/4.0 (4.0/4.0 unweighted)
  • 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

  • Majoring in course 6, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — current degree plan is SB in Computer Science and Engineering
  • Projected graduation date: June 6, 2008
  • Classes: General Chemistry, Multivariable Calculus, Introduction to Technical Writing, Physics I with Theory, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Organic Chemistry I, Physics II, Differential Equations

• Work Experience

  • Created CAD designs of houses and additions from hand drawings for architecture firm (June 2002–August 2004)
  • Refereed youth soccer games for two local leagues (Spring 2000–present)

• Leadership

  • Organized two weekend backpacking trips for an Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouting's National Honor Society) chapter as Vice–Chief of Activities (Spring 2002–Spring 2003)
  • Learned leadership techniques at a week-long Junior Leader Training Conference, gaining valuable management skills (July 2002)
  • Developed a 6–hour leadership course based on JLTC and used it to teach other youth Boy Scout leaders (October 2002)
  • Served as senior patrol leader during a week-long Boy Scout summer camp, balancing classes and activities with the constraints of leadership (August 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 (February–June 2004)
  • Served as module owner for the Mozilla Firefox Help Viewer and End-User Help projects, ensuring the presence of quality help documentation in Firefox 1.0 (September 2004–present)

• Skills

  • Computer languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, W3C DOM scripting ("DHTML"), a decent amount of C/C++, PHP, Perl and some Python, the Lisp derivative Scheme, Mozilla's XUL (XML UI Language), some experience writing database-driven web applications
  • End–user documentation creation, critiquing, and proofreading — learned as part of the Mozilla Firefox End-User Help project, which provides built-in Help for the Firefox web browser (October 2003–present)
  • Website creation (http://whereswalden.com/, http://web.mit.edu/spinningscience/bs/, one-time webmaster for http://www.troop326.us/)

• Honors/Awards:

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