Katie Owen

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science, 1998.
  University of Maryland University College College Park, MD.
• Bachelor of Science, Biology (Genetics Emphasis), 1994.
  University of Maryland at College Park College Park, MD.

Related skills:

• Languages: C++ (with Oracle and MSAccess), Java (with Oracle), C
• Operating systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/CE
• And, of course, web page design!

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer at MICROS Inc from 2000 to 2004.

Duties included continued development, support, and refactoring of C++, C, and Java programs in a Windows 9x/NT/2000 and CE environment. Worked on the Restaurant Enterprise Series 3000 (RES 3000) product, a series of integrated applications that includes Point-of-Sale, Enterprise Office, Restaurant Operations and Corporate Applications. One of the primary developers on the Kitchen Display System (KDS), a client/server system using primarily C++ on the server and a multithreaded Personal Java client using touchscreens and bumpbars. Wrote another client for KDS using C++ and proprietary 3rd party hardware. Currently on a team using COM+, HTTP, and XML/SOAP to allow the RES 3000 suite to use desktop CE clients.

Software Engineer at JJMA from 1998 to 1999.

Duties include full lifecycle development (including using UML) and support of C++ programs working with MSAccess and Oracle databases in a Windows 9x/NT environment primarily using MFC. Design and implementation of Java applets, applications, and servlets communicating with Oracle. One of the primary developers of the Cargo Arrangement and Routing Program and ADC(X) Cargo Flow Simulation (CARP-ACFS), a simulation of Navy replenishment systems for the US Navy ADC(X) program.

R&D Assistant at Oncor, Inc from 1996 to 1998.

Skills used include training employees to use software and to follow laboratory procedures, designing data capture methods using Excel, technical writing using information from molecular biology professionals to write SOPs according to partially established formats, data storage and maintainence, analyzing experimental data, troubleshooting, and learning and performing a variety of laboratory procedures. Familiar with FDA cGMPs and ISO 9000 requirements.

Faculty Research Assistant at Univ. of MD Center for Agricultural Biotechnology in collaboration with USDA from 1994 to 1995.

Worked in a basic research laboratory investigating the role of low molecular weight heat shock proteins in the heat stress response in plants (focusing on tomatoes), and in the development of plant thermotolerance, using modern nucleic acid and protein analytical techniques. Inserted LMWHSP genes from resistant carrot cells using agrobacteria into tomato plants which were cultivated in tissue culture.

Skills used include researching information from a variety of sources and integrating it into research plans and laboratory procedures, analyzing experimental data, troubleshooting, and performing a variety of molecular biology techniques.