674 Nichole Lane Phone: (630) 397-9293
Geneva, Illinois 60134-3715 http://www.jurand.net
U.S. Citizen jurandnogiec@alumni.illinois.edu
A position in software development or computer security.
Master of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign expected May 2012
Certificate, Business Management for Engineers, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2010
Summary:
2 years full-time at temporary positions. 5 years, part-time work.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Teaching Assistant 2010-Present
TA in two graduate-level computer security courses.
Network Technician (Part-time) 2007-2010
Troubleshot and repaired computer and network issues in University Residence Halls.
Monitored networks for security incidents. Provided consulting on computer and network problems to
students.
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland
Software Developer June-August 2011
Extended Indico, a large-scale Python-based contents management system used for conference
management, by adding replication to its data management system. Evaluated performance and
scalability of ZRS and neoppod ZODB object database replication systems.
Alcatel-Lucent, Naperville, Illinois
Software Engineer June-August 2010
Designed, developed, and documented a data regression testing framework for telecommunications
configuration files. Used Java (including JUnit and TestNG), XML, and proprietary Network Element data
retrieval API.
Software Engineer June-August 2009
Performed ethical hacking and penetration testing of a VoIP Session Border Controller. Used
security auditing tools (Nessus, Codenomicon, nmap, Ethereal, Wireshark, and SIP flood tools).
Software Engineer June-August 2018
Developed migration software for telecommunication features working in an international team.
Used Java, XML, Eclipse SDK, XSLT, and C on UNIX platform.
Google Inc.
Student Developer, Google Summer of Code June-August 2008
Extended and improved nmap, an open-source security scanning tool included in the standard Linux
distributions. Corrected various issues, proposed extensions and developed a more intuitive version
of a GUI with a context-sensitive help system. Used Python, PyGTK and C on the Linux and Windows
platforms.
Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Batavia, Illinois Jun-Aug 2007, Jun-Aug 2006
Network Administrator, Software Developer Jun-Aug 2005, Jun-Aug 2004
Provided support for computer systems and networks. Troubleshot problems, corrected issues,
installed operating systems and applications and deployed computer systems.
Co-developed and supported a Zope Plone based content management system.
mtvU (Viacom International, Inc.) Sep. 2006 - Jan. 2007
Freelance Technology Researcher
Researched, assessed and described novel and unique internet and technology developments.
B. Daniel, D. Dig, T. Gvero, V. Jagannath, J. Jiaa, D. Mitchell, J. Nogiec, S. H. Tan, and
D. Marinov. ReAssert: A tool for repairing broken unit tests. In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Software Engineering, Honolulu, HI, May 2011.
Co-developed the video games Frantic Elevator and quantumS using C++, DirectX, C and Microsoft
XNA for ACM sponsored GameBuilders Project (2006-2008).
Developed freedible.com, a web-based campus-wide food events calendar application. Used PHP,
MySQL, calendaring software, and the Facebook API (2007).
Extended ReAssert, a Java tool to automatically correct and re-generate JUnit test cases (2010).
Co-developed a family of games that are based on a common framework and use the Kinect motion
sensing input device (2011).
Developed a user space Linux thread library with Mesa-like monitors for synchronization (2011).
Analyzed and constructed Client Honeypot computer security scanning tools (2011).
Developed Illini Tutor Search, a campus WWW site, using PHP, MySQL and AJAX jQuery (2012).
Illinois Technology Association Fall Challenge Finalist (2011)
Universities Research Association (URA) Scholarship
Dean’s List during B.S. in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ICTM Mathematics Championships, Finalist team at Regionals
Core Languages: Java, C++, C, Python
Other Languages: MIPS, PHP, SQL, XML, XSLT, HTML/CSS, UNIX shell scripting, OCaml, Ruby, Smalltalk
Systems: Linux, Windows, UNIX, MacOS, Apache, relational (MySQL) and object-oriented (ZODB) databases,
POSIX threads (pthreads), content management systems (Plone), SVN, git, Eclipse IDE, Unit testing (JUnit),
Software verification tools (Java PathFinder)
Programming: object-oriented design and programming, design and architectural patterns, system and kernel
programming, concurrent programming, agile methodologies.
System Administration: computer system administration, configuration and installation of systems, problem
troubleshooting, computer and network security, networking, hardware installation
ACM, SIAM, IEEE