CSC322.01 2016F, Class 05: Resume Reviews

Overview

Preliminaries

We are looking at resumes today because (a) there's a professional development part of CSC 322; (b) I think it helps in team building; (c) We'll have someone here on Thursday talking about tech resumes, so developing questions would be good; and (d) Janet put it in the class structure.

CS Table Tuesday: Passwords and more.
Convo, September 8 (Thursday, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101): Roberto Gonzales on "From Undocumented to DACAmented: Understanding Legal Status in a New Policy Context".
- Get a free copy of his book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by visiting Macy 203 during regular office times.
CS Extras Thursday: PM on PL.
AppDev Thursday

Positives
- Under the premise that this is correct, some of the teams feel very imbalanced.
Negatives
- Felt like a rushed experience, and then you get pegged into certain categories. Felt strange. (Goal is to be rushed, to see what seems more 'natural' to you.) (Unless your natural approach is analysis.)
- Frustrating that there were often "both" and "neither".
- Circular logic.
Questions
- Are all computer scientists strategic thinkers?

Read your colleagues' resumes. Assume you did not know them. What do the resumes tell you about the people you will be working with?

GAM

Irresponsible. Strategic.
Pretty. Well qualified. Well rounded.
Diverse experience, including tutoring. Doesn't know how to use technology.
Web and development experience. Takes the time to format resume well. Seems to have a direction he wants to go. Resume coheres.

Board Bank

Experience is primarily from classes. Worked as mentor. Probably someone who will help others.
Broad experience in many fields. Knows about lots of things. Likely to bring creative ideas.
Real-world experience. Experience in bioinformatics and econ. Experience using SCRUM, so will help us do agile.
Research and mentoring. Knowledgable.
Data visualization and visual art - can make UI better.

Resource Portal

Internship experience and concerts chair. Leadership potential.
Strong technical skills through great internship experience. Can explain things well. (Although that elicited laughter.)
Experience creating Web apps and working on different platforms. Likely to pick up the technology well. Can help us structure the app. Can help us deal with a big project.
Lot of startup and government experience. Can bring in real development techniques. Knows what a good team should be, and will help us become that team.
Lots of experience teaching people; will help us learn things that we don't know. Probably thinks well about organizing and providing information.

Head Start

Public speaking and communication skills. Will help us market it.
From local community. Knows schools etc. Can help contextualize and work with partners.
Working in groups, as assistant and as a manager. Can work well with others.
Two summers at IBM, working on SMS-based apps. Will know a lot about the technologies we'll be using. Passionate. Interesting technical skills.
Baseball captain - leadership skills. Tutor, so great at helping others.

How do the skills you identified in your group cohere?

What role(s) do you expect that each member of the group will play?

Manager - keeping people on task, making sure that everyone contributes and that everyone's voice is heard, etc.
Coordinator - interface with clients and alumni mentors.
Communicator - responsible for presentations.
UX.
Front-end developer.
Back-end developer.
Testing.
SysAdmin. (Installs, etc.).
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