Zack Coburn

College: MB 283, Olin College, Needham, MA 02492
Home: 27 Goss Road, North Hampton, NH 03862
zack@zackcoburn.com

Education

Needham, MA Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

  • Graduating in 2010 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Awarded Full-Tuition Olin Trustees Scholarship. Courses available online at http://zackcoburn.com/home/college.

Awards and Recognition

  • Babson College Alumni Association Student Business of the Year Award — Finalist (2007)
  • Siemens Competition — Semifinalist for "Sequences in the Collatz 3x+1 problem" (2005)
  • ArsDigita Prize for young Web developers — Winner (2001)

School Projects

Fall 2008 Financial Modeling - High frequency trading with an artificial neural network

  • Worked with a partner to develop a trading system using MATLAB and a neural network

Fall 2008 Computer Architecture - Believable Twitter agents

  • Worked with a partner to create believable Twitter agents capable of penetrating communities within the social graph

Fall 2007 Principles of Engineering - Hovercraft

  • Worked with a team to engineer a working hovercraft

Spring 2007 Artificial Intelligence — Poker playing agents

  • Worked with a team to create Texas Hold'em poker-playing agents

Work Experience

June 2008 – August 2008 Special Ops Assistant to the CEO at Rapleaf

  • Built several Ruby on Rails applications and a SalesForce application

May 2007 – August 2007 Participant in Google Summer of Code

  • Built EfficientRails, an application that helps developers identify inefficiencies in Ruby on Rails applications (mentored by Ruby Central, Inc.)

October 2006 – January 2008 CTO at Moses Marketing Ventures, LLC

July 2006 – May 2007 CEO at Zeegry, Inc.

July 2003 – April 2008 Intern and Consultant at Calypso Communications

  • Built a Web application for project, client, and time management
  • Programmatically generated survey results for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Public Service of NH, and Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc.

December 2003 – present Freelancer for various companies

  • Spock Inc., Safe Wheels Driving School LLC, and Benson's Driving School LLC

Computer Experience

  • Web programming — XHTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, ASP/VBScript
  • Programming languages — OCaml, Erlang, Java, C++, Perl, Visual Basic

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