The Team

Team Saon brings together 3 engineers with unique but complementary skills and interests.

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Arthur Pang
Joshua Conner
Nicholas Pallares

  • Arthur Pang

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    Courses of Interest:

    • CS 480 - Operating Systems
    • CS 421 - Algorithms
    • EE 412 - Digital Systems Design
    • EE 215 - Microprocessors

    Work experience

    Software Engineer at Yahoo! - Mobile Search
    • Prototyped a developed a tabbed web browser for the iPad.
    • Designed and built several touch-based UI components and controllers.

    Side Projects

    Liftroom.com: A social network for musicians built on Rails 3.1 and Backbone.js.
    • Epitomizes fat-client skinny-server architecture.
    • Developed a powerful MVC framework on top of Backbone.js, with components modeled after the Cocoa framework (view controllers, notification center, delegate pattern).
    KickBack: An iPhone app on node.js and the Rdio API that allows you to listen to music asynchronously with your friends.
    • Won ‘Best Crowdsourcing App’ at iOS DevCamp 2011.

    Proficient Skills

    Objective-c, iOS SDK, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, SQL. MVC architecture and design patterns.

    Comments

    I am a generalist designer and engineer. I am comfortable working at any level of the stack in any language necessary to do the job.

  • Joshua Conner

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    Courses of Interest:

    Completed:
    • CS 386 - Software Engineering
    • CS 421 - Algorithms
    • CS 212 - Web Programming
    In-progress:
    • CS 577 - Advanced User Interfaces
    • CS 193P - iPhone Application Development
    • CS 485 - iPhone GUI Independent Study

    Work experience

    Web Developer at 2b design and development
    • Designs, builds and maintains user-friendly, dynamic web sites and applications with PHP, mySQL, jQuery and HTML5.

    Side Projects

    jjjjjo.sh, a repository of neat stuff I’ve done, is perennially coming soon. Circle is a web and iOS app I built with a couple of friends to help people find events where they are.

    Proficient Skills

    Java, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, mySQL, Objective-C, MVC architectures, HTML5, CSS.

    Comments

    I’m really excited to work on this project. It sits at the intersection of many of my interests, and I can’t wait to do great things with it.

  • Nicholas Pallares

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    Upper division courses completed:

    • *CS301 Ethnics In Computer Science
    • CS315 Automata Theory
    • *CS345 Principles of Database Systems
    • *CS386 Software Engineering
    • CS396 Principles of Languages
    • CS413 Virtual Worlds
    • CS421 Algorithms
    • *CS480 Operating Systems
    • CS499 Contemporary Developments - Distributed Systems
    • MAT316 Introduction to Linear Algebra
    • MAT365 Modern Geometry

    Upper division courses in progress:

    • CS460 Computer Networks
    • *CS477 Advanced User Interfaces

    Work experience:

    None related to project.

    Special Skills:

    Some experience with web development from CS212 (Web Programming) elective

    Personal Interests:

    None related to project

    Comments:

    My resume may not be the best, however I’m very studious and will take this project seriously and complete it to the best of my effort.



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