Julie Rico

Website:  http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jrico

Email:  jrico@uci.edu

1. ACADEMIC HISTORY

2004-2008       Bachelor of Science in Informatics (to be completed 2008)

University of California, Irvine

·        GPA: 3.785

            2006                Study Abroad Program in History

                                    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

·          6 week study program focusing on Celtic, Scottish and Irish history and cultural experience.

2. AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2007 Golden Key Honour Society

This international organization recognizes high achieving students through invitation only membership in this honour society.

2007                Erin Gruwell Scholar

This honorary scholarship awarded for excellence in public speaking on behalf of Orangewood Children’s Foundation.

2006                Information and Computer Science Honors Program

Acceptance to this program based on academic achievement and research potential.  Program includes one academic year of research under advisement from a faculty member.

2006                Pride@Boeing Award

This award was given for contributions to Boeing’s Chromate Free programs.  My role in this project included preparing samples of aluminum pre-treatments on site for Boeing in order to begin Boeing’s extensive testing process.

2004-Current   Dean’s List

                        8 Quarters (out of 9) of inclusion on Dean’s List.

2004-Current   Sponsored Orangewood Children’s Foundation Scholar

                        Personal sponsorship of this scholarship awarded based on academic achievement.

2004-Current   Foresters Scholarship Recipient

                        Merit-based scholarship awarded from the Foresters Foundation.

3. LEADERSHIP/VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

2006-2007       American English in Action Tutor

For two quarters, I participated as a conversation partner for a Japanese exchange student to help with adjustment to American Society and practice with spoken English. 

            2005-2006       Webmaster for the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority

                                    Created and managed a website for Gamma Phi Beta.

2004-2006       Informatics Student Association (INSA) – Treasurer and Founding Member

As treasurer, I kept track of and managed  INSA finances as well as participated in creation of INSA,  securing funds for INSA, and planning events and promoting INSA as a whole.

4. WORK/ INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

2006-Current   Computer Resource Specialist at the University of California, Irvine

                        My responsibilities include managing a database of students associated with the office of Student Academic Advancement Services (SAAS), running queries and preparing reports of data. Other responsibilities include building and maintaining a website for the SAAS office and essential participation in providing data for yearly report of office statistics. 

2005-2006       Webmaster at Deft Inc.

I worked on a new website for the company.  This included holding interviews with employees to determine needs and designing a new look and feel for the website.

2004-2006       Laboratory Technician at Deft Inc.

I worked in a laboratory setting, preparing samples for experiments, running and documenting experiments, as well as completing analysis of results.  Some travel experience, traveling in order to prepare on-site samples for prospective customers and demonstrate techniques used.

5. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2007-Current Mopix

·        Advisor:  Professor Paul Dourish

·       Location: University of California, Irvine

The Project

Mopix is a mobile application that allows users to upload photos taken on the mobile phone to a public display that creates various visualizations of the uploaded photos. These visualizations are intended to provide social awareness information using photos taken at distributed locations. My responsibilities in this project include server side implementation of application and interface design and implementation of mobile application.

2007                Gender and Technology in the Workplace

·        Advisor:  Professor Gloria Mark

·        Location:  University of California, Irvine

The Project

In my study of multitasking at an organization, I used ethnographic methods to observe male and female participants at work.  After observations were complete, each participant was interviewed individually.  The project aimed to gather data to help determine what gender differences exist in multitasking practices and why they occur.

2006-2007       Information and Computer Science Honors Program

·        Advisor:  Professor Paul Dourish

·        Location:  University of California, Irvine

RhythIMs

This project included using data about temporal patterns of Instant Messenger usage in an interactive/ambient display.  My thesis was about the ways of designing interaction for such a display which includes interactive and ambient aspects as ways of using the display. My responsibilities in this project included web interface implementation and working with Bluetooth devices as sensors for the interactive display.

2006                CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Participant

·        Mentor:  Professor Victoria Interrante

·        Location:  University of Minnesota: Twin Cities

The UML Wall

Research project involved using a large, 3D display and a virtual space to visualize the gap between system level designs and implementation level design.  Project involved using a virtual scale of abstraction which displayed varying diagrams based on the user’s position in the virtual space. My responsibilities included creating a project idea and plan, implementing the application, and running user studies using that application.