Home: 471 Innsbrook Dr – Canton, MI 48188

Email: nickdurak@gmail.com

(Cell) Phone: 734-546-7001

 

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Game Development

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Expected Graduation: May 2016

• GPA: 4.0

• Honor’s College

• Dean’s List

 

Work Experience

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Software Development Intern in Power BI

May 2015 - August 2015

• Planned and implemented a set of heuristics to score a model's compatibility with Power BI's natural language feature

• Created a tool to provide model shaping suggestions based on a model's conceptual schema

• Utilized an English Parser to detect phrasings which should be added to a model based on telemetry utterances

 

 

Unique Systems Design Inc., Bloomfield, MI       

Embedded Software Development Intern

May 2014 - August 2014

• Developed boot loader in C for a vehicle battery monitoring system made of 9 ECUs and a gateway

• Designed boot loader to be flexible so that hardware specific components may be replaced

• Developed a C# Visual Studio boot loader tool to flash software to the ECUs on a background thread

• Implemented the J1939 CAN protocol for bus communication and debugged CAN messages

• Utilized existing hardware specific libraries to program the ECU

 

Michigan State University, College of Engineering, East Lansing, MI  

Research Assistant for Dr. Erik Goodman

April 2013 – May 2014

• Studied Genetic Algorithms for engineering problems and Agent-Based Modeling

• Maintained and modified a NetLogo simulation developed by another researcher

• Executed optimization software for NetLogo simulation over a 140 node computing cluster

• Analyzed results in Excel and ran comparative statistics

• Completed and published a report of findings in the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference

 

Hickory Creek Golf Course, Canton, MI

Cart Personnel (summer position)

August 2009 - August 2013

• Worked on a team responsible for cleaning and general maintenance of 80 golf carts to satisfy customers

• Trained new employees

 

Computer Tools and Programming Skills

• Proficient in C/C++ and C# including object-oriented concepts and applications

• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Angular JS

• Familiar with Microsoft SQL, PHP, NetLogo, Eagle (PCB design), and Racket (List/Scheme)