BERNARD XIE
PROGRAMMER & DESIGNER
B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE '16
VITERBI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Hi, my name is Bernard Xie. I am a B.S. graduate of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I grew up in the megacity of Shanghai, China, but I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I started to build this website in July, 2014, with the purpose of having it as a little personal project to help jumpstart my interests and abilities in web development. As I have gone on to improve this website, I have found it rather useful to further showcase my other interests as well.
Originally slated to study Neuroscience on the Pre-Medicine track as a freshman, I was however always more of a person who wanted to be someone that could build new and interesting things and pursue creative ideas. This passion eventually overtook my interest in Medicine, and I transferred to USC's renowned Viterbi School of Engineering so I could study Computer Science and to learn the skills that would eventually help me fulfill this passion. The creation of this website was a testament to that continued desire.
My professional interests today include social entrepreneurship, product management, start-ups, web development, app development and graphic design, amongst others. I am hoping to being able to shape my professional goals with those interests in the future. Other interests I have include traveling, sports, cars, food, teaching, trivia and Chinese culture, which are subjects I can probably talk endlessly about.
Please do not hesitate to contact me under the 'Contact' section of this website. Thank you very much for visiting!
GPA: 3.45 | Major GPA: 3.77
Fall '12, Fall '14, Spring '15, Fall '15 Dean's List
Relevant Coursework:
August 2016 - Present
San Francisco, CA
LX Supply/Marketplace Team
June 2015 - August 2015
Bellevue, WA
12 week summer internship program where I interned on the Expedia Worldwide Engineering (EWE): EPC Portal team.
January 2015 - May 2016
Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate TA for Introduction to Programming in C++.
May 2014 - August 2014
Shanghai, China
Developed two separate android apps (Java/XML) within a team of 7:
1. A security app designed for parking lot security guards to track cars and security cameras.
2. An app to control one’s home appliances through their phone such as locks and lights.
January 2015 - May 2016
Los Angeles, CA
Cofounded chapter at USC. In charge of recruiting, outreach, managing internal operations and communication with clients. Also part of a team doing technical development for non-profits.
April 2014 - November 2015
Los Angeles, CA
Duties include managing the HackSC 2015 website, assisting in the designing the event logo, stickers, flyers, and other marketing merchandise to attract participants, particularly first time hackers. Staffed the event, taking care of any logistical issues for 600+ hackers and providing them with the best experience.
August 2013 - Present
Los Angeles, CA
Delta Omicron Zeta is a coeducational fraternity of diverse student leaders. The fraternity fosters the personal growth of our members though the observation and practice of leadership.
Specific duties included:
Built and maintains DOZ’s website: http://www.dozusc.org. Assisted in establishing Fall 14’ fraternity rush, principle designer in a four-person team that designed Spring 2014 Rush T-Shirts, themes, and other merchandise
August 2012 - Present
Los Angeles, CA
Competed in two intercollegiate MUN conferences:
UPMUNC 2012 representing Qatar in the SPECPOL Committee
MUN@SC 2013 representing Varys in the Game of Thrones Committee (Won Outstanding Delegate).
Further Duties:
Co-Chair - District 9 Committee at SCMUN 2014
The Goal of College Knowledge LA is to help low income high school students in Los Angeles to find free college prepatory resources
Ongoing project for our organization CTC. Implemented technologies include HTML/CSS, JS, Node.JS with a database supported by MongoDB. Personally participated in front-end and back-end development of the webapp using the above technologies.
Project developed for CSCI 310. A word cloud generator for scholarly articles with various functions. Developed in PHP, HTML/CSS, and Javascript, using the IEEE API.
Developed for CSCI 104 Data Structures/OOP Design Class. Application parsed text based files for links in C++ and implemented PageRank algorithm to display sorted text files using a Qt based GUI.