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Benjamin Hatfield Smith
(859) 619-8076 2415 Everett Ave Raleigh, NC 27607		<firstname>_<lastname> AT ncsu.edu http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bhsmith3/
Objective
Seeking any position or opportunity to further my experience in industry or research and enrich my understanding of the software engineering process.
Education
BS in Computer Science North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC 05/2007, Summa Cum Laude GPA: 3.87/4.00		PhD in Computer Science North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC 05/2011 GPA: 4.00/4.00
Publications
Conference/Workshop Papers B. H. Smith and L. Williams, "An Empirical Evaluation of the MuJava Mutation Operators," Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques-MUTATION, 2007. TAICPART-MUTATION 2007, pp. 193-202, 2007. B. Smith, Y. Shin, and L. Williams, "Proposing SQL statement coverage metrics," Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on Software engineering for secure systems, pp. 49-56, 2008. Technical Reports Smith, B. and Williams, L., "On Guiding the Augmentation of an Automated Test Suite via Mutation Analysis." NCSU Computer Science TR-2008-9.
Relevant Coursework
Java Programming Discrete Mathematics Computer Organization and Logic Assembly Language Operating Systems Numerical Methods Requirements Engineering Design and Analysis of Algorithms Software Design		Software Engineering Ethics in Computing C/Software Tools Senior Design Project E-Commerce Independent Research Software Testing Statistics for Engineers Web Services
Work Experience
Research Assistant; North Carolina State Computer Science Department; Raleigh, NC; 5/2006-Present Conducted empirical studies and first authored corresponding papers Reviewed papers and attended conferences in software engineering Updated tutorials for course website describing installation and use of plugins for the Eclipse Development Environment Created several tutorials for use in course lessons Offered evaluation of various development packages and made recommendations as to which should be used for the course Performed technical support for students, answering questions and preparing codebases for course use
Technical Skills
Java/J2EE Perl/PHP C/C++ CSS HTML/DHTML JavaScript SQL Apple GarageBand Acid Music Software Testing		Adobe Premiere Microsoft Office Unix/Linux Windows Eclipse IBM's Rational Software UML Modeling Tomcat Server Administration VisualStudio
Honors
Gamma Beta Phi Upsilon Pi Epsilon Phi Kappa Phi		CSC Departmental Honors Program National Society of Collegiate Scholars Golden Key
Reviewer For	Websites, etc
Conferences ICST 2008 SECTEST 2008 ICSE 2008 RE 2008 Journals IET	MuClipse Plugin MuClipse Report iTrust Website Various OpenSeminar Tutorials ESEM 2009 Website