Madeleine Austin

 MadeleineE. Austin

Madeleine E. Austin

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Biography

University of Washington - Computer Science



Experience

  • University of Washington

    CSE 14x TA

    • Develop lesson plans and teach 25 students about programming fundamentals including object-oriented design, good control flow, and basic data structures
    • Plan and conduct review sessions to prepare students for homework and exams
    • Grade homework assignments and exams, and brainstorm strategies with other TAs to effectively teach the course material
    • Cultivate strong interpersonal and leadership skills

  • University of Washington

    CSE 14x Head TA

    • Collaborate with the professor to establish the weekly grading criteria
    • Evaluate and assess other TAs’ grading according to this criteria
    • Contribute to weekly meetings to help new TAs strengthen their teaching and grading skills

  • Pocket Points Inc.

    Business Development Intern

    • Reached out to businesses in the Greater Seattle area, presented to them the benefits and implications of this mobile advertising platform
    • Collaborated with the regional sales manager at Pocket Points headquarters and team members at schools across the nation to streamline the launch of the application
    • Quality assurance testing of the application prior to it's launch and promotion of the application to the UW student body

  • Alaska Airlines

    Programmer I

    • Hired after summer internship to continue and improve work with mobile application analytics and development
    • Implemented redesign in employee mobile travel application, and integrating analytics programs to compare usage before and after redesign release
    • Researched different types of Bluetooth beacon technology, and selected best one for our sample integration use case
    • Taught a division-wide course, integrating the Estimote Beacon SDK into a sample mobile app using the Xamarin framework

  • Alaska Airlines

    Mobile Application Developer Intern

    • Assisted with development of native mobile applications in C#, following Scrum methodologies with engagement in standup meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos of work, and retrospective meetings to improve future processes
    • Independently researched multiple mobile analytics and crash reporting platforms, and through sample implementations determined their usefulness for the company’s internal mobile applications
    • Lead a department-wide event teaching technical and non-technical employees how to integrate the most useful mobile analytics programs into sample applications, and effectively communicated the benefit of using these programs through sample business cases
    • Collaborated with other teams to assist in the development of internal enterprise mobile applications

  • Avanade

    Software Engineer, Senior Analyst

    Madeleine worked at Avanade as a Software Engineer, Senior Analyst

  • Avanade

    Software Engineer, Consultant

    Madeleine worked at Avanade as a Software Engineer, Consultant

  • Avanade

    Software Engineer, Analyst

    Madeleine worked at Avanade as a Software Engineer, Analyst

  • Coding With Kids

    Lead Instructor

    • Teach multiple groups of 16 students (ages 7-11) once a week about coding basics through a youth-oriented programming environment
    • Engage students by teaching enthusiastically and making concrete analogies to real-life situations
    • Adjust existing lesson plans and collaborate with other instructors to further develop lessons

Education

  • Inglemoor High School

    High School Diploma



  • University of Washington

    Bachelor of Science (BS)

    Informatics
    I am actively pursuing a degree in Informatics with a concentration on human-computer interaction. I have worked numerous jobs throughout my college career, and am expected to graduate in spring of 2017.

  • University of Washington

    CSE 14x TA


    • Develop lesson plans and teach 25 students about programming fundamentals including object-oriented design, good control flow, and basic data structures • Plan and conduct review sessions to prepare students for homework and exams • Grade homework assignments and exams, and brainstorm strategies with other TAs to effectively teach the course material • Cultivate strong interpersonal and leadership skills

  • University of Washington

    CSE 14x Head TA


    • Collaborate with the professor to establish the weekly grading criteria • Evaluate and assess other TAs’ grading according to this criteria • Contribute to weekly meetings to help new TAs strengthen their teaching and grading skills

Positions

  • Delta Zeta

    Member | Sisterhod Chair

  • Delta Zeta

    Member | Sisterhod Chair

  • Delta Zeta

    Member | Sisterhod Chair

  • Delta Zeta

    Member | Sisterhod Chair

  • Delta Zeta

    Member | Sisterhod Chair