Peyton Smith

Peyton_C_Smith@yahoo.com
Objective: Obtain a position at FireEye where I can apply and expand my programming skills
within an innovative work environment, while learning more about the cyber security industry.
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego Graduating June 2015
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Business
Upper Division Standing GPA: 3.39
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Software Developer, Salgomed Inc, March 2014 Current (part-time)
Co-developed innovative software for first creating, then statistically analyzing, molecular
networks through a wide variety of algorithms specifically, biological networks and
pathways relating to Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Focused on drawing conclusions from large amounts of data and analyzing data
anomalies
Software Developer, Fluidigm Corporation, Summer 2013
Worked with a team of biologists and software developers in coding and debugging a
10,000 line package in R which analyzed and sorted gene expression data collected
from Fluidigms C1 Single Cell Sequencing System.
Teachers Assistant/Reader UCSD SOCI 109, Spring 2013
Helped students learn basic statistical analysis and graphing methods
Class primarily focused on being able to identify research bias as well as being able to
utilize basic statistical techniques such as standard deviation, root mean squared, etc.
Research Assistant, UCSD, Spring 2013
Assisted Professor David Phillips gathering data for a future publication by extracting
data from the FARS database using the AWK programming language.
Computer/Technical Skills:
Knowledgeable in the following languages: Python, Java, C, C++, R, Oracle SQL,
XQuery, Verilog, OCaml, AWK, Prolog, Assembly
Experience with GitHub, Bitbucket, Microsoft Visual Studios
Versed in Linux/Unix environments
Familiar with Amazon Web Services EC2 Instances
Additional Accomplishments:
Lead the technology sector in the SCIC A student lead organization at UCSD that
manages a small investment fund
Co-authored: A scalable method for molecular network reconstruction identifies
properties of targets and mutations in acute myeloid leukemia
o Will be published in the Journal of Computational Biology March 2015
Personal Interests:
Avid golfer (scratch handicap)
Member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity

Peyton Smith
Peyton_C_Smith@yahoo.com

Trumpet player of 10 years