Max Cutler

Expe­ri­ence

Soft­ware Devel­op­ment Engi­neer Intern, Microsoft

Sum­mer 2009, Sum­mer 2010 | Belle­vue, WA

Par­tic­i­pated in design of and imple­mented advanced search func­tion­al­ity for next-generation Microsoft Dynam­ics CRM Out­look client. Assisted with bug fix­ing and con­tributed to team code reviews.

Stu­dent Tech, Yale Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Services

2008–2009 | New Haven, CT

Pro­vided tech­ni­cal and com­puter assis­tance and train­ing to Yale Uni­ver­sity stu­dents. Helped main­tain Yale tech­nol­ogy infra­struc­ture includ­ing com­puter clus­ters and printers.

Soft­ware Intern, Siko­rsky Air­craft Corporation

Sum­mer 2008 | Strat­ford, CT

Worked directly with Chief Soft­ware Archi­tect devel­op­ing model-based C.A.S.E. soft­ware. Cre­ated OpenGL-powered soft­ware to drive heli­copter pri­mary flight dis­play screens as part of R&D project explor­ing new elec­tri­cal and soft­ware archi­tec­tures for future heli­copter designs.

Intern, Susque­hanna Inter­na­tional Group, LLP

Spring 2007 | Bala Cyn­wyd, PA

Worked directly with munic­i­pal bonds trader, ana­lyz­ing his­tor­i­cal trends using Microsoft Excel to develop trad­ing strate­gies and models.

Stu­dent Researcher, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, Sys­tems Sci­ences Engi­neer­ing Department

Sum­mer 2006 | Philadel­phia, PA

Reverse engi­neered and inte­grated out­side soft­ware tool with in-house sim­u­la­tion soft­ware. Worked with doc­toral stu­dent on agent-based human behav­ior mod­el­ing software.

Activ­i­ties

Direc­tor of Online Oper­a­tions, Yale Daily News

2007-Present | New Haven, CT

Imple­mented ini­tia­tives for the online pres­ence of the Yale Daily News in asso­ci­a­tion with the edi­to­r­ial and busi­ness units. Mod­i­fied and expanded cus­tom PHP/MySQL-based web con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem. Lead cre­ation of Django-based web con­tent man­age­ment system.

Elec­tri­cal Sub­team Leader/Co-Captain, Yale Aer­ial Robot­ics Research Group

2007-Present | New Haven, CT

Aided elec­tron­ics pack­age design for sen­sor and pro­cess­ing sys­tems of autonomous heli­copter, includ­ing design of com­po­nent inter­con­nects and com­mu­ni­ca­tion path­ways. Began train­ing as safety pilot for crash mit­i­ga­tion dur­ing com­pe­ti­tion entries.

Project Leader & Devel­oper, Courant News

2008–2010

Co-created and lead devel­op­ment of open source Django–based online con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem for col­lege news orga­ni­za­tions. Pre­sented project at con­fer­ences and drove adop­tion at col­lege newspapers.

Found­ing Mem­ber & Team President/Captain, FIRST Robot­ics Com­pe­ti­tion Team 1656

2004–2007 | The Haver­ford School, Haver­ford, PA

Devel­oped and led team of stu­dents, fac­ulty, and engi­neer­ing men­tors to build com­plex robots for, and suc­cess­fully com­pete in, an inter­na­tional, NASA-sponsored com­pe­ti­tion. Addi­tion­ally led soft­ware, elec­tron­ics, and inte­gra­tion sub-teams.

Web Design & Development

2002-Present

Self-taught numer­ous web tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing the LAMP tech­nol­ogy stack and Adobe Flash. Part­nered with other groups to develop and main­tain web­sites for indi­vid­u­als and small busi­nesses. Estab­lished per­sonal and work­ing rela­tion­ships with indi­vid­u­als from around the world, includ­ing the United States, Canada, Britain, Ger­many, the Nether­lands, Aus­tralia, and Kenya.