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Lekan Wang

Currently pursuing BSc in Management Science & Engineering and MSc in Computer Science at Stanford, and working as CS198 Coordinator at Stanford Department of Computer Science.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, C/C++, Chinese, Engineering, English, French, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Management, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Groups: E-Challenge Competition 2009, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Stanford Department of Computer Science
Position: CS198 Coordinator
Time period: December 2008 - Present
Description: Manage all high‐level administrative, teaching, and support aspects of Stanford’s core programming sequence, CS106. I teach a course on effective teaching methods; facilitate communication between lecturers, University administrators, over 70 student staff, and over 500 students; maintain and extend the cs198 web site (cs198.stanford.edu) to
help automate and enhance the student and teaching experiences; and run weekly meetings and social events. Was also a section leader (TA) for CS106A, B, and X from September 2007 to December 2007, where I prepared and taught weekly class,
graded assignments, and assisted students one‐on‐one with introductory CS issues.

Employer: Palantir Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
Position: Software Intern
Time period: May 2008 - July 2008
Description: Designing and implementing various data analysis and visualization tools for financial data, used in several core applications of Palantir’s flagship Palantir Finance platform.

Employer: Stanford Residential Computing
Position: Residential Computer Consultant
Time period: August 2007 - October 2008
Description: Troubleshot technology problems as well as teaching two residential classes in computing, networking, and multimedia. Published a weekly technology and productivity newsletter (“Farm Bytes Weekly”) distributed to over 20 dorms. Worked closely with 7‐person freshman dorm staff in ensuring continued safety and well‐being of residents.

Employer: Stanford EPGY Summer Institutes
Position: Residential Counselor / TA
Time period: May 2007 - July 2007
Description: Led two three‐week residential programs for gifted high school students in Number Theory and Olympiad Problem Solving, acting as both counselor and TA for the course.

Employer: Thomson Global Product Design, Eagan, MN
Position: Business Analyst Intern; Software Engineer Intern
Time period: May 2005 - July 2006
Description: Business Analyst Intern – Solicited detailed user and designer needs to create user requirements and specifications for the new Canadian version of the company’s flagship legal search product, Westlaw (http://ecarswell.westlaw.com/). Attempted to leverage off lead users to add market‐leading features.

Software Engineer Intern – Designed and implemented web applications in a JSP framework to automate testing and error reporting of servers while undergoing a multi‐petabyte migration to IBM DB2 servers. Also added a few search options for the news search clips web application.

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2010
Degree: Computer Science, MSc

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2009
Degree: Management Science & Engineering, BSc

INFORMATION

Hobbies: I play lots of piano, guitar, ultimate Frisbee, and soccer, and would like to run a marathon before graduation
Memberships: - Member of the Stanford Board on Judicial Affairs, and the Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems
- Representative for the San Francisco Symphony

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