Objective _____________________________________________________________
	Secure a challenging summer internship in a fiber optics related field and gain experience in a commercial business setting.
Educational Background ________________________________________________
	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA •   B.S. in Applied Physics (expected June 2001) •   Third year student, 3.1 GPA (4.0 scale) Brea Olinda High School, Brea, CA	1997-present       1994-1997

Relevant Coursework __________________________________________________
	Math Probability & Statistics Complex Analysis Physics/Optics Quantum Mechanics Thermodynamics Optics Laboratory Electromagnetism Signal Processing and Data Analysis Languages Spanish (near-fluent) Japanese (1.5 years)	Linear Algebra/Multivar. Calculus Ordinary Differential Equations Thermal and Statistical Mechanics Waves Atomic and Nuclear Physics Lab. Classical Mechanics Sequential Programming: C Cosmology Chinese (2 years)
Work Experience and Papers ____________________________________________
	Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow Summer 1999 Mentor: Bonnie Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA •    Programmed data analysis software in Interactive Data Language (IDL) •    Analyzed spectra of multiple satellites for compositional analysis "The Dark Side of Iapetus and Hyperion: one and the same?" by B. J. Buratti, Michael D. Hicks, Kimberley A. Tryka, Micah S. Sittig, and Ray L. Newburn. Submitted January 2000 for possible publication in Icarus.
Programming Languages/Computing _____________________________________
	PERL C Microsoft Excel/Word Win 95/98 UNIX	HTML IDL (Interactive Data Language) Mathematica Macintosh

Interests and Activities _________________________________________________
	Attended Caltech Industrial Relations Center (IRC) seminars: •   Partnering with Chinese Businesses •   Competing and Partnering with Japanese Businesses •   The Successful Negotiator (anticipated March 2000) Hobbies: table-tennis, volleyball, reading, Eastern Asian languages.
References: Personal and academic available upon request.