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Elijah Smith
LinkedIn: ElijahKSmith

GitHub: SquidThePrinter

OBJECTIVE

A Spring/Summer 2020 Internship/Co-op in Computer Science and/or Information Technology.

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York
B.S. Dual Degree Computer Science/Information Technology & Web Science, GPA 2.9/4.0

SKILLS

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, Java, SQL, web development languages (HTML, JS, CSS, PHP)
• Team leadership and community management

COURSEWORK AND
PROJECTS

• Database Systems (SQL) – Fall 2019
Topics include database design, database system architecture, SQL, normalization techniques, storage
structures, query processing, concurrency control, recovery, security, and new directions such as objectoriented and distributed database systems.
• Operating Systems (C language) – Summer 2019
Topics included I/O programming, concurrent processes and synchronization problems, process management
and scheduling of processes, virtual memory management, file systems, deadlock problems, system calls, and
interprocess communication. The course midterm project was a process scheduling simulator.
• AI in Fact and Fiction – Summer 2019
An examination of Artificial Intelligence in fictional works and the real-life truths to them. For the final project
of the course I created a neural network to identify and classify laser facet defects.
• Open Source Software – Summer 2019
An introduction to open source software development and communities. For the term project I chose to
contribute to the Folsom Library Occupancy Monitor, a web application that allows the students and library
staff at RPI to visualize the occupancy and gather usage statistics of private study rooms in Folsom Library.
• Introduction to Human Computer Interaction – Spring 2019
An introduction to interface design and heuristics. For the final project of the course, I chose to redesign the
Berkshire Hathaway website by applying a curated set of design heuristics.
• Principles of Software (Java 8) – Spring 2019
Topics included software specification, abstraction with classes, design principles and patterns, testing,
refactoring, the software development process, and GUI and event-driven programming.
• Introduction to Algorithms – Spring 2019
This course was an introduction to data structures and algorithms as well as mathematical techniques for
designing algorithms and analyzing worst-case and expected-case algorithm efficiency.
• Data Structures (C++) – Spring 2018
An introduction to core programming concepts, mathematical tools, data structures and their
representations, and algorithms.

EXPERIENCE

Riot Games Inc., West Lost Angeles, CA
July 2019 – Present
College League of Legends Discord Moderator
Volunteer remote position. Assisting in growing and managing online community as well as creating programs
and resources for use by gaming clubs in colleges and universities across North America.

May 2021

High School Esports League LLC, Kansas City, MO
April 2017 – June 2019
Head of Rules and Regulations, League Administrator
Part-time remote position. In charge of writing and maintaining 90+ page rulebook for 20+ game offerings.
Assisted in development and implementation of high school partnership program to offer video game
competitions as a club sport in over 1200 schools across North America and operating the onboarding of the
company’s volunteer internship program. Additional experience gained in customer support and community
management departments.
LEADERSHIP

President of the RPI League of Legends club (former Vice President and Public Relations Manager) in charge
of delegating tasks to other officers, meeting with university faculty or student executive board when
necessary, organizing club tournaments for community outreach, and acting as the club liaison to Riot Games.