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Linda is a first year part-time student in Carnegie Mellon's MS Software Engineering, Development Management track. She is a Software Developer at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores, CA. She likes to dance and sing and her favorite videogame is The Beatles RockBand. She enjoys Indian, Japanese, Thai, Italian and Mexican food. She comes from Mexico City, and has being living in CA for the past two years. |
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Pras Sarkar is a second-year part-time student in the MS Software Engineering Development Management track. He works in Yahoo! Labs. His responsibilities include materializing ideas and concepts into engaging prototypes and demos, some of which ultimately mature into products that Yahoo! visitors use everyday. He is interested in emerging web technologies, social interaction over digital mediums, and creative interfaces that push the boundaries of human computer interaction. |
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Vineet is a Lead Developer at Boeing and a second year grad student in the part-time MS Software Engineering, Development Management program. He loves reading, playing with his daughter and pursuing the religious aspect of his life. He is an active volunteer of Vedic Cultural Center, a Seattle-based organization dedicated to promote the Vedic (ancient Indian) arts, culture, music and dance. |
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Truc is a second year part-time student in Carnegie Mellon's MS Software Engineering, Development Management track. She is a Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA. She loves food and enjoys anything related to food: going to different restaurants, cooking, watching the Food Network, and of course, eating! |
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Engineering Requirements
I am now taking my second course, Engineering Requirements. It's actually halfway through and I currently have a glorious week off. The work load for this course is about the same as the work load for my first class, Foundations. Instead of programming like the first course, this course is about gathering requirements. I've had the opportunity to learn a lot of new things that I am not exposed to at my current job, such as: requirements elicitation, use cases and scenarios, and user interviews. I have been able to also learn from my teammates who have experience with requirements elicitation at their work. Speaking of teammates, I really like my team this semester. We all get along and have a lot of fun together...even during our epic team meetings. Sometimes, I think we goof off more than get our work done, but it always works out. It's been a nice week off from school, but we still have a lot of work left for the second half of the course!
posted by Truc Nguyen @ 3:16 PM
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Hi Truc!
Im from Da Nang city of Viet Nam.
In this year I had attend to the summer training at CMU.
I want make friend with you!
Dear Truc,
I was previously in the US Navy, and I just finished my undergrad in computer science. I am currently interested in working for Lockheed Martin like yourself, and I was wondering if you could share any pointers on getting hired and working there. I applied for the position of a Software Eng Asc, but it hasn't seemed to lead to anything. Any advice?
Very Respectfully,
Jeremy
Thank you