Farzad Yousefi
Student at the University of Texas at Austin
- Location
- Austin, Texas (Austin, Texas Area)
- Industry
- Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Summary
Farzad is a fourth year Electrical & Computer Engineering student at UT Austin. He is a unique type of engineering student as he has been very involved with different leadership activities and job experiences.
He has been with the UT new students orientation program for three years where he served as an orientation coordinator during the last year, managing more than 90 orientation advisers. Farzad is also a student leader on campus, holding leadership positions in organizations such as Senate of College Councils and Student Engineering Council.
Farzad is a highly motivated student who has entrepreneurial aspirations. Because of his outgoing personality type, he is very interested in technical marketing and consulting positions, as well as any other positions that would give him the opportunity to interact with other professionals and clients and work to solve their problems.
He enjoys working in fast paced, high stress, and dynamic job environments where he gets to work on a variety of projects and contribute to the group mission as much as possible. Farzad hopes to start his own company one day, so he will jump on any opportunity that would teach him valuable experience toward achieving that goal.
Specialties: Programming Languagues: C , Java , Perl
Operating Systems: Windows , Mac
Proficient in Microsoft Word , PowerPoint , Excel , Outlook and Publisher.
Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.
Social, friendly and great team worker.
Self-motivated, self-driven and hard worker.
Familiar with HTML , XML , JavaScript
Experience
Orientation Coordinator
University of Texas at Austin
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
January 2012 – August 2012 (8 months) Austin, Texas Area
-Assisted with the recruitment and training of new orientation advisers
-Staffed the office of new students services and helped with the daily operations of this office
-Sat on the workshop committee to plan and execute the two week extensive training workshop for the orientation advisers
-Co-chaired the closing session committee which produced a comedy show, designed to get the new students excited about attending UT
-Assigned duties and supervised about 90 orientation advisers whom served about 10,000 new students over a 7 week span
-Acted as a moderator for a weekly Q&A panel where family members of new students asked questions about student life at UT
Student Co-op Engineer
CenterPoint Energy
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CNP; Utilities industry
August 2011 – December 2011 (5 months) Houston, Texas Area
Control Systems Development Department
- Created different databases to hold information such as the GIS coordinates of all the transmission towers in the Houston area
- Created programs and script using Perl to parse or extract data from large xml files containing electrical substations details and information
- Wrote Perl programs that updated the electrical substations names and other attributes based on the new standards
- Assisted the full time employees with collecting and analyzing data such as the telemerty values for transformers at different substations
- Assisted the full time employees with entering new data and model changes to the Electric Reliablity Council of Texas (ERCOT) model
- Gained experience in regards to information security and confidentiality as a result of participating in training sessions and working in an environment , constantly dealing with critical cyber asset information and other classified data
Returning Orientation Adviser
New Student Services - Office of Dean of Students - University of Texas at Austin
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
May 2011 – August 2011 (4 months)
-Performed all duties and tasks listed under Orientation Adviser position
In addition:
-Assisted with recruitment and training of new orientation advisers
-Co-chaired the Start Fresh and Student Engagement committee which was tasked with planning , preparing and executing different events on campus to welcome the new students
Honors Colloquium Mentor
The University of Texas at Austin
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
July 2011 – July 2011 (1 month) Austin , Texas
-Co-led a group of forty high school student throughout the three-day program
-Presented information and facilitated different discussions about college
-Participated in a panel to share the experience of being an engineering student with other students interested in this area
-Assisted with other logistic and administrative parts of the colloquium
Orientation Adviser
The University of Texas at Austin
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
May 2010 – July 2010 (3 months)
-Welcomed new students to the university
-Served as a mentor for a small group of orientees and introduced the different campus resources to them
-Facilitated small group discussions over issues such as social justice (the importance of diversity) and campus issues(campus safety , alcohol and drugs use and abuse )
-Assisted the new students in the Cockrell School of Engineering with course selection and registration
Student Associate
Informational Technology Group - Cockrell School of Engineering - University of Texas at Austin
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
August 2009 – March 2010 (8 months)
-Assisted faculty , staff and the students at the Cockrell School of Engineering with any technology related issues
-As a dispatcher for the response team, going to classrooms to resolve technical issues the faculty faced
-Troubleshot computer problems with the university computers
-Assisted with the installation of new software and hardware on university computers
Skills & Expertise
- C
- Java
- PowerPoint
- HTML
- Microsoft Excel
- Perl
- Microsoft Word
- Windows
- JavaScript
- Programming
- Public Speaking
- Team Facilitation
- Google Docs
Languages
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English
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
Persian
(Native or bilingual proficiency) -
Arabic
(Elementary proficiency)
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
2009 – 2014 (expected)
Courses
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The University of Texas at Austin
- Circuit Theory (EE 411)
- Embedded Systems (EE 319K)
- Linear Systems and Signals (EE 313)
- Digital Logic Design (EE 316)
- Data Structures (EE 422C)
- Electromagnetic Engineering (EE 325)
- Engineering Economics (EE 366)
- Solid State Electronic Devices (EE 339)
- Fundamentals of Electronic Circuits (EE 438)
- Automatic Control (EE 362K)
- Differential and Integral Calculus (M 408C)
- Sequences, Series, and Multi variable Calculus (M 408 D)
- Advanced Calculus for Applications 1 (M 427K)
- Matrices and Matrix Calculations (M 340L)
- Advanced Calculus for Applications 2 (M 427L)
- Discrete Mathematics (M 325K)
Organizations
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Student Engineering Council
- August 2009 to Present
Executive Vice President
Vice President of Financial Affairs
Representative to the Senate of College Councils
Rivals Week Committee Co-chair
Daily Planner Committee Co-chair
Co-founder of College Tuition and Budget Advisory Committee -
Senate of College Councils
- August 2009 to Present
Member, Financial Directors Committee
Appointee, Faculty Council Information Technology Committee
Member, Senate Representatives Committee
Member, Students for Academic Integrity Committee
