About Myself
My name is Micah Villmow. I am 5' 11" and weigh around 150lbs. I have brown hair and eyes, and I am of average body size. I was born on March 24th, 1981, which makes me an Aries, at Florida Hospital in Orlando. I have spent most of my life living in the greater Orlando area, but have also lived in Port St. Lucie for one year, and have spent six of the last seven years of my life going to School in Tallahassee Florida.
I have traveled parts of the world visiting S. Korea, Japan, and China with a very brief stop in Vietnam. I used to play the Trumpet and and spent a little bit of time on the French Horn, and I am currently working on my master's degree in computer science. I am a computer nerd and a hacker. I love to learn and spend a majority of my time reading articles or papers or programming new ideas.
I am the third of seven children of Robert and Patricia Villmow. I have two older brothers, a younger brother, and three younger sisters. My parents and my sisters live in Nanning, China, where my brothers live in various parts of Central Florida. Our family interests range from business to religion to engineering and computers to music. Combined we have have played the clarinet, french horn, trumpet, tuba, baritone, trombone, and piano.
I have spent most of my academic life at Florida State University, entering as a freshman in Fall 1999 and getting my BS Computer Science in Spring 2005. I also received a minor in Mathematics and had enough credits to receive a BA in Japanese Language if it was available. I also was one class short of receiving a minor in Physics. I am currently working on my MS Computer Science and will finish in Fall 2006. I scored a 1090 on my SAT, but a 1220 on my GRE. I have a 3.69 GPA in grad school, but only had a 3.02 as an undergrad.
While an undergrad at FSU, I was accepted to a student exchange program with Hiroshima University in Hiroshima Japan for the 2003-2004 School year. I spent my time there studying Japanese, Korean, and Computer Science in Japanese. While in Japan I also tutored english and taught american culture to people ranging from 5-65 years old.
Although many professors and collegues at FSU would like me to continue my work as a doctoral candidate, I do not plan on continuing my education to that level at this time. I am looking for a job that offers interesting and challenging work on a daily basis.
My work background is varied and extensive. Although on my resume I have listed quite a few jobs, it isn't even half of all the things I have done in the past. I guess I can start with the work I did with my parents. I started as a paper boy working with my parents, this started about 3rd grade and worked on the Weekly and the Orlando Sentinel. In fourth grade I would create and sell bracelets at school and expanded into candy and snacks until I was undercut by a group of people that I taught to make bracelets to. In early middle school I had my own lawn mowing business and also made some money selling soda's and snacks to local children.
After all these ended, I didn't do much work outside of paper route jobs for my parents until I hit 16. At the age of 16 I got my first job working for a business at Burger King in Altamonte Springs. Until I went off to college, I worked at Burger King three times and also was a busboy at a local steakhouse. I also participated in a school to work program my senior year and helped the seminole county school district organize their software and find out which software would have Y2K problems and which software would work correctly.
In college I worked at a variety of places. I worked first summer at Don Pablo's as a dish washer, then when I went back to school got a job at a Miami Subs. That second summer I was a salesman at Just for Feet. After going back to college, I worked at Footaction for a day before quitting and then went and found a job on campus working at the computer labs. This was my first really steady job and I worked there for over a year before I went to Japan.
In Japan I worked as a tutor, teacher, and assistant. I taught english to a 5 and 8 year old japanese kid at one place, at another place I taught teachers and business people of ages ranging from 30-65. I also tutored students from Hiroshima University and was an assistant at a local english teaching school(Foster's).
After returning from Japan, I have worked as a stock boy at the FSU bookstore, went back to the computer lab for a few months, and finally received a teaching assistantship at FSU. I have helped teach elementary java and was a administrative assistant for Computer Literacy. I then received a research assistanship in computer vision in May 2005. My first year as a research assistant was spent working on a face recognition system with Dr. Xiuwen Liu. For the summer 2006, I worked on software that would transform LIDAR data into a 3D model and worked on automating a system that would align the data with satellite imagery creating a visual model. The work we did was based on the city of Tallahassee, Fl. In August, I was offered an internship at ATI Research Inc.(now AMD Inc.) in Orlando Fl. The internship will last until April 30th, and I am working on an Object Recognition System implementation on a GPU.
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