Hi, I'm Cassidy!

I'm a computer science senior who is for hire.

Hi there! I'm Cassidy Williams, a computer science senior at Iowa State University. I'm scheduled to graduate in May 2014.

I have work experience from various companies, including Intuit, Microsoft, and General Mills. Upon graduation, I hope to work on the front end in either web development or mobile development (at least that's where I'm leaning right now).

When I'm not studying or playing with programming languages, I fool around with Photoshop, blog for CycloneLife.com, watch movies, root for the Cyclones, play guitar, eat a lot, practice Spanish (I studied abroad my sophomore year to Spain), and salsa dance.
I also enjoy public speaking, and I have done so at events like the National Center for Women & IT Summit and the IINSPIRE (Iowa-Illinois-Nebraska STEM Partnership for Innovation in Research and Education) conference this past year.

Please have a look around! I made this site entirely from scratch in less than 30 hours. Imagine how fast I could work for your company. Nudge nudge.
You can look at my works besides this website in the Projects section, where I have bigger projects from work, school, and for fun. The Experiments section consists of "mini projects" that you can play with right away. They're not always entirely useful, but hey, I made them for fun. But anyway, I am really pleased that you came to check out my site. If you have any questions at all please look in the Contact section below and I will be happy to answer them.

It brings joy to my heart that you've read this far, so here is a joke for you: How do you organize a space party? You planet.

I've been featured in several articles over time (my sister too), you can check them out here!

'A package deal': Downers Grove sisters fly high in tech industry

ISU student to join flight for social change

Iowa State computer science student selected for Innovation Lab in the Sky flight

5 Girl Coders Under 21 To Watch

Growing the Tech Talent Pool: NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Program Scales Up

Atanasoff Today Cover

Iowa State’s Williams sisters share their computer science experiences at White House tech summit

The Williams sisters head to the White House

Cassidy and Camryn Williams Featured in Microsoft Research/NCWIT Promotional Video

Get Inspired by Aspiration Award Winners

This is what a computer scientist looks like

Are you tired of emailing yourself whenever you want to remember a book title, picture, link, address, or document? Well, I have a solution for you! I worked on a team of 5 (I was the main front-end developer) to create Muna (which means "to remember" in Icelandic, catchy huh?), which attempts to provide a fast and easy way to copy/paste text, images, and files between various devices. This saves you the trouble of having to login to an email service or download an application such as Dropbox. A database residing on a server provides persistent storage and retrieval of any data uploaded by a user. A webpage hosted on the same server allows users to manage their data from any computer, tablet, or smartphone! Additionally, this project provides a desktop application that can be installed for even more streamlined performance on any Windows computer. Once installed, the user simply has to highlight text and press a hotkey to upload that text to the database. We use Facebook login so the user doesn’t even have to remember another password or login to yet another site.
Feel free to check out Muna here, our infomercial for Muna, and let me know if you'd like to see our final presentation!

For the first annual Startup Weekend Ames, I worked on a team to creat Finddit (pronouced "find it"), a mobile application to help you find your things. At Startup Weekend I was on the Best Pitch List for the first portion (where we present initial ideas). To use Finddit, a user simply marks what location they want to save (say, where they last left their bike), and they have the option to leave notes and take a picture as well. My team worked and created a working web application and Android application, as well as a business plan and popular Facebook page. Finddit is not available right now, but a few of us on the team are continuing to work on it probably as you read this to make working, attractive applications for every platform.
Feel free to check out Finddit's Facebook page, Twitter page, and let me know if you'd like to see our Startup Weekend final presentation!

This website's first version was a project of mine coded entirely from scratch! The background image I designed myself; it was meant to look like a muted sunset. Using Javascript and jQuery, the background moves every minute to match the relative brightness of the day. The menu at the bottom uses jQuery tabs, and everything else is all custom CSS. I also had a mobile site available.
If you'd like to see version 1.0, just ask and I'll be happy to show it to you.

Have you ever wanted to know what sweater your friend is wearing? Or where to buy those cute shoe that you saw on the street? PhotoQuest is an Android application that allows users to search for products online and browse shopping results on Amazon and eBay. The team used the PhoneGap framework, Backbone.JS, Javascript, HTML, and CSS to put together this application using the Superfish API.
Poster available upon request (see "Contact" tab below)!

Worked (with a team) to create a mobile web experience for Bing Ads, which is where advertisers can manage campaigns for ads that display on Bing. The focus was on a consistent user experience across all mobile devices and platforms such as iPhone, Android, and of course, Windows Phone. Project inherited from the existing codebase of adCenter. While conforming to the MVC3 Framework, the team developed our platform on top of that existing layer. The team used the jQuery Mobile framework to provide a natural user experience within the web browser. This mobile feature is scheduled to be deployed with the rebranding of adCenter.
Poster available upon request (see "Contact" tab below)!

Worked (as a team of 3) to create Bing Colloquial Search in the Microsoft Online Services Division Hackathon. Inspiration for the project came from our international team members and involvement with learning new languages. Using JavaScript we made a Bing feature in which the user asks whether one phrase or another is more colloqially correct, in the form of, for example, "I'm in vacation vs. I'm on vacation." The algorithm we used was based on search results for each phrase. We determined if one had a significantly higher amount of results than the other, then it was correct. If both had very high results or very low results, we would tell the user that both phrases are common or uncommon, respectively. As a result of this project (which we completed in less than a week), we won the hackathon and presented for the president of OSD, Qi Lu.
Presentation available upon request (see "Contact" tab below)!

For Facebook Seattle's Summer of Hack 24-hour hackathon, I worked (with a partner) to create StarCatcher, a web game in which stars fall from the sky and gradually fall faster and faster as time goes on. When a star hits the ground below, the user is prompted to Tweet their score. Since my team only had 24 hours to make the game, it is a rough design, but functional. We heavily used HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, the former two being new technologies to us. With CSS3 gradients, animations, and shapes, the game comes to life as stars fall from the night sky with help from the KineticJS JavaScript Library for the physics of their falling.
Actual game available upon request (see "Contact" tab below)!

This is a HTML5 and JavaScript-heavy color detector to see what the dominant colors of a given image is. I used Charles Leifer's technique to figure the colors out. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it seems to only work with JPEG images so make sure you upload one of those! Future work will probably include contrast-based coloring and more image support.
Play with [Color Detector] here!

This is a pure CSS experiment I novelly call Dots (tested in all browsers, unfortunately only works fully in Chrome). Dots can be added and cleared by buttons on the screen, and they rotate about the y-axis. The dots are made with only CSS gradients, no images at all! Future work will probably include rotating dots about the x-axis and changing their colors.
Play with Dots here!

This is a pure CSS (no images) styling experiment (tested in newest Opera, Firefox, IE10, and Chrome browsers, and WORKS). All the text on the page is editable thanks to contenteditable divs. Check out the layering, the gradients, and the lines on the page. They took a while to do!
Play with Notes here!

I like it when people talk to me. So you should. I promise I'll talk back.
I reply to emails usually within a day or two, with the exception of holidays and apocalypses.

Email me at cassidoo@iastate.edu or cassidoo@outlook.com

Follow me @superandomness.

Find me on LinkedIn.

Yeah, I'm on Instagram too.

Here is my resume again if you didn't see it before! I haven't updated it quite yet after this past semester. I will post an update as soon as I do!

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