Julie A. Black

Contact:
jblack AT xenon DOT stanford DOT edu
Education:
9/00 - 6/05 Stanford University, CA.
  • Master of Business Administration, June 2010
  • Master of Science, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, June 2005.
  • Bachelor of Science, with Distinction, Computer Science, June 2004.
9/01 Sophomore College, Stanford University. "The Intellectual Excitement of Computer Science" with Professors Eric Roberts and John Hennessey. An intensive program exploring computer science research opportunities concluding in a group project on Distributed Computing.
9/94-9/00 The Winsor School, Boston, MA. (high school)
Academic Honors:
 
  • Inducted into Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), June 2002.
  • Member of Stanford Cap and Gown (women's honor society), October 2003.
    • Professional Experience:
    9/10-present Engineering Manager, Google, Moutain View, CA. Managed a team of 10 engineers working on a key advertising products. Provided technical and product leadership.
    6/09-9/09 New Business Development Intern, Google, Mountain View, CA. Developed partnership strategy for 4 key products. Analyzed product opportunities for newly developed technologies.
    9/05-9/08 Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA. Designed and implemented large scale advertising systems. Functioned as tech lead and product manager for team of 5 engineers.
    6/04-9/04 Engineering Intern, Google, New York, NY.
    6/03-9/03 Engineering Intern, Google, Mountain View, CA.
    9/02-6/03 Residential Computer Consultant (RCC), Stanford University. Functioned as a live-in computer educator, dormitory network administrator, and computer cluster technician for 90 students. Designed and taught an introductory computer science class about computing at Stanford.
    6/02-9/02 Summer Intern, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA. Developed a public display system built on PARC's Speakeasy framework for recombinant computing. Authored a workshop paper and a book chapter (see writings).
    1/02-6/02 Independent Research - Auditory Cognition. Attempting to ascertain whether humans can, using only auditory queues, distinguish between male and female footsteps. Research conducted under Professor Jonathan Berger at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics at Stanford, funded by Stanford's Undergraduate Research Opportunities, and presented in the Stanford Symposium for Undergraduate Research in Progress (10/02).
    6/01-9/01
    6/99-9/99    		 Summer Research Intern, Spatial Imaging Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA. Assisted in writing documentation describing the one-step full paralax hologram printing process. Additionally, assistedn in creating test holograms that provided insight into the correct production method for a future artistic piece. Learned different 3D display techniques.
    Teaching Experience:
    4/03-6/03 Course Assistant, Programming Paradigms Class, Stanford University. Held four hours of weekly office hours to answer student's questions, attended course staff meetings, and helped to grade examinations.
    4/02-6/02 Section Leader, Introductory Programming Class, Stanford University. Taught a weekly section; responsible for grading and one-on-one reviews of work with students. Held weekly office hours.
    Computer Skills:
      Linux, MacOSX, Windows
    C++, Java, Python, SQL, Javascript, HTML