Bill Stevenson


Home Address
375 Western Drive
Apartment G
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Tel: 814-880-5782
Email: bill@billstevenson.org

Office Address
Apple, Inc.
MS 301-2K
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Tel: 408-974-5487
Email: bstevenson@apple.com


Objective

Project management work that is challenging, interesting, and fun, which is carried out in a productive environment by a cohesive team with similar objectives.

Proficiencies

Programming experience with C, Objective-C, Java, Ada, and assembly language. Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, and UNIX shell scripting. Development experience with Mac OS X APIs (Carbon, Cocoa). Web design with HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. Graduate training in usability engineering, human factors, and cognitive psychology.

Industrial
and
Research
Experience

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, CA
Engineering Project Manager, Mac OS X Program Office
April 2008 to Present

As a Project Manager for Mac OS X, my job is to reconcile quality, security, stability, compatibility, performance, and usability with time, money, and curb appeal. To do this, I work cross-functionally with the executive team, engineering managers, and individual contributors to deliver the envisioned product.

Product Release Engineer, Mac OS X Product Release Group
May 2004 to March 2008

When I was a Release Engineer, my job was to help make sure that past, current, and future Apple and third-party applications work great with past, current, and future Apple hardware and operating systems. In this position, I performed bug screening and triage work, debugged application problems (generally without access to source code), and developed testing tools and process that increased team effectiveness.

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Instructor / Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant, College of Information Science and Technology
September 2002 to June 2007

While I was a graduate student, I helped coordinate senior-level courses on user interface design and cognitive modeling, a junior-level course on human-computer interaction, and a freshman-level survey course. As a Teaching Assistant, I performed typical grading duties, created assignments and exams, held office hours, and conducted recitation sections.

In Spring of 2007, I was given the opportunity to design and teach a capstone course on usability engineering to forty juniors and seniors. (Course Website: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/ist413/)

During semesters that I did not teach, I performed research for faculty in Penn State's Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory and the Computer Science & Engineering department.

University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN
Research Assistant, Center for Cognitive Sciences
Summer 2000

Computer Sciences Corporation; Moorestown, NJ
Systems Engineer (Internship), Integrated Systems Division, Defense Group
Summer 1999

Education

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Doctor of Philosophy (ABD), Information Science and Technology
August 2004 to Present
Dissertation Topic: "Subitizing: Fixed Capacity Behavior or Learned Skill?"

Master of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
August 2002 to May 2004

University of Warwick; Coventry, United Kingdom
Visiting Student, Mathematics and Computing
September 2000 to June 2001

Muhlenberg College; Allentown, PA
Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Computer Science; Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science
September 1998 to May 2002

Other
Experience

The Association for Computing Machinery; New York, NY
Chair, Editorial Advisory Board, ACM Crossroads
September 2005 to Present

My primary duty as chair is to ensure the continuity of the magazine by serving as an advisor to the editorial board during staff transitions. In addition, I collaborate with other members of the advisory board to help the magazine continue to accomplish its mission of being a useful and relevant publication for students in the computing fields.

Editor in Chief, ACM Crossroads
July 2000 to August 2005

As Editor of Crossroads, I was responsible for the content, production, and post-production of the Association for Computing Machinery's student magazine, which had a print and online readership of over 40,000 students and faculty worldwide. In this capacity, I worked with a virtual team of a dozen students from across the world to define issue topics, solicit and review articles, shepherd authors to get the articles ready for publication, and supervise the print and web layout. (Magazine Website: http://www.acm.org/crossroads)

Professional
Activities
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
• Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews
• Member of ACM Membership Services Board


Last Updated 10 August 2009 - Latest Version Online at http://www.billstevenson.org/resume.html