Cell: (xxx) xxxxxxxx
E-mail: phoenix AT mindstalk dot net
Objective:
California Institute of Technology graduate seeks a software engineering job
in the T-accessible Boston area, with a preference for being able to use my
strong math skills. I am a US citizen.
Skills:
- C and C++
- Perl
- Java
- R
- Calculus, linear algebra, Bayesian analysis
- Some experience with Perl/CGI, SQL
- Unix-based development, including make and CVS source code control.
Overview:
Main professional experience:
Have three years experience in a Unix based startup dealing in data mining,
automated decision tree model building, and web advertising support, with my
job including general troubleshooting and firefighting, system design and
coding, algorithm work, supervision of the build system (including automated
unit testing) and QA, and training
of junior engineers.
Have since been in a computer science/cognitive science PhD program, working
on conceptual and perceptual models. Have a strong and broad math and science
background, including physics, chemistry, and biology, and good
writing skills.
- August 2002-May 2010: various teaching assistant, grading, or online
help jobs for computer science and math classes.
- April 2001-August 2001: Subcontractor, BSI. Learned Turbine and Velocity
web server and templating systems (with Java); rewrote an admin web page
within this framework; wrote a business events handling module; worked on
customer subscription handling.
- April 2001: Contract, Silk Route Technology. Helped
develop, and implemented as a Java prototype, an important optimization
algorithm, and helped explain it to non-scientist members of the company.
- July 1998--September 2001, Software Engineer, Cogit Corporation. (First
full-time job after college graduation.) Managed a suite of Perl/CGI scripts
acting as a GUI for the core C++ application. Debugged and enhanced
components of the core code and algorithms. Wrote a networked service
dispatcher with dynamically loaded plug-in modules, which was the middle tier
of the company's three-tiered web services product, and designed the
interfaces and configuration for the dispatcher and modules, using the Tempest
messaging system. Trained junior developers and helped guide the company Unix
sysadmin.
- February 1997--June 1998.
Webmastering and design in the Planetary Science department at Caltech
- Summer 1996: Contract for Integraft. The project was a body suit
to capture and display movement.
- Fall 1995: Worked on a Web site for a geology/environment class at Caltech.
- Summer 1995, 1993: Miscellaneous data processing, in the Caltech
Seismological Laboratory.
- Summer 1995: Laid out the seed of, and provided graphics for, the
Earthquakes in Southern California page of Caltech's Seismological
Laboratory.
- Summer 1994: Created an AVS animation of the Northridge Earthquake,
which was used in a public information kiosk in the lobby of the Seismo Lab
and on a SCEC Web page.
- Summer 1992: Database manager for a law firm.
- Summer 1991: Advanced Placement Pascal Teaching Assistant, Loyola
University of Chicago.
- M.S. in Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington, 2005. (Part of
a PhD program through 2010.)
- B.S. in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
June 1997.
- Graduate school courses: computer theory (automata, computabiliy,
complexity); analysis of algorithms; computer graphics; operating systems;
scientific computing; Bayesian analysis; group theory visualization; quantum
computing; mind and evolution.
- Wrote an incompetence interview
test, which got used in Cogit's hiring process.
- Wrote a personal e-mail client in Perl, to replicate 'mush'
which I liked but was hard to port.
References available on request.