Marco A. Santos

8840 Villa La Jolla Drive #204
La Jolla, CA 92037
msantos@YOU_SHOULD_BE_ABLE_TO_FIGURE_THIS_OUT.edu updated: 2002/07/16

OBJECTIVE:

To never be bored.

I am currently exploring employment opportunities as a consultant in the physical or information sciences for the next 3 months. Will consider full-time employment, with the understanding that I might move to Northern California fairly soon. Willing and interested in learning new programming languages, and looking forward to challenging problems.

EDUCATION:

B.S. Physics received 6/1997

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA

Coursework in:

- Classical & Quantum Mechanics

- Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics

- Group Theory w/ applications to physics

- Physical Oceanography

- Complex and Chaotic Systems

- Applied Mathematics

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 11/4/1998 to 2/8/2002 - Systems Developer and Programmer :: MP3.com
  Systems design and development on a multitude of key projects, front and back-end, on the world's premier music service provider and largest music download web site. Details on request.

• 4/4/1998 to 10/30/1998 - Systems Developer and Programmer :: eToys Inc.
  Helped design and build early stage web systems and internal processing for the largest online toy store on the web.

• 9/15/1997 to 4/17/1998 - Research Analyst :: Arete Associates
  At Arete Associates, built computational tools for and perform data analysis in a variety of remote sensing and oceanography related projects.

• Summer 1997 - Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellow :: UCSD
  Under the guidance of Prof. Bill Young and Dr. Diego del-Castillo-Negrete at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, developing a project in physical oceanography. Worked on analytic and computational models of chaotic advection.

• Winter and Spring Quarters 1996-1997 - Teaching Assistant :: Caltech
  Taught section, graded papers and exams, and held office hours for Math2b, Multivariable Calculus, and Math2c, Probability and Statistics at Caltech.

• Summer 95 - Research Assistant :: Caltech
  Assisted Prof. Jim McCarthy at Caltech with observational work at Palomar Observatory and subsequent data reduction in his study of central stars of planetary nebulae.

• Summer 94 - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow :: Caltech
  Under the guidance of Prof. Rick Wilson at Caltech, studied a problem in graph theory, a branch of combinatorial mathematics. Paper and presentation entitled "Decomposition of Complete and Complete Bipartite Graphs into Stars" received a Doris Perpall Speaking Award

SKILLS:

- skilled in UNIX (Linux, Solaris, etc.), familiar with DOS and Windows environments

- skilled in Perl (including DBI, mod_perl, CGI and an assortment of other modules), shell scripting (sh/awk/sed), SQL, HTML, Apache, MySQL, Sybase

- familiar with Oracle, Msql, C, Mathematica, Matlab, IDL

- fluent in Spanish

HONORS & ACTIVITIES:

- Mclean Scholarship 95-96

- Varsity Baseball Letter

- Eagle Scout

REFERENCES:

Available upon request.