577 Fifth Avenue
San Francisco, CA, 94118
415-387-4823
Overview:
Have three years experience in a Unix based startup dealing in data mining,
automated 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 and QA, and training of junior
engineers. Am seeking permanent or contract work; contracts can involve
fixed-sum remuneration.
- Extensive experience in C/C++, CVS, and Perl; strong knowledge of Java
and Unix tools. Long-time experience in HTML.
- Experience using SQL with Oracle and MySQL. Knowledge of CGI
programming, XML, and Javascript.
- Strong on-job training in engineering methodology and development-based
QA.
- April 2001-August 2001: Subcontract, 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--November 2000, Software Engineer, Cogit Corporation. 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 movements. Translated Visual Basic code, which obtained the raw
data and transformed it into 3D coordinates and Euler angles, into C++
code. Then moved that code into a Visual C++ application to display a stick
figure and save 'movies' of a subject's movement.
- Fall 1995: Worked on a Web site for a geology/environment
class at Caltech. (For the same professor as in February 1997.)
- 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 Corboy and Demetrio, a nationally
renowned law firm based in Chicago.
- Summer 1991: Advanced Placement Pascal Teaching Assistant, Loyola
University of Chicago.
- B.S. in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology (aka
Caltech), June 1997.
- 810 score and 83rd percentile on the Computer Science GRE exam. (2001)
- Math: Calculus, Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra
- Physics: Classical Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves, Quantum
Mechanics, Thermodynamics
Interests:
- Cognitive science reading, including How the Mind Works (Steven
Pinker), Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Douglas Hofstadter),
Analogy-Making as Perception (Melanie Mitchell), Understanding
Cognitive Science (Michael Dawson), Seeing Voices (Oliver
Sacks).
- Biology: reading in evolutionary theory, genetics, immunology, and
microbiology, including The Social Insects (Edward Wilson),
Immunology (Janis Kuby), Biology of Microorganisms (Brock
and Madigan), The Molecular Biology of the Gene (Francis Crick et
al.), Time, Love, and Memory (Jonathan Weiner)
- Varied reading in economics and history.
- Strong and eclectic intellectual curiosity.
- Attended 2001 Annual Conference of the AAAS (American Association for the
Advancement of Science.)
References available on request.