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How can I help you?
- I am creative, energetic, practical, and innovative
- 5+ years as a technician has enhanced my problem solving and debugging skills
- Excellent technical writing skills
- Diverse programming background: x86 Assembly to C#
- Eager to share and absorb knowledge
What am I looking for?
- A position that allows me to utilize my leadership and talents in an innovative, positive, and practical way
- I want to design, create, and learn new things
- Looking to put my love of programming to practical use
Interests & Proficiencies
- Low-level software and hardware development
- Operating system (Windows, Linux, other) internals
- Embedded systems, microcontrollers, and robotics
- Automating tasks, procedures, and objects
- Creating solutions using PHP and SQL
- Information security
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QUALIFICATIONS
- Over 5 years professional experience working with computers in consulting, academic, and retail
- Excellent customer service and technical writing skills
- Creative, energetic, and motivated
Developer proficiencies
- Application: C, C++, C#, .NET, VB6, AutoIt, Subversion
- Automation: Bash, PHP, Batch, AutoIt, VB6
- Web Technologies: HTML, Javascript & jQuery, AJAX, CSS, PHP, MySQL & Postgre
- Security: Prevention of XSS, buffer overflow, and SQL injection exploits
- Debugging: Firebug, Visual Studio
- Assembly Language: x86 & Freescale HC12
Operating systems
- Expert knowledge of Windows 95/98/2000/XP
- Extensive Linux server knowledge
- Ported and worked with uC-OS/II real-time operating system
Information Technology
- Expert knowledge of Windows operating systems, PC hardware
- Extensively used Linux as a server
- Extensive experience with of automated deployment technologies such as Ghost & GhostCast Server
- CompTIA A+ certified computer technician
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo, MI
- Major: Computer Engineering; Minor: Computer Science, Mathematics; Graduated Dec. 2007
- GPA: 3.58 (12 classes, Computer Science/Engineering), GPA: 3.18 (cumulative)
- GRE Scores: 590 Verbal/660 Quantitative
- Passed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (April 2007)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Engineer/Scientist
National Intelligence Research & Applications, BBN Technologies: Cambridge, MA 1/08 - Present
- Developed network intrusion detection software for DARPA-funded Scalable Monitoring In The Extreme (SMITE) project
- Maintained & installed Windows/Linux desktops and servers
Lans Support Specialist
Office of Information Technology, Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo, MI 9/03 - 12/07
- 2007 WMU Student Employee of the Year (Nominee)
- Independently developed and deployed automated programs that decreased lab setup time from 8-12 hours (with 3 technicians) to 1-3 hours (1 technician) for 120 computers
- Created software solutions to automate many processes (update deployment, remote management)
- Have full responsibility for managing software in 5 university computer labs, including a special needs lab
- Member of student team that manages Linux-based print servers and Postgre databases for computer labs
- Perform onsite repair and installation of faculty and staff PCs and printers
- Removed adware and viruses using manual tools such as HijackThis, Autoruns, and Process Explorer (link)
- Developed and Deployed Windows Vista key tracking PHP/MySQL web application for campus store
- Developed new department service order tracking system with more advanced and user-friendly database
Michigan American Legion Boys State: Lansing, MI 6/03 - Present
- Created original professional look and design for site
- Used Adobe InDesign to create 2006 & 2007 yearbooks for program
- Created Onnac content management system to use with this site
- Developed PHP/MySQL news storage and retrieval solution for Boys State newspaper
- Created image posting/retrieval system to largely automate posting of images to site
- Designed professional Flash presentation for recruiting purposes
Western Michigan University Bands: Kalamazoo, MI 9/06 - 12/07
- Redesigned pre-html4 website to conform with XHTML and new University Web standards
- Integrated with phpGraphy image gallery software
Various Independent Consulting
The Computer Guild: Kalamazoo, MI 5/07 - 8/07
- Redesigned website to a modern look
- Assisted with integration of Linux with business processes
- Assisted with setup of Windows 2003 server/domain for client
Brian Feeney: Kalamazoo, MI 5/06 - 3/07
- Created computer testing program for use in two psychology studies
- Worked with customer to ensure testing program was easy to use and verified program accuracy
- Integrated .NET technologies with Microsoft access for rapid development
Gabriel Searcy: Kalamazoo, MI 5/07 - 8/07
- Assisted customer to develop a testing program to be used in masters psychology study
- Taught customer Visual Basic .NET
Senior Computer Service Technician
SourceTech Computers (defunct): Grand Rapids, MI 10/01 - 8/03
- Built custom and refurbished computer systems
- Repaired various hardware and software problems on PC's
- Supervised repair work of 4 technicians
- Sold customers computer systems while helping them make informed buying decisions
- Helped customers understand and solve technical problems
WEBSITE PORTFOLIO (partial)
ORGANIZATIONS
Founder and President
Students Against Wasteful Spending: Kalamazoo, MI 9/07 - 12/07
- Created informative website and organized 1600 member facebook group
- Coordinated media awareness, resulting in TV, radio, and newspaper appearances
- Worked with high-level WMU officials
ACADEMIC RESEARCH & PROJECTS
ECE 4810 Senior Design Project - Virtual Wire Interface
Supervising: Dr. Johnson Asumadu 1/07 - 12/07
- Worked in a team to design workable specifications for project sponsor
- Developed simulation of virtual wire interface to communicatively couple remote electrical circuits
- Developed USB & SPI communications code on Cypress PSoC
- Created advanced oscilloscope C# control for project
ECE 4900 Independent study - A Task Centered Embedded Computer Architecture
Supervising: Dr. Janos Grantner 4/06 - 8/06
- Created computer simulation to test performance of hardware-based task switching functions
- Modified SimpleScalar simulator for simulation purposes
- Investigated previous work for paper
ECE 4510 Lab
With Dr. Janos Grantner 1/06 - 4/06
- Developed working port of uC/OS-II RTOS for 9s12dp256 microcontroller
- Created new labs utilizing uC/OS-II to teach students concepts of real-time operating systems
- Wrote lab reference manual on operation of 9s12DPxxx controllers and NOICE/ICC12
OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
Lead Developer
- Created first open source Web 2.0 website log analyzer
- Utilized multidimensional database backend to perform advanced analysis
- Designed powerful and intuitive jQuery-driven interface to manipulate website log data
- Integrated PHP & jQuery to generate reports from MySQL backend
- Proactively incorporated protection against XSS and SQL injection attacks
Lead Developer
Onnac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/onnac/ 6/06 - Present
- Created simplistic advanced database-driven PHP templating content management system
- Developed advanced administration interface for Onnac
- Audited code for XSS and SQL injection exploits
Active Contributor (commit access)
- Created first Windows Vista proof of concept for pGina
- Designed and implemented advanced dynamic XML-based configuration application for pGina Vista
- Added various patches and bug fixes (main project, LDAPAuth plugin)
- Contribute to pGina-devel mailing list
Active Contributor (commit access)
- Improved Unicode compatibility of existing code
- Reworked code to be compatible with wxWindows 2.9 (SVN)
Contributor
- Discovered security holes and submitted fixes for Codepress v0.8.x, and v0.9.x
- Submitted various patches for Codepress v0.8.x and v0.9.x
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