Education:

• Bachelor of Science from the California Institute of Technology in the Engineering and Applied Science department.
  Concentrations: Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems. June 98
• Course work examples:
  • physics: mechanics, electricity&magnetism, special relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, lab courses in: waves, particle collision/scattering, electronics, and semiconductor theory/fabrication
  • computer science: C, C++, Java, and parallel programming, object oriented analysis and design, algorithm development, program proofs, grammars, graphics, and physical simulation
  • neural systems/information: general neurobiology, artificial life, information theory, complexity, and further independent research in artificial life.

Work/Research experiences (by employer):

• Malachiarts Networks - [04/02 to present]: Founder of the Malachiarts networks project. We provide: colocation space, firewalling, managed hosting, provision bandwidth, and manage networks/clusters for our colo customers
• Malachiarts Consulting - [06/01 to present]: Founder, offering services in: unix system administration, database administration and tuning, network administration, application design/development, web design, and technology architecture consulting
• Jobtrak/Monstertrak.com - [08/98 to 05/01]: Chief Technology Officer - directed: operations, development, project/product planning, and quality assurance teams. Guided technology department throughout merger with Monster.com. Still participated in all operations duties (system/database/network administration and capacity planning).
• Jobtrak - [11/94 to 09/97]: Technology Lead/Architect - Nathan Bradshaw and I wrote and designed the initial code to run Jobtrak's web presence. The project involved: C and Perl CGIs, OCI, SQL, tweaking httpd server source and even the early design work. Also took on sysadmin duties for their Solaris and Hp-UX boxes and Oracle DBA duties for both web and accounting systems. Grew the technology department from this initial seed of two, to twenty-two, organized into the aforementioned teams: (ops, dev, planning, qa).
• "Platzgeist" at Art Center College of Design - [4/96 to 9/96]: Coded an interactive cdrom for the New Media graduate school at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
• Fraserlab - [4/95 to 11/96]: System/Network administration of an IRIX and NeXtStep cluster.
• BILRC - [10/94 to 1/96]: System administration for the Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center: IRIX, AIX, SCO, and windows/dos.
• Chemistry Animation Project - [03/94 to 09/94]: Programmer/Sysadmin - the group produced accurate simulations for intuitive chemistry education videos. I administered an SGI(IRIX) and IBM(AIX) cluster and used the TDI/Wavefront packages for modeling, rendering, and animation.
• LIGO - [01/93 to 10/93]: Developed a transmission/ringdown experiment for LIGO {Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave research Observatory}. The experiment's purpose was to create a more accurate map of a mirror surface by measuring its transmission and coating losses at an array of points across its surface. The project needed UNIX/C programming as well as familiarity with laser/optics operation and serial communications with motor drivers and other optical equipment.

Specific Skills:

• Languages: C, Perl, Ruby, Java, C++, shell scripting (t/csh/sh), Lex, Yacc, pascal, visual programming for Labview, and Lingo(director)
• Operating Systems: Linux 1.3.x - 2.6.x, SunOS 4.1.1 - Solaris 9, IRIX 4.05 - 6.2, AIX 3.2.4 - 4.1.1, SCOUnix, NeXtStep, HP-UX 9.x - 10.20, Windows, and Mac OS X.
• Implementations/Apps: Oracle rdbms (7.x - 10g) administration and tuning, OCI, PL/SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, building secure and redundant networks, capacity planning for large internet services, IOS, router, bridge, firewall, and load - balancer configuration, building custom network monitoring tools, kernel configuration and tuning, general unix wizardry, net-host-app security audits, configuring NAS devices, implementing SANs, apache hacking, Mathematica, GL/Mesa, Glut, and OpenInventor programming.
• Other Interests: music - guitar, drums, bass guitar, upright bass, electronic composition and sound design, and DJing/mixing ;; sports - basketball, snowboarding, skateboarding, and climbing.