My objective is to work with a team of developers engaged in novel problem solving. My special strengths are mathematics and algorithms.

Perl, MySQL, Linux, PostgreSQL, Emacs, Qmail, sendmail, C++, Maple, PHP, MS Excel, Windows, MS Word

Programmer/Unix System Administrator
University of Virginia
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 2003
I was responsible for managing and rebuilding/restructuring databases, Beowulf cluster maintenance, firewalling, and improvements to authentication. For most of the work on the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases I used Perl and the Perl DBI module.

Developer
ScholarOne Inc., 2001
At ScholarOne I created an improved version of IDEL, with database management abilities, and a generalized templating tool. We are using this to leverage new templating and transformation features to build data driven web pages without the overhead or limitations of XML and traditional tools. I also designed and implemented training for developers and project managers.

Business Analyst/Software Engineer
Boxerjam Productions, 2000
At Boxerjam I was charged with creating reports to model our customer behavior. I designed a flexible suite of analytic tools called IDEL (Interactive Data Extraction Language) to subset, aggregate, build Markov chains, histograms, and create reports from Microsoft IIS and Apache web logs. These Perl tools were run on Unix systems to analyze medium scale (> 2 Gb/day) web server logs. I was also responsible for administering sendmail and Qmail as the infrastructure for mass emailing. The Perl/Qmail/UNIX mass email engine was capable of sending 1200 personalized messages per minute from a single CPU via a T1 line.

Nuclear Engineer Fellow
National Academy for Nuclear Training, 1999
This one year study involved operations research, decision analysis, fluid dynamics, and neutron transport theory.

Mathematical Consultant/Algorithmist

Recently I've been creating a declarative, multi-host, data analysis and reporting language called Deft. Goals for this project include: database table/view updating, completing the implications of Codd's work on databases, as well as the usual data extraction, analysis, subsetting, and human readable display via a sophisticated and elegant templating system. Portions of the codebase have been used in production web sites for a couple of years. I expect to release a new, fully declarative version by May of 2004.

I wrote a Monte Carlo exhaustive tree search algorithm, and the corresponding Newtonian approximation engine to provide a financial plan, given investment outcome and desired risk parameters. This package is for a client who is an investment adviser. He needs software which can use historical market data to design a composite portfolio evaluated for risk/payoff based on each of his clients' current financial pictures.

Bachelors of Engineering Science, University of Virginia, 1998

Shin Shin Toitsu Do Aikido, Ni-kyu
Past President, UVA Historical Simulation Society

The Art of Unix Programming
Leonardo: The First Scientist