Edward Michael Colbert Daniel Liam O'Connor

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Objective

To obtain a challenging and intellectually stimulating position involving computer science in industry, research, or education.

Education

B.S., Computer Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2001

GPA: General 3.14/4.00, Major 3.58/4.00

Minor: Japanese

GRE: 660 Verbal, 740 Quantitative, 800 Analytical

Relevant Courses

Artificial Intelligence, Aspect Oriented Programming, Computer Architecture I & II, Data Structures, Human-Computer Interaction, Operating Systems, Programming Language Concepts, Software Engineering I & II, UNIX Systems Programming, Programming for the X Window System, Senior Project I & II, Theory of Computation

Experience

Senior Project: rhit.manipulation

• Project Team Member (Sept. 1999 - Feb. 2000)

  Helped develop the requirements, specification, design, implementation, and testing of a framework for the dynamic manipulation of Java bytecodes.

  Project Sponsor: Tivoli Systems, Inc.

Bomis.com

• Programmer (May 2000 - Aug. 2000)
  • Developed and deployed a custom server backup system.
  • Developed various CGI in Perl and Python.
  • Helped to design and implement an office intranet, a file server for said intranet, and the intranet firewall.

Kairos damango

• Software Specialist (Oct. 1999 - Dec. 1999)

  Investigated the usability of software packages in the Speiros runtime environment.

• Developer (Jul. 1999 - Oct. 1999)
  • Designed and implemented various applications for the damango online service.
  • Performed research into object representation in XML and Java.

WeTheLiving.com

• Network Services Provider (Oct. 1999 - Present)

  Provide network space for a mailing list archive.

• Developer (Jun. 1999 - Present)

  Assist in the operation and maintenance of over 12 mailing lists serving over 800 users.

Rose-Hulman's Waters Computing Center

• Systems Manager (Nov. 1998 - Sep. 1999)
  • Helped manage a campus-wide, heterogeneous network of UNIX, Windows, NeXTStep, VMS, and MacOS computers.
  • Managed the AFS filesystem used for UNIX accounts and Novell network used for Windows file sharing.
  • Developed a GNU Emacs major mode for configuring ISC DHCPd.

Rose-Hulman Learning Center

• Computer Science Tutor (Sep. 1998 - Present)

  Assist students having difficulty in the various computer science classes.

• Calculus II Supplemental Instruction Leader (Jun. 1999 - Present)

  Offered Supplemental Instruction sessions for Calculus II students.

Rose-Hulman Foundation Coalition

• Web Developer (Summer 1998)
  • Wrote reference implementation of LDAP authentication in PHP3.
  • Enhanced the PHP3 server-side scripting language to interface with the Maple V computer algebra system.

Programming Languages

Proficient in ANSI/POSIX C, Java, Perl, and Scheme R4RS/R5RS. Familiar with Emacs LISP, MIPS and C6X Assembly languages, Python, Unix shells, ANSI Common LISP, and others.

Operating Systems

Solaris, Linux, BeOS, QNX, MacOS, Windows 9x/NT/2000

Activities

• Association for Computing Machinery: President of Rose-Hulman chapter (Sep. 1999 - Oct. 2000)

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science honorary fraternity): Secretary (May 2000 - Present)

• Rose-Hulman Users of Linux: Vice President (Feb. 1999 - Present)

• Founding member, Rose-Hulman Japanese Club