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Professional Profile
Eight years experience designing, building, and debugging complex
networked servers. Five years experience shipping production code to
a variety of customers. Proficient with UNIX development at both user
and kernel level, and comfortable with working under time pressure to
meet changing customer requirements.
Experience
Apple Computer, Inc. - Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA (April 2006 - Present)
Part of the Productivity Engineering team inside the Applications
division, building consumer productivity software in the iWork suite.
Designed and implemented features and infrastructure components for the
1.0 release of Numbers in the iWork ’08 release.
Panasas, Inc. - Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA (February 2001 - March 2006)
Designed, implemented, and maintained cache coherency protocols for a
high-performance distributed network filesystem, as well as handled
various performance and stability projects for the Panasas
ActiveScale File System (PanFS) server and DirectFLOW filesystem
client products. Additional projects include profile-driven system
analysis and tuning, increasing the system's scalability, improving
crash recovery, implementing write-ahead metadata logging, and
diagnosing and solving customer crashes and performance issues.
Parallel Data Lab - Research Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (February 1998 - February 2001)
Implemented a Linux kernel filesystem client for the EDRFS
object-based networked filesystem, supported the EDRFS server, and
developed test suites for the NASD object based disk prototype.
Designed and implemented a memory-backed SCSI passthrough device in
the FreeBSD kernel for storage system simulation and an iSCSI client
and server for Linux and FreeBSD. Wrote tools for use in filesystem
aging research and access pattern simulation, and performed general
administrative tasks for the lab's computing environment.
School of Computer Science Research Computing Facility - Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (September 1996 - February 1998)
Developed tools for administering the computing infrastructure at the
School of Computer Science. Projects included building and
maintaining a web interface to the SCS network database that allowed
online queries and updates of network information, and designing a
general Java interface to the SCS internal databases.
Computing Services Help Center - Phone and Email Consultant
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (October 1995 - September 1996)
Responsible for answering user questions about general computing
issues and internal Carnegie Mellon configuration. Additional
responsibilities included UNIX and Macintosh support and database
maintenance.
Publications
NASD Scalable Storage Systems, Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F.,
Courtright II, W., Lanza, N., Mazaitis, P., Unangst, M., Zelenka, J.,
USENIX99, Extreme Linux Workshop, Monterey, CA, June 1999
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. in Computer Science with a Minor in Creative Writing, 2002
Computing Experience
Programming
Extensive experience with ANSI C, and Perl. Experience with C++,
Objective C, Java, and shell scripting (csh, sh, and derivatives).
Extensive experience with the GNU development suite (gcc/g++, gdb,
gprof). Familiar with debugging tools such as Purify, Lint, VTune,
and Coverity.
Environments
Extensive user-level development experience with FreeBSD, Linux, and
Solaris. Kernel development experience with FreeBSD and Linux. Some
experience with Mac OS X Cocoa development.