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- Education
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- I went to college at York College of Pennsylvania.
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- I went to high school at Devon Preparatory School. -
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- Degree: BS, Computer Science -
- Years Attended: 2009-2013 -
- Cumulative GPA: 3.20 -
- Departmental Recognition Award -
- Dean's List (Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013) -
- Activities: ACM (President), Anime Club (President), CES, WVYC -
- I went to high school at Devon Preparatory School. -
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- Years Attended: 2005-2009 -
- National Honor Society -
- Spanish National Honor Society -
- Activities: Computer Club (President), Digital Electronics Club (President), Jazz Band, Stage Crew, Ballroom Dance Club -
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- Employment
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- Engineer - System Administration, QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)
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- Network Admin, Metropolitan Personnel, Inc. (June 2006 - Present) -
- Unix/Linux Administration Intern, QVC, Inc. (May 2012 - August 2012) -
- Web Development Intern, Dataforma, Inc. (May 2011 - August 2011) -
- Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010) -
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- Maintain physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers within the company's data centers -
- Troubleshoot problems within the company's infrastructure -
- Deploy new systems using a variety of technologies, including VMWare and NIM -
- Assist with the deployment of applications to Tomcat and WebSphere environments -
- Network Admin, Metropolitan Personnel, Inc. (June 2006 - Present) -
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- Maintain and update company-wide hardware and software (including servers, terminals, and networking equipment) on an as-needed basis. -
- Unix/Linux Administration Intern, QVC, Inc. (May 2012 - August 2012) -
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- Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load. -
- Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers. -
- Web Development Intern, Dataforma, Inc. (May 2011 - August 2011) -
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- Developed an interactive online drawing application using HTML5 and JavaScript, designed to be used by roofing contractors for modelling their projects. -
- Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010) -
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- Started a small business in the summer of 2008 to provide computer service to local clients and businesses. -
- Services included hardware and software upgrades, custom-built machines, virus removal, and web development. -
- BITS = Brad's IT Services -
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- Experience/Skills
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- I have experience in the following areas:
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- Programming and Scripting -
- Operating Systems -
- Software -
- Hardware -
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- Programming and Scripting -
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- C, C++, and C# -
- MPI and pthreads -
- Java -
- Android SDK -
- HTML5 and CSS3 -
- JavaScript -
- PHP -
- Python -
- Perl -
- Bash -
- CUDA -
- OpenGL -
- MIPS Assembly (why not?) -
- Verilog -
- Visual Basic and VB.NET -
- I dabbled in Ruby on Rails once...kinda, sorta -
- Operating Systems -
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- Linux (including all major distributions) -
- Unix (including AIX and HP-UX) -
- Windows 3.1+ and Server 2003+ -
- Mac OSX 10.0+ -
- Software -
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- Apache -
- Tomcat -
- WebSphere -
- MySQL/MariaDB -
- Puppet -
- Microsoft SQL Server -
- Active Directory -
- Subversion -
- Git -
- MS Office/LibreOffice (does this even count as a skill anymore?) -
- SolidWorks -
- Blender -
- Eclipse -
- Visual Studio -
- Xilinx ISE -
- Photoshop -
- Dreamweaver (although real web developers write stuff by hand) -
- FL Studio -
- Hardware -
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- Computer hardware (I like building custom machines) -
- Networking hardware -
- FPGAs and microcontrollers -
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- Circuit design/breadboarding -
- Basic machining skills -
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- Interests
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- Aside from school, work, and wishing I had magical powers, there are many things I enjoy, including...
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- Anything computer- or electronics-related -
- Video games (particularly platformer, RPG, racing, and rhythm games) -
- Also, video game design -
- Artificial intelligence -
- Anime -
- Japanese culture -
- Motorcycles -
- Skiing -
- Model trains -
- Roller coasters -
- Theoretical physics -
- Astronomy -
- Voice acting (though I've never done anything professionally) -
- Photography -
- DJing -
- Instruments (I play saxophone, piano, and drums) -
- Learning new languages (I currently speak English, Spanish, a little Japanese, and a little German) -
- Making long, unordered lists of things -
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