About Me

I went to college at York College of Pennsylvania.

• 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.

• 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

Engineer - System Administration, QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)

• 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
• Manage server configurations using tools such as Puppet and vCM
• Work in a global environment with teams from all across the world

Network Admin, Metropolitan Personnel, Inc. (June 2006 - Present)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

I have experience in the following areas:

Programming and Scripting

• C, C++, and C#
• MPI and pthreads
• Java
• Android SDK
• HTML5 and CSS3
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Python
• Perl
• Bash
• CUDA
• OpenGL
• MIPS Assembly (because screw x86)
• Verilog
• Visual Basic and VB.NET
• I dabbled in Ruby on Rails once...kinda, sorta

Operating Systems

• Linux (including all major distributions)
• Unix (including AIX and HP-UX)
• Windows 3.1+ and Server 2003+
• Mac OSX 10.0+

Software

• Apache
• Tomcat
• WebSphere
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Puppet
• Many VMware products (including vSphere and vCM)
• 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

• PC hardware (I enjoy building custom machines)
• Cisco UCS
• Networking equipment
• FPGAs and microcontrollers

Other Stuff

• Circuit design/breadboarding
• Basic machining skills

Aside from school, work, and wishing I had magical powers, there are many things I enjoy, including...

• 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