Education
I went to college at York College of Pennsylvania.
I went to high school at Devon Preparatory School.
- 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
Employment
Engineer - System Administration, QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)
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)
- 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)
- 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
Experience/Skills
I have experience in the following areas:
Programming and Scripting
Operating Systems
Software
Hardware
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 (why not?)
- 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
- 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
- Computer hardware (I like building custom machines)
- Networking hardware
- FPGAs and microcontrollers
- Circuit design/breadboarding
- Basic machining skills
Interests
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