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| 			<h1 id="page-title">About Me</h1>
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| 						<h3 class="segment-title">Education</h3>
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| 							I went to college at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ycp.edu/">York College of Pennsylvania</a>.
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| 								<li>Degree: BS, Computer Science</li>
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| 								<li>Years Attended: 2009-2013</li>
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| 								<li>Cumulative GPA: 3.20</li>
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| 								<li>Departmental Recognition Award</li>
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| 								<li>Dean's List (Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013)</li>
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| 								<li>Activities: ACM (President), Anime Club (President), CES, WVYC</li>
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| 							I went to high school at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.devonprep.com/">Devon Preparatory School</a>.
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| 								<li>Years Attended: 2005-2009</li>
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| 								<li>National Honor Society</li>
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| 								<li>Spanish National Honor Society</li>
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| 								<li>Activities: Computer Club (President), Digital Electronics Club (President), Jazz Band, Stage Crew, Ballroom Dance Club</li>
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| 						<h3 class="segment-title">Employment</h3>
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| 							Engineer - System Administration, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (June 2013 - Present)
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| 								<li>Maintain physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers within the company's data centers</li>
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| 								<li>Troubleshoot problems within the company's infrastructure</li>
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| 								<li>Deploy new systems using a variety of technologies, including VMWare and NIM</li>
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| 								<li>Assist with the deployment of applications to Tomcat and WebSphere environments</li>
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| 							</ul>
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| 							Network Admin, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metpersnl.com/">Metropolitan Personnel, Inc.</a> (June 2006 - Present)
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| 								<li>Maintain and update company-wide hardware and software (including servers, terminals, and networking equipment) on an as-needed basis.</li>
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| 							Unix/Linux Administration Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.qvc.com/">QVC, Inc.</a> (May 2012 - August 2012)
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| 								<li>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.</li>
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| 								<li>Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers.</li>
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| 							Web Development Intern, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dataforma.com/">Dataforma, Inc.</a> (May 2011 - August 2011)
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| 								<li>Developed an interactive online drawing application using HTML5 and JavaScript, designed to be used by roofing contractors for modelling their projects.</li>
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| 							Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010)
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| 								<li>Started a small business in the summer of 2008 to provide computer service to local clients and businesses.</li>
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| 								<li>Services included hardware and software upgrades, custom-built machines, virus removal, and web development.</li>
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| 								<li>BITS = Brad's IT Services</li>
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| 						<h3 class="segment-title">Experience/Skills</h3>
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| 							I have experience in the following areas:<br />
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| 							Programming and Scripting
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| 								<li>C, C++, and C#</li>
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| 								<li>MPI and pthreads</li>
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| 								<li>Java</li>
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| 								<li>Android SDK</li>
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| 								<li>HTML5 and CSS3</li>
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| 								<li>JavaScript</li>
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| 								<li>PHP</li>
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| 								<li>Python</li>
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| 								<li>Perl</li>
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| 								<li>Bash</li>
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| 								<li>CUDA</li>
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| 								<li>OpenGL</li>
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| 								<li>MIPS Assembly (why not?)</li>
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| 								<li>Verilog</li>
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| 								<li>Visual Basic and VB.NET</li>
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| 								<li>I dabbled in Ruby on Rails once...kinda, sorta</li>
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| 							</ul>
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| 							Operating Systems
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| 								<li>Linux (including all major distributions)</li>
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| 								<li>Unix (including AIX and HP-UX)</li>
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| 								<li>Windows 3.1+ and Server 2003+</li>
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| 								<li>Mac OSX 10.0+</li>
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| 							Software
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| 								<li>Apache</li>
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| 								<li>Tomcat</li>
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| 								<li>WebSphere</li>
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| 								<li>MySQL/MariaDB</li>
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| 								<li>Puppet</li>
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| 								<li>Microsoft SQL Server</li>
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| 								<li>Active Directory</li>
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| 								<li>Subversion</li>
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| 								<li>Git</li>
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| 								<li>MS Office/LibreOffice (does this even count as a skill anymore?)</li>
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| 								<li>SolidWorks</li>
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| 								<li>Blender</li>
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| 								<li>Eclipse</li>
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| 								<li>Visual Studio</li>
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| 								<li>Xilinx ISE</li>
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| 								<li>Photoshop</li>
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| 								<li>Dreamweaver (although real web developers write stuff by hand)</li>
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| 								<li>FL Studio</li>
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| 							</ul>
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| 							Hardware
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| 								<li>Computer hardware (I like building custom machines)</li>
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| 								<li>Networking hardware</li>
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| 								<li>FPGAs and microcontrollers</li>
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| 							</ul>
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| 							Other Stuff
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| 								<li>Circuit design/breadboarding</li>
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| 								<li>Basic machining skills</li>
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| 						<h3 class="segment-title">Interests</h3>
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| 							Aside from school, work, and wishing I had magical powers, there are many things I enjoy, including...<br />
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| 								<li>Anything computer- or electronics-related</li>
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| 								<li>Video games (particularly platformer, RPG, racing, and rhythm games)</li>
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| 								<li>Also, video game design</li>
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| 								<li>Artificial intelligence</li>
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| 								<li>Anime</li><!--Seriously, I can't stress enough how much I love anime.-->
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| 								<li>Japanese culture</li>
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| 								<li>Motorcycles</li>
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| 								<li>Skiing</li>
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| 								<li>Model trains</li>
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| 								<li>Roller coasters</li>
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| 								<li>Theoretical physics</li>
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| 								<li>Astronomy</li>
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| 								<li>Voice acting (though I've never done anything professionally)</li>
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| 								<li>Photography</li>
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| 								<li>DJing</li>
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| 								<li>Instruments (I play saxophone, piano, and drums)</li>
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| 								<li>Learning new languages (I currently speak English, Spanish, a little Japanese, and a little German)</li>
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| 								<li>Making long, unordered lists of things</li>
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