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316 Wilhelm Hall Ames, IA 50014 |
http://scl.ameslab.gov/~troy/resume.html | |
| Education | Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Currently pursuing Graduate degree in Computer Engineering |
9/2003-Present |
| Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa BS Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science. |
08/1994 to 12/1999 GPA: 3.4/4.0 Major GPA: 3.4/4.0 |
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| Employment History |
Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames, IA
System Support Specialist and HPC Research Areas 6/2003-Present | |
| Maintained and supported 5 different High Performance Computing research clusters, including researching and specifying new hardware platforms to meet the Lab's research requirements and assist other PI's in writing proposals. | ||
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MontaVista Software, Sunnyvale, CA
Professional Services and Linux Kernel development 9/2000-6/2003 | ||
| Embedded Linux development, porting linux to new embedded computer systems, and professional services for MontaVista's customers. Active in maintaining comunity PowerPC linux development source tree. | ||
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Terra Soft Solutions, Loveland, CO
Linux software development consultant 2/99-9/2000 |
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| Worked on a consulting basis to help develop Terra Soft Solutions's flagship product, Yellow Dog Linux for Macintosh computers and RS/6000 workstations. Initial work was on on the re-implementation of the software installer, and expanded to the design, implementation and development of Black Lab Linux which is targeted at the parallel cluster computing environment. Ported Black Lab Linux to CSPI's distributed multicomputer architecture, now known as FastCluster | ||
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Scalable Computing Laboratory, Ames Lab, DOE, Ames, IA
System administrator/research assistant 5/98-9/2000 |
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| Part of a multi-student group responsible for the system administration and maintenance of the Scalable Computing Lab's approximately 40 machine UNIX network and several cluster supercomputers, including an Intel Paragon and a 64-node Linux-based cluster. Responsible for design and bring-up of a 32 machine Macintosh G4 linux cluster with multiple interconnect technologies, such as Gigabit Ethernet and Myrinet. | ||
| Iowa State University Electrical Engineering Department, Ames,
IA Undergraduate research assistant 8/97-5/98 |
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| Completed setting up software on a Windows 95 PC to manage a process control experiment to be used in teaching a control systems class. Augmented the designed and implemented the system, based on a working prototype, that met the teaching professor's requirements using Intellution FIX software, Visual Basic and PLC programming. | ||
| Western Digital, Rochester, MN Test software engineer/intern 5/97-8/97 |
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| Researched and selected a SCSI host adapter to replace current technology. Designed, developed and implemented a custom software driver for testing high-performance SCSI hard drives used in a production environment. | ||
| Systems integration engineer/intern 05/96 to 12/96 | ||
| Activities included working with other engineers to do hardware and software debug, failure analysis, qualification, and testing. Designed and created a Visual basic program to run system integration qualification testing of prototype hard disk drives. | ||
Activities And Honors |
Iowa State Solar Car project: Participated in Sunrayce 95, involved in design and construction of car for 97 race. Chamberlain House Vice President, spring 96. Eta Kappa Nu electrical/computer engineering honorary, Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma (Freshman Honor Society). ISU Marching Band, Basketball Pep Band. Eagle Scout Award. Hobbies include bike riding, canoeing, automobile repair, and Linux programming. | |
| Relevant Professional Skills | Experience with hardware and software systems integration, debugging, and troubleshooting. FPGA development using Verilog and VHDL. MPI, C, C++, shell scripts, perl, python, linux kernel debugging/development, device drivers, Visual Basic, and Matlab programming experience. Detailed knowledge of Linux internals. Experienced using and adminstrating SGI Irix, MacOS and Windows. Extensive background knowledge of SCSI and hard disk mass storage and high performance cluster interconnects (Myinet, InfiniBand, 10Gig Ethernet). | |