Office Address
Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-863-4455

Work that is challenging, interesting, and fun, which is carried out in a productive environment by a cohesive team with similar objectives.

Extensive programming experience with C, Objective-C, C++, Java, Ada, x86 and PowerPC assembly language. Perl, and UNIX shell scripting. Development experience with Mac OS X APIs (Carbon, Cocoa). System administration and web design experience.

Apple Computer; Cupertino, CA and State College, PA (Home Office)
Product Release Engineer, Mac OS X Product Release Group
May 2004 to Present

Performed application triage work in order to maintain binary compatibility between major Mac OS X operating system releases and software updates. Screened, reproduced, isolated, and routed bug reports. Debugged third party applications in the absence of program source code. Created and maintained test tools and testing infrastructure, including a graphical comparison-based debugging tool and a system/API call interposing suite. Used background in human computer interaction to contribute to other projects within the company.

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant, College of Information Science and Technology
January 2004 to Present

Helped to coordinate senior-level courses on user interface design and development and cognitive modeling, a junior-level course on human-computer interaction, and a freshman-level survey course on information science and technology. Completed normal grading duties, created assignments and exams, held office hours, and conducted recitation sections. Performed research activities for faculty in the Applied Cognitive Science Laboratory.

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Research Assistant, Computer Science & Engineering
September 2002 to December 2003

Part of a team that created and implemented of a grid-computing-enabled thermodynamics tool which serves as an asynchronous, distributed software architecture for end-to-end materials design. Created an XML-based database system tying together system components.

University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN
Research Assistant, Center for Cognitive Sciences
Summer 2000

Developed and analyzed artificial neural networks designed to perform visual object recognition tasks. With insights gained from the analysis of the neural networks, worked towards locating hypothesized neural subsystems in the human brain via analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.

Computer Sciences Corporation; Moorestown, NJ
Systems Engineer (Internship), Integrated Systems Division, Defense Group
Summer 1999

Worked in a team environment on updating and maintaining the display subsystem of the AEGIS Naval Combat System. Took on an administrative and educational role, including project management and documentation development.

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science and Technology
August 2004 to Present

Subjects include: Integrative Theories and Methods of the Information Sciences and Technology, Information Management, Philosophy of Science, Intelligent Agents, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Researching Information and Information Systems in Organizations, Decision Making, Applied Statistics.

Dissertation Topic: Analysis of visual object enumeration processes

Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
Master of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering
August 2002 to May 2004

Subjects include: Numerical Analysis, Concurrent Matrix Computation, Programming Language Concepts, Computer Architecture, Numerical Linear Algebra, Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Graph Theory, Dynamic Memory Allocation.

Master's Thesis: "Automation of Gibbs Energy Modeling for Pure Elements"

University of Warwick; Coventry, United Kingdom
Visiting Student, Mathematics and Computing
September 2000 to June 2001

Muhlenberg College; Allentown, PA
Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Computer Science; Bachelor of Arts, Cognitive Science
September 1998 to May 2002

The Association for Computing Machinery; New York, NY
Editor in Chief, Crossroads
July 2000 to August 2005

Responsible for the content, production, and post-production of the Association for Computing Machinery's student journal, with a print and online readership of over 40,000 students and faculty worldwide. Contributed towards forming strategic relationships with computer-related corporations and organizations.

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
• Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews
• Member of ACM Membership Services Board
• Member of ACM Crossroads Editorial Advisory Board

Available upon request