Contact Information Name: Thomas Daniel Lowe Residence: Somerville, MA Phone: Available on request Email: dlowe@bitmuse.com Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Occupation: Performance Hacker at ITA Software Career Objectives I prefer positions in which I wear many hats. My natural interpersonal skills and multi-disciplinary approach to technical systems have given me a holistic expertise in nearly every area of Information Technology. I'm capable of juggling many projects at once, and stay even-tempered even in the midst of urgency. I'd prefer a position in investment consulting, programming embedded systems, developing applications, or handling data analysis services. I'm not interested in any position that requires relocation. Qualifications * Excellent written and oral communication skills with non-technical people * A belief in programming as a craft to master, not just a job to pay the bills. * An attitude that computers (and programmers) should serve the needs of people, not the other way around. * Dedication to keeping abreast of new technologies that might benefit the users of the systems I design. * Communications protocols and high-security encryption algorithms * Plug-in and shared library architectures * 2D image processing and 3d rendering techniques * Cognitive modeling * Biometrics and security policies * MS Windows and Unix systems administration Employment History * Aug 2007-present: Performance Hacker at ITA Software, Inc. + Designed and implemented tools for monitoring and testing performance. (Perl, Common Lisp, C++, Python) * Jan 2007-Aug 2007: Contracting Developer at Sungard, Inc. + Primary developer of security system upgrade to PlanOffice, allowing more convenient and secure authentication to the WebSuite family of products. (C++, Oracle, SQL) + Contributed documentation to the PlanOffice project, allowing new hires to get up to speed much more quickly. (MediaWiki) + Implemented database lookup optimization resulting in speedier operation of the PlanOffice web application. (C++) * Sep 2004-Jan 2007: CIO at Cyber Operations + Primary company network and system administrator, technical support, and technical advisor. + Acted as technical investment consultant on numerous occasions, saving my employer millions of dollars in wasted investments. + Accompanied the sales force to demonstrate and explain the technologies in our products. + Designed, constructed, and maintained web hosting service with centralized LDAP authentication, web server, email, and ftp (Apache, OpenLDAP, Postfix, ProFTP) + Wrote software for the administration of the web hosting service by other company personnel. (Ruby) + Designed, constructed, and maintained internal services, such as databases, file shares, firewalls, and routers (MySQL, Postgresql, samba, Netgear, Cisco, SMC) + Wrote in-house software to handle company-wide backups and automatic updates of UNIX systems (Ruby, sh, Common Lisp, C) + Assisted in remote installations and support, including DISA + Key developer for CyberSAM, a door lock system using smart cards and biometric authentication (C++, PHP) + Added Cisco PIX, Juniper, and Netscreen support to ACL Manager (Cisco, Juniper) + Featured as data storage expert on evening news at WVTM NBC Channel 13 in Birmingham. + Designed, constructed, and maintained medical application for health measurement tracking and analysis. (C++, Ruby on Rails) * Oct 2002-Sep 2004: Research Associate and Sysadmin at INST of Mississippi State University + Built nine out of twelve 3d environments for use in research regarding metrics for team performance. (Half-Life, Valve Hammer, Windows) + Optimized and refactored implementation of a cognitive model for simulation of novice and expert pilots. Resulting application was up to 600x faster than the original and easier to maintain.(Solaris, LISP) + Designed and implemented software to generate a knowledge base for a cognitive model to simulate the thought processes of a human pilot. This "knowledge scoring engine" was able to generate a possible patent for the university.(Solaris, LISP) + Implemented software to gather and synchronize experimental data from a flight simulator and oculometer. This hooked into the knowledge scoring engine and cognitive model, combined with a tutoring system to provide real-time dynamic tutoring. (Windows, Visual C++) + Assisted in system administration and managed junior administrators for 30+ computer lab. (Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris) * Jan 2000-Oct 2002: Applications Developer at MCI/WorldCom, Inc. + Designed and implemented corporate intranet cookie-based secure authentication module for Apache. This was completed on a two-week deadline and was the company's authentical for its main intranet portal for years. (C, Unix) + Implemented cross-platform, peer-to-peer, strong encrypted enterprise instant messaging system. (C++, Unix, Windows, Macintosh) + Wrote web-based payroll analysis system which enabled my department to find discrepancies in working and vacation hours. (HTML, Perl, PHP, Oracle, SQL) + Constructed and administrated web log analysis facility which served as the main analysis for years. It analyzed over 2GB of log files every day, generating customizable graphs and reports for every site and sub-site on the wcomnet intranet. (C++, Perl, HTML, PHP, Solaris) + Implemented and maintained web server/LDAP status monitoring and alert facility, enabling us to detect and recover quickly from network and server failures. (Perl, Bash, Unix) * Jan 1997-Mar 1999: Senior Developer at BoxTop Software + Implemented a great deal of GIFmation 2.0, the premier animated GIF construction program. (C++, MacOS Classic) + Created concept, design and implementation of the first version of what was known as "Autotyper," "Typer," and "Fileomatic." + Implemented Adobe Photoshop plugins for maximizing compression while saving files. + Assisted in porting C++ software from Macintosh to Windows + Assisted in Unix system administration + Wrote in-house registration number generating system (C, MacOS Classic) + Designed and implemented in-house online ordering system (C++, MacOS Classic) Conference Papers * Jodlowski, M., Carruth, D. W., Lowe, D., & Doane, S. M. (2003) Knowledge Scoring Engine (KSE) for Real-Time Knowledge Base Generation. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, (pp. 435-437), May 12-15, Scottsdale, AZ. Other Accomplishments * Head administrator and primary coder for the text-based virtual reality game TempusMUD (C++, STL, XML, PostgreSQL) * Wrote community blogging software for Digital Sanctuary (C, Ruby, Perl, PostgreSQL, Apache) * Wrote the text-based virtual reality codebase Unity (Common Lisp) * Wrote codebase for a text-based virtual reality environment, "Forgotten Sanctuary" (C++) * Wrote 3d engine Vivis - a Ruby/C hybrid with server/client networking support. * Wrote Open Transport version of a cross-platform networking language interface for Catharon Productions (C) * Helped with version 0.0.8 of the open source project root-tail (C, Unix) * Contributor to clsql - an open source common lisp library (CL) * Contributor to cl-sdl - an open source common lisp interface to SDL (CL) * Wrote hachet - an HTML preprocessor for easy website maintenance and standards compliance. (Ruby) * Wrote free implementation of local-time, a Common Lisp library for manipulating dates and times. (CL) * Wrote simplelist, a simple mailing list program with no offline controls. (Perl, Unix) * Wrote holler, a distributed netcast system for internet radio stations. (C++, Ruby, Windows, Unix) * Wrote rbcast, a non-distributed netcast system for internet radio stations. (Ruby, Unix) References * Bill Dunsford Friend drom@sanctuary.org * Daniel Carruth Former Co-worker ego@sanctuary.org * Richard Anton Former Supervisor ranton@madlogic.com * Kevin Crothers Former Supervisor CIO of First Choice Medical Supply 800.809.4556 * Dr. Stephanie Doane Former Supervisor Director of INST Institute 662.325.8739 * Kevin Etheridge Manager VP of Engineering at Cyber Operations 561.351.0128