Technical Skills:

• Proven talent and love for both learning new subjects and skills and teaching others.
• Some experience in statistics and uncertainty modelling in robotic path planning with respect to dynamics and changing environment as well as sensor errors. Solving optimization problems.
• Expertise in control systems and feedback control. Built software to automate design of feedback control.
• Extensive experience building relational database backed applications and interfacing them to the web, using the Oracle RDBMS and OLAP, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Web Portal, HTML DB (Marvel), Apache, mod_perl, XML, XSLT, etc.
• Experience with: C, Java, Scheme, JavaScript, Pascal; Matlab, Spice, Maple; Oracle, OLAP, MDX; Apache, Tomcat; Fireworks, DreamWeaver, Photoshop; Protel, Saber, Digital Design, PIC, PAL, VHDL; MS Windows (all versions), UNIX, Linux, MacOS (7.5-8.5).

Work Experience:

Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT, Cambrige, MA: 9/2004 - present

• Research Assistant in Robotics group at CSAIL. Research in robotic path planning in the face of uncertainty from sensory data and from dynamics of the environment, development of statistical methods to estimate geometrical uncertainty of the objects in the environment. Determinining and solving path optimality.

EECS Department, MIT, Cambrige, MA: Fall 2003, Fall 2004, 9/1999 - 7/2000

• Teaching Assistant for 6.302 Feedback Systems Control. Classroom and electronics lab instruction and tutoring, development of demos, exam questions, homework assignments, grading, website maintenance, etc.

Oracle Corp., OLAP Division, Burlington, MA: 7/2000 - 9/2003

• OLAP API Team - Designed and implemented Java test framework for Oracle clone of Microsoft's MDX multi-dimensional query API. When leaving for MIT, slated to implement production version of major components of MDX support.

• Release Automation Team - Designed, developed, and integrated internal tools used daily by developers and managers for revision control, automated testing, nightly product builds, management metrics and insight, etc. Designed and developed v1-v3 of internal Oracle website tracking system for the OLAP software development processs - for individual developers and for overall product build, testing, statistics.

ForEquity, Newton, MA: 8/2000 - 11/2000

• Part time. Responsible for all graphic design, user-interfaces, logos, stylesheets, etc. for company website. Tools included: Macromedia Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Homesite.

Intelligent Software Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA: 6/1999 - 9/1999

• Principal Software Developer. Designed, developed, and supported simple and robust software for presentation and administration of online interactive training, student tracking, etc. Used by Arthur D. Little Global Management Consulting.

MIT Information Systems, Cambridge, MA: 9/1998 - 9/1999

• Part time, PC and Mac consultant supporting MIT end users. Phone, in-person, or via email answered questions and solved problems in wide ranging areas, OS and software use and installation, network and printing configuration, etc.

General Motors Tech. Center, Warren, MI: 6/1998 - 8/1998

• Intern at Vehicle Simulation and Synthesis, responsible for testing, simulation, and product debugging and improvement of a widely used truck windshield wiper system. Tools used included Saber Analysis software, various GM circuit testers and scopes, etc.

MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA: 1/1998 - 5/1998

• Part time, undergraduate researcher in the Tangible Media Group. As part of InTouch project participated in design of PCB (Printed Circuit Board). For Pinwheels project, designed and implemented system of velocity feedback analog circuit plus PIC (Programable Integrated Circuit).

MIT Lincoln Labs, Lincoln, MA: 9/1996 - 12/1997

• Part time, research assistant to Prof. James K. Roberge. Responsibilities included analysis and implementation of systems, and design and analysis of multistage analog/digital circuits, including translinear transistor circuits in high/low frequency domains.

Quality Engineering Associates, Burlington, MA: 11/1996 - 12/1997

• Part time, electronic design and PCB layout for piezo sensor component of larger print head refurbishment device.

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sept. 2003 - present

• Currently enrolled in PhD program, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Currently taking classes in the areas of control systems, system modeling, discrete signal processing, numerical analysis.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1995 - 2000

• M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Graduate GPA: 5.0/5.0
• B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Minor in Economics
  Undergraduate major GPA: 4.6/5.0
  Overall undergraduate GPA: 4.5/5.0

Projects (while at MIT):

• Research Qualifying Exam: Adapting Probabilistic Roadmaps to Handle Uncertain Maps
  Designed a probabilistic framework along with a set of methods to appropriately handle an uncertain environment model. Adapted this framework as part of Probabilistic Roadmap Method (a popular randomized planning technique) in its sampling and planning stages. In simulations, showed the effectiveness of the uncertainty-adaptations.

• Master's Thesis: MASCoT - Model-Based Automatic Software Compensation Toolkit for Feedback Systems:
  Designed and implemented (in Java) software which given an open loop system model and desired performance goals, automatically designs a feedback compensator to reach those goals.

• Digital Library:
  Designed (only; no implementation) a distributed system which provides fast, safe, concurrent storage and retrieval of electronic data.

• Anti-Chess: Win by being checkmated.
  As part of two man team, designed and implemented (in Java) complete anti-chess playing program, including rule/move base, AI, GUI, and command line interface.

• Electronic Robot:
  Group of two designed and built autonomous robot which homed in on IR beacons while avoiding obstacles.

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