phone: +1-607-821-4963
email: head@acm.org
www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike
- Objective
- To obtain full time employment in January
2009 with a computer software company or research laboratory in
the New York City area working in a
team-oriented environment on large-scale distributed applications and
toolkits.
- Skills
- Java programming: network programming, parsing techniques (both
ad hoc and with JavaCC and SableCC), Servlets/JSP, SWT and
Eclipse plugin development
- Other languages/libraries/tools: C (with GTK2/Glade), C++ (on
Linux),
Python (with PyGTK), and GNU autotools
- Experience
-
Ph.D. Candidate/Research Assistant :
Binghamton University,
Binghamton, NY :
Fall 2004 - Present
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Independent Contractor:
Charles River Analytics,
Cambridge, MA :
September 2007 - May 2008
- Developed a complex event processor for intrusion detection systems; responsible for developer tools and servlet/JSP-based AJAX web interface
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Technical Writer :
Studio B Productions,
Great Neck, NY :
February 2007 - May 2007
- Authored a tutorial on the Alchemi.NET Grid Computing platform, published on IBM's DeveloperWorks developer portal
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Linux Specialist:
Custom Systems Integration,
Endicott, NY :
January 2006 - March 2006
- Designed and developed an internationalized (gettext-enabled) C-based GTK application for the testing of 12 different digital, analog, GPIB, and CAN PCI I/O boards under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3; developed and documented the installation and test procedure of the operating system, hardware and drivers
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Research Assistant:
Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA :
Fall 2001 - Summer 2004
- Research group member studying the design of effective
groupware solutions; developed a shared editing tool for HTML and JScheme for experiments
involving distributed pair programming
- Lead Developer, Administator:
Zclipse.org :
Summer 2002 - 2004
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Advisory I/T Specialist:
IBM Global Services,
Charlotte, NC :
Summer 1999 - Fall 2001
- Traveled to several client sites, developed Java
solutions for clients in the banking and finance industry
- Education
- Fall 2004 - Present : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
- Expected graduation: December 2008
- Ph.D., Computer Science; specializing in Grid Computing; 3.966/4.0 GPA
- Fall 2001 - Summer 2004 : Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- M.A., Computer Science; specializing in Computer
Supported Cooperative Work; 3.890/4.0 GPA
- Fall 1995 - Summer 1999 : Binghamton University,
Binghamton, NY
- B.S., Computer Science & B.S., Mathematics ; 3.461/4.0 overall GPA
- Selected Publications
-
- Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Robert van Engelen, Wei Zhang, “Benchmarking XML Processors for Applications in Grid Web Services” in SC|06 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage, Tampa, FL, November 2006.
- Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Pu
Liu, Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Robert van Engelen, Kenneth Chiu, Michael
J. Lewis, “A
Benchmark Suite for SOAP-based Communication in Grid Web
Services,” in SC|05 (Supercomputing): International
Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and
Storage, Seattle WA, November 2005.
- Onur Demir, Michael R. Head, Kanad Ghose, and Madhusudhan
Govindaraju, “Protecting
Grid Data Transfer Services with Active Network Interfaces,”
Grid 2005 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid
Computing, Seattle WA, November 2005.