Contact

Experience

• Student technician, Office of Computing Services, 2003-2005
• Alternative Systems lead, Office of Computing Services, 2004-2005
• Administrator and student researcher, CCT, 2005-2007
• Officer, Linux user group at LSU, 2003-2005
• Chair, ACM at LSU SIGSOFT, 2005-2007
• Attendee, C4[0] (Macintosh developers conference)

Research

I'm currently working on LSUGrid, which connects hundreds of Windows desktops around campus in a mixed Linux/Windows grid computing environment. By making better use of spare cycles, we can alleviate scheduling pressure on our traditional high-performance computers, and investigate issues with large-scale grid computing.

I completed an Honors College undergraduate thesis on demonstrating LSUGrid's viability and suggesting improvements from a similar project at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Both the slides from the thesis defense and the paper itself are available online.

Academics

• Student, LSU Honors College
• Recipient, LSU Alumni Association scholarship, 2003-2007
• Recipient, Top 10%, College of Basic Sciences, 2005, 2006
• Recipent, Andrea Martin Memorial Scholarship in Computer Science, 2007

Future

After my May 2007 graduation, I'll begin a Software Design Enginner position with Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit in Redmond, Washington. There, I'll work on Office for Mac, and improve my understanding of human/computer interaction, desktop software development, and computer-supported collaborative work, especially in terms of networked, real-time collaboration. (I also can't wait to join up with the Seattle Xcoders.)