Ben Zeckel
   bzeckel@cs.hmc.edu
   (401)-632-1686
   [1]http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~bzeckel/
   Objective: I am currently seeking a full-time software engineering
   position in Indianapolis, IN

   Education:
     * Harvey Mudd College Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science,
       May 2002.
     * Relevant course work completed in: object-oriented and functional
       programming; data structures; program development; programming
       language design; computer architecture; operating systems;
       algorithms; large scale software development; compiler design;
       theory of computation; computer graphics; networks

   Awards and Achievements: National Merit Scholar, Harvey S. Mudd Scholar

   Experience:
     * Software Engineer, LaserFiche Document Imaging, May 2002 - present
          + Added important features to core server product which is
            implemented primarily in multithreaded C++. Worked on both
            development and release branches for 6.03-6.12 and 7.0.0-7.2.0
          + Designed and implemented next generation DCOM communication
            layer. Maintained and expanded legacy RPC layer for backwards
            compatibility with existing client applications. Expanded
            metadata, audit, search and access control systems. Added
            records management capabilities for automatically tracking
            document retention schedules and processes.
          + Greatly increased performance on Oracle platform by replacing
            ADO driver with custom OCI level driver inside in-house
            database abstraction layer. Debugged problems with MS SQL ADO
            layer.
          + Designed new SQL table structures and relationships to
            implement functionality on Oracle and MS SQL Server. Wrote
            stored procedures in T-SQL and PL/SQL
          + Implemented functionality that allowed product to obtain DoD
            5015.2 compliance certification and pass recertification test
            after two years.
          + Wrote user-friendly MFC-based utility to automate migration of
            SQL data from versions 6.x to versions 7.x including repairs
            for referential integrity constraint violations in 6.x data.
            Also wrote all SQL upgrade scripts for 7.x branch (for
            example, to move from 7.0.1 to 7.1) for both MS SQL and Oracle
          + Wrote diagnostic utility and MFC-based GUI frontend to improve
            efficiency of technical support staff by automating the
            acquisition of common configuration details on end user
            machines.
     * Project Manager, Harvey Mudd College Computer Science Clinic for
       the Marine Biological Laboratory, Sept 2001 - May 2002
          + Project manager of a 5 member team charged with the task of
            creating an implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for
            local sequence alignment, which takes advantage of SIMD
            features of the Pentium 2/3/4 and Itanium CPUs
          + Created MPI-based code to allow easy distribution of the
            workload across a machine cluster
          + Implemented Perl/C interface code to allow the rest of the
            code to fit into Bioperl-based laboratory workflow used at
            MBL. This involved using the Perl module system and the Perl C
            API (perlguts)
     * Intern, Cisco Systems, May 2001 - Aug 2001
          + Ported C-based configuration provisioning software from
            routers running IOS to Linux.
          + Integrated XFS file system support into Linux-based
            residential gateway project.
          + Created a custom Linux boot CD which greatly increased the
            speed of the image restoration process for the gateway.
          + Created x86-based cross compilation build system for software
            used in an embedded ARM-based residential gateway project. The
            system also integrated support for building a similar x86
            project in a consistent extensible framework.
     * CTO, Unified Consulting, Inc., Oct 1999 - April 2001
          + Ran technical operations which involved writing custom
            Linux-based e-commerce software and providing system
            administration services to small and medium-sized business
            customers.
          + Headed team of 3 programmers working on a PHP4/MySQL-based
            education/study website. I was in charge of managing the team
            as well as writing a substantial portion of the actual code.
            Content was written in XML and translated using XLST into
            various distribution formats.
          + Wrote the majority of the code for company e-commerce website
            intended for selling custom Linux computers using PHP3 with
            MySQL as a database backend. The system has since been
            translated into PHP4 and is now in use by another company in
            the UK as well.
          + Designed and wrote PHP4 / MySQL web application to handle
            distribution of support supplies within a client company.
     * Consultant, HMC Computer Science Department, Feb 1999 - May 1999
          + Provided assistance to users of the Solaris-based CS
            Department cluster and assisted with various system
            administration tasks assigned by the CS Department Staff
     * Technical Support, ON-NET Internet Services , March 1998 - Aug 1998
       , May 1999 - Aug 1999
          + Developed CGI applications and system administration scripts
            in Perl.
          + Provided technical support by phone to customers attempting to
            connect to the Internet through dial-up PPP connections.

   Skills:
     * Experienced with C++, C, T-SQL, PL/SQL, SQL, STL, JAVA, DCOM, ADO,
       OCI, SML, PHP, XML/XLST, Perl, shell scripting
     * Exposure to Scheme, Prolog, REX, x86/Sparc ASM, C#, and others.
     * MS Windows (95/98,NT,2000,XP,2003), MS Visual Studio (6.0,7.0,7.1),
       Visual Sourcesafe
     * Strong UNIX skills, Linux system administration, CVS

References

   1. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~bzeckel/