Brian Smith
244 N Hyland, Apt 303
Ames, IA, 50012
(515) 292-7627
bsmith1@iastate.edu
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OBJECTIVE:
To start a career in Computer or Electrical Engineering, focusing on high-performance computing and applications

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EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Research Assistant
Scalable Computing Lab, US Department of Energy, Iowa State University
AMES, IA
May 2002-Current

Research focusing on high-performance computing, benchmarking, clusters, and scalable administration

Research Assistant
Computational Electromagnetics and NDE Group, Iowa State University
AMES, IA
Aug 2001-May 2002
(Spring 2002 - TA for Antenna Theory/Design Course)

Research focused on high performance computing applications, specifically computation electromagnetics with a focus on frequency domain codes for quasi-planar structures

System Administrator/Research Assistant
Scalable Computing Lab
AMES, IA
Jan 1997-Aug 2001

• Computing Research: Researched leading edge hardware and software to maximize computing power/performance
• Cluster Research: Performed leading edge research on computer clustering in areas such as software, hardware, and scalable administration
• System Administration: Provided support for large heterogeneous UNIX/PC/MAC environment
• System Programming: Wrote scripts and utilities for easing administration, doing backups, helping users spawn jobs, etc.

System/Network Administrator
AMERUS LIFE
DES MOINES, IA
1994-1996

Network/PC Consultant
MASONRY PRODUCTS, CO.
DES MOINES, IA
1995-1996

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EDUCATION:

Iowa State University
AMES, IA
Jan 2000-

Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering Exam

• Passed, May 2000
• (First step towards Professional Engineering License)

Graduate School

• Currently seeking MS in Computer Engineering (GPA 3.79). Expected completion: May or August 2004

Research Interests

• High-performance Computing, System Administration, Computational Electromagnetics, Numerical Methods

Representative Courses Taken

• Adv. Computer Security, Adv. Computer Networking, Cryptography

• Adv. Communication Systems, Digital Signal Processing

• Adv. EM Theory, Antenna Design

• Adv. Computer/Microprocessor Architecture

• Computer Graphics (OpenGL), Parallel Programming

• FDM, Statistical Methods, Numerical Analysis

Activities

• Graduate Student Senator, Spring 2000-Current

• Graduate Student Senate Communications Chair, Spring 2001-Current

• ISU Chief Information Officer Search Committee - Graduate Students Representative

• Computer Advisory Committee Member, Spring 2000-Fall 2002

• Chemistry Club (SCUM) 1995-Current

Professional Organization Memberships

• IEEE, ACM, NSPE, AWS, AFS

Iowa State University
AMES, IA
1995-2000

Degrees Received

• BS Computer Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering (with math minor) (Overall GPA: 3.16)

Honors

• Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society

• Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

• Eta Kappa Nu EE/CprE Honor Society

• Golden Key National Honor Society

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society

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SKILLS:

Extensive knowledge of

• Network/Computer Security
• IRIX 4.0.2-6.5.x, FreeBSD 2.2 through -current, major Linux distributions (RedHat, Debian, Slackware)
• DOS/Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000, MS Office Products, MacOS X
• TeX/LaTeX/MikTeX/TeXShop
• AFS (setup and administration), Kerberos (setup and administration)
• Large RAID Sets and RAID Hardware (36gb-1tb+)
• DLT backup hardware, Legato Networker
• C programming, UNIX System Programming, Sockets, IPC, Process Creation, OpenGL, MPI
• IBM PC and compatible hardware, SGI hardware including supercomputers
• Ethernet and Token Ring, Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, Giganet, FDDI, ATM, Wireless
• HTML and Web Servers (setup and administration, CGI scripts, etc)
• DNS (bind) and Mail (IMAP, (K)POP, sendmail) setup on FreeBSD, Linux, and IRIX

Experience with

• Solaris 2.6-2.8, AIX 4.x, HPUX 9 and 10, OSF, Ultrix, Tru64
• Matlab, Mathematica, SAS, C++ Programming, Fortran 90, PERL
• Numerical Methods, Electromagnetic Theory, EM Modeling (NEC, AWAS)
• Communication Systems and Digital Signal Processing
• Spoken and written (Simplified) Mandarin Chinese, Spanish

References available upon request.