About
About Me:
I’m a fifth year computer science student at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. I take special pleasure in doing things I’ve never done before, and even better if I’m the first to document the process for others. My professional interests lay in research: I enjoy working with emerging technologies for data transfer, and I’m a sadist in the sense that I love the agonizing pain of breaking up huge problems into smaller parts and implementing the algorithms to combine them all. My personal areas of study primarily center on operating systems development, reverse engineering, and computer security, and I take great pleasure in system administration. I also dabble in electronics, and would be very sad if The Office didn’t exist.
Where I’ve worked:
Topia Technology - I worked at Topia for three months on my first co-op as a research and development intern. Worked with their mobile object technologies, spending the majority of my time figuring out how to organize their deployment effectively. I’ll be returning as a junior software engineer for full time in September, 2008!
Rochester Institue of Technology, Software Engineering Department - For over a year I was an assistant system administrator for the Software Engineering Department at RIT, only leaving when I went on co-op. I spent my time doing an eclectic array of tasks - writing site documentation, modifying systems to authenticate against our LDAP server, setting up servers, writing programs to control projectors via serial port and whatever else the administrator required of me.
SAIC - I worked for SAIC as a software engineering intern for over a year, half of it working remotely from RIT as a part-time employee as I finished my last year of undergrad. My project was focused on combining multiple forms of biometric data into one system, and my tasks involved design, development, and maintenance of the system.
About this blog:
This blog is to serve as a resource for other people with things I come across. My computing activities are broad, and I like to believe that some of the things I encounter and accomplish could be viewed as helpful by others.
About my policy on everything:
Be responsible for yourself, take pride in your work, keep the Internet free from corporate meddling, and support institutions of public knowledge (like your local library).
