Robert Cresswell
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zoot@malachiarts.org
Los Angeles, CA 90006
http://www.malachiarts.org/~zoot/resume/



Education:
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Bachelor of Science from the California Institute of Technology (June 1998)
	in the Engineering and Applied Science department.

Concentrations: Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems.

Course work examples:

	physics: mechanics, electricity&magnetism, special relativity,
		quantum mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, lab courses in:
		waves, particle collision/scattering, electronics,
		and semiconductor theory/fabrication
	computer science: C, C++, Java, and parallel programming,
		object oriented analysis and design, algorithm development,
		program proofs, grammars, graphics, and physical simulation
	neural systems/information: general neurobiology, artificial life,
		information theory, complexity, and further independent
		research in artificial life.



Work/Research experiences (by employer):
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Malachiarts Networks - [04/02 to present]:
	Founder of the Malachiarts networks project.  We provide:
	colocation space, firewalling, manage hosting, provision bandwidth,
	and manage network infrastructures for colo customers
Malachiarts Consulting - [06/01 to present]:
	Founder, offering services in:
	unix system administration, database administration and tuning,
	network administration, application design/development,
	web design, and technology architecture consulting

Jobtrak/Monstertrak.com - [08/98 to 05/01]:
	Chief Technology Officer - directed: operations, development,
	project/product planning, and quality assurance teams.
	Guided technology department throughout merger with Monster.com.
	Still participated in all operations duties
	(system/database/network administration and capacity planning).

Jobtrak - [11/94 to 09/97]:
	Technology Lead/Architect - Nathan Bradshaw and I wrote and designed
	the initial code to run Jobtrak's web presence.  The project involved:
	C and Perl CGIs, OCI, SQL, tweaking httpd server source and even the
	early design work.  Also took on sysadmin duties for their Solaris and
	Hp-UX boxes and Oracle DBA duties for both web and accounting systems.
	Grew the technology department from this initial seed of two,
	to twenty-two, organized into the aforementioned teams:
	(ops, dev, planning, qa).

"Platzgeist" at Art Center College of Design - [4/96 to 9/96]:
	Coded an interactive cdrom for the New Media graduate school
	at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Fraserlab - [4/95 to 11/96]:
	System/Network administration of an IRIX and NeXtStep cluster.

BILRC - [10/94 to 1/96]:
	System administration for the Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center:
	IRIX, AIX, SCO, and windows/dos.

Chemistry Animation Project - [03/94 to 09/94]:
	Programmer/Sysadmin - the group produced accurate simulations for
	intuitive chemistry education videos.  I administered an SGI(IRIX)
	and IBM(AIX) cluster and used the TDI/Wavefront packages for modeling,
	rendering, and animation.

LIGO - [01/93 to 10/93]:
	Developed a transmission/ringdown experiment for LIGO
	{Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave research Observatory}.
	The experiment's purpose was to create a more accurate
	map of a mirror surface by measuring its transmission and coating
	losses at an array of points across its surface.  The project needed
	UNIX/C programming as well as familiarity with laser/optics operation
	and serial communications with motor drivers and other optical
	equipment.



Specific Skills:
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Languages: C, Perl, Ruby, Java, C++, shell scripting (t/csh/sh), Lex, Yacc,
	pascal, visual programming for Labview, and Lingo(director)
Operating Systems: Linux 1.3.x - 2.6.x, SunOS 4.1.1 - Solaris 9,
	IRIX 4.05 - 6.2, AIX 3.2.4 - 4.1.1, SCOUnix, NeXtStep,
	HP-UX 9.x - 10.20, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Implementations/Apps:
	Oracle rdbms (7.x - 10g) administration and tuning, OCI, PL/SQL, MySQL,
	PostgreSQL, building secure and redundant networks, capacity planning
	for large internet services, IOS, router, bridge, firewall, and load -
	balancer configuration, building custom network monitoring tools,
	kernel configuration and tuning, general unix wizardry, net-host-app
	security audits, configuring NAS devices, implementing SANs, apache
	hacking, Mathematica, GL/Mesa, Glut, and OpenInventor progrmaming.
Other Interests:
	music - guitar, drums, bass guitar, upright bass,
	electronic composition and sound design, and DJing/mixing ;;
	sports - basketball, snowboarding, skateboarding, and climbing.




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