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Media, Pa, Us

Wilmington, Extreme Scale Solutions, Llc, Us

● Developed a pipelined RISC-V CPU simulator (including ISA, memory, and network components) for experimental graph analytics architectures, allowing for simulation of multi-core and multi-node applications with detailed performance analysis● Wrote automated unit test suites using pytest and Jenkins for CI● Contributed to Wisdom Vault, a web application using artificial intelligence (AI) for parsing and querying of technical manuals● Contributed to backend of database provisioning application, focusing on management of SQL Server databases on the Azure cloud● Collaborated with team of DBAs to document and improve database provisioning process● Contributed to backend of Cloud Optimizer, a web application written in Go providing automated recommendations for optimization and right-sizing of AWS cloud resources

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● Improved and maintained distributed multi-process, multi-threaded simulator for extreme-scale supercomputing architecture developed by Intel, written in C and pthreads.● Developed timing model and energy model for the same simulator, allowing simulation of dynamic frequency and voltage scaling.● Ported and optimized SWARM parallel programming runtime to Intel Runnemede architecture.● Developed resilience methodology for codelet-based runtime based on state-of-the-art research.● Contributed to design for SCALE extension of C, and SCALE to C source code translator.● Researched effects of cache and scheduling policy on distributed runtime performance.● Implemented parallel scientific algorithms for use as benchmarks.● Oversaw extensive collaboration with Intel research team located in Portland, Oregon.

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● Wrote tests to demonstrate completion and effectiveness of Cyclops64 supercomputer.● Designed and implemented requirement tests and regression tests in Python and Bash.● Diagnosed hardware, software, and scalability problems in supercomputer installations containing up to 3000 nodes.● Consulted on-site with classified government client.

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● Implemented dynamic optimizers in C++ for source-to-source C compiler using LLVM and ROSE.● Collaborated extensively with research teams at Rice University and Ohio State University, using continuous integration techniques.

Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Us

● Redeveloped and relaunched digital video production company's website.● Created a database front-end on website to display and allow employees to enter news articles.● Wrote C# modules for DotNetNuke CMS for use on company's website and intranet.● Worked with a SQL Server database as backend for DotNetNuke.

● Wrote high-performance C++ code using OpenCV to aid computer vision research into action recognition in video.● Analyzed program data by repeated experiments using the Condor framework.