Brian R. Gaeke

Objective

I aim to be an important part of a tightly focused and cohesive team in which I can help design, develop, maintain, and explain computer software.

Master of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Expected completion Dec. 2004. GPA 3.935. Passed oral qualifying exam for the Ph.D. degree, Feb. 29, 2004.
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), with high honors in computer science and high distinction in general scholarship. Completed May 25, 2002. GPA 3.846.

I was admitted to the Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts honor society in spring 2001.
I was admitted to the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society in fall 1999.

I have 2 years experience in C and C++ compiler development.
I have 9 years experience developing applications with C and C++.
I have 5 years experience with Unix and Windows NT system administration.
I have taught computer science classes at the undergraduate, graduate, and high-school levels.

May 2003 - present: Graduate Research Assistant, LLVM Project, Computer Science Department, UIUC. Implemented a trace-based dynamic runtime optimizer. Implemented parts of the X86 static and just-in-time back-ends in the LLVM compiler. Implemented a program-visualization tool.
Oct. 2000 - May 2002: Undergraduate Research Assistant, IRAM Project, EECS Department, UCB. Performance tuning of benchmarks. Development of trace-based performance simulator. Supported by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

Spring 2003: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, UIUC. Prepared and graded assignments for a graduate course in compilers. Overhauled Java-based teaching compiler.
Summer 1999: Undergraduate Tutor, Computer Science 61C (Machine Structures), EECS Department, UCB. Lectured (first two weeks) and taught daily discussion sections on topics in computer architecture and assembly language.
Summer 1998: Co-Lecturer, Academic Talent Development Program, UCB. Taught a Scheme and Symbolic Programming computer science course for Bay Area high school students along with Dr. Brian Harvey, EECS Department, UC Berkeley.

Aug. 1998 - Aug. 2002: Programmer/Analyst, Instructional & Electronics Support, EECS Department, UCB. Custom programming supporting EECS classes, including overhaul of course software for large undergraduate classes. System administration and user support for the Unix and Windows NT servers and labs used by faculty and staff in the EECS department. Maintenance of vendor-supported and unsupported software, including CAD and software-development tools. Hardware upgrades and installations. Consultation with faculty/teaching staff to assess instructional needs.
Fall 1997 - Fall 1998: Vice President and Coordinator of Unix Help Sessions, Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UCB. System administration for 2,500-user FreeBSD server and workstations running DEC ULTRIX, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Organized and taught regular seminars on topics in computer science and system administration. Publicity, flyering, outreach.
Summer 1995 - Spring 1997: Member of Help Desk student staff, Cincinnati Country Day School, Cincinnati, OH 45243. Maintenance of: on-campus Ethernet, Sun Solaris-based campus-wide E-mail and World-Wide Web server, and Mac OS-based campus-wide AppleShare server. Help-desk technical support for 600 Toshiba Pentium-based Windows 95 laptops and two labs of Mac OS machines.

Spring - Summer 1997: Contract Programmer, MIS Department, Channel 48 WCET-TV, Cincinnati, OH 45214. Designed, installed, tested, and documented a custom firewall built entirely from free software and recycled parts. Constructed and documented a backup/restore system for the firewall which can restore it from tape backup in the event of a disk crash.
Summer 1995: Contract programmer, University of Cincinnati College of Law Library, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Designed kiosk to allow law students to create their own web home pages. Client software used HyperCard and AppleScript on a Mac OS computer with attached digital camera, and automatic index server software used Perl on SunOS 4 with AppleShare access.

May 2001 - present: I am the principal architect of VMIPS (http://vmips.sourceforge.net), an open-source MIPS R3000 whole-system simulator.
Sep. 2000 - Feb. 2002: I wrote, tested, and released WebNews (http://webnews.sourceforge.net), an open-source Usenet News reader written in Perl. WebNews is used by the Berkeley EECS department to give off-campus students access to class discussion groups.
May 1995 - March 1997: Volunteer support programmer, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. Worked with the team porting the free 4.4 BSD Unix derivative, NetBSD, to the Motorola 68K-based Macintosh systems (NetBSD/mac68k): Maintained and enhanced the bootloader. Wrote first edition of bootloader manual. Implemented support for Farallon ethernet cards and various other kernel patches.

English is my native language. I also have some ability to speak, read, and write in French.
I know the following computer languages: C, C++, Java, SmallTalk, MIPS, SPARC and X86 assembly, Unix shell-scripting, Pascal, Perl, Lisp/Scheme, Tcl/Tk, HTML, and TeX.
I am comfortable working in Mac OS 8/9/X, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, System V Unix, and Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.

References available upon request.