Software Developer
Resume:
Mark M. Mims
Ph.D. - Resume
Mark M. Mims
Ph.D.
Austin/Boulder
Email: ****.****@*****.***
URL: http://www.markmims.com
Summary:
* Member of the Ubuntu Server Team
* Software Developer (Rails, Ruby/C++/Java)
* Design/Build Private & Hybrid Clouds
* Enterprise Integration (Chief Architect for $30MM J2EE project in
the Energy Industry)
* 3D Modeling/Simulation/AI
* Ph.D. Physics
Employment History:
Software Engineer - Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd. (Global)
2011-Present
Part of the team working to build juju, a new suite of DevOps tools
for Ubuntu Server. Developing juju charms to orchestrate various
services throughout the enterprise. Designing / developing APIs and
tools surrounding the juju DevOps stack. Developing service stacks
for everything from Hadoop clusters to complex large-scale
infrastructures like Wikipedia. Integrate / test deployments on bare
metal as well as EC2, Eucalyptus, and OpenStack cloud
infrastructures.
Cloud ArchitectArchethought (Austin, TX)
2010-2011
Archethought is a consulting firm specializing in designing and
building *private and hybrid clouds* for colleges and universities
around the world. This helps universities take advantage of more
efficient Virtualization technologies, provide infrastructure as a
service within the university, and safely explore various emerging
Digital Library technologies.
Design and Deliver all software, networking, configuration and
monitoring needed to set up and support a Cloud Computing System,
Storage Systems, and cloud-based High Performance Computing Systems.
Help integrate the Cloud Computing System with existing systems and
applications throughout the university environment.
This includes a web-based (Rails) Cloud Management Console with
account, instance, image, and storage management.
Technology Used: Eucalyptus, AWS/EC2 API, RightAWS, Ruby, Rails,
Chef.
Chief ScientistAgile Dynamics (Austin, TX)
2005-2011
Agile Dynamics is a consulting firm specializing in *data-driven
decision making*, helping businesses adopt a more quantitative view
of everyday business decisions. We provide the leadership, business
acumen, and technical expertise necessary to adapt business
processes and implement the enterprise software needed to support
this process across various different industries.
Designed and built a *data-driven decision support system* for the
Jamaican Ministry of Education. This USAID-sponsored project serves
primary and secondary educational institutions throughout the nation
and gives the Ministry previously unknown visibility into the state
of education on the Island. This application was built using Rails
and scales dynamically in EC2 using Chef.
Designed the next generation of application for a company offering
Fleet/Inventory Tracking services. This company provides web
services and whitelabel web portals to track assets using their
proprietary GPS tracking hardware. The new design helped prepare for
*integration into Machine to Machine (M2M) data market*.
Provide *ad-hoc data-munging* services to a variety of businesses.
Designed/built web-based bulk data importers for textbook
distributors to manage inventory from publishers with various
proprietary and standard (ONIX) formats. Designed/built web-based
bulk data importers for a game company wanting a portal for
customers to manage game content.
Provide *social network integration* services to help today's
businesses migrate away from traditional marketing models and
embrace a new role as part of a community of customers. This
includes management consulting and the development of web-based
applications and Facebook apps using Ruby on Rails.
Provided quantitative marketing tools and services for the
visualization and *modeling of social networks*. Allowed for trend
identification and analysis, growth rate predictions, and what-if
scenarios for various network and Web-2.0 businesses. This was
developed using Ruby/MySQL with Rails/GraphViz visualization.
Provided environmental simulation and modeling solutions to track
pollutants in the Florida Everglades. Created numerical
*hydrodynamic mass balance models* that are used to calculate tax
incentives/penalties for surrounding commercial land. This was
developed using Java/SWT/WebStart and interfaced with a variety of
legacy apps and databases.
Technology Used: Ruby, Rails, Java, SWT/JFace.
Chief Technology OfficerRational Systems (Houston, TX)
2002-2005
Developed business models for the Energy Industry and then designed
/ developed systems to implement these models. For regulated energy
utilities, this allows for efficient daily operations and longterm
optimization decisions. Directed delivery of two complete product
lines, Rational Pipe(TM) and Rational Catalyst(TM), from conception.
Rational Pipe is software designed to *manage the commercial
activities of interstate natural gas pipelines*, including
contracts, CRM, tariffs, capacity release, nominations, allocations
and invoicing. It was the result of a 140+ man-year, joint
development project between Rational Systems and a major US
interstate natural gas pipeline, utilizing Rational's Rights-Based
engine (pat pending).
Chief Architect for this $30M project delivered on time and on
budget. Provided Technical leadership for a team of approximately
thirty developers and twenty testers. Directly developed components
across the system, including: gas flow, physical pipe, scheduling,
and the JMX-based system management console.
Rational Catalyst is a business simulation and analysis framework
used in energy production, exploration, and gathering. It is
software that enables *collaborative business modeling* by
integrating small disparate models of various aspects of the
business together making model data available across the enterprise.
Catalyst packages data mining, revision control for both data and
models, and various visualization tools including configurable
executive dashboards into one complete package for business
analysis.
Chief Architect for the Rational Catalyst team of four developers
and two testers. Directly developed add-in interface components for
Microsoft Excel 2000 using MFC/ATL/COM plugins in C++.
Technology Used: Java, C#, C++, J2EE Design/Development, .NET,
Business modeling, MFC, ATL, COM, Tibco, SQLServer 2000 with
Analysis Services, Enterprise Hardware (Compaq/HP) running Windows
2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 2-3,
Microsoft SharePoint, Linux.
Lead Software ArchitectThe AEgis Technologies Group, Inc. (Austin, TX)
2000-2002
Principal architect of AEgis' AcslXtreme(TM) product line, a suite
of *commercial simulation tools* based on the industry standard
ACSL(TM) (Advanced Continuous Simulation Language). Leader of a
development team responsible for refactoring and modernizing the
ACSL language as well as developing a complete modern development
environment for simulation engineers. Responsible for coordinating
all technical activities and artifacts throughout the lifecycle of
the project.
Directly developed software components across the product line: for
ACSL language translation, compilation, interpretation, symbolic
mathematical manipulation, numerical integration and analysis,
numerical optimization, build management, simulation execution
management, communications infrastructure (using both distributing
and componenting technologies), and developing user interface
component APIs.
Technology Used: C/C++, C#, Java, .NET, MATLAB, VB, FORTRAN, UNIX
and Win32 systems programming, MFC, COM/DCOM, CORBA, SOAP, HLA,
ANTLR, lex/yacc, UML, RUP, GoF design patterns, object-oriented
design, component-based design, Windows .NET, Various flavors of
UNIX/Linux (some components native, UI(MFC) components ported using
Bristol porting tools).
Software DeveloperWesson International, Inc., now Adacel Technologies, Ltd. (Austin, TX)
1996-1998
Responsible for creating and maintaining realistic aircraft movement
and intelligent pilot behavior in a multi-platform, scaleable *air
traffic control (ATC) simulator*.
Integrated tower ATC, radar ATC, and flight simulators in order to
simultaneously train tower controllers, radar controllers, and
pilots. Distributed the system using CORBA and the US Defense
Department's High Level Architecture (HLA). Spearheaded the
simulator port to C++ on a POSIX-compliant kernel.
In addition to movement and pilot intelligence in a soft real-time
environment, responsibilities included on-site customization for
systems installed in Alaska and Hong Kong, graphics programming
using SGI's IRIS Performer toolkit, and developing networking tools
to assist in distributing the simulators.
Technology Used: C/C++, Tcl/Tk, UNIX and Win32 systems programming,
(soft) real-time process scheduling/event management, resource
conflict resolution/management, network programming using TCP/IP and
NetBIOS, Silicon Graphics O_2, Onyx Reality Engine, and Onyx2
Infinite Reality high-end graphics systems running IRIX(UNIX), i386
hardware running Linux, Win95, NT-4.0, and an in-house real-time OS
over DOS/4GW.
Instructor
Dept. of Physics - UT Austin (Austin, TX)
1994-2000Physical Science I: Mechanics (AI, Instructor of Record)
Lab for Engineering Physics I (TA)
Lab for General Physics II (TA)
Lecturer
Austin Community College (Austin, TX)
1995-1996
Intro to General Physics I
Engineering Physics I
Education:
Ph.D. in Physics, 2000
The University of Texas at Austin
Projects:
* Dissertation: "Dynamical Stability of Quantum Algorithms."
Supervisor: E.C.G. Sudarshan Created a numerical model to
characterize noise in Grover's quantum search algorithm. This
model was then used to determine the maximum amount of noise that
the bare algorithm can tolerate before failing. This is useful in
determining exactly which emerging technologies will prove to be
viable for implementing quantum computers. Technology Used: C++,
Perl, BASH script, LaTeX, numerical solutions to ODEs,
randomization, various matrix calculations (using blitz++, TNT,
and LAPACK).
B.S. in Physics, 1992
The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. in Mathematics, 1992
The University of Texas at Austin
Projects:
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