Computer Science Software Engineer

Michael R. Head, Ph.D.

phone: +1-607-***-****

email: ****@***.***

www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike

Skills

Java programming (10+ years): parsing techniques, Servlets/JSP, SWT and Eclipse plugin development

Other languages/libraries/tools: C (with GTK2/Glade), C++ (on Linux), Python (with PyGTK), GNU R, GNU

autotools, Javascript/JSON

Experience

Senior Software Engineer : IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY : Fall 2009 - Present

Member of research group investigating compute cloud infrastructure

Developed production software and authored research papers and patent applications

Graduate Research Assistant : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY : Fall 2004 - Fall 2009

Research group member analyzing and developing the Grid Computing service stack; projects in Java, C,

C++, R and Python involving SOAP, XML, and GridFTP

Reviewed papers for several scientific conferences and journals

Authored several articles published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals

Founded and lead the Binghamton University Computer Science Graduate Student Seminar Series

Graduate Level Co-op, Summer Intern : IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY : Fall 2008, Summer 2009

Developed a novel web-based customer on-boarding tool for an I/T service monitoring system

Returned to work with the same group as a Summer intern in 2009, built a desktop cloud on-boarding portal

Independent Contractor : Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA : September 2007 - May 2008

Developed a complex event processor for intrusion detection systems; responsible for developer tools and

servlet/JSP-based AJAX web interface

Linux Specialist : Custom Systems Integration, Endicott, NY : January 2006 - March 2006

Designed and developed an internationalized (gettext-enabled) C-based GTK application for the testing of

12 different digital, analog, GPIB, and CAN PCI I/O boards under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Authored and documented the installation and test procedure of the operating system, hardware and drivers

Research Assistant : Brandeis University, Waltham, MA : Fall 2001 - Summer 2004

Research group member studying the design of effective groupware solutions; developed a shared editing

tool for HTML and JScheme for experiments involving distributed pair programming

Advisory I/T Specialist : IBM Global Services, Charlotte, NC : Summer 1999 - Fall 2001

Traveled to several client sites, developed Java solutions for clients in the banking and finance industry

Education

Fall 2004 - Fall 2009 : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

Dissertation title: Analysis and Optimization for Processing Grid-Scale XML Datasets

Ph.D., Computer Science; specializing in Grid Computing; 3.966/4.0 GPA

Fall 2001 - Summer 2004 : Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

M.A., Computer Science; specializing in Computer Supported Cooperative Work; 3.890/4.0 GPA

Fall 1995 - Summer 1999 : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

B.S., Computer Science & B.S., Mathematics ; 3.461/4.0 overall GPA

Selected Publications

Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju Performance Enhancement with Speculative Execution Based

Parallelism for Processing Large-scale XML-based Application Data, in The proceedings of International

Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 21-30,, Munich, Germany, June 2009.

Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Robert van Engelen, Wei Zhang, Benchmarking XML Processors

for Applications in Grid Web Services, in SC 06 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High

Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage, Tampa, FL, November 2006.

Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Pu Liu, Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Robert van

Engelen, Kenneth Chiu, Michael J. Lewis, A Benchmark Suite for SOAP-based Communication in Grid Web

Services, in SC 05 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking,

and Storage, Seattle WA, November 2005.

Other interests

Mountain biking, Snowboarding, Homebrewing

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