Jeremy James Nickurak http://nickurak.ca/

my- abpvpa@r.postjobfree.com

Education

University of Alberta Edmonton, AB

M.Sc. in Computer Science Graduation Date: Fall 2010

Thesis: Slimming Virtual Machines based on Filesystem Pro le Data

Selected Coursework: Parallel and Distributed Systems, Single Agent Search, Software Service Systems, Sensor

Networks

Awards: Government of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology Graduate Student Scholarship

University of Alberta Edmonton, AB

B.Sc. Specialization in Computing Science Graduation Date: Spring 2008

Selected Coursework: Compiler Design, Security, Computational Science and Clusters, Software Process and

Engineering, Web-based Information Systems, Database Management

Awards: NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award, Jason Lang Scholarship, Deans Honour Roll

Skills

Languages: Pro cient: C, Java, Perl, HTML, XML

Knowledgeable: C++, PHP, Python, JSP, Javascript, CSS, LTEX

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Familiar: Prolog, Scheme

Development tools: CVS, Subversion, Git, Emacs

Operating Systems and Environments: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora Linux

Certi cations: Eucalyptus Cloud Platform Training

Experience

EMC Edmonton

Software Developer November 2010 - Current

Development of EMC VPLEX high-availability virtualized storage solution

Department of Computer Science University of Alberta

Research Assistant under Dr. Paul Lu May 2009 - September 2010

Research into virtual machine deployment and management (slimming), support for associated researchers in

Bioinformatics

Department of Computer Science University of Alberta

Teaching Assistant September 2008 - April 2010

Security in a Networked World, including rewall, server setup, and cryptography, under Dr. Ioanis Nikolaidis.

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/undergraduate-students/course-directory/security-networked-world

Web-Based Information Systems, including Javascript, PHP, Perl, SQL, HTML, CSS and JSP, under Dr. Osmar

Za ane. http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/undergraduate-students/course-directory/web-based-information-systems

Software Carpentry, including software development practices for scientists and engineers, taught in Python,

under Drs. Gregory Wilson and Paul Lu. http://software-carpentry.org/

Organizing and consulting with students in course laboratory sections, organizing and presenting laboratory

lectures, marking assignments

Consulting and participation in TA workshop seminars, to provide training and support to new TAs

Recipient of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Graduate Student Teaching Award

Grand & Toy Edmonton, AB

Inventory Control Clerk/Customer Service Associate June 2003 - April 2008

Customer service in retail and small business sales; inventory control, and account development and management

Supervision and training of staff

Selected Portfolio

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CMPUT 415 Project: Compiler for a subset of Pascal

Built in a group of 2 for a nal year class project, along with a comprehensive test suite. Compiled Pascal source

to a JVM-like stack machine language

Major contributions to the project included building the compiler s grammar and assembler production rules

Lilliputia

Slimming Infrastructure for Virtual Machines (Implementation of M.Sc thesis)

Infrastructure for resource usage monitoring (through a custom Linux FUSE lesystem called StatFS), with a

ltered cloning system, which copies an existing physical or virtual machine into a smaller clone.

Volunteer Activities

S.P.A.C.E, FABServatory, Department of Physics University of Alberta

Volunteer Observatory Guide September 2001 - Current

Guiding guests through the University of Alberta s Physics Department s Observatory & Exhibition area, under

the organizational umbrellas of Students for the Promotion of Astronomy, Culture, and Education, and the

FABServatory

Operation of equipment (14 and 12 Cassegrain scopes, solar lters, projection apparatuses)

Making presentations and elding questions, for guests of all ages, from pre-school to seniors

Undergraduate Association of Computing Science University of Alberta

Vice President Internal September 2007 - April 2008

Communication and interaction with the Department of Computing Science on behalf of undergraduate students,

including regular curriculum and department committee meetings, coordination of student events, and planning for

the Department of Computing Science s rst ever department-speci c orientation for rst-year students

Volunteered time to general UACS events and fundraisers

Interests

Computing Science: Virtualization, Software Systems, XML, XMPP, Operating Systems

Physical Sciences: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology

Other: Cycling, Swimming, Baking, Science Fiction, Esperanto, Photography

References available upon request.

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