Computer Science Project
Resume:
Jonathan Morton
Madison, WI
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SkillsLanguages
Proficient with Python, Javascript, Coffeescript, C, C++, Actionscript, and PHP.
Experience writing Java, Lua, Assembly, Bash, Go, Lisp, and Perl.
SoftwareUnix, SQL Databases, NodeJS, Django, GTK, Make, Bash, emacs, git, redis.Technologies/ConceptsWeb development and Design (HTML/CSS/DOM, AJAX), Operating Systems and Kernels, OOP, OpenGL, genetic algorithms, build systems, web servers.EducationJames Madison Memorial High School (2008 - 2012)National Merit Scholar FinalistUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (2012 - present)Admitted and enrolled beginning Fall 2012Entered with 32 credits (effectively a sophomore)Work and Projects“BeatBox” Flash Game (2007)Online flash game allowing users to create, share, browse, and rate simple musical beats.
Featured on Newgrounds.com front page, participated in MochiAds advertising beta program. Nearly 800,000 plays to date.BadgerBOTS Robotics Program (2007 - 2012)Five years of participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition team 1306, BadgerBOTS Robotics,
with two years serving as Electrical/Programming department head. Responsible for teaching and
mentoring new department members, spearheading design of robot's computer systems, and inter-department
communication. Team achievements include:
Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control award, recieved for novel hot-swappable control system, functional autonomous mode, and efficient use of electrical components. (2011)Regional Chairman's Award, highest honor award given for overall community impact and representation of FIRST ideals. (2010)Placed 18th in the world at International competition in 2010.Consistently seeded in top 15 at yearly regional competitionGTK Bug Analysis (2007)Designed and implemented a system for analyzing the nature of bugs in the GTK project.
Scored bugs in the Gnome bug system using this software in order to understand how such bugs
can be prevented in the future or discovered through automated processes.
Homepage: http://jonanin.com/gtkana/Computer Science Summer Internship (summer 2011)
Summer internship at UW-Madison through WCATY's Computer Science Research Internship (CSRI) program.
Worked, with guidance from Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, on MIT's xv6 kernel, to better understand kernel and operating system internals.
Completed a final project, “xv6-lfs,” a simple implementation of a log structured file system that improved overall OS performance.
Project source code: http://www.github.com/Jonanin/xv6-lfsPresentation Slides: http://www.jonanin.com/slidesUW-Madison CS Startup Project (2011)Participated in a college tech startup project led by Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, with the goal of improving
the online chat and stream watching experience. Responsible for page design, node backend, and Go content aggregation system.Job: Tyrol Basin Group Registration Website (Fall 2011)Designed, implemented, and deployed a full featured group registration system for a local ski and snowboard area,
Tyrol Basin. Included a suite of administration tools that allow for the creation and modification
of groups, prices, and website text by Tyrol Basin staff without the need for webmaster maintenance.
Successfully used for two winter seasons with extremely positive user experience feedback.Job: UW-Madison Computer Science Dept. (Summer 2012)
Summer job at UW-Madison's Computer Science department, working under Prof. Arpaci-Dusseau
on mobile applications projects, including the design and implementation of an experimental open source,
cross-platform, mobile game library in C++, called
“”.
Winner: Wisconsin Facebook Hackathon (Fall 2012)At Facebook's UW-Madison hackathon, my team took first with “Flock”, a distributed online chat that uses facebook profiles
and a rating system to personalize the chat experience and group people according to their interests.Hobby Projects and Open Source
Long history of working on personal programming projects, many of which are open source, including:
libgp, An experimental linear genetic programming libraryGigaHal, an artifical intelligence driven chatter botA wifi controllde RC car with streaming onboard video and joystick interface
Also actively engaged in the open source community, having contributed to or landed patches in several open source projects,
including GTK, Lightspark, webassets, and Rust.
My github profile (http://www.github.com/Jonanin) contains information on
many of my personal projects and open source projects I've contributed to in the past.
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