Software Engineer Development
Resume:
SEAN CIER
Raleigh, NC *****
*****@***********.***
http://www.linkedin.com/in/seancier
Skills
Java, Objective C, C#, C/C++. Some experience with JavaScript, PHP, shell
scripting, and miscellaneous other languages. Enjoy learning new languages.
Multithreading, distributed, and massively parallel computing : clouds, grids,
distributed servers, multithreaded client applications, P2P, and General-Purpose
GPU (GPGPU) techniques
Mobile technology, in particular iPhone application development
Design and implementation of robust, scalable software architectures for server-
based systems
Software engineering and design techniques and technologies, including
object-oriented methodologies and design patterns; REST, Map/Reduce, and other
web-based and distributed systems; cross-platform development; scalable, reliable
and redundant server and service design; database-backed persistent services;
encryption, authentication, and secure software
Algorithms in domains such as nonlinear optimization and evolutionary computing
(such as genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization), physical simulation,
Monte Carlo method and other stochastic techniques, and computational geometry
Seeing the big picture and creating innovative and flexible architectures, APIs,
and protocols to solve the problem at hand in a scalable, maintainable, and
pragmatic manner; also happy getting my hands dirty writing code to implement
such systems
Equally effective leading teams or working side-by-side with peers
Able to adapt quickly to the use of new software architectures, APIs, languages,
and techniques
Quite able to write in English as well, for technical and nontechnical audiences
3D graphics: visualization, modeling, animation, and rendering (both photorealistic
and interactive). Experience with OpenGL, Open Scene Graph, RenderMan, and
other graphics APIs. Have designed and implemented novel image-based modeling
and rendering techniques, realtime animation and 3D user interface paradigms,
distributed rendering, Monte Carlo path tracing, and virtual reality applications
Experience with
git, subversion, cvs
Ant, NAnt, GNU make
Eclipse, XCode, vi, emacs, Microsoft Visual Studio, SharpDevelop,
MonoDevelop
XML, HTML, RDF, and parser technologies such as SAX, DOM, ANTLR
Java 1.6, Microsoft .NET 2.0, Mono
SQL, JDBC
HTTP, SSL, servlets, RMI, SNMP
Docbook, LaTeX
a diverse variety of other keywords and buzzwords
Used and developed under Linux, OS X, Windows, IRIX, Solaris
United States citizen. Have held a Top Secret clearance (currently inactive)
Education and Professional Achievements
BS degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Carnegie Mellon University,
1998
Keith Sullivan, Sean Luke, Curt Larock, Sean Cier, and Steven Armentrout,
"Opportunistic evolution: efficient evolutionary computation on large-scale
computational grids," Proceedings of the 2008 GECCO conference
U.S. Patent #6463457: System and method for the establishment and the utilization
of networked idle computational processing power, issued 2002
Member of ACM, SIGGraph, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Always learning
Experience
Parabon Computation: February 2007 to present
System Architect
Participated and led a variety of software development projects to enhance
Parabon's Frontier grid technology
Worked on a variety of government proposals and sales efforts
Implemented Map/Reduce atop the Frontier grid platform
Led the development of Watchman, an AJAX-based web application for
sensor placement optimization via evolutionary computation techniques,
using the Frontier system for computation
Implemented the Blitz testing service for large-scale DDoS simulation and
cybersecurity analysis
Continued to evolve and refine the Frontier Grid SDK for application and
task development
7b5 Labs: May 2009 to present
General Partner (free time project)
Ported the classic UNIX networked space combat game XPilot to the iPhone
and iPod Touch
Created Subatomic, a physics-based casual game for the iPhone and iPod
Touch
ProLogic (now part of Ultra Electronics): July 2002 to January 2007
Project Tech Lead; Senior Software Architect
Led teams and collaborated on design and implementation of unified
terrorist threat visualization and analysis environment including facility
modeling and vulnerability analysis applications. Personal contributions
included modular framework design and implementation, module interface
designs, visualization technologies such as route interpolation and scene
graph access and manipulation, data serialization, and others
Led team working on advanced algorithm development for support of
projects across the company, including problem domain analysis, algorithm
development, and validation. Algorithms investigated include weapon fire
scheduling; optimal sensor placement; sampling and isocontour extraction;
and blast wave propagation and shielding simulation
Integration of visualization environment with threat analysis techniques,
algorithms, and applications including in particular the Blast Estimation
Effects Model (BEEM); also led research on implementing threat models,
including blast wave propagation and structural response
Performed customer training and system demonstrations, helped bid and
win various contracts, and worked with customers to define requirements
and contract Statements of Work (SOWs)
Managed Object Solutions: October 2001 to June 2002
Software Engineer
Worked on developing, implementing, supporting, and documenting a
published API for incorporating third-party applications and data sources
into Managed Object's network managament product, to replace a
proprietary legacy API. Primary requirements included generality, scalability,
simplicity, and robustness
Parabon Computation: November 1999 to October 2001
System Architect
Part of the core architecture team for Frontier, a general-purpose distributed
computing platform which utilizes idle time of Internet-connected desktop
machines (providers) to perform powerful, supercomputer-scale massively
parallel computation
Designed the high- and low-level communications protocols for interaction
between provider engines, client applications, and the central server
Designed, implemented, and documented the client and task runtime APIs
Participated in implementation of the Java-based central server
Designed and implemented a grid-based application for Monte Carlo-based
distributed photorealistic rendering using a bidirectional path tracing
algorithm
Autometric (now part of Boeing): June 1997 to November 1999
Lead Software Engineer
Designed, developed innovative technologies for, and implemented a
proprietary system for building-interior familiarization using existing and
novel image-based modeling and rendering techniques, as part of a small
team, working with Java, C++, and OpenGL
Feature implementation and refinement of a large-scale real-time
visualization system, as part of a medium-large team, working with C/C++
and OpenGL
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