Education
I received my Master's degree in Computer Science from PSU in 2006. My thesis is titled "Towards Environment-Aware Performance Analysis: Improving Parallel Performance Diagnosis by Including Knowledge of the Runtime Environment"
I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Oregon State University in conjunction with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Care Administration. My undergraduate thesis is titled "A Situational Analysis of a Clinic-Based Family-Planning Program in Mexico", and my thesis advisor was Dr. Chunhuei Chi.
Experience
Teaching Assistant, Sep. 2009 - Present; Sep. - Dec. 2008; Mar. - Jun. 2008, Sep.-Dec. 2007; Jan.-Jun. 2007; Sep. 2005 - Mar. 2006.
Computer Science Department, Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon.
Assist professors with course duties, including grading, tutoring,
presenting lectures, and development of supplemental course materials.
Courses include Operating Systems, Internetworking Protocols, Languages
and Compiler Design, Algorithms, Programming Systems, Introduction to
Computer Science, and Computing Fundamentals.
Graduate Intern Software Engineer, Jun. 2009 - Sep. 2009.
Intel Corportaion, Hillsboro, Oregon.
Designed and implemented lightweight, modularized software that interfaces
with MPI and non MPI applications to measure hardware performance events on
Intel processors: Added a new sampling mode to an existing hardware event
collection tool to measure events upon request at the application
level via static calls to the collection API. Implementation involved
working with a production-level hardware event collection tool of 30K+ lines
of code; adding new features at the Linux device driver level, the internal
user-level, and the user API level; developed additional module for accessing
the hardware event collection system from a variety of application paradigms;
extended an MPI wrapper library prototype to collect hardware events via the
new collection interface.
Research Assistant, Jan. 2009 - Jun. 2009; Jun. - Sep. 2008, Sep.-Dec. 2006; Apr.-Jun. 2006; Jun.-Sep. 2005.
Prof. Karen L. Karavanic, Computer Science Department, Portland State
University, Portland, Oregon.
Various projects related to the design and development of PerfTrack,
a tool for storage and analysis of parallel performance data. Recent
work involves extending PerfTrack for use in dissertation
research and production installations of PerfTrack. Earlier work
involved collaborations between the
High Performance
Computing Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
the design and development of PerfTrack.
Instructor, Jan. - Mar. 2008.
Computer Science Department, Portland State University, Portland,
Oregon.
Taught introductory course in Visual Basic programming to non computer science majors.
Co-op Pre-Professional Programmer, June 2007 - September 2007.
IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Primary developer on ARUM, an Application Resource Usage Monitor for
multi-core and multi-processor AMD and Intel systems running the Linux
operating system: the resulting implementation is a lightweight, easy-to-use
user level tool, written in C++, that operates on unmodified binaries,
requires no kernel modifications or special user privileges to support access
to hardware counters, and measures both system level and application level
metrics. Developed Linux device driver that provides user level access to
hardware performance counters, implemented cpuid function to identify
architecture, designed a mapping between architecture and supported events
for four different architectures, developed user level API and user-level
internal software.
Technical Scholar, June 2006 - September 2006.
Computing Applications and Research Department, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, California.
Investigated analysis methods appropriate for large-scale application
performance data; conducted several performance studies to gain
understanding of how to incorporate automated analysis techniques
into PerfTrack.
Full CV available upon request.