Past Volunteer Work

• Treasurer, Austin Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, 12/2000 to 2/2005.
• Responsible for chapter financial accounts, planning, budgeting, and reports.
• Filed quarterly financial reports with state organization.
  

• President and Webmaster, YSUWeb (volunteer) Group. 7/1994 to 7/1995.
• Installed and administrated web server, and installed statistics gathering software.
• HTML authoring and CGI programming in Bourne shell and C.

Additional Experience and Projects

• Other Projects
• Contributed PowerLinc USB X-10 power line interface send support and improvements to MisterHouse home automation software.
• Contributed palmOne Treo 600 (PalmOS smartphone) control pad support to kMoria and iRogue (PalmOS ports of two open source games). Added graphical tileset support to kMoria.
• Contributed non-privileged port support for scp to OpenSSH, a program which provides secure remote access over insecure networks.
• Setup and administration of home network at http://www.wumple.com/.
• Contributed multiple domain and configuration file client support to GnuDIP, a program which allows users with dynamic IP addresses to have static fully qualified domain names.
• Modified Linux kernel and kerneld to allow hierarchical loading of character special device modules based on major and minor device numbers during 1998. Submitted patch to linux-kernel mailing list.
• Created an online Web appointment scheduling system using HTML forms and CGI programs during 1995.
• Wrote Jyruss, an action game for Linux using SVGAlib, in C++ during 1995.
• Wrote two utilities in C, FS Repeat and RBT, for MS-DOS during 1992.

• Programmer Analyst, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., Workstation Products Development Department, 4/1996 to 11/1996.
• Released CJK Update.
• Created an ActiveX/OLE control which allows users to edit vernacular character bitmaps.
• Primary developer on the CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) Input Code and Bitmap Update project. Developed software to allow users to add and correct vernacular input codes and correct vernacular character bitmaps used in OCLC's CJK product. Participated in requirements definition, prototype development, design, coding, and testing.
• Participated in the analysis and design process of CatME for Windows.
• Use of C, C++, MFC, and ActiveX/OLE under Windows.

• Independent Contractor, Digital Video Broadcast System, Inc., 7/2000 to 8/2000
• Investigated use of error correction in protocols for Internet streaming of video and audio.

• Developer and Project Maintainer, RPlusTree, 4/1999
• Original developer of RPlusTree, an open source templated C++ implementation of the R+Tree spatial data structure that efficiently searches sets of multidimensional data.

• Developer and Webmaster, Brick News, a unofficial fan run LEGO® news site, 8/1999 to 12/1999
• Installed, configured, and customized Slashcode, a web log system. Involved setup of Apache, mod_perl, and MySQL.
• Added features to Slashcode and submitted them to the project, including RSS/RDF export and import support using the XML::RSS perl module.
• Wrote stories, and edited and posted story submissions from users.

• Research Assistant, Youngstown State University, Chemistry Department. 10/1994 to 3/1996.
• Wrote C programs to process and archive data from simulations run at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
• Administrated a SGI Power Indigo2 used for computational chemistry and visualization.

• Linux Systems Administrator, Slippery Rock University, Computer Science Department. 5/1995 to 8/1995.
• Installed and administrated multiple Linux systems.
• Installed and maintained NFS, NIS, quotas, backups, X-Windows, remote printing, and a Web server.

• Assistant Systems Administrator, Youngstown State University, Computer Science and Information Systems Department, 3/1994 to 3/1996.
• Unix programming and administration experience with SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris, and Linux.
• Wrote systems maintenance programs and scripts in C, Perl, and Bourne shell, compiled and installed programs.