Education
PhD and MS student in Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Anticipated graduation date: May 2009
Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2001
Minor in Computer Science
Research and Professional Experience
Graduate Research Assistant, January 2007–Present
Institute for Genomic Biology – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Study of operonal organization in the Archaea
Graduate Research Assistant, June 2006–Present
Graduate School of Library and Information Science – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curriculum development for Masters in Bioinformatics
Administration of project web services
Scientific Computing Systems Administrator, 2001–2006
Computing Applications and Network Services
School of Chemical Sciences – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Administration and maintenance of School web services, using Apache and MySQL
Administration and maintenance of custom CPU and disk space accounting system
Design of DNS system based on MyDNS and dnscache
Design and implementation of LDAP services
Design and implementation of new departmental mail server based on Courier IMAP and
MTA
Specification, purchase, installation, setup, and administration of approximately 120
processors of Linux-based high performance computing clusters
Installation and configuration of 3, 128 processor SGI Origin 2000 systems
Specification, purchase, installation, and setup of 3.2TB tape backup system based on
AMANDA and FreeBSD
Administration of core network services
Administration and maintenance of departmental *NIX workstations, including Sun
Solaris, SGI IRIX, and various Linux distributions
Co-Director of Technology, 2001–present
American Model United Nations International
Volunteer administrator of web services, including installation and setup of CMS software
(CMS Made Simple) and MySQL databases for organizational business functions
curriculum vita