Adam Jonathan Griff, Ph.D.
SUMMARY
Seek full-time or contract position as senior developer, programmer, team lead,
engineer, architect, or system designer.
Identify product or application needs, using creative solutions for solving, designing,
implementing, creating process, documenting, educating. Part-time
professor / instructor / lecturer / researcher. Highly effective
communicator with fluency in English (native) and French.
EDUCATION
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Ph.D./PhD (Computer Science), April, 2000.
Thesis: Gryphon: A Dynamically Tailorable Mechanism
for Customizing Location and Caching Policies in Distributed Object
Subsystems
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
M.S./MS (Computer Science), June, 1992.
Thesis: Algorithm Overloading on the n-cube Hypercube
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
B.A./BA (Computer Science) with minor in Economics, June, 1991
Major GPA 3.75, Dean's List, Cum Laude.
- Courses include: Structured Programming and Data Structure,
Object Oriented Programming, Hardware and Software Parallel Computing,
Operating System Design, Microcomputer Systems Design, Compiler
Design, Computational Linguistics, Multimedia Programming, Computer
Architecture, Digital Systems, Technical Writing, Economics of Latin
America, Modern Dance, and Culinary Arts.
SKILLS
- Areas of Research and Teaching: Programming Languages, Distributed
Systems, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Design.
- Languages: C++, Java, Perl, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, Smalltalk, UML, HTML, VRML, XML, C, PASCAL,
X, MOTIF.
- Operating Systems : UNIX(Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SunOS, Digital UNIX),
MAC(OS-X), WINDOWS(XP, 2003 Server).
- Software: Degreement Student Advising System, MySQL, Rational Rose Real-Time, Apache Web Server, GlobalSight System3, Interwoven TeamSite,
Rational ClearCase, Vignette, Active, WebMethods, various CORBA implementations.
- Development Environments: Emacs, Eclipse, CVS, SVN (Subversion).
- General: Group Management, System Design, Technical Writing, Publishing,
Customer Presentations and Education.
- Proficiency: English (native) and French.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP and SERVICE
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1991
- Member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1991
- IEEE Computer Society Denver Section Secretary 2008
- Reviewer, Groupware conference 1993,1994
- Reviewer, Architecture conference 1995
- Reviewer, International Conference on the Application and Theory
of Petri Nets 1998
- Reviewer, Seventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis
and Simulation - MASCOTS 1999
- Reviewer, Groupware conference 2001
AWARDS
- Received Globalsight's monthly Presidents Award for outstanding
contributions to the company by an employee. Awarded on two occasions, August 8th 2000 and March
13th 2001.
- Award winning assistant chef at the Culinary School of the Rockies
- USENIX Association Grant to attend COOTS (Conference on Object
Oriented Technology and Systems) in San Diego, California. June, 1999.
- USENIX Association Grant to attend COOTS (Conference on Object
Oriented Technology and Systems) in Portland, Oregon. June, 1997.
OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS
- Personal
Mail Program: Sends personalized email to groups. Used with
Degreement to contact students regarding scholarship eligibility,
nearing graduation, academic probation, etc. Perl and MySQL.
- GMSysMon: System
Monitor and alarming on CPU load, temperature thresholds, network
and machine failures, custom events. Small and light weight alternative
to heavy weight power of Nagios.
- Checkbot: contributed code to extend functionality
of CPAN project hosted on SourceForge.net. Enhanced providing plug-in
capabilities for custom parsing and analysis by this web spider report
tool.
- Birthday
Program: Reminds of yearly events - birthdays, anniversaries,
etc. Perl (originally Pascal).
- Web
Counter Script: logs of web accesses, blocking abilities, statistics, and tracking to referrer page.
-
Griff Daily: Electronic paper of links to local and international
information. Maybe more interesting early 90's pre-portals.
ACTIVITIES and COMMUNITY
- Living and working in various cultures: 2006-2007 New Zealand,
2007 Australia, 2007 France.
- Dancing: Modern dance, Contact Improv, aerial dance, swing,
Acroyoga.
- Photography.
- Culinary arts.
- skiing, tennis, rock climbing.
- Soccer - Player in the Boulder co-ed community league since 1999 -
1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 champs.
- Cycling - Triple Bypass 2003, Copper Triangle 2006, Ride the
Rockies.
- Running: New York City Marathon 1988 and Bolder Boulder 1994,
1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006.
- Managing Judge for 2008 Election (prevent any funny business)
- UGGS (United Government of Graduate
Students) and related activism.
- Lehigh Campus Activities: Epitome (yearbook) - Photo-Editor &
Photographer, Intramural Manager, Gryphon (Resident Advisor) -
Publicist, International Club, WLVR (campus radio station) - DJ, Pole
Vaulting, Cross Country, Gymnastics Club.
WORK EXPERIENCE
List of work experience in
industry and university
PUBLICATIONS
List of publications and
links to the documents
RESEARCH
- Virtual Planning Room(VPR).
- ParaVision code and documentation.
Non-Tech CVs
Adam Jonathan Griff, Ph.D.,
griffcv@griffmonster.com
, +1-303-731-5140
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