Résumé

Cameron L Palmer

email: cameron DOT palmer AT gmail DOT com

I am currently in the doctoral Computer Science program at University of North Texas. I have been working in the Unix System Administration and Information Security field for more than five years but want to pursue a career in programming, and mathematics.

Education

Expected Graduation
May 2011
    University of North Texas, Denton TX
    Doctoral Program - Advisor Dr. Philip H. Sweany
    Major - Computer Science

Graduated
May 2007
    University of North Texas, Denton TX
    Major - Computer Science
    GPA 3.871

Various Dates

    Richland College, Dallas TX
    Core course requirements

 

Work Experience

Sep 2006 to Present Research Assistant, University of North Texas, Denton TX
 

I am trying to make progress in the area of extracting Thread Level Parallelism from C code. This area is made more important by the recent development of consumer multi-core processors. Since Instruction Level Parallelism in superscalar processor piplelines has become harder to exploit, we need a compiler technique that can improve performance without requiring extensive hand coding.
Jun 2006 to Sep 2006 Software Developer, IBM, Dallas TX
 

Summer internship that involved the development of Java based tools and pages for the Academic Initiative group within IBM.
Jan 2000 to Aug 2004 Internet Firewall Engineer, Seagate Technology, San Jose CA
 

Daily responsibilities included design, maintenance and implementation of core Internet services.  This includes Checkpoint firewalls, Squid Proxy, VPN and DNS. I helped migrate Seagate to a default routing strategy, deployed Checkpoint firewalls. Operating systems used were Sun Microsystems Solaris, RedHat and Slackware Linux.
May 1997 to Jan 2000 Information Security, Bank of America, Dallas TX
 

Daily responsibilities included VPN technology, Checkpoint FW-1, Defender authentication systems, PGP encryption clients, and Cylink encryptors.  This job was heavily project oriented and I consulted on Information Security technology to the internal businesses within the Bank.

Mar 1996 to May 1997

Network Engineer, CompuCom Systems, Dallas TX

 

Compucom is a system integrator and service company.  I worked as a Network Engineer repairing servers, printers and other hardware as well as troubleshooting Novell and Windows Servers.  I was also exposed to Next and OS/2 during this period. I billed for my services on an hourly basis.

 

Extracurricular Interests

Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, San Jose, CA Participated in regular monthly SVLUG (http://www.svlug.org/) meetings. Interesting people I had the opportunity of hearing included, PHP author, Sony Playstation 2 Linux Kit developers, and Python author.
BayLISA, San Jose, CA Bay Large Implementation System Administrators, regular meeting attendee.
Asterisk VoIP PBX Setup an Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/) open source VoIP PBX using Cisco 7960 phones and Cisco ATA-186 analog phone adapters for my apartment. It included SIP based in house connections uplinked using the IAX protocol to Voiceglo.
ReactOS Windows clone open source project. I have done some C programming and perl scripting for this project. This project remains an ongoing interest.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco, CA Promotes the bicycle as everyday transportation. Volunteer for monthly envelope stuffing and occasional bike parking at SF Bike Coalition (http://www.sfbike.org/) events.
Critical Mass, Denton, TX and San Francisco, CA Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride to raise bike awareness. I participate as a rider.