Calista E. Tait cat@mit.edu 133 Hudson Street Somerville, MA 02144 (617) 625-6427
Computer Experience	Working knowledge of Perl, C, Scheme, bash, C++, Pascal, Java, LaTeX, and HTML. Experience with Solaris, Linux, Windows95/98 and DOS.
Employment	Akamai Technologies	February 1999---August 2000
	Worked as a systems engineer writing tools in Perl and bash to maintain, monitor and install a global network of over a thousand mostly homogeneous servers. Duties also included investigating problems with both the entire system and with individual machines, automating installation and configuration specialty support machines, composing CGI web pages, and package maintenance. For a short time, maintained mail systems, accounts, backup systems, and nfs server machines for the internal infrastructure.
	MIT Information Systems	Summer 1995---January 1999
	Tracked and fixed problems with programs in the MIT Athena distributed computing environment, did extensive testing of the Andrew File System (AFS) binaries, and researched UNIX GUI builders such as XForms. As a member of Athena Server Operations, maintained software for Athena server machines including Zephyr (an instant messaging system) and AFS. This work included debugging, testing, and maintaining the software running on the servers, updating the operating system and updating configuration scripts to ensure a quick, repeatable installation. This work strengthened my skills in C, Perl, tcl/tk and Bourne shell and my experience with Solaris, and required me to use tools such as Purify, truss, gcc, and MATLAB.
	MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab	Summer 1994---Summer 1995
	Worked for Ian Horswill in an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project on inexpensive vision systems. Work included writing programs in C and Scheme, soldering, and machining aluminum parts for both the construction of robots and the construction of an expressive face. Also worked with speech synthesis.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	1993---1999
	Received a joint Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Undergraduate GPA of 4.5/5.0. Courses included Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Circuits and Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Compilers, VLSI design Software Engineering Lab, Computer Systems Engineering, and Computer Graphics.
Activities	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1993---1999
	Member of the MIT Student Information Processing Board. Was Treasurer and Vice Chairman and maintained services on the usenet FAQ server, rtfm.mit.edu. Director of Publicity for MIT's Lecture Series Committee. Stage crew and construction for MIT Musical Theater Guild and Gilbert and Sullivan players. Wrote an interactive text-based virtual robot and a game for X windows.
	References upon request.