Alexandra Ellwood's Resume

Alexandra Ellwood

Current Address
14 Conwell Street
Somerville, MA 02143-1303

Contact Information
l x s @ m i t . e d u
617-308-0577

SKILLS	Experience programming in C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, Scheme, True BASIC, and Pascal using Macintosh and UNIX development tools including CVS, Subversion, gcc, gdb, Make, Jam, Xcode, Interface Builder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MPW and Think C. Familiarity with Macintosh and UNIX APIs including Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Metrowerks PowerPlant, Mach-IPC, POSIX, BSD Sockets, XTI, GSSAPI, Kerberos 4 and 5. Experience creating web pages using HTML and CSS. Able to quickly learn new programming languages and APIs.

EXPERIENCE	MIT Information Services and Technology	Cambridge, MA
	1997 - present. Analyst Programmer for the MIT Kerberos Development Team. Participated in the design and implementation of Kerberos for Macintosh (KfM) for Mac OS 8, 9 and X. Worked with Apple Computer to include KfM in Mac OS X Puma (10.1) through the current release, Tiger (10.4). Release engineer and lead developer for KfM versions 4.5 (Jaguar), 5.0 (Panther), and 5.5 (Tiger). Designed and implemented Cocoa user interfaces for ticket acquisition (KerberosAgent) and ticket management (Kerberos.app). Assisted in the design of several Kerberos APIs including the Kerberos Login Library (KLL) and Credentials Cache API (CCAPI). Created SocketsLib, a lightweight BSD sockets shared library based on the Open Transport networking API.
	1993 - 1997. Student Programmer for the Athena Development Team. Designed a secure networked distributed printing system for use in the Athena Computing Environment. Designed and implemented KLPR, a Kerberized printing client for the Macintosh. Updated MIT's Macintosh BSD compatibility libraries to use the Code Fragment Manager. Worked on MacDiscuss, a Macintosh client for an online forum system named Discuss which was developed at MIT.
	MIT Media Lab	Cambridge, MA
	1996 - 1997. Research Assistant for the Opera of the Future group working on the Brain Opera project. Wrote QuickTime tools to generate effects for video sequences and fixed bugs in the Windows NT control software for the Baton instrument.

EDUCATION	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA
	1992 - 1997. Received a Masters of Engineering degree and a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in June 1997. GPA 4.7/5.0.

HONORS	Winner of the MacHax Group's Best Hack Contest in 2000 for "DockStrip" and 1998 for "AsciiMac" with Miro Jurisic. Awarded the David A. Chanen Writing Award for "A Problem Encountered with Partial URLs in the World Wide Web". Lettered in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (6.001) and Signals and Systems (6.003).