Richard S. Tibbetts III

Professional Objective

To apply my skills in distributed systems engineering to building business infrastructure.

Related Work Experience

Teaching Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
September 2002-December 2002

Teaching Assistant for undergraduate software engineering course (6.170). Responsible for leading recitations and reviewing student performance on problem sets and projects.

Student Intern Programmer
Technical Education Research Center (Cambridge, MA)
June 2001-August 2002

Charged with investigating, recommending, and implementing new technologies to a non-profit specializing in educational web material.

Projects:

Specified, designed and implemented custom content management system.
Trained web development staff on new system.
Deployed new Unix infrastructure based on OpenAFS, Kerberos and LDAP.
Established requirements for next generation content management system.

System Administrator
Broadfire Technologies (Cambridge, MA)
February 2001-May 2001

Basic system administration for an early-stage software startup.

Athena Developer (Watchmaker)
Massachusetts Institue of Techology (Cambridge, MA)
June 1999-August 2000

Student programmer working on new projects for the Athena computing environment. Successfully delivered a prototype of the environment that now serves 10,000 users.

Projects:

Ported legacy applications to new user environment.
Coordinated the Athena User Interface project, bringing the GNOME desktop environment to Athena.

Programmer
Ximian, then Helix Code (Boston, MA)
October 1999-January 2000

Part-time programmer on some of the first projects of a new startup.

Education

MEng in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2003. Thesis in distributed continuous query processing, working with the Network and Mobile Systems group at LCS.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2003. Focus on software systems design and engineering, including coursework in computer security, distributed systems, advanced software engineering techniques, program analysis, networking and software safety.

Technologies

Languages: Java, Perl, SQL, C, C++, Python, TCL, Scheme, Haskell, Shell, PHP, Mason.

Systems: UNIX, Linux, NetBSD, MacOS X, Solaris, Gnome/GTK, WindowsNT/9x.

Concepts: Software Engineering, Project Management, RDBMS, Database-backed web services, UI design, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms.

Groups

Developer Debian GNU/Linux
The most popular non-commercial Linux distribution
Chairman MIT Student Information Processing Board
Student group focussed on community service and computing