Summary
Computer science research focused in parallel and concurrent programming systems.
Extensive software development and administration experience on Linux/UNIX.

Experience
Technology Keywords: Linux, Solaris, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl, Ruby/Rails, Python, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, ROS, OpenCL, MPI, More Perl

UMass Lowell
Teaching Assistant & Doctoral Research (2009 – present)
Active research on parallel programming system for general purpose GPU development.
Developed mobile robot control software and drivers for the UMass Lowell entries to the
International Ground Vehicles competition in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Publication: Tuck, N., McGuinness, M., and Martin, F. “WOAH: an obstacle avoidance technique for high speed path following.” Proc. SPIE 7878, 787811 (2011)

The Perl Foundation (via Google Summer of Code)
Software Developer (2010)
Designed and implemented lightweight threading support for the Parrot virtual machine.

IBFX Inc.
Software Consultant (2009 – present)
Design and prototyping for an enterprise­ scale document organization and search system for domain experts.
Federal consulting on projects such as enterprise document management and custom process automation.

IBFX Inc.
Software Developer (2006 ­- 2008)
Designed and developed authenticating anti­spam SMTP proxy.
Planned and protyped X.509 Certificate Authority.
Developed social networking website for independent music marketing.
US Patent #7730145: Frenkel, R. and Tuck, N. “Anti­UCE system and method using class­based certificates”

Ironbeard Games
Owner / Operator (2002 – 2004)
Founded retail store selling tabletop games. Managed one employee.

BiznessOnline.com
Unix Technical Support (2000 – 2001)
Second level phone support. Automation of systems administration tasks.

Education

University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
Working on PhD in Computer Science. (2010 – ??)
MS in Computer Science. GPA: 4.0 (2008 – 2009)
BS in Computer Science. GPA: 3.71 (2006 – 2008)

North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA
AA in Computer Science. GPA: 3.62 (2005 – 2006)