Shawn D. Stoffer
4392 Hawks Lookout Ln.
Colorado Springs, CO 80916

(719) 337-8215

Job Objectives

Professional experience in an intellectually challenging area of Computer Science or Software Engineering.

Special Skills

Embedded Systems Programming: Operating System, Drivers and Applications.

System Administration: installation, administration and maintainance.

Applications Programming: database, general, simulation and graphics applications.

Web Programming: general web pages, cgi scripts, web applications and javascript.

Security Clearance: DOD - Secret, DOE - L

Software Skills

Programming Languages (in order of proficience): C/C++/C#, Java, J2EE (Servlets and JavaBeans), Perl, Unix Shell Scripts (Bash, C-Shell, Korn Shell), HTML, XML, UML, SQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Prolog, Lisp, Pascal, Scheme, ML, Assembler for Sparc and x86 architectures

Major Applications: Corel, StarOffice, ApplixWare and Microsoft Office application bundles, and Mozilla, Opera, and Internet Explorer bundles. MySql, SQLServer, Access and Oracle 8.x/9.x/10.x Databases, Stellent Content Server

Operating Systems and Networks: Novel Netware (versions 3.12, 4.0, 4.11), MSDOS (5.0, 6.22), Windows (3.x, NT/95/98/2000/XP), UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Sun, HPUX, FreeBSD, Linux (Slackware, RedHat, and Debian), and BSD)
Installation/Admin of all of the above. Development using VxWorks 5.3.1 and 5.4.

Education

12 credits toward a Master's of Science in Computer Science (MSCS), concentration: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Genetic Algorithms, Natural Language Processing).

University of Colorado, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Computer Science. Current GPA: 4.0.

32 graduate credits in Computer Science, concentration: AI (Genetic Algorithms, Expert Systems, and general AI).

University of New Mexico (UNM), the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science. Ending GPA: 3.44.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) with a minor in Psychology

UNM, School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science. Fall 2000.

Relevant Employment Experience

University of New Mexico: Office of Graduate Studies:

6/4/97 to 7/17/97: Network Administrator: Novell 3.12 and Windows 95 network.

The City of Albuquerque: Public Works Department: Traffic Engineering Division:

7/21/97 to 5/18/98 : Intern: My duties included, System Administration for a Sun/Solaris, HP/UX and Windows 95/98 network, Software Support, ARC/INFO GIS Database Administration using ARC Macro Language (AML).

Honeywell Inc.: Defense Avionics Systems, Albuquerque:

5/18/98 to 12/15/2000: Associate Software Engineer
Application development (C/C++, Shell Scripting), system administration, minor program management tasks, embedded system operating system (vxWorks 5.3.1/5.4) development and graphics application development (C/C++, Shell Script) at a SEI CMM level 3 facility

University of New Mexico: Department of Computer Science:

5/30/2000 to 12/15/2000: Head Teaching Assistant for Computer Science 151
Managing the other Teaching Assistants, maintaing the course web page, and teaching one lab section (in C/C++).

1/18/2001 to 6/2001: Graduate Research Assistant: Computational Linguistics assisting Dr. George Luger. Using and developing Natural Language Processing applications for web pages (in Perl and C++).

6/4/2001 to 7/28/2001 and 6/1/2002 to 7/31/2002: Instructor: Computer Science 151 (Programming Fundamentals in C/C++). Summer Semester.

8/20/2001 to 12/15/2001: Teaching Assistant: Computer Science 451, Programming Paradigms. Assisting in teaching Prolog, ML, Scheme, and Regular Lanugages. Teaching the Java Programming Language. Fall semester.

Searchbuilder.com:

12/1/2000 to 1/18/2001: Computational Linguistics Consultant
Using and developing Natural Language Processing applications for web pages (in Perl and C/C++).

Sandia National Laboratories:

8/12/2002 to 6/26/2003: Graduate Student Intern
Web applications using JavaScript, J2EE, Perl CGI scripts/HTML, Active and Java Server pages, and javascript: document and image conversion, software COTS product evaluation, testing and application and interface development.

Lockheed Martin: Integrated Systems and Solutions: GPS IIF:

6/30/2003 to 10/28/05: Software Engineer

-  Development and PAEC using C/C++, OS/COMET, CCL, Perl, SQL, Korn Shell Scripting at a CMMI level 5 organization.

-  Development of Simulation Models for a architecture in Ada95 and C/C++ at a CMMI level 5 organization.

Hobbies and Interests

Soccer, running, Tai Chi Ch'uan, hiking, camping, climbing, Aquariums.

Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, AI, Machine Learning.

References

Available upon request.