MICHAEL JAY SHERMAN

[email protected]
http://members.tripod.com/~msherman/
11709 POTOMAC CROSSING WAY, APT. 33
FAIRFAX, VA 22030
(703) 322-0684

EDUCATION

• Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA receiving a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a B.S. degree in Physics on May 17, 1998
• Science/technical courses taken in recent years:
  • Advanced Quantum Physics I and II, E&M I and II
  • Quantum Physics, Physics I, II, and III
  • Experimental Physics, Modern Physics Laboratory
  • Calculus I, II, III, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics
  • Fundamental Structures of Computer Science I and II
  • Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Computer Graphics I and II
  • Programming Languages and Design Processes, Algorithms

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

• Digital Sandbox, Inc. (December 1998 to present)
  • Developed 3D simulation viewer and scenario editing software for an anti-terrorist planning tool running on a PC using the OpenGL API
• Sonalysts, Inc. (June 1998 to present)
  • Computer graphics programming in OpenGL for 3D gaming applications
  • Real-time computational fluid dynamics research in the area of smoke propagation
• Logicon, Inc. (May 1997 to November 1997)
  • Developed OpenGL and X application for real-time smoke device simulation on a Silicon Graphics Onyx
• Camber Corporation (Summer 1995 to May 1997)
  • Web Authoring (http://www.camber.com/, http://www.nbc-med.org/) with Java, HTML 3.0, VRML 2.0
  • Assisted in Government field tests at Ft. AP Hill, VA and Ft. Huachuca, AZ.
  • Wrote and published Government technical reports on thermodynamic behavior of land mines
  • Obtained Secret clearance
  • Worked with Silicon Graphics, Inc. workstations
• Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science (Spring 1995)
  • Developed an X program for person recognition for intelligent video conferencing software
• Defense System, Inc. (now CTA Space Systems) (Summer 1993)
  • Worked with and authored building-wide Novell network applications
  • Wrote several conversion programs for use with the Deltek accounting program

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• Work with UNIX computer systems
  • Owner and administrator of a Silicon Graphics Indy workstation
  • Administered dozens of UNIX machines, 5+ years experience with IRIX
  • Have worked almost exclusively with SGI machines from 1992 to present
  • Extensive knowledge of and experience with the Linux operating system (since 1993)
• Programming Experience
  • Fluent in C++, C, Java. Heavy use of JavaScript, Lisp, ML, Perl, Prolog and Pascal
  • Programming in the UNIX environment with C and C++, including programming for the X Windowing System with OpenGL integration
• Other Computer-related experience
  • Extensive computer graphics work with OpenGL and Pixar's RenderMan interface
  • Programming in HTML and Java for construction of WWW pages

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Various web pages have received numerous awards and publicity, including an article in the January 31st, 1996 London Times.
• SuperQuest 1994 national supercomputing competition -- ``Investigation and Modeling of Electron Wave packet Transmission and Reflection Through Various Mediums''
• SuperQuest 1993 national supercomputing competition -- ``Simulation of Applied Relativity on a Multiprocessor System''; received honorable mention
• Placed third in Spring 1993 Association of Computing Machines (ACM) competition at ODU

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