| Sandro Fouché |
| CONTACT | Address: | 9432 Rhode Island Ave. College Park, MD 20740 |
| E-mail Address: | sandro@knot.org |
| Phone Number: | 301.221.7391 |
| EXPERIENCE | Graduate Research Assistant | 2001 - Present |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD |
| Prepared and graded assignments for undergraduate courses in software engineering. Lectured as required on topics including: software design, Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Managed students developing products to meet needs from external clients. Assisted in the development of the SKOLL distributed test and quality assurance system. |
| Adjunct Professor | 2002 - 2004 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC |
| Provided instruction for undergraduate courses in computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering principles. Lectured on topics including: PC Assembly language, pipelining, super-scalar architectures, operating system design and implementation, requirements analysis, software design, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and software testing. Prepared and evaluated student assignments and examinations. |
| Senior System Administrator | 1998 - 2001 |
| America Online, Inc. | Dulles, VA |
| Developed monitoring, test, and data migration tools as part of administration and design of projects. Was primary systems administrator for "You've Got Pictures", provided design and architecture support for client, host and network engineering teams. Worked with integrating the YGP partner API with Rational PerformanceStudio. Designed and implemented a new streaming architecture for AOL plus based on RealNetworks server technology. Architected, configured, and maintained a 250 server streaming complex for "Big Brother" tv-show/website. Provided operational insight for teams interacting with streaming media including: AOLPlus, Llama, Spinner, and aol.net Broadband. |
| Senior System Administrator | 1996 - 1998 |
| Washington Post Co. | Arlington, VA |
| Supported and maintained a large web site (www.washingtonpost.com) using Netscape Enterprise Servers running on Sun UltraSparc and DEC Alpha hardware. Performed system administration of Digital Unix 3.2g and Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 systems. Managed and upgraded the enterprise wide backup system using DEC's OEM-version of Legato Networker; as well as administrated DNS and sendmail configurations. Directed and assisted junior members of the operational staff in supporting a 200 user Windows95 environment. Configured and supported design and photo department Macintosh systems. |
| System Architect | 1996 |
| Erols Internet Services | Springfield, VA |
| Designed, specified and implemented a large-scale e-mail system to surmount the Unix 64K user limit. Supervised, trained and assisted the junior system administration staff in providing support for a cluster of Linux based Internet servers. Monitored and configured Ascend remote access servers as well as Livingston radius authentication systems. Configured and maintained user account, DNS, FTP, sendmail and NNTP systems. Built tools to simplify administration of Unix servers. |
| Software Design Engineer | 1995 |
| Personal Library Software | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Designed and implemented an eighteen platform build process to speed development of the company's full-text retrieval engine. Ported the search libraries to: DEC Alpha (64-bit), DEC Alpha (32-bit/GNU), Tandam, Unisys, and RS/6000 Unix systems. |
| Researcher | 1992 - 1995 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD |
| Programmed X-Windows interfaces into projects based on a polymorphic messaging system. Integrated the dynamic bind and multicast versions of the system. Ported a video conferencing package to operate over the dynamic multicast version of the messaging system. Implemented internet based network services for multiple projects using C/C++ on Sun SparcStations running SunOS 4.1.3. |
| Software Design Engineer | Summer 1992 |
| Microsoft Corporation | Redmond, WA |
| Worked as an intern on the Windows95 operating system. Designed and provided the preliminary implementation for a file synchronization API and the associated application. Programming mostly consisted of system level code in Microsoft Cv7 and some Win32 based code. |
| System Administrator | 1991 - 1992 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD |
| Provided support and troubleshooting services for 100 university faculty and staff on Unix Workstations, mostly Digital DecStations and Sun SparcStations. Installed, maintained and debugged Unix applications for SunOS 4.1.3, Ultrix and BSD 4.2 systems. Configured and installed new workstations, mostly Sparcs. Provided biweekly backups for two Vax servers running BSD 4.2. Administrated DNS, NFS, sendmail, FTP and user accounts. |
| EDUCATION | Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science | Expected May 2008 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD |
| Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | May 1998 |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD |
| AFFILIATIONS | Member, Association for Computing Machinery | 1998-Present |
| Chair, Associaction for Computing Machinery, UMCP Student Chapter | 1991-1993 |
| President, UMCP Minority Computer Science Society | 1990-1993 |
| SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| Unix System Administration | Expert | Currently used | 13 years |
| Shell Scripting | Expert | Currently used | 13 years |
| C | Expert | Currently used | 13 years |
| C++ | Intermediate | Currently used | 6 years |
| PERL | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years |
| Compiler Design | Intermediate | 7 years ago | 2 years |
| Computer Graphics | Intermediate | 7 years ago | 2 years |
| Operating System Design | Intermediate | 6 years ago | 2 years |
| X-Windows Programming | Intermediate | 7 years ago | 2 years |
| Macintosh Programming | Beginner | 6 years ago | 2 years |
| Palm Programming | Beginner | 3 years ago | 1 year |
| REFERENCES | Available Upon Request |