Peter T. Laird

A challenging position in software development, systems architecture or unix/linux administration which allows me to utilize my experience and fast learning abilities.

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Coursework towards a Master of Science degree in Computer Science with concentrations in computer engineering, systems and systems software, and telecommunications with a GPA of 4.0. (Relocated to California before completing the program)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, 21228. Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, December, 1997. Earned a cumulative GPA of 3.55 and a GPA of 3.9 in computer science courses.

Woodlawn High School, Baltimore, MD, 21244. Received diploma with Certificate of Merit and State of Maryland Merit Scholarship Award. Received National Merit Commended Scholar Award

Interwoven, Inc. Denver, CO. Senior Member of Technical Staff -- Client Engineering
Responsible for maintanence and development of web content mangement software. Development primarily in Java and C++. Gained extensive experience with low-level HTTP protocal and apache webserver module development.

Interwoven, Inc. Denver, CO. Senior Technical Support Engineer -- Support Operations
Reported to Vice President of Technical Support. Primary responsibilities included analyzing and improving business processes used in the technical support department, developing software tools for use in-house by technical support staff, developing processes and tools for supporting java developers, and occasional direct involvement with customer cases. Developed in-house case tracking system and business processes which reduced response time on case escalation from two weeks to one day.

Interwoven, Inc. Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO. Technical Consultant, promoted to Senior Technical Consultant.
Primary responsibilities included software system analysis, consultation, installation, customization, and integration of Interwoven software at customer locations. Successfully completed over 50 projects, including many at Fortune 500 companies. Projects involved knowledge of enterprise software architecture, web and application servers, computer networking. Significant software development in Perl and Java. Also participated in developing the Interwoven Certified Consultant certification test.

Lockheed Martin Launching Systems. Middle River, MD. Software Engineer.
Primary responsibilities included architecting, designing, developing, and testing real-time embedded tactical defense applications in C and C++ using Wind River Systems VxWorks RTOS and Intel Pentium (PC104) and PowerPC (VME) hardware platforms. Also designed and implemented web-based software development process automation tools using a CGI interface and SQL database back-end. Other responsibilities included configuring and administering the Unix-based (HP-UX and Solaris) development environment, the Tornado tool-set, and the VxWorks real-time kernel.

Lockheed Martin Launching Systems. Middle River, MD. Firmware Engineering Intern, Embedded Systems team.
Responsibilities included document maintenance, data modeling, tracking of Firmware Anomaly Reports, and creating a GUI development environment in Perl/TK for engineers using the DDC-I Ada compiler and SUN Ultrasparc workstations.

Data Communications Networks, Operating Systems, Multimedia Systems, Microprocessor Systems

Two semesters each of C and computer architecture. One semester each of C++, VAX-VMS assembly, algorithms, theory of programming languages, operating systems, networks, databases, Calculus, and Differential Equations. Transcript available upon request.

Embedded systems development on PowerPC (VME) and Intel Pentium (PC104+) Extensive experience with IBM PC (80x86), Sun workstations (Ultrasparc) and servers (Enterprise, SunFire), HP workstations and servers (PA-RISC), Silicon Graphics workstations (Indigo, Indy) and multiuser systems (Crimson, Challenge).

PERL, Java, C++, HTML/CGI C, UML, Ada'83, Python, Tcl/Tk, VAX/VMS MACRO assembly, lisp, ReXX.

Unix (HP-UX 10.20, Solaris 6-8, IRIX 5.3), Linux 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 VxWorks 5.3.1 and 5.4, Windows 3.x, '98, NT 4.0, 2000, MS-DOS, OS/2 2.x and Warp, VAX/VMS.

Interwoven TeamSite and other software, Wind River Systems Tornado development tools, Rational Rose, SQL, LaTeX, PGP, and Maple.

Graduated Cum Laude, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society (MD Delta '97), Awarded UMBC President's Scholar Scholarship and MD. Senatorial Scholarship, Awarded 20 Advanced Placement credits in Physics, English and History, Student Government Association Senator for two years, Speaker of the Student Senate one year. Awarded Lockheed Martin Business Excellence Award, 1998

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