EDWARD KEYES 152 Charles St. #1 Cambridge, MA 02141

www.edkeyes.org resume-at-edkeyes-dot-org (617) 547-0614

rev. 7/06

Summary

MIT-educated physicist and independent programmer looking for interesting projects in science and technology.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 9/1996-1/2005

Ph.D. program in physics, degree not completed (GPA: 5.0/5.0).

Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Studied under Dr. Edmund Bertschinger on large-scale astrophysical simulations, structure formation, gravitational lensing, and radiative transfer, and later under Dr. Bruno Coppi on plasma astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, and accretion-disk physics. Work published in the Astrophysical Journal.

President of the MIT Science Fiction Society (2002-2004): oversaw a staff of ~30 volunteer librarians to run the world's largest library of science fiction and fantasy.

Classroom instructor (2000-2001): created and gave regular lectures in freshman physics, tutored students individually, and supervised laboratory experiments.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 9/1992-5/1996

B.S. degrees in physics and mathematics, minor in computer science (GPA: 3.987/4.0).

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Honor Scholarship, McMinn Honors Scholarship in the Natural Sciences.

Graduated summa cum laude. Ranked 2nd in class of 807.

Experience

insani, Ann Arbor, MI, 5/2004-present

Co-founder and chief technical officer of a non-profit translation group, adapting Japanese video games for the English market. Reverse-engineered binary data formats and executable code, and created tools to patch games with new content. Performed script editing, graphics modification, server administration, and some translation.

DaggerWare, Cambridge, MA, 7/1996-9/2005

Sole proprietor and lead programmer of an independent shareware company to create and distribute software for Palm handheld devices. Wrote the award-winning utility program HackMaster, with an estimated 2,000,000 users. Invited speaker at the 1998 PalmSource Developer's Convention.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 6/2001-10/2001

Research technician, continuing a multi-year volunteer relationship with the Media Lab wearable computing group. Developed a custom low-power video driver solution for a heads-up display, including integrated Linux kernel patches, FPGA logic code, and a mixed-signal circuit board. Constructed a MIThril wearable computer system including custom dual keyboard drivers and Palm interface.

LandWare, Inc., Paramus, NJ, 5/1998-9/2002

Contract programmer: developed the driver for the GoType! hardware add-on keyboard for Palm devices. Later expanded the driver to include Hebrew and Japanese input systems. Product is still being sold.

Textware Solutions, Burlington, MA, 3/1998-6/1999

Contract programmer: developed an on-screen-input system extension for Palm devices using the Fitaly stylus-optimized letter layout. Product generated revenue for 6 years.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 6/1995-8/1995

Summer research fellow: simulated, tested, constructed, and installed time-of-flight organic scintillator detectors as part of an upgrade to the Tevatron particle accelerator.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 6/1994-8/1994

Scientific programmer: optimized existing work on the computation of electric fields around DNA molecules, resulting in a software speedup of 8000 times, and developed a custom 3D visualization engine to present the data. Later expanded to a senior thesis under Dr. Glenn Edwards.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 6/1993-8/1993

Summer research fellow: designed and constructed a prototype gas-mixing and -control system for a drift-chamber particle detector. Performed materials testing and simulation for other detector elements.

Skills

Programming in: C/C++, Perl, Python, Mathematica, PHP, PostScript, assembly, Scheme, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC.

Application development and system administration for: Linux (both desktop and embedded), PalmOS, MacOS, microcontrollers, BeOS.

Circuit design and fabrication: both analog and digital, Eagle CAD, VHDL, AHDL.

Desktop and web publishing: HTML, CSS, LaTeX, Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, various word processing and office applications.

Writing and editing: scientific publications, presentations, technical documentation, journalism, and fiction.