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EDWARD KEYES 152 Charles St. #1 Cambridge, MA 02141 |
www.edkeyes.org resume-at-edkeyes-dot-org (617) 547-0614 |
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MIT-educated physicist and independent programmer looking for interesting projects in science and technology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Summer research fellow: simulated, tested, constructed, and installed time-of-flight organic scintillator detectors as part of an upgrade to the Tevatron particle accelerator.
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.
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.
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.