EDWARD KEYES             www.edkeyes.org           rev. 7/06
               152 Charles St. #1       resume-at-edkeyes-dot-org
               Cambridge, MA 02141      (617) 547-0614

               
     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.