Gary L. Jackson, II
3141 A.V.Williams Bldg
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405 - 6754
garyj@umiacs.umd.edu
Education
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Fall 1995-Summer 1999
- Recieved Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
- Dean's list, four semesters.
Experience
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University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies
College Park, MD
Septermber 7, 1999-Present
- Employed as a full time UNIX systems administrator.
- Configured and administered a 30 node Linux Beowulf
cluster.
- As part of a team, managed a homogenous UNIX network
of more than 200 hosts. Duties included security
management and debugging of systems software.
- Planned move from a decentralized user management
and mail system to a DCE/DFS infrastructure.
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies
College Park, MD
March 13, 1997-September 1, 1999
- Employed as a part time UNIX systems administrator
for the Laboratory for Parallel Computation (20
hours/week, 40 hours/week during January and June
through August).
- Managed three parallel super computers (2 IBM SP
systems, one cluster of DEC Alpha systems).
- Set up user home directory and mail service for the
super computers.
- Wrote client and server communication code for a
Java applet, used to browse and order satellite data
from an IBM DB2 database, for the University of
Maryland Global Land Coverage Facility.
Skills
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Programming
- Proficient in C, C++, Perl, Java, Bourne Shell
Scripting, and Tcl/Tk. Also, familiar with HTML.
Systems Administration
- Administration of several forms of UNIX, such as
Solaris, *BSD, Linux, AIX, and Tru64 (formerly OSF1
or Digital UNIX).
- Specific UNIX software knowledge includes NFS
administration, Apache, and backup systems, such as
AMANDA and ADSM.
- Experience with parallel software systems, such as
job schedulers (LoadLeveler, PBS, Maui Scheduler),
and parallel support software (LAM, MPICH, PVM).
- In particular, experienced with the IBM SP
platform.
Professional Organizations
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USENIX and SAGE
Fall 1999-Present
Papers
- Luke, S., Hohn, C., Farris, J., Jackson, G.,
Hendler, J. 1998. Co-evolving Soccer Softbot Team
Coordination with Genetic Programming. In
RoboCup-97: Robot Soccer World Cup I (Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence No. 1395), H. Kitano,
ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 398-411.
References available upon request