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

		o Recieved Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
		o Dean's list, four semesters.

Experience

	University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
	College Park, MD
	Septermber 7, 1999-Present

		o Employed as a full time UNIX systems administrator.
		o Configured and administered a 30 node Linux Beowulf
		  cluster.
		o As part of a team, managed a homogenous UNIX network
		  of more than 200 hosts. Duties included security
		  management and debugging of systems software.
		o 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

		o 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).
		o Managed three parallel super computers (2 IBM SP
		  systems, one cluster of DEC Alpha systems).
		o Set up user home directory and mail service for the
		  super computers.
		o 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

	Programming

		o Proficient in C, C++, Perl, Java, Bourne Shell
		  Scripting, and Tcl/Tk. Also, familiar with HTML.

	Systems Administration

		o Administration of several forms of UNIX, such as
		  Solaris, *BSD, Linux, AIX, and Tru64 (formerly OSF1
		  or Digital UNIX).
		o Specific UNIX software knowledge includes NFS
		  administration, Apache, and backup systems, such as
		  AMANDA and ADSM.
		o Experience with parallel software systems, such as
		  job schedulers (LoadLeveler, PBS, Maui Scheduler),
		  and parallel support software (LAM, MPICH, PVM).
		o In particular, experienced with the IBM SP platform.

Professional Organizations

	     USENIX and SAGE
	     Fall 1999-Present

Papers

		o 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