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David Bradford 

12820 N. Lamar Blvd. #1615; Austin, TX  78753

(512) 569-5864 

dbradf@gmail.com

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bradford

Experience 

        IBM        Austin, TX

        Software Engineer        January 2006 – Present

• Designed and developed new features for the AIX Logical Volume Manager, including tools to improve first failure data capture, improve serviceability, and provide new disk allocation policies. 

• Wrote and reviewed technical documents, such as Functional Requirement Specifications, Design Documents, and Test Plans. 

• Debugged and fixed problems in the Logical Volume Manager commands, libraries, and device driver. 

IBM                                                                Austin, TX

Extreme Blue Technical Intern                                        Summer 2005

• Worked in a group of four to design and implement architecture that allowed developers to add telephony functionality to applications using web services 

• Contributed to development and delivery of sales pitch that demonstrated the value of project. 

• Worked with new tools and helped group to evaluate which tools would be best for our project. 

• Wrote GUI using AJAX and JSPs that allowed users to view and moderate phone conferences. 

Computer Science Department, University of Utah                        Salt Lake City, Utah

Teacher Assistant                                                        January 2005 – December 2005

• Assisted Professors in the Web Programming Architecture class and the Computer Architecture class. 

• Answered student’s questions about a variety of topics including JSPs and Servlets, web services, Tomcat administration, database connectivity, MIPS programming, and RISC Architecture. 

• Graded homework, programming assignments, projects, and exams. 

Eccles Health Science Library, University of Utah                        Salt Lake City, Utah

Computer Professional                                                July 2000 – December 2001

• Enhanced Java Applet retrieve data from a mySQL database using JDBC. 

• Developed a WYSIWYG editor to generate website to describe diseases and simulate medical patient visits. 

Education 

        University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah        December 2005

        Bachelor of Science, Computer Science        GPA: 3.4

        Related Courses:  Software Practice, Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Web Programming,

                Computer Systems, Programming Languages, Numerical Analysis, Compilers, Models of Computation,

                Digital Design, Operating Systems, Senior Lab

        Course Projects:

• Software Practice:  Lead designer in team of five for building a Lisp Interpreter that tied for the highest score in the class.

• Web Programming:  Worked in a group of three to create a Web Server that could read Java Servlets and handle them appropriately and could translate Java Server Pages into Java Servlets.

• Numerical Analysis:  Designed and implemented software that would simulate the oribital movements of GPS satellites using Newton’s Method and LU factorization, similar to the computation engine used in a hand held GPS unit.

• Senior Lab:  Team leader for a group of four that built a program to search and store RSS feeds and designed a website that allows users to search the articles and recommends articles similar to what the user has previously searched for.

• Compilers:  Wrote a compiler to take a subset of Java and translate it to MIPS Assembly.

• Operating Systems:  Designed and developed a simple operating system to run on an emulation program.  The system included boot up, memory management, process scheduling, and interprocess communication.

Technical Skills 

C, C++, Java, Perl, Korn Shell, HTML, Javascript, CSS, AIX