SKILLSET OVERVIEW

I have had at least some experience in each of the following, those in bold representing areas of relative expertise:

• Programming languages - Pascal, C, C++, Scheme/Lisp, Java/Javascript, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Python/Pyrex, Basic/Visual Basic, bash
• Other tools - LaTeX, HTML, OpenGL, Lex/Yacc, Emacs, gdb, MS Visual Studio, SQL, Maple, Mathematica, PARI, SAGE

EDUCATION

• 2001-2007 University of Texas at Austin, PhD program in mathematics, specializing in number theory (in progress; all but dissertation)
• 1993-1998 University of British Columbia, BSc in mathematics and computer science
• 1993 graduated from Penticton Secondary School

EMPLOYMENT

• 2001-2006 various teaching jobs, University of Texas Mathematics Department:
  • Instructor for precalculus. Taught two classes totaling 65 students. Main duties: prepared and gave lectures, created and administered exams and homework, and tracked grades and attendance.
  • Homework and exam grader for linear algebra, probability, algebra I, real analysis I, graduate algebra (homework only).
  • Teaching Assistant for calculus I, II, and III, and applicable mathematics. Led discussion sections, held office hours, helped grade exams.
• 1998-2001 software engineer, Pivotal Corporation (Vancouver)
  • Helped design, implement, test, debug, and document many components of the flagship product Pivotal Relationship, customer relationship management (CRM) software used by hundreds of large organizations around the world. Made schedules, co-ordinated with a large team of programmers and testers, and met important deadlines.
  • Tools used include C++, Java, Visual Basic, SQL, COM, DHTML/DOM
• 1997-1998 - programmer, UBC Computer Science Dept, supervised by Jeff Joyce; implemented garbage collection for the formal specification language "S".
• 1996 fall - programmer, UBC Atmospheric Science Dept, supervised by Phil Austin; developed visualization tools for weather data using GIST and Python. Created a Python interface to the NetCDF data format.
• 1996 summer - web designer and programmer, TRIUMF, supervised by Martin Comyn; developed initial draft of TRIUMF web site. Also wrote miscellaneous scripts and tools for data management in Perl.

PUBLICATIONS and TALKS

• Partial sums of the Taylor series for e that are convergents to e, and a link to the primes 2, 5, 13, 37, 463 by Jonathan Sondow and Kyle Schalm, published in Contemporary Mathematics vol. 457, "Tapas in Experimental Mathematics", Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2008;
  preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0671
• MPFR in SAGE, talk at SAGE Days 2006 conference, San Diego, Feb 4-5, 2006; http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/days1/mpfr-in-sage.html

REFERENCES

• Jeff Vaaler, PhD supervisor - vaaler@math.utexas.edu
• William Stein, author of SAGE mathematical software - wstein@gmail.com
• Zahoor Samji, supervisor at Pivotal Corp., current whereabouts unknown

• Nancy Lamm, graduate student co-ordinator, University of Texas math department - nlamm@math.utexas.edu
• Len or Lorna Cox, educators (retired) - (250) 492-0757
• Richard Trovao, landscaper - (250) 492-2369