{"target":{"created_at":"2008-11-09T22:23:48Z","public_repos":45,"type":"User","company":"","gravatar_id":"2786cdedd6e0eaa34b64b17e1cea81b9","email":"brandon@ifup.org","name":"Brandon Philips","blog":"http://ifup.org","followers":18,"id":33544,"location":"San Francisco, CA","bio":"Brandon D. Philips                             \r\nbrandon@ifup.org\r\nPortland, OR\t\r\n\r\nTechnical Expertise\r\n===============\r\n - Developing software using C, BASH, Java, PHP, MySQL, sockets and pthreads\r\n - Hacking on the Linux Kernel including the development of patch sets\r\n - Interacting with peripheral devices on USB and serial buses\r\n - Managing and using Debian, Gentoo and Windows systems\r\n - Building web applications using Servlets, PHP, HTML, and CSS\r\n\r\nProfessional Experience\r\n===================\r\n\r\n Software Engineer II\tSuSE Labs, Novell Inc\t\t2007-Present\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Contribute to the Linux kernel community and assist in the maintenance of the\r\n SuSE products.  Focus and expertise in the network and the video input\r\n subsystems of the kernel.\r\n\r\n Co-founder\t\tOpen Source Education Lab\t\t2006-2007\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Collaborate with industry representatives, community members, university\r\n officials, and students to bring the benefits of the Open Source software\r\n movement to students across the Oregon State campus.\r\n\r\n Co-op\t\t\tIBM\t\t\t\t\tSummer 2006\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Continued work on a genetic library patch set for the Linux Kernel including a\r\n plug-in for the CPU scheduler and a TCL/TK GUI for visualization.  Assisted in\r\n the management of the milestones and goals of the project to create a\r\n reasonable and complete solution in a limited amount of time.\r\n\r\n Contractor             Reed eVentures                          2004-2005\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Developed a cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX) daemon for communicating\r\n with a USB testing device that will be used at Oregon Health Sciences\r\n University.  Worked through changing requirements and extended testing to\r\n deliver a stable robust package; leveraged open source toolkits including\r\n libusb, pthreads, gcc, mingw, and cygwin.\r\n\r\n Research Assistant     NASA Goddard Space Flight Center        Summer 2005\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Created a human-computer interface, using the Open Computer Vision Library,\r\n that recognized hand gestures using a web camera and used them as computer\r\n input.  Worked on a team to create a mobile robot to be used in research and\r\n development of human robotic interfaces for military and rehabilitation\r\n applications.  Received an outstanding participant award for my positive\r\n attitude and the extra efforts made throughout the program.\r\n\r\n Software Engineer      Oregon State Open Source Lab            2003-2006\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Worked as a Java developer to improve the Ockham Registry, 2005-2006.\r\n Assisted in the design of a peer to peer application for sharing public\r\n digital library collections.  Created interface and architectural improvements\r\n to the application to help attract new users.\r\n\r\n Was lead developer of Maintain, a DNS/DHCP management application,\r\n 2003-Summer 2005.  Developed new features, fixed existing bugs and released\r\n several versions of this PHP, MySQL and Perl based application.  Coordinated\r\n upgrades to critical DNS and DHCP services for Oregon State University.\r\n Learned how to build and work with Open Source Communities.  Supported a\r\n range of users from Purdue University, University of Kansas, SGI and many\r\n other organizations.\r\n\r\nVolunteer Activities\r\n===============\r\n Mentor\t\tFIRST Robotics Meeks Pro Tech High\t\t2007\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Coached a team of high school students in building a robot to compete in the\r\n 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition. Taught students basics of electronic control\r\n systems and C programming.\r\n\r\n Core member\tStudent Association of Computing Machinery      2005-Present\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Assist in many capacities with the planning of college events interacting\r\n with college administrators, college donors and local businesses.\r\n\r\n Core member    Linux Users Group                               2003-Present\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Coordinate events including installfests, hacking socials and a weather\r\n balloon launch to celebrate a Firefox release.\r\n    \r\n Programmer     Sherwood/Newberg High School Robotics Team      2001-2003\r\n -----------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n Volunteered hundreds of hours to create software for the robot using Visual\r\n Basic, C++, USB and COM.  Designed a custom scripting language and user\r\n interface that aided in debugging mechanical and electrical systems.  Created\r\n a five minute demo for the robot which helped the team win first place in\r\n category and win judge's choice at the National Society of Manufacturing\r\n Engineers Robotics Competition at RIT in New York.  See publications section.\r\n\r\nPublications\r\n************\r\n \"The Humanoid Dream.\" Servo. January 2004. Published an article about my high\r\n school robotics experience that was accepted by an internationally\r\n distributed monthly robotics magazine.\r\n\r\nFormal Education\r\n==============\r\n Graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Systems from\r\n Oregon State University in 2007\r\n\r\nExtracurricular\r\n===========\r\n Google Pizza Ambassador at Oregon State University, Fall 2004-Present\r\n Contributor to several free open source software projects.\r\n\r\nReferences available upon request.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.ifup.org/portfolio                                        2009-10-29","hireable":true,"html_url":"https://github.com/philips","public_gists":11,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/philips","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2786cdedd6e0eaa34b64b17e1cea81b9?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","following":81,"login":"philips"}}