Bio

I am a senior graduating in May of 2015 with a degree in Computer Science. After graduation I will be working for Amazon Web Services as a Cloud Support Associate.

MP451 - 3 Credits / MP452 - 3 Credits

I am taking MP451 for 3 credits this semester, a majority of these credits are accumulated from contributions over the past 2 years.

List of Lab Contributions

• Random Lighting Talks including:
  • SC - A terminal based spreedsheet program
  • MOSH - Mobile Shell allows you to switch wifi and works over mobile networks without freezing up.
  • Open Source Hardware


• Director of CSLabs for 2 semesters
• Setting up of KVM VM Hosts - I rebuild two of our three KVM hosts and started the process of modifying the creation scripts so our VMs will shutdown properly.
• Administrative Work
• Clean Up and Organization of the Server Room - Three iterations of cleaning
  1. Cleaning of all of the random items in the server room
  2. Installation of the Cable management trays in the server room along with Christian Mesh and Kyle Pederson
  3. The Clean up and reorganization of the server racks with Eric Richter and Jake Greenfield


• Building of many Servers including:
  • Prometus - Heavy Data Processing Server
  • Titan - VM Hosting Server
  • Mordor - Gateway Server
  • Zuul - The new server currently running DHCP for the Lab
  • Foundry - The Storage Server for the Labs


• Designer for the Osiris Project - Osiris is an open-source, cooperative military starship bridge simulator for Linux and Mac OS.
  • During play, players assume command of the ships crew through interfaces specialized for their roles, including flight commander, combat systems officer, flight engineer, and others.
  • Design of in Game UI concepts
  • Update and create content for the WIKI


• Updating the CSLabs Web Page - I brought the CSLabs web page out of the 90s and into the 21st century using simple html and css.
  • One of the cool tricks I used was Apache's "header include" and "footer include" so as not to have to add it to every page.


• Maintainer of a gamet of services including:
  • FixThis - A Request Tracker 4 VM that I set up and is no longer used.
  • DNS1 & DNS2 - The DNS servers for the labs, I edit the zone files and fix it when it breaks.
  • Windows Lab Build - I have been maintaining and imaging these computers for the last 2 years.
  • Xen2 - This is our last remaining xen VM Host in the labs.
  • Europa - This is our main VM Host at the moment running most of the labs infrastructure.
  • Titan - This is the Newest VM Host hardware that we run.
  • Juno - This Machine is currently not running but will be our student project host.
  • and others


• Work Shops or Teaching Done
• Server Building Workshop for Promethus
• Server Building Workshop for Titan
• Computer Building Workshop for COSI Lab Machines
• Infrastructure of the CSLabs

If interested in any of my work or additional details about the above projects check out my website or the CSLabs Wiki.