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I'm an extremely good computer programmer, an excellent
systems analyst and system designer, a good database designer
and administrator, a decent network administrator, a (mostly)
competent Linux admin, and a piss poor Windows admin. I've a PhD
in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of
Michigan earned in 1995. After my PhD I worked as a programmer
for several computer companies and then returned to physics
research.
Currently I work at Brookhaven
National Laboratory. I work for
STAR (Solenoidal Tracker
At RHIC) which is a very large detector at the
Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider.
What this means is that I work a very large machine that
accelerates gold ions to very close to the speed of light and
then smashes them together. Our detector measures the
particles that come out, and from what we see we try to
understand the constituents of matter and how they interact.
I work in the Data Acquisition Group for the STAR experiment
and am responsible for the code that configures the detector,
reads it out, stores the immense data sets that are produced,
writes the information to the databases to track the research
program, and logs and monitors the progress of all of the
above...
I'm also a core member of the operations group for the STAR
detector. I'm the chairman of the STAR Trigger Board,
which helps to implement the collaborations physics goals and I
participate in numerous panels, reviews, and boards... |
