Will Dyson
 
Permanent Address:
510 Rutgers Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
(610) 328-3011
Email Address:  will_dyson@pobox.com

Homepage:  http://www.digitalperceptions.net/

 
EDUCATION  
Earlham College, Richmond, IN August 1997 - December 2001
Bachelors of Computer Science, December 2001
Major:  Computer Science
 
WORK EXPERIENCE  
Lucid Tech Solutions, LLC, Swarthmore, PA August 2002 - Present
Consultant (August 2002 - Present)
    Part of a small, customer focused consulting team. Worked directly with clients to determine and satisfy their IT needs. Wrote proposals for new contracts. Created cost estimates and delivery schedules for significant projects. Installed and configured small business and home networks. Lead project to develop custom GUI applications for commercial sale by client, using Microsoft's Visual C++ toolkit. Assisted in the development of web-based groupware application for internal use, using PHP and MySQL. Configured and maintained Unix servers for customers and internal use.
 
STUDENT
ACTIVITIES
 
Earlham College Computer Science Department February 2000 - December 2000
Student System Administrator (February 2000 - December 2000)
    Member of student system administrator team for the computer science department. Configured and maintained system for synchronizing the software installation on 24 Redhat Linux workstations. Configured network services. Performed software installation and troubleshooting for faculty and students in a heterogenous Linux workstation/FreeBSD server environment.

Earlham Word October 1998 - September 2000
Online Editor (October 1998 - September 2000)
    Responsible for website maintenance and development for school newspaper. Maintained and updated Perl CGI scripts and Bash shell scripts to automate the weekly upload of new issues of the paper. Provided technical support for several Macintosh computers. Advised editorial board on technical issues.
 
PROJECTS  
Linux Kernel Driver (BeFS) August 2001 - Present
Programmer (August 2001 - Present)
    Developed read-only filesystem driver (BeFS) for the Linux kernel, which allows access to file data stored on legacy BeOS filesystems. Coordinated with users and members of the Linux project to fix bugs and integrate into the kernel.
 
COMPUTER
SKILLS
 
Programming Languages
C Programming Language
  C++ Programming Language
 
   
Perl Programming Language
  Structured Query Language (SQL)
   
 
   
Ruby
  Bash
Operating Systems
Linux
  FreeBSD
 
   
MS Windows
  Mac Classic and OS X
   
 
Databases
MySQL
  PostgreSQL
 
   
Oracle
   
   
 
Programming Tools
GCC
  GDBL
 
   
Valgrind
  gprof
 
   
Make
  CVS
 
*References Available Upon Request