Kevin Chase’s Resume

Kevin Chase

Rutgers University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
P.O. Box 849
Piscataway, NJ 08855

(908)572-3307 (Home)/(908)445-2837 (Work)/(908)445-4343 (Fax)

chase@physics.rutgers.edu, http://www.physics.rutgers.edu

Objective

A position as a software developer. I am U.S. citizen and am willing to relocate.

Education

Rutgers University - Piscataway, NJ (1990-1996)
Ph. D. in Physics, May 1996.
Dissertation title: Statistical fragmentation models and nuclear disassembly
Area of research: Statistical nuclear physics, exact computational methods, stochastic modeling, Monte Carlo techniques.

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA (1986-1990)
B. S. (with Honors) in Applied Mathematics & Physics, June 1990
Area of studies: Theory of computing, numerical methods, complex analysis, classical and quantum physics. ARCS Scholar, GPA 3.7

Skills

Implemented and maintained extensive C, Fortran-77 and Mathematica programs/libraries in a multiplatform (Sun SPARC/DEC Alpha/SGI Irix) Unix environment.
Experienced with Unix and X-Windows environment on multiple platforms (Sun SPARC/DEC Alpha/SGI Indigo) as a user, application developer and system administrator.
Developed event-driven Macintosh applications in the Think C environment.
C++/Java/Perl/Lisp/Forth/Pascal programming experience.
Prepared complex documents using LaTeX, TeX and HTML.

Experience

Rutgers University Physics Department - Piscataway, NJ
Assistant System administrator (Summer 1996 to present)

Reconfigured and installed thirty+ Sun workstations into existing large network. Assisted system administrator in migrating systems from SunOS to Solaris, and with associated administration tasks.

Rutgers University Physics Department - Piscataway, NJ
Teaching assistant (Fall 94, Fall 95, Spring 96); Lecturer (Summer 96 to present)

Instructed students individually and in small groups in a self-paced course covering topics in modern and classical physics.

Caltech/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena, CA
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (Summer 1989, Spring 1990)

Surveyed and modeled existing and proposed sensors for use in automobile engine control systems. Implemented fault-tolerant schemes for sensor management in an interactive computer simulation.

Last modified: July 8th, 1997