Brendan Matthew Johnson

Professional Objective

Gainful employment at a fast-paced, high energy company.

Education

M.S. in Computer Science, May 2004
Clarkson University
Final GPA: 4.00 out of 4.00
B.S. in Computer Science, May 2002
Clarkson University
- Minor in Mathematics
- Three year accelerated program
- Focus on Cryptography

Research Interests

Computational Biology. I have special interest in protein folding and its applications to health technologies.
Quantum Computation. I am interested in developing new and original quantum algorithms. I am currently exploring quantum random walks as a viable means to develop these new algorithms. This work is currently were my masters thesis is centered.
GRID Computing. GRID computing has provided benefits for information collaboration between scientists working on similar datasets. Working with the Cluster Group at Clarkson I'm studying the usefulness of this tool as a collaboration backend to general user applications.

Teaching Experience

MA131 - Single variable Calculus I - Teaching Assent.
Clarkson University
August 2002 - January 2002
August 2003 - January 2004

Teaching Assent of Clarkson's first undergraduate calculus course. I am responsible for lectures, examinations and grade control for over five hundred students.

CS545 - Compiler Construction I -Teaching Assent.
Clarkson University
January 2003 - May 2003
January 2004 - May 2004

Taught a graduate class on programming langue and compiler construction. I lead the class through the construction of their own compiler from scratch.

CS344 - Algorithms and Data Structures -Teaching Assent.
Clarkson University
January 2004 - May 2004

Taught a undergraduate class on programming algorithms and data structures. I was responsible for all applied work in the course.

MA232 - Elementary Differential Equations Teaching Assent.
Clarkson University
January 2003 - May 2003

Co-Taught an introduction class into ordinary differential equations to undergraduate engineering and science majors.

Career

IBM AdTech Intern
IBM Server Group - Cambridge, MA
June 2003 - August 2003

In the past summer I worked in the IBM Advance Technology group and with MIT's Health Science technology program to develop a 3D tumor cell simulation to utilize a newly developed grid.

Student Director of Open Source Lab
Clarkson Open Source Institute
December 2001 - May 2003

The Clarkson Open Source Institute (COSI) is a student run project based group focusing on the use of Open Source projects and practices. COSI was founded with the support of the Provost and the Department of Math and Computer Science to investigate the benefits academia can gain from Open Source while provided a hands-on project based learning environment for students.

Research Assisent
Dept. of Physics, Clarkson University
June 2001 - May 2002

Under the advisement of Dr. ben-Avraham I developed new computable methods to prove or solve theatrical physics models. Including, but not limited to models on random walks both continues and discrete and numerical solutions to partial differential equations.

Entrepreneur/Head Administrator

Extreme Tech. Inc

Feb 1999 - August 1999

One of three original enraptures that created an internet service provider (ISP) start up company. I was responsible for all network and computer related issues. Company was profitable by the time I departed it.

Publications

D ben-Avraham, B M Johnson, C A Monaco, P L Krapivsky and S Redner: "Ordering of random walks: the leader and the laggard". Journal of Physics A 36, 1789--1799 (2003).

Professional Memberships

ACM
2003 - Present

Center for Quantum Device Technology - Clarkson University
2003 - Present

Skills
Programming/Scripting Languages: Assembly, Java, J2EE, XML, C, C++, C#, Perl, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS.

Grid and Cluster: Globus, Condor, OpenPBS, MPI

9 years programming experience

OS and Applications: GNU/Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows, GNOME, Apache, MySQL.

Natural Languages: English Native
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