Michael D. Morgan
1714 Northwestern Ave.		Cell: 765-430-7245
West Lafayette, IN 47906		mikmorg@mdmsolutions.org

Education

• Purdue University		West Lafayette, IN
  B.S., Computer Science (GRAD 2.72 / CS 3.00), Expected graduation date: 12/2007
  Minor in Philosophy

  
  

  • academic research in distributed file storage systems

Work History

• PG Linux Team Software Engineer Intern		May 2007 - August 2007
  Dell		Austin, TX

  
  

  • proposed, developed, and implemented disc remastering utility for Ubuntu Linux Distribution (http://linux.dell.com/dru)
  • added support for Ubuntu to Dynamic Kernel Module System (http://linux.dell.com/dkms)
  • delivered technical presentations to upper management and technical teams
  • proposed Open Source licensing to corporate, legal, and technical departments for Disc Remastering Utility project
  • debugging and problem tracing in Ubuntu for hardware support

• Software Engineer Intern		May 2006 - August 2006
  Arxan		West Lafayette, IN

  
  

  • part of development team for application-layer x86 emulator
  • network traffic and binary red-teaming, including tool development
  • development and modification of website QA automation software

• Software Engineer / Web Developer		5-8/2004, 5-8/2003, 5-8/2002
  Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc.		West Lafayette, IN

  
  

  • assisted in installation / administration of Red Hat Linux (and Fedora Core) servers
  • performed configuration management of systems using UNIX shell scripting, Linux system admin skills
  • designed and implemented distributed systems monitor extending mon with Perl, Tcl/Tk
  • developed systems administrative web suite using Javascript, HTML, PHP, Perl, and C
  • technical support of network, including wiring/troubleshooting ethernet and token ring
  • technical support of software and hardware/peripherals for multiple operating systems
  • accepted on-call assistance duty for network repairs

• Personal Experience and Research		1999 - Current

  
  

  • wrote various personal-use programs - UNIX scripting, service user-access
  • ex-administrator of local gaming community
  • assembly and maintenance of computer hardware and networks
  • strong network programming, research into Distributed File Systems
  • low-level OS kernel/driver understanding (strong ongoing research)

Skills

Languages:

C/C++, Perl, Bash, HTML, XML, L^ATEX, Java/SWT, PHP, Javascript, x86/SPARC Assembly, Python

Operating Systems:

Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows XP

Applications:

CVS/RCS, Subversion, Mercurial, Apache, MySQL, Eclipse, Bind DNS, IPTables (NAT/Firewall), Sendmail & Dovecot (SMTP, IMAP/POP3), ISC DHCP, mdadm Software RAID, CUPS, Samba, Vim

Miscellaneous:

system administration in various UNIX flavors, TCP/IP networking (ie. routers, smart switches), software configuration management, excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills