It is the place of certain individuals to spend every Friday night in front of a computer. Seemingly sad, but true. Other things can be done over the course of a Friday night, but it just wouldn't be complete if it didn't end with me being bathed by the glow of a monitor. Sports hold little interest for me, and I don't drink. It's kind of a boring existence. But that's fine, I'm kind of a boring guy. I work and study, and work. It's like being a high tech monk. In actuality it's not that sad. It really works out well, especially since I enjoy what I do. I know very few people who smile on their way to work at 6 in the morning. I look forward to what I have to do, and enjoy my constant quest to increase my knowledge. The best part is that I get paid pretty well to do stuff I'd do for free. This brings us to the point of this web page. I plan on graduating from Cal shortly and I'm looking for a position after I leave. I figured the best way was to make a little exhibit of stuff I've done, a fancy resume. Please excuse me if any of this sounds like bragging. That's not my intent. I only wish to prove myself worthy of a programming or system administration position. I plan on graduating from U. C. Berkeley in a few months, with a degree in Artificial Intelligence. The full name of the degree is "Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on computational modeling." I take a lot of computer science, and psychology classes, some linguistics, and some neurobiology. Also since I spent some time as a physics major, I have a lot math and physics experience. In fact, I was in the Physics Scholars Program for three semesters, a member of the Chemistry Scholars Program, and a member of the Multi-cultural Engineering Program. Currently I work during my vacations for Silicon Graphics as a system administrator. And when I returned to school at the end of the summer, I was maintaining the mountain view campus's quality assurance lab. It gave me a chance to do a lot of work with Linux and keeping up a large network of non-standard and unstable machines. I also got time to work with annex boxes, trouble shoot proprietary and rare hardware, and do all the dirty-work involved in keeping things running (stacking, sorting, cleaning, and documenting). I also spent a good amount of time helping out the more senior employees with various projects partially so that I got a chance to dabble in almost every aspect of keeping up an engineering site as large as that of Silicon Graphics Mountain View site. I've worked for SGI on and off since the summer of 2000. My first professional experience was working for IBM Storage Systems Division in San Jose, during the summer on 1999. I was hired simply to image systems with a year 2000 compliant version of IBM's employee software package, but after I proved that I was capable of more by taking job tickets and solving user computer problems in my spare time, I was promoted to tech, allowed to take calls with the contractors and only called in to image when an executive needed a new image or one of the other interns had trouble. I coincidently got my position at SGI when my boss' boss offered me a chance to follow him to Silicon Graphics when he made a career move. From the fall of 1999 until the present I have been staff at the Open Computing Facility at U.C. Berkeley. I help users with Solaris and Windows 2000, and keep up a NIS setup with thousands of users, terabytes of storage and lot's of archaic idiosyncrasies from long before I arrived. Lastly, I taught EECS198, System Administration, at U.C. Berkeley, for the Spring and Fall semesters of 2001. The first semester I was one of the supporting instructors, for the second semester I became the head instructor, and lectured on such things as NFS, Apache, and shell scripting. I program a lot! My professional experience, however, is not that extensive, the most impressive being some Perl code I wrote for Silicon Graphics to allow our Itanium boxes to be power cycled remotely. I do, however, have a lot of unpaid experience. I've studied Artificial Intelligence, Graphics, and a lot of other issues computer science at Cal. Also I've done some open source work. I've written a 3d file manager with my friend Wayne, by the name of step2. I also am working on a clone of the video game Dance Dance Revolution with another friend, named DDP.