Michael R. Head, Ph.D.

Skills

• Java programming (10+ years): parsing techniques, Servlets/JSP, SWT and Eclipse plugin development
• Other languages/libraries/tools: C (with GTK2/Glade), C++ (on Linux), Python (with PyGTK), GNU R, GNU autotools, Javascript/JSON

Experience

Software Engineer : Google, Mountain View, CA : April 2011 - Present

• Member of software development group responsible for cluster resource management

Senior Software Engineer : IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY : Fall 2008 - April 2011

• Member of research group investigating compute cloud infrastructure
• Developed production software and authored research papers and patent applications
• Held co-op, intern, post-doc and software engineer positions during this period

Graduate Research Assistant : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY : Fall 2004 - Fall 2009

• Research group member analyzing and developing the Grid Computing service stack; projects in Java, C, C++, R and Python involving SOAP, XML, and GridFTP
• Reviewed papers for several scientific conferences and journals
• Authored several articles published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and scientific journals
• Founded and lead the Binghamton University Computer Science Graduate Student Seminar Series

Independent Contractor : Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA : September 2007 - May 2008

• Developed a complex event processor for intrusion detection systems; responsible for developer tools and servlet/JSP-based AJAX web interface

Linux Specialist : Custom Systems Integration, Endicott, NY : January 2006 - March 2006

• Designed and developed an internationalized (gettext-enabled) C-based GTK application for the testing of 12 different digital, analog, GPIB, and CAN PCI I/O boards under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
• Authored and documented the installation and test procedure of the operating system, hardware and drivers

Research Assistant : Brandeis University, Waltham, MA : Fall 2001 - Summer 2004

• Research group member studying the design of effective groupware solutions; developed a shared editing tool for HTML and JScheme for experiments involving distributed pair programming

Advisory I/T Specialist : IBM Global Services, Charlotte, NC : Summer 1999 - Fall 2001

• Traveled to several client sites, developed Java solutions for clients in the banking and finance industry

Education

Fall 2004 - Fall 2009 : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

• Dissertation title: Analysis and Optimization for Processing Grid-Scale XML Datasets
• Ph.D., Computer Science; specializing in Grid Computing; 3.966/4.0 GPA

Fall 2001 - Summer 2004 : Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

• M.A., Computer Science; specializing in Computer Supported Cooperative Work; 3.890/4.0 GPA

Fall 1995 - Summer 1999 : Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY

• B.S., Computer Science & B.S., Mathematics ; 3.461/4.0 overall GPA

Selected Publications

• Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju “Performance Enhancement with Speculative Execution Based Parallelism for Processing Large-scale XML-based Application Data,” in The proceedings of International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 21-30, , Munich, Germany, June 2009.
• Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Robert van Engelen, Wei Zhang, “Benchmarking XML Processors for Applications in Grid Web Services,” in SC|06 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage, Tampa, FL, November 2006.
• Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Pu Liu, Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Robert van Engelen, Kenneth Chiu, Michael J. Lewis, “A Benchmark Suite for SOAP-based Communication in Grid Web Services,” in SC|05 (Supercomputing): International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage, Seattle WA, November 2005.

Other interests

Mountain biking, Snowboarding, Homebrewing