My skills and related background tidbits

Read about the experience I have gained in all of my college courses.

Read my Motorola exit interview.

Read my Wolfram job application.

View my résumé.

I do quite a bit of C/C++ programming on my freetime. I was also the President of SigMicro of the ACM, as well as the co-chair of the MacWarriors subgroup. My interests are in all of these areas: compilers component interconnection (computer architecture) languages (scripting - AppleScript and natural languages, functional - ML) low-level protocols like ATM and Ethernet microprocessor instruction set design/optimization network protocols like AppleTalk and TCP/IP operating systems (especially distributed ones) My learning curve is very high for material that I can actually experiment with.

Distributed Operating Systems. (CS328) I already has many preconcieved ideas about how distributed systems should work, and I proved that they were correct by mastering this class.

Various private programming projects with MacOS's AppleTalk protocol and Ethernet driver interface.

Verified and validated a VRTX (embedded 68K operating system) Ethernet driver while working at Motorola during the Summer of 1997.

Assembly language experience

I have extensive UNIX administration capabilities.

I have been coding in C since Senior year high school: I felt I needed to prepare for college, and took it up on my freetime instead of playing Nintendo.

Experience with Pascal Junior year high school. I passed out of the BASIC programming class in high school to take a Pascal class with 3 Seniors. Mark, Brian and Cory.

I was the President of the Computer Club in my high school. We had no funding... so all we did was hang out and play games in the lab of ~30 Apple IIe's and 2 Apple IIgs'. This was my first real leadership position.

I was part of the layout staff for my high school yearbook "The Log" for my last 3 years of high school.

 

My application to Wolfram Research Inc. (Fall 1997)

What software systems have you used?

Rhapsody, MacOS, HPUX, Linux-intel, MkLinux, LinuxPPC, NetBSD, SunOS, IRIX, Tandem's NonStopUX.

If you have done projects, tell us about them:

I have personal research projects in progress. Because of their potential patentability, I am not offering them for public or private viewing. They deal with computer architecture and instruction set design, verification, and analysis.

Tell us about jobs you've had:

I worked this past summer at Motorola in Arlington Heights, IL with a monolithic API to enhance and upgrade an existing test program for the purpose of moving it from a MIPS machine to an SGI Indy. The summer before I worked as a HPUX system administrator for Triton College as well as helping out with some of their web cgis.

The spring and fall before that, I worked as a lab assistant for user support of commonly used PC programs. At the same time I also was Triton College's campus Macintosh troubleshooter, software and hardware installer, and maintainer.

Describe your largest project:

The largest project I completed was my ECE312 final project. It entailed creating a working simulation of a pipelined, cached MIPS processor with a partner. It also included making a 30 minute presentation on microprocessor design and the details of my specific implementation as well as the analysis of it. This presentation was then given to the TAs for a final grade. The class required over 30 hours of work each week all by itself. Beyond that I am continually working on programming projects in my freetime.

What position interests you?

Porting programs to Rhapsody, Apple's enterprise operating system. Enhancement of programs for MacOS. I am taking a computer languages class right now and will be taking a compiler class soon, as well as a class on operating systems. I have always been interested in computer languages. I would be interested in the intern jobs that you have to offer, and possibly leading into a long-term job for the following spring.

What do you think you could contribute to Wolfram, and why?

I am very enthusiastic when it comes to Apple Computer. When I code for MacOS I program with a passion. When I program with a passion, I work to my fullest extent. Rhapsody takes up a large part of my freetime these days, and I think I could be an integral part in helping move the code to Rhapsody, while keeping it multi-platform compatible.

If you have work on the web, where is it?

http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/s-bytnar/projects/
This is my MacOS development homepage.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmicro/
I am the president of this organization.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmicro/macwarriors/
I co-chair this special interest group for MacOS programmers and users.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmicro/macwarriors/applescript
An AppleScript tutorial I wrote.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigmicro/macwarriors/rhapsody
A Rhapsody UNIX source code porting archive I maintain and work on... so far by myself.

http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/s-bytnar/resume.html
This is where my resume is located.