Adam L. Beberg

Email: beberg@mithral.com
Resume: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/Resume.html
Curriculum vitae: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/beberg/
Last update: July 2011

Overview

• 16 years of business and project management, two decades of professional software engineering, and three decades of programming experience.
• Stories covering my projects by Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Wired, Scientific American, and many press articles on both distributed.net and Folding@home.
• Invited speaker at computer security and distributed computing lectures and conferences.
• Honored as one of the MIT Technology Review's TR100 top young innovators of 1999, Distinction in Teaching 2010, Stanford Computer Science Student Service Award.

Education

Stanford University
Computer Science PhD Program, 2004-present. Currently on leave.

Stanford University
Master of Science, Computer Science, 2010.

Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, 1996.

Experience

Founder and CTO - Mithral Inc.
Mithral originally begun as an Internet consulting business focused on web site design and e-commerce. Mithral is now focused on developing distributed computing infrastructure and protocols that surpass other system in efficiency and reliability, with our Cosm distributed and cloud computing tools. Worked with many clients during the full project life cycle from requirements gathering to rollout of new systems and modernizing legacy systems. Managed employees, independent contractors, designers, and artists.
June 1995 to present.

Research Assistant - Stanford University
Research continuing 14 years of work in distributed systems and focused on: extending volunteer distributed computing systems such as distributed.net and Folding@home with a distributed file system, portable software development and run-time deployment for GPUs with OpenCL and CUDA, development and deployment on unreliable heterogeneous systems, deterministic checkpointing for distributed systems, and reducing the power consumption of active systems. Consult CV for details.
June 1995 to present - on leave.

Teaching Fellow & Assistant - Stanford University
12 quarters of lecturing, developing course material, and learning to teach. Taught the summer 2006 Operating Systems course. Co-developed the now institutionalized Future Faculty Seminar which educates students in the realities of an academic career. TA for a variety of courses including distributed systems, cryptography, web technologies, and head TA for a course for non-engineering undergrads teaching both HTML and Python. Distinction in Teaching awarded in 2010. Consult CV for details.
January 2005 to June 2011.

Software Engineer - Identix
Maintenance and development for the Live Scan line of biometric fingerprint scanning systems. Engineering roles involved bug fixing, customer feature additions, GUI development, new hardware integration, and migration to a new .NET architecture. C, C++, .NET, REXX, biometrics.
February 2004 to December 2004.

Software Engineer - Network Appliance
Implemented testing infrastructure and testing tools for the development and verification of company products. One tool allowed the remote execution of a process using local resources. These tools were then rolled out company-wide for all development and QA testing. Perl, C, Perforce, NAS, Clustering, Solaris, OSF/1.
November 2000 to April 2001

Software Engineer - StorageTek
Worked on the design and implementation of an on-demand disk allocation system for servers in a Storage Area Network, integrated across Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms. The project resulted in a fully fault-tolerant system for dynamic enterprise storage deployments, allowing for a large reduction in administrative overhead. Python, Java, XML, PostgreSQL, Solaris, Linux, SAN, Volume Managers, Veritas, ISO 9000.
August 1999 to November 1999

Founder and President - Distributed Computing Technologies Inc.
Management and direction of distributed.net - a non-profit 50,000 member, 80,000 node global network of people and computers. The organization's goal was the promotion of distributed computing technologies and government removal of export restrictions on the use of strong encryption. The restrictions were removed successfully. Design of the software architecture, and coordination of approximately 30 developers and core volunteers.
May 1997 to May 1999

Software Engineer - Peterson Electro-musical Products Inc.
Developed a real-time embedded system for pipe organs designed to control the organ as well as act as a fully functional MIDI device. Design was based on the Motorola 68k family of processors and the Nucleus real-time OS. C, C++, MS-Project, 68k and HC11 assembly, real-time kernel, inline emulators, circuit and board layout tools.
June 1997 to April 1998

Webmaster - Illinois Institute of Technology
Maintenance and redesign of the IIT web site. Managed the web servers and related resources on the campus and helped in the development of university usage policies. Web servers ran NT and IRIX. C, C++, Perl, SQL, Windows NT, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, Apache, IIS.
August 1996 to August 1997

Software Engineer - Educational Technology Center
Design and conversion from an MSDOS based student quizzing system to a Windows GUI based one with a Paradox backend. Assisted in the maintenance of the Novell network (v. 2.2 to 3.11) and oversaw daily server operations. C, C++, Borland, Windows 3.1, Novell, Paradox.
September 1992 to October 1994

Keywords & Skills

C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, REXX, SQL, HTML, XML, VB, ASP, PHP, RPC, IIS, ColdFusion, SAN, NAS, TCP/IP, IPv6, Cocoa, OpenGL, OpenCL, CUDA, 68K and x86 ASM, Shell script, PKI, PKCS, PGP, Unicode, UML, n-tier, ISO 9000, MS Project, CVS, Perforce, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Windows, NT, OS X, Linux, SunOS, Solaris.