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robertwb
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in Seattle, Washington
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Ranked #2,615 out of 274,438 (higher than 99.05% of their peers)

Sep 9, 2004 1:04:05 AM EDT

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Sep 24, 2008 11:38:12 PM EDT

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Areas Of Expertise:
Mac OS X, Java, PHP (including GD, PDFLib, etc.), MySQL, Security and Cryptography

Also very familiar with Windows (XP/NT/9x), Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.), Unix, Perl, C, C++, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Cross-browser issues, and MS Office (including MS Access)

Resume:
Education

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Washington, current student
Honors B.S., Mathematics, Brigham Young University, April 2004
Honors B.S., Linguistics, Brigham Young University, April 2004
MSRI Summer Graduate Program, Reed College, July 2003

Experience

BYU Internet Security Research Lab, Provo, UT
Research Assistant
August 2002-August 2004

Collaborated with graduate students on developing secure proxy-mediated trust negotiation schemes for use with resource-constrained devices. Co-developed and implemented Hidden Credentials, a secure attribute based authentication construct based on elliptic curve cryptography, presented at WPES 2003 and CCS 2004.

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL
Research Assistant
November 1997-June 1998; December 2001-September 2003

Modified the C KVM for Java to allow for full dynamic resource control for mobile agents on small devices (e.g., telephones, PDA’s). Worked on implementation of cryptographic infrastructure for use in the Mobile Agent Security Tool project also funded by DARPA. Developed graphical simulation of the solar system in Java for a NASA educational grant.

BYU Math Department, Provo, UT
Research Assistant
September 2003-August 2004

Paid research support to work with Dr. Steven Humphries on problems in Algebra and Topology. Pioneered ways to apply randomized algorithms to hard problems in the Braid Groups and other finite coxeter groups.

BYU Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Provo, UT
Webmaster
September 2002-September 2003

Create and maintain general department web pages, as well as the sites belonging to the specific languages, including Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Working with a pilot program funded by a major grant recently awarded from the National Foreign Language Center.

BYU Independent Study, Provo, UT
Java Developer
January-June, 1999

Paid position to design and develop Java-based navigation system used in online coursework. BYU has the largest university independent study program in the United States. In a national recognition by the University Continuing Education Association one of the evaluators stated that “BYU has the best navigation system in the nation.”

Awards and Honors

• ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Fellowship
• National Dean’s List 2002-2003, 2003-2004
• Score of 32 on the National William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition (Rank 166th in the nation)
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. 2nd place BYU, 17th place regional
• National Merit Scholarship
• BYU Heritage Full Tuition Scholarship
• Perfect score on the math section of the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and GRE
• Invited to take the AMC’s American Invitational Mathematics Exam
• Eagle Scout Award, Boy Scouts of America

Languages

• Fluent in reading, writing, and speaking French; lived there full-time 1993-1994 and 1999-2001
• Studied Mandarin Chinese and lived in University housing for speakers of Chinese
• Other languages studied: Latin, American Sign Language