Erich J. Plondke

324678 Georgia Tech Station                             (404) 892-7422
Atlanta, GA                                             erich at wreck.org
30332-1020                                              http://wreck.org/prof

Objective:

    A fun, interesting job in the Atlanta area in Realtime Embedded Systems, 
    Hardware or Firmware Design, OS development, or UNIX system administration.

Education:
    - Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
        Graduating Spring 2001, 3.6 GPA

Relevant Work Experience:

    - Engineering Computing Services at Georgia Tech, Summer 2000 - Present
        Part-time job involving the administration of Solaris, IRIX,
        and Linux machines, including a Beowulf cluster.

    - Pratt and Whitney, West Palm Beach, FL, Summer 1999
        Propulsion Systems Analysis Embedded and Realtime Software
        Intern. Developed a system to translate Ethernet TCP/IP streams to
        serial data, constructed tests for the Low Cost Engine Control and
        Upper Stage Demonstrator, and developed the Drive Electronics Array
        interface for the LCEC using Motorola 68HC16 assembly. Earned an award
        for the timely implementation of the Ethernet-to-Serial translator.

    - Pratt and Whitney, West Palm Beach, FL, Summer 1998
        MIS Workstation Support Summer Intern. Work involved Solaris
        administration for over 1800 servers and workstations. Also
        worked on several development tasks including scripts to
        convert the CE database to CDE, checking backups, and video
        capture / format conversion.

Relevant Classes at Georgia Tech:

    - Operating Systems, Advanced Operating Systems
        Covered topics include threading, memory architecture, file systems, 
        and hardware interfaces.

    - Microcontroller Design, Adv. Microcontroller Senior Design 
        These classes use the PIC microcontroller family to implement various 
        tasks.  These classes used both PIC assembly and C.

    - Computer Architecture, Adv. Computer Architecture, Parallel
      & Distributed Arch (in progress), Modern Architecture
        Topics of the first two classes included CPU design, Pipelining, Cache 
        systems, Virtual Memory, Paging, and I/O.  The last two classes are 
        graduate classes, and the last class, Modern Architecture, covered 
        superscalar architectures, trace caches, hardware instruction 
        translation, VLIW/EPIC, SIMD, and other modern architectural features.

Relevant Skills:

    Use and administration of UNIX and UNIX-like systems, Motorola 
    68HC16, HC11, PIC, and MIPS assembly, C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, 
    Bourne Shell, Pascal, VHDL, and some familiarity with ADA.  I am 
    confident that I can learn other languages quickly and easily.