Kevin Fink
kevin@fink.com
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Kevin Finkkevin@fink.com |
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I am seeking a position where I may leverage my talents in hands-on motivation and guidance of technologists, researchers, and developers to produce cutting-edge yet practical results.
- January 1996 to Present
- Chief Technology Officer - N2H2, Inc., Seattle, WA. Network and System Design, Implementation, and Administration. Computer Programming (C, Perl, shell, including CGI Scripting). Database Design and Implementation. Project and Personnel Management.
- September 1995 to December 1995
- Computer Programmer and Internet Consultant, KF Consulting,
- February 1995 to September 1995
- System Administrator and MIS Director, Virtual Broadcast Network.
- Winter 1992 to February 1995
- Research assistant to Prof. Edward Belcher, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. Developed PC-based software for image collection and analysis from acoustic lens systems. Developed software simulation of multi-element acoustic lenses.
- 1992/93 Academic Year
- Teaching assistant in Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington. Taught undergraduate circuit design (ENGR 215) and signal processing (EE 235 and EE 341) classes.
- Spring 1990 to Summer 1992
- Research assistant to Prof. Ziyad Duron, Harvey Mudd College. Worked under National Science Foundation grant "New Experimental Techniques for the Investigation of Dam-Water Interactions" and Southern California Edison - Harvey Mudd College Center for Excellence Grant "An Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Concrete Dams." Designed, implemented, and tested automated data acquisition system, developed new experimental techniques for the gathering of hydrodynamic pressure responses both along the dam face and in the reservoir, and developed data reduction and analysis procedures and software.
- Fall 1990 to Summer 1992
- Harvey Mudd College Computer Science Department. System Services Administrator. Wrote, compiled, installed, and maintained software on Sequent Symmetry, Sun Sparcstations, and Dec VaxStation. Responsible for installation and maintenance of all publicly-accessable software on department's systems.
Computer Languages: Perl, C, Awk, Sed, Bash, Csh, Tcsh, PV-WAVE, MATLAB, S-PLUS, Transact-SQL, Ada, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC, and 6502 and 68000 assembly languages.
Fourteen years of formal and informal experience on a wide variety of computers and operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, BSDI, NetBSD, SunOS, Solaris, DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Commodore, VAX, HP, and Sequent/Dynix. Extensive experience with UNIX operating systems, with a focus on Linux, SunOS, and Solaris.
- University of Washington. Seattle, Washington.
- Doctoral Student, Electrical Engineering Department.
- University of Washington. Seattle, Washington.
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, March 1994.
- Thesis: Computer Simulation of Pressure Fields Generated by Acoustic Lens Beamformers
- Course Work
- Harvey Mudd College. Claremont, California.
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, May 1992.
- Graduated with High Distinction and Honors in Engineering.
- Member of Iota Upsilon Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu
- Dean's List all graded semesters at Harvey Mudd College
- National Merit Scholar
- ARCS Foundation Scholarship
- AFCEA Scholarship
- L.A. Philanthropic Scholarship
- Oregonian Publishing Company Scholarship
- Elk's Foundation Scholarship
- Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Scholarship
- "Measuring hydrodynamic pressure during forced vibration testing of concrete dams", Dam Engineering, Vol II, Issue 4, pp. 337-355.