Résumé for Neil Moore

Research assistant, University of Kentucky.

Worked as lead developer and system administrator for the Epichloë festucae Genome Project. Coordinated a small team of developers (3--4 members) to maintained, developed, and enhanced web-based tools and databases for viewing, managing, and annotating approximately 5 GiB of bioinformatic data. Worked extensively with GBrowse, BioPerl and other bioinformatics tools and libraries.

Teaching assistant, University of Kentucky.

Primary lecturer for the evening section of CS 215, "Introduction to Program Design, Abstraction, and Problem Solving", Spring 2007. Responsible for delivering lectures, guiding student laboratory work, preparing examinations, and grading.

Primary lecturer for the summer section of CS 115, "Introduction to Computer Programming", Second Summer Session 2007. Responsible for preparing and delivering lectures, designing programming and laboratory assignments, guiding student laboratory work, preparing examinations, and grading.

Primary lecturer for the evening section, and teaching assistant for a day section, of CS 215, Fall 2007. Responsible for delivering lectures (night section only), guiding student laboratory work, preparing examinations, and grading.

Teaching assistant for two day sections of CS 215, Spring 2008. Responsible for guiding student laboratory work, preparing examinations, and grading.

Research assistant, University of Kentucky.

Worked in a team environment to develop infrastructure for producing image-based electronic editions of manuscripts. Designed and implemented a library for storing, modifying, and querying multi-hierarchical XML. Participated in the design of a framework to facilitate the sharing of markup and other data among a number of independently-developed modules. Participated in the implementation, testing, and integration of these modules as plugins for the Eclipse application framework.

Lead developer, BigTrends.com.

Designed and implemented a distributed application for financial charting and analysis, using Java, Perl, and MySQL. Developed a number of web-based applications for financial charting and analysis, using Perl and MySQL. Co-maintained three GNU/Linux servers to provide database and web services for these applications.

Undergraduate research, University of Kentucky CS department.

Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning systems; distributed computing. Translation and conversion of logic programs to default theories. Analysis of logic programs, including stratification, well-founded semantics, and stable model semantics. Wrote a number of logic programs, many encoding graph-theoretical problems. Developed and optimized a distributed implementation of the stable model semantics using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine).

Teaching assistant, Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (IAAY), Johns Hopkins University.

Served as a teaching assistant for two three-week sessions of IAAY's Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program. Assisted the instructor of a Digital Logic class for talented and gifted middle school and high school students. Prepared classroom materials, graded papers and exams, and supervised electronics laboratory assignments for approximately 30 students ranging in age from 13 to 16.

System administrator, sfloyd.ml.org

Responsible for system administration of a GNU/Linux machine providing web pages, DNS service, and email for faculty and students at South Floyd High School, as well as interfacing between a new ethernet network and a legacy token-ring network. Included initial system configuration, application of security patches, CGI scripting, and continued maintenance.