Michael Benedict

                     Email:    benedict@zosima.org
                     Phone:        (617)-820-0876
                    Address:        4 Rheims Ct.
                             Lake Saint Louis, MO, 63367

    Profile

     * Proven engineer whose successes range from keeping a multi-million
       dollar project on time to managing a company's premier product
       release
     * Dedicated, conscientious team player with outstanding leadership
       and communication skills
     * Technical expertise in Real-time, Embedded, Middleware,
       Networking, Streaming Media, and Video Conferencing.
     * Programming experience in C, C++, Java, SQL, Javascript, AJAX,
       Haskell, Ocaml, Scheme, Perl, Python, assembly, PHP, and shell.
     * Experience with MacOS, DOS, Windows, multiple Unix variants, and
       common office applications.

    Experience

      Senior Engineering Specialist - Aclara Technologies, Hazelwood, MO May
      2006 - Present

     * Ported link-layer protocol stack to Linux and DSP/Bios
     * Wrote UART driver for DSP/Bios
     * Became resident Linux expert for new Linux-based board release
          + Took on all release management responsibilities including
            design, development, and testing of a reliable, reproducable,
            backed-up build system
          + Designed filesystem layout and system initialization process
            and selected packages to distribute
          + Designed, Implemented, and tested new drivers in linux -
            UART, watchdog, LED, 4-segment digital display,
            Inter-processor communication driver, and more.
          + Fixed critical bugs in upstream Linux kernel
          + Instructed and tutored team-members on all levels of using
            Linux and memory protected systems in general.

      Senior Engineer - Starbak Communications, Waltham, MA October 2001 - May
      2006

     * Individual Contributor Accomplishments:
          + Designed, implemented, and documented the XMLRPC-based, SQL
            backed API and middleware for several products, implemented
            in C.
          + Extensively reworked a code and documentation generator in
            perl to support the above application.
          + Analyzed Linux's usb-serial driver to identify problem code.
            Identified and fixed problem areas, implemented associated
            debugging device driver, all ahead of schedule.
          + Implemented mp3 streaming through Microsoft Media Server
            Protocol on time.
          + Bug fixes and feature additions for the system console
            program in shell.
          + Created troubleshooting web page leveraging JavaScript to
            debug embedded MMS streaming data utilizing Windows Media
            Player.
          + Improved system build process, written in shell.
     * Team Leadership Accomplishments:
          + Managed release cycle of the VCG, at that time the premier
            product offering - managed five other developers and three
            testers, delivered on time.
          + Promoted to manage System Integration team - team of three
            developers including myself
          + Successfully completed several varied tasks:

      Intern - Hewlett Packard, Dallas, TX June 2000 - December 2000

     * C and C++ programming on embedded, real-time product.
     * Responsible for design and implementation of feature additions.
     * Responsible for critical path bug-fixes with a hardware team on
       multi-million dollar Superdome project.
     * experience with VxWorks OS and OS-less programming.

    Education

      The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

     * Computer Science Engineer major, Software/Hardware systems
       specialty with an overall GPA of 3.0.
     * Vice President of the OSU Open Source Software Club .
     * Presented on several topics for the OSU Open Source Software Club:
       L^ATEX2[e], GNU Programming utilities, Ocaml. Organized Open
       Source Software Awareness Day, Feb 17, 2000.