Adam J. Kaplan
adkap [at] ccs.neu.edu  ~  www.adkap.com
[please email for phone and address]

Skills
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Languages:   Perl, Java, C++, C, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Scheme, XML, XSLT,
             CSS 2, HTML
Platforms:   Linux, OS X, Windows, Solaris	Briefly: HP-UX, AIX and IRIX
Software:    MySQL 4/5, Apache2, Postfix, Tomcat, Ant, Visual Studio, Eclipse

Professional Experience
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Part-Time Software Engineer
    NearBy Networks LLC, Boston, MA                               12/06 - 7/07
    * Crafted several complex Perl applications for handling order processing
      and mission critical real-time web services.  These applications live on
      the back-end infrastructure and heavily utilize MySQL databases.
    * Took a lead role in planning and developing this startup's product from
      conception through launch.

Software Developer Intern
    Akorri Networks Inc., Littleton, MA                            1/06 - 8/06
    * Worked closely on a two-person team to develop and maintain a complex
      system-level automated testing framework written in object-oriented
      Perl. This project heavy relied upon inter-process communication across
      multiple UNIX machines, synchronizing and managing developer-submitted
      tests in real-time with robust web and command line interfaces.
    * Managed several servers and a storage array for the testing team in the
      company data-center.
    * This position included considerable hands-on experience setting up,
      administering and employing enterprise-class SAN hardware and management
      systems for use with the previously mentioned testing framework.

Software Developer Intern
    Vistagy Inc., Waltham, MA                        1/04 - 6/04 & 1/05 - 6/05
    * Developed a data conversion application to enable the use of saved data
      from incompatible (previous) product releases using C++ and XSLT.
      Strong emphasis on efficiency due to document sizes upwards of 10,000
      lines.  This project was included in production releases.
    * Responsible for managing the build and testing process for the software
      releases.  Including compiling 100,000+ lines of C code and internal
      testing on numerous platforms, including multiple flavors of UNIX and
      Windows.
    * Developed and maintained an advanced Make-based build system that helped
      cut the build time in half.

Personal Projects & Achievements
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Real-Time Messaging System                                        Spring 2007
    * Designed and implemented a real-time messaging system with Java 5
      Enterprise, Apache Tomcat 5.5 and Hibernate Annotations wrapping MySQL.
    * The system consisted of a JSP driven web front-end, Servlet controllers
      and Bean-encapsulated business logic.  The front-end is written in CSS 
      and HTML with very heavy AJAX/JavaScript. 
    * Used as the final project for a Web Development course.  Live demo and
      source code available.

Information Retrieval - News Clustering System	                      Ongoing
    * Currently developing a system capable of detecting and tracking trends
      in various industries by watching news feeds from related websites.
      This began as an independent study project in information retrieval and
      employs variants of leading-edge language modeling algorithms.  Note
      that this is a work in progress.	

Capture the Flag Network Security Competition - Two-time participant    2002/3
    Bronze-medal Winner
    * As leader of a team of three, developed and implemented strategies to
      penetrate a variety of network-attached systems running the gamut from
      Hewlett-Packard printers to Linux and Windows machines.
    * This is a university-sponsored, supervised and sand-boxed competition.

Education
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA                 September 2002 - May 2007
  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
  Related Courses     Algorithms and Data Structures I & II (Java), Database
                      Design (Oracle), Algorithms, Object Oriented Design
                      (Java), Systems and Networks (C), Software Development
                      (Aspect-Oriented Java), Operating Systems (OS, Kernel
                      Modules, C), Web Development (Java EE, ASP.NET), Network
                      Fundamentals, Network Security