Work History

As a computer scientist I have spent much of my time behind a computer trying to make applications that would benefit the scientific and industrial communities. Here is an overview of my most recent large scale work organized by job and recent to old.

University of Minnesota Undergraduate Researcher

I am currently working as an undergraduate researcher under Professor Dave A. Yuen. Even though Dave Yuen is a part of the geology department, we are more involved in high performance computing and visualization.

• Play-Station 3 (Cell architecture research)
  The PlayStation 3 created by Sony, Nvidia, and IBM is an extremely powerful machine. Designed for gaming, the hardware possesses the powers required for scientific visualization at a fraction of the cost of the blade server. The performance increase from the new cell architecture is excitingly opening new doors in scientific research. The difficulties are in the parallelizations of code on two main fronts. Each individual CELL requires special parallelizations and MPI between multiple CELL nodes requires a second layer of parallelizations. With the limitations being met by current architectures i believe the future will be in custom architectures requiring extra programming efforts and the CELL is one step toward this direction.
  • Our PS3 Wiki

Minnesota Super Computing Institute (MSI) Internship Program

The University of Minnesota in cooperation with MSI hold an internship program each summer in which professors select students to work with them on projects they are involved in. This program provides great paid learning and experience. I was fortunate enough to get accepted into this program after my freshman year working as an Undergraduate Researcher.

• Virtual Laboratory for Planetary Materials (VLab)
  The highest priority of VLab is to automatically parallelize linear scientific work flows. There are also many supplemental projects under the umbrella of VLab. Much of my work has been on testing, interfaces, and visualization. More information on this project can be found at the URLs below (Hint: My nickname is 'Frank Linux').
  • VLab Wiki Documentation
  • Official VLab Website

Small Business Owner

Having the skills of a web developer at a young age opened a door for money making. I attempted to capitalize on this opportunity by starting this company 'Xeyvn Technologies'. I am even considering creating a LLC and pushing toward being an entrepreneur.

• Xeyvn Technologies
  A Small company I started by word of mouth producing web pages and simple business applications.
  • Xeyvn Technologies Website
  • The Xeyvn Technologies Web Design Division

Support and IT Administrator

I used to work as the IT guy at a regional large format printer distributer in Shawano, Wisconsin called Up and Running LLC. I did web site work and technical support mainly. I even did large printing works to act as demos and sales tools. I acquired many skills with softwares, large format industrial printers, and large format laminations. I still use my skills with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator today!

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Burger King, Farm, & Construction Crew

When i was in my early teens i had a few jobs working on a construction crew in the summer, a farm year round, and at Burger King when i got a car. These jobs where valuable in teaching me how to work with others and improve my work ethic.