Jeffrey M. Hagen

Contact Information:
373 Western Drive Apt P                   
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA                  

Voice:  (831) 325-4867 
E-mail: jeff@hagen.org
WWW: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~jhagen 

Purpose
Seeking a challenging full-time development position at an
industry-leading technology company that allows me to utilize
my skills and enjoy technical challenges.

Interests
Distributed Systems, Storage Systems, Archival Storage, 
Network Security, Systems Security, Virtual Machines

Education
University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA
* Masters in Computer Science (in progress)
  Expected graduation date: May 2007
  + Advisor:  Ethan L. Miller
  + Member of Storage Systems Research Group
  + Current Project: Secure Distributed Backup
  + Concentration in Storage Systems
  + Courses of note: Advanced Operating Systems,
      Graduate Computer Security, Graduate Storage Systems

University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA
* Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science, May 2005
  + Focus in Computational Theory 
  + Courses of note: Cryptography, Computer Security,
      Computability and  Computational Complexity

Technical Skills 
* Languages:  Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Java, Python (and APIs),
  Unix shell scripts and assembly (MIPS and x86).
* Applications: Personal Linux system administration software
  (Mandriva, Suse),  GNU Development Tools, Microsoft Visual 
  Studio, Berkeley DB, VMware Workstation, Parallels Desktop,
  emacs, LaTeX, common Windows/Mac/Linux database, 
  spreadsheet, and presentation software
* Experience programming asynchronous networks, designing 
  secure networked systems and parsers for languages, and 
  reverse-engineering x86 assembly 
* Operating Systems:  Mac, Unix/Linux, Windows.

Selected Projects 
* Designed peer-to-peer backup system where no-one is
  trusted. Currently implementing a Python based prototype of
  said system.
* Implemented system-level wrapper function for memory
  management under Windows XP operating system. 
* Reverse engineered Windows-based DLL structures in order to
  determine use.
* Designed and partially implemented a BitTorrent Client using
  a minimum of threads. 
* Previous Projects:
  + Interpreter for a string only programming language. 
  + Unix compiler for a subset of C. 
  + DOS mode graphics (2D) rendering API, with PCX graphics
  + DOS mode game using the aforementioned API
    Software available at: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~jhagen  

Relevant Professional Experience
University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA
* Teaching Assistant September, 2005  - present
  Duties at various times have included:
  + Instructed between 2-4 lab sessions per week, 5-30
    students per lab
  + Assisted with grading exams and homework
  + Assisted Professors with designing programming assignments
  + Orchestrated review sessions and instructed a day of
    regular class without the Professor present
  + Effectively communicated instructional goals to students

  Courses Instructed:
  + Introduction To Programming: Fall 2005
  + Data Structures, Winter 2006
  + Introduction To Operating Systems: Spring 2006, Fall 2006,
    Spring 2007
  + Compiler Design: Fall 2006

Zone Labs, a division of Checkpoint
San Francisco, California USA
Client Team Development Intern May, 2005 - August, 2005
  + Developed a prototype memory space obfuscater to deter
    stack and heap based attacks.
  + Reverse engineered selected Windows subsystems. 
  + Implemented user-space dynamic code-markup engine to
    protect system calls from unauthorized use within a 
    program. 

North County Regional Occupational Program
San Jose, California USA
Microcomputer Support Specialist May, 2001 - December, 2001
  + Maintained, upgraded and rebuilt computers, and network
    infrastructure for the Regional Occupational Program (ROP)
    office staff 

Academic Awards
Regents Fellowship Winter 2006

Other Interests
Volunteer Judge 2002-2007

Official Judge for the STudents Recycling Used Technology 
(STRUT) Competition.
  + Scored K-12 Students on Constructing PC computers from 
    parts in annual competition.