BENJAMIN M. KLEINMAN

I am seeking full time employment where my education, experience, and ability in computer science and math can be applied. The opportunity to work with interesting and innovative people and to have access to both relevant resources and current technology are important.

• Master of Philosophy in Computer Science, ongoing
• Recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, which is awarded by the British government to forty Americans each year.

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1996
• GPA: 3.92

10/98 - current, Graduate Trainee at Reuters Information Technology Inc.

• Coordinated a multilocation team that specified and evaluated option for a corporate wide metrics database. Seven month assignment.
• With graduates from Europe, spent seven weeks training on the products Reuters provides, the markets they participate in, and various soft skills.
• Attended American Managment Association course: Software Project Management.
• Prototyped and helped specify ActiveX addin to shipping products.

06/97 - 10/97, Software Engineer on the Digimap Project

• Programmed a Java applet and PERL scripts to create a facility that would allow users to download ordnance survey data.

01/97 - 03/97, Tutor and Grader for CS3 SSD (System Software Design) at Edinburgh University

• Ran tutorial section for course on software design -- an introduction to software engineering.
• Graded assignments that progressed from designing a system to implementing it in both a modelling language (Peter Henderson's Enact) and C++

05/96 - 08/96, Programming Assistant at Reuters Information Technology Inc., Hauppaugue, NY

• Designed and implemented a relational MS SQL Server database to track software problem reports.
• Investigated methods of accessing databases via the World Wide Web and WWW browsers.
• Produced code allowing the SPR database to be accessed from both Java and HTML-forms interfaces.
• Scripted install programs for several products.
• Wrote test scripts for and performed the testing of a Reuters extension to Netscape Navigator.

01/96 - 05/96, Teaching Assistant for CPSC 206 (Formal Methods) at Tulane University

• Facilitated group discussions and group work involving logic and linear algebra.
• Graded and helped determine assignments.

08/95 - 12/95, Teaching Assistant for CPSC 355/655 (Operating Systems) at Tulane University

• Graded programs dealing with inter-process communication and projects implementing a virtual machine.
• Provided students with additional help and explanations of concepts pertaining to operating systems.

05/95 - 08/95, Programming Assistant at Reuters Information Technology Inc., Hauppaugue, NY

• Wrote a production level WIN32 DLL using the Microsoft Foundation Class library.
• Designed the DLL using object oriented methods and worked with a team to integrate it into the object based product.
• Explored the use of MS TEST as a viable test tool for the product.
• Partially responsible for designing a test plan for the product.

08/94 - 12/94, Teaching Assistant for CPSC 350 (Programming Languages) at Tulane University

• Introduced students to functional programming via the Scheme language.
• Assigned and graded homework and quizzes.

05/94 - 08/94, Software Test Analyst at International Business Machines (IBM), Boca Raton, FL

• Developed and automated tests scripts for SVT testing of WIN32s in OS/2.
• Ported IBM's PC-DOS test scripts to test OS/2's DOS subsystem
• Designed and implemented an automated REXX framework to run test scripts.

05/93 - 08/93, OS/2 Fix Distribution Team at International Business Machines (IBM), Boca Raton, FL

• Determined status of replacement modules for OS/2.
• Worked with customers to ensure their problem was solved.
• Became familiar with OS/2's features and object oriented interface.

SPRWeb

While working for Reuters, I cooperated with another summer intern to develop a system that allows interested parties (developers, marketers, customers) to view various parts of a software problem report database. My contributions included the design and development of the database itself, the construction of the queries used to access the information, and the creation of an HTML forms interface to the database.

Deadlock Detection in ADA Programs

My senior year honors thesis, this involved using a model of the ADA rendezvous mechanism as the basis for determining when deadlock could occur. The mathematical aspects were not very well developed, but the abstraction was modelled in C++ and the results were analyzed.

Medical Database

As part of a database course, I worked with a several other students and a representative of a local hospital to design an Oracle database that could be used to hold information pertaining to patients, their illnesses, and the treatments given. Specific goals included being able to determine which doctors had made which diagnoses, discover which tests were frequently ordered, and identify trends in treatment, testing, and patient complaints. The ultimate goal was for this database to be web enabled.

Gbook

Originally another group project, I have continued working on this in my spare time. Gbook is an object-oriented C++ program that implements a gradebook. It allows users to keep track of different classes and to assign various assignments. One of the interesting aspects is that (eventually) it should be a portable program. That is, the core API is written in standard C++ so that any graphical user interface can be written to hook into the core. Or a text mode interface can be run. This is very much still a work in progress. A Java version has also been written.

• C++

  Working knowledge, having completed several large projects and used it both in professional and academic work.

• Java

  Good working knowledge of both the 1.0 and 1.1 versions, as well as the AWT. Acquired through both programming personal projects and working on the Digimap project.

• Microsoft Technologies

  MFC was used in a variety of professional projects, most recently to access Microsoft's ActiveX technology. I have also become familiar with ATL and the creation of COM Automation Servers.

• HTML

  I've programmed my own pages, and done extensive work with on various projects with Reuters. In addition, I initiated and administered the Marshall Student Web Site, which has garnered several thousand hits in each year of its existence.

• Others

  I have a functional familiarity with REXX, Scheme, PERL, and SQL.

• IBM OS/2, versions 2 and WARP.
• DOS
• MS Windows, versions 3.1, 95, and NT
• SunOS 5.3, Solaris Open Windows
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Visual C++

• President of New Orleans Hillel, 1994-96
• President of Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, 1995-96
• Vice President for Tours of Student Admissions Committee, 1995-96
• Co-chair of Tulane UJA campaign, 1994 and 1995
• President of Tulane-Israel Public Affairs Committee, 1993-94
• President of Georgia Senior Classical League, 1993-94
• Vice-President of New Orleans Hillel, 1993-94

• Marshall Scholar: one of forty Americans selected each year by the British government to spend two years in university at the United Kingdom
• Tulane University Dean's Honor Scholar
• B'nai B'rith Hillel Award for service to the Tulane Jewish Community
• Allstate Scholar
• High School Valedictorian

• Working Out / Weight Lifting
• Cross Country Running
• Reading -- everything from Science Fiction to History to Theology to the backs of cereal boxes
• Music -- not even an adequate singer, but I truly love to listen to music. From Country to Classical.
• Writing -- I find it relaxing and therapeutic to put words on paper.