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Aaron Linville

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Education

1998-2002 Wilkes University - Wilkes Barre, PA
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Clearance

Current Clearance: Top Secret

Work experience

AMEWAS Inc. - 2002-Current - Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD

  • Project Manager and Developer in the Electronic Combat and Stimulation Branch and Threat Air Defense Laboratory at ACETEF (Air Combat Environment and Test Evaluation Facility). Designed and developed RF simulators using real-time Linux.
  • Developer on the Instrumentation Team at ACETEF. Developed platform independent instrumentation/telemetry monitoring interfaces supporting Test and Evaluation for variety of buses including Mil-Std-1553, ARINC 429, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and FireWire (IEEE 1394) using the Qt application framework and L3's System 550. Ported legacy instrumentation monitoring interfaces from C/Motif to C++/Qt.
  • Lead a project that designed and built a remote (via TCP/IP) instrumentation system. Instrumented systems using RS-232, RS-485, Opto/Iso Digital I/O, and GPS.

DSR Inc. - 2001 Summer - Fairfax, VA

  • Submarine Systems Co-op. Developed interfaces using the Motif display libraries in both C and C++. Automated systems with C shells. Developed audio applications for the standard /dev/audio device.

NASA Internship - 2000 Summer - Cape Canaveral, FL

  • Computer Science Intern in the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory. Programmed BASIC Stamp embedded systems. Developed Visual BASIC applications to control and test embedded systems.

Wilkes University - 1999-2002 - Wilkes Barre, PA

  • System Administration (work study). Install and maintain various GNU/Linux (Slackware and RedHat), OpenBSD, Solaris 7/8, Mac OS X and Windows 2000 machines.

Keane, Inc. - 1999 Summer - Portland, ME

  • Developed Visual BASIC applications to calculate inventory futures. Automated project time-reporting process.

Wilkes University - 1998/99 Academic - Wilkes Barre, PA

  • Computer Lab Monitor (work study)

Apple Wizards - 1997-1999

  • Webmaster, Technical columnist

Skills

C/C++, Qt, PHP, SQL, Motif, Mil-Std-1553 A/B, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), ARINC 429, Fibre Channel, L3's System 500, Elvin, Real-Time, GNU/Linux, various Unix (including BSD and Solaris), DSP, Java

Publications

Mantovani, J.G., C.I. Calle, E.E. Groop, A.W. Linville, R.H. Gompf, and M.G. Buehler, "Performance Status of the Mars Environmental Compatibility Electrometer," Proceedings of the 38th Space Congress, Cape Canaveral, (2001)

Calle, C.I., J.G. Mantovani, M.G. Buehler, C.R. Buhler, A. Linville, R.H. Gompf, and E.E. Groop, "Electrostatic Properties of Materials in a Simulated Martian Environment," Research and Technology 2000/2001 Report, NASA Technical Memorandum 210258, 26 (2001)

Calle, C.I., J.G. Mantovani, A. Linville, E.E. Groop, and R.H. Gompf, "Evaluation of the Triboelectric Sensors in the Mars Environmental Compatibility Assessment Electrometer," Research and Technology 2000/2001 Report, NASA Technical Memorandum 210258, 106 (2001)

Other Achievements

Identified and fixed a security issue with Xnu, Mac OS X's kernel. The contributed patch to fix the vulnerability has since been accepted by Apple back into Mac OS X.