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James A. Basney

Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706-1685
Phone: (608) 262-3924 FAX: (608) 262-9777 Email: jbasney@cs.wisc.edu

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Pursuing M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. B.A. Computer Science and English. May 1995. Honors: Associate Member of Sigma Xi, High Honors in Computer Science.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Condor Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison. January 1996 to Present.

Developer, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. As a member of the Education Solutions Department, assisted in the development of a K-12 educational network system. Summer 1995.

Honors Project, A Distributed Implementation of the C-Linda Programming Language, Oberlin College. Implemented C-Linda on a network of 5 Ultrix DECstations, using a distributed programming library developed by Professor David Arnow at Brooklyn College. September 1994 to May 1995.

Participant, National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN. Designed and developed a microcode simulator for the MS-DOS PC with a second student and Professor Carl Singer. Summer 1994.

Research Assistant, Brooklyn College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY. Worked with Professor David Arnow in the development of DP, a C library for distributed programming on networked, single processor machines. January 1994.

PAPERS

TurboSim: A Microcode Simulator. Co-authored with Nikki R. Speedy, Computer Science Department, DePauw University. Presented at the Fifth Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. November 4 and 5, 1994.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Algebraic Language Programming in C++, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Taught a 25 student section of the introductory undergraduate computer science course. September 1995 to December 1995.

Tutor, Computer Science I, Oberlin College. Tutored two students individually on a weekly basis on material covered in the introductory undergraduate computer science course. February 1995 to May 1995.

Grader, Programming the Windows API, Oberlin College. Graded programing projects written in Microsoft Visual C++. February 1995 to May 1995.

Laboratory Assistant, Computer Science III, Oberlin College. Assisted students with lab work in algorithms and the ML programming language. September 1994 to December 1994.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Software Test Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. Wrote test specifications and cases and ran tests on assigned areas of applications, working closely with application developers to resolve bug reports. Developed an in-house utility in Visual Basic. Summer 1993.

Student Programmer, Alumni Development Resources, Oberlin College. Assisted in the process of converting data and programs from a Pick/BASIC operating system to an Ultrix DECsystem running a new database package. Wrote BASIC programs and system scripts to maintain database and generate reports. June 1992 to May 1995.


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