Kent B. Mein Jr.

Career Goal

Currently I am employed by the University of Minnesota, as the lead System Administrator. One day I plan to work for a computer graphics company as a Systems Administrator as well as a programmer and maybe even an artist.

Education

University of Minnesota, I.T. Minneapolis MN.
B.S. Computer Science, 1994
Emphasis: Computer Graphics, Software Engineering, and System Administration.

Work Experience

Computer Science Systems Administrator. 6/94 - Present

Install, maintain, and provide user support for:

Departments: ITLabs, Computer Science.

Research Facilities: Computer Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, R.E.S.

Remote Sites: Rochester, North Hennipen Community College.

Student Systems Administrator. 11/93-6/94

Install, maintain, and provide user support for: ITLabs, Computer Science.

Relevant Course work:

Computer Graphics I
Various programs in Xlib/Motif

Computer Graphics II
2 projects/ topics cover Texture-mapping and spline surfaces

User Interfaces
Build a small game like Othello using TCL/TK

Computer Vision
Some basic image processing filtering noise,edge detection methods using C

Scientific Visualization
Program used by Geology Department to take a sequence of 2d slices and build 3d datasets from, which were displayed interactively
Robotics
Simulation of a Puma 560 robotic arm
Advanced Computer Art
An animation using Povray lasting 30 seconds

Experience and Abilities:

System Administrator. on the following Operating Systems: Irix, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Linux, Win95/NT, NeXT.
Languages: C, C++, Scheme(Lisp), Pascal, Perl, Shell(sh,csh,tcsh), TCL/TK, X11, Motif, GL, SQL, HTML.
Networking: Router Configuration, Sniffer, DNS, basic networking hardware.
Databases(Installed as well as used): Oracle, Illustra, MiniSQL, Postgres95.
Misc Third Party Software: LaTeX, IDEAS, ProE, FrameMaker, Alias, Matlab.
Also installed a small multimedia lab consisting of: 3 SGI's, a beta-cam, VCR, video-camera, and Adcom disk.

Extra Curricular Experience

Vice President of ACM Student Chapter 1994
Treasurer of ACM Student Chapter 1990-1993
(Also did system Administration for HP's while in ACM 1990-1994)
Eagle Scout
DNRC member

References Available upon request.