William R. Fraser
UIC Computer Science Alumnus (Bachelor of Science, 2010)

Contact:

• Email: wfrasercs.uic.edu, wfrasermicrosoft.com
• AIM/Skype: ask me
• Postal mail: ask me
• Phone: ask me

Residence:

• First Hill, Seattle, WA

Work History:

• Microsoft Corp., February 2011 – present
  • Position: Software Development Engineer
  • Project: Windows 8, Application and Device Compatibility
• Nokia Corp., September 2010 – February 2011
  • Position: Software Engineer Intern
  • Project: (same as Novarra)
• Microsoft Corp., May 2010 – August 2010
  • Position: Software Development Engineer Intern
  • Project: Windows 8, Application and Device Compatibility
• Novarra, Inc., March 2009 – May 2010
  • Position: Intern Software Engineer
  • Project: U.S. Cellular Mobile Browser / EasyEdge and Verizon NWeb (alpha) BREW Mobile Web Browsers

Expertise:

• Linux:
  • System Administration
  • Networking and Firewalls
  • Arch, Gentoo, and SUSE distributions especially
• Programming Languages (in order of proficiency):
  • C
  • C++
  • PHP
  • Java
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • MIPS Assembly
  • x86 Assembly
• Advanced Linux-Apache-PHP-MySQL Web Programming
• Computer Building / Repair

Previous classes:

• CHEM 112: General Chemistry I (M. Balch)
• CS 102: Introduction to Programming (D. Reed)
• CS 201: Data Structures & Discrete Mathematics I (R. Sloan)
• CS 202: Data Structures & Discrete Mathematics II (J. Lillis)
• CS 266: Computer Architecture I: Logic and Computer Structures (M. Theys)
• CS 301: Languages and Automata (P. Sistla)
• CS 335: Computer Ethics (L. Zuck)
• CS 340: Software Design (J. Bell)
• CS 366: Computer Architecture II: Hardware-Software Interface (M. Theys)
• CS 376: Practicum in Computer Science Oral Presentations (J. Lillis)
• CS 385: Operating Systems Concepts and Design (S. Shatz)
• CS 411: Artificial Intelligence I (P. Gmytrasiewicz)
• CS 422: User Interface Design and Programming (L. Lyons)
• CS 440: Software Engineering (J. Bell)
• CS 450: Introduction to Networking (J. Eriksson)
• CS 473: Compiler Design (V. Venkatakrishnan)
• EAES 101: Exploring the Earth's Surface (S. Forman)
• EAES 111: Earth, Energy, and the Environment (S. Guggenheim)
• ECON 120: Principles of Microeconomics (W. Rauscher)
• ECON 121: Principles of Macroeconomics (W. Rauscher)
• ENGL 160: English Composition I (ACT credit)
• ENGL 161: English Composition II (A. Balay)
• ENGR 100: Engineering Orientation (C. Cuypers)
• GER 219: Vikings and Wizards: Northern Myth and Fairy Tales in Western Culture (A. Guillemin)
• HIST 177: Middle Eastern Civilization (C. Bronson)
• HIST 237: Russia Since 1812 (J. Daly)
• HIST 254: Urban Environmental History (J. Salzmann)
• IE 342: Probability and Statistics for Engineers (A. Yarin)
• MATH 180: Calculus I (AP credit)
• MATH 181: Calculus II (Z. Slodkowski)
• MATH 210: Calculus III (A. Ovchinnikov)
• MATH 310: Applied Linear Algebra (R. Shvydkoy)
• MCS 401: Computer Algorithms I (R. Lowman)
• MCS 471: Numerical Analysis (B. Akers)
• MUS 114: Jazz History (N. Mitchell)
• MUS 151: UIC Concert Band - Alto Sax II, Tenor Sax I (G. Collerd) (3 semesters)
• MUS 156: UIC Pep Band - Tenor Sax I (R. Rose) (4 semesters)
• PHIL 104: Intro to Social and Political Philosophy (C. Mills)
• PHIL 110: Philosophy of Love and Sex (A. Eaton)
• PHYS 141: General Physics I (R. Espinoza)
• POLS 101: Intro to American Government Politics (R. Bruhl)

Programs and Papers:

• BackFS, a FUSE read-only filesystem designed to provide a large local disk cache for remote network filesystems.
• A lightweight S/Key (RFC 2289) implementation in C
• Codewise Blogs, a skinnable, multi-user blog system in PHP
• Codewise Forum, forum system in PHP
• Gaussian Elimination vs. Jacobi Iteration, a comparison of linear system solving algorithms. (C++ source code)
• Multidimensional Newton's Method Basins of Attraction for a vector-valued function in 2 dimensions. (C++ source code)
• HowTo: UIC Wireless in Linux with KNetworkManager
• SolitaireEncrypt solution for CS 201 Spring 2007 (Prof. Sloan)
• GasMiles, a nifty command-line utility for figuring out the MPG of a car. Written in C; uses lex and bison.
• 2-Dimensional Binary Search Tree solution for CS 202 Fall 2007 (Prof. Lillis). (temporarily removed at instructor request)
• Bike Messenger, a game written in C++ with JNI / Java Swing frontend for CS 340, Software Design, Spring 2008 (Prof. Bell)

Personal Links:

• Codewise.org, my home base. Currently living on a pair of servers: one in my apartment, and one in a Dallas datacenter.
• My photography at Flickr
• More photography at DeviantArt
• My profile at Ohloh

Document last modified 3/21/2011. All code & content is © William R. Fraser unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved.