## BIO
Adam Hughes
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**<u><font face= "Trebuchet MS" size="3">Objective :</font></u> <font face= "Trebuchet MS" size="2">Involvement with projects where my experience, enthusiasm, and problem-solving skills will be of value.</font>**
**<u>Summary:</u>**
Highly motivated computer professional with a strong background in system development, product support, high-performance computing, and the use of Java technologies.
**<u><font face= "Trebuchet MS" size="3">Computer Skills:</font></u>**
| **<u>Programming Languages</u>** | **<u><font face="Trebuchet MS" size= "2">Platforms</font></u>** | **<u><font face="Trebuchet MS" size= "2">Software</font></u>** |
| * Java/J2EE (18 months)
* EJB, servlets, JSP, applets
* C (6 years)
* Perl (18 months)
* Lex (18 months)
* Tcl/Tk (1 year)
* HTML (4 years)
* JavaScript (1 year) | * Unix
* SunOS 5.6
* HP Exemplar
* SGI Origin 2000
* IBM SP2/RS 6000
* Dec Alpha
* HP 9000 Series
* Sun/SGI workstations
* Windows 98/NT (PC?s)
| * Emacs, vi
* WorkShop
* ClearCase
* WebLogic 6.1
* TogetherJ
* Forte Java IDE
* FTP/telnet
* MS Office Suite
- Word
* Excel
* Powerpoint |
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**<u><font face= "Trebuchet MS" size="3">Experience:</font></u>**
| Position | System Engineer |
| Dates | December 1999 ? present |
| Organization | Large Columbus, OH, company |
| Responsibilities and Activities | * Developed complicated algorithms for structuring chemical names.
* Developed several EJB?s to carry out company?s business logic.
* Developed servlets and JSP?s to be used in presentation of business logic.
* Developed a production Java client that builds portions of the company data base.
* Designed, developed, and maintained internal web site for a new Java-based chemical nomenclature generation project.
* Designed and implemented a several-hundred-term string-based search filter to improve workflow of nightly batch jobs of legacy systems.
* Served as the release coordination manager for a suite of more than 20 C and C++ applications used internally for production of company's products. This project spanned several months and utilized the ClearCase software configuration tool.
* Served as the task leader for a chemical nomenclature project which supports document analysts within the company. |
| Position | Director of Computational Chemistry |
| Dates | October 1998 ? December 1999 |
| Organization | DoD Research Facility |
| Responsibilities and Activities | * Developed numerous analysis tools, including scientific code as well as useful shell scripts.
* Evaluated and acquired software for a major DoD research community.
* Provided product support for a wide range of scientific software to a varied user base.
* Installed scientific simulation programs on high-performance computer systems.
* Organized workshops to train diverse groups of researchers on scientific software to be used on high-performance computing platforms.
* Offered consultation to DoD researchers for conducting simulation studies. |
| Position | Research Assistant |
| Dates | August 1994 ? September 1998 |
| Organization | A Big Ten University |
| Responsibilities and Activities | * Instrumental in developing and optimizing a large scientific code written in C for use on UNIX platforms. Worked with a group of several other programmers to implement new theoretical methods. Introduced efficient parallelization schemes to the group code via the use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Achieved perfect parallel speed-up as
## Area of Expertise
Java, C , fortran, Unix, science applications, EJB, simulation |