Andrew Fitz Gibbon 
+1.330.234.9676 
gibbon@amazon.com 

 
WORK EXPERIENCE 
 
Amazon.com 
- Software Development Engineer; July 2011 - Present

• Build machine learning system for predicting customer propensity for making purchases
• Built back-end MapReduce systems for assembling multiple data sources into Amazon marketing e-mails
  
  • This allowed us to greatly increase the rate and quantity of mails
  
  
• Designed, built, and released a high throughput Java service backed by AWS/DynamoDB
  
  • Service helped to ensure that customers would not receive too much marketing email
  
  
• Install and maintain monitoring on nearly all of our systems to aid in proactive responses to failures
• Volunteer in the Amazon internal developer education program ("Senpai")

 
Shodor Education Foundation and the National Computational Science Institute 
- Developer, System Administrator, Instructor, Evangelist; December 2009 - June 2011

• Senior Engineer and Release Manager for the Bootable Cluster CD project (http://bccd.net)
  
  • Develop the software (C/MPI) and back-end scripts (Perl) for the BCCD, a custom-built Linux distro for automatically managing a cluster environment (networking, storage, software packages, etc.)
  
  
• Coordinator, Developer, and Evangelist for the LittleFe project (http://littlefe.net)
• Project manager and mentor for small groups of interns and students
• Manage Shodor's server infrastructure including web servers, E-Mail, network, redundant back-end storage
• Develop and deliver curriculum materials for multi-day workshops for teaching parallel programming
  
  • Continuing with role as SuperComputing Education Program Instructor
  
  
• Program, develop, and maintain various Shodor Web projects, both internal and external
• Drive the design, acquisition, installation, and maintenance of a small-scale cluster housed at Earlham College

 
SuperComputing Education Program 
- Instructor/Assistant Instructor; July 2008 - November 2009

• Assist at workshops helping to teach educators the tools and methods used in High Performance Computing
• Conduct presentations and exercises on topics such as parallel programming, clusters, and HPC generally
• Work on developing new methods for presenting and teaching HPC and scientific visualizations
• Attend the annual TeraGrid and ACM/IEEE SuperComputing conferences and associated workshops

 
Earlham College Computer Science Department 
- Senior System and Network Administrator; January 2006 - June 2009

• With minimal guidance, manage a small team to complete tasks vital to the operation of the department
• Maintain a server-workstation environment composed of GNU/Linux, BSD, and associated software packages
• Research, install, and maintain a variety of services such as DNS, Firewalls, and Server Virtualization
• Ensure high availability through redundant backups and rapid disaster response
• Write and maintain documentation which is complete and consistent with currently installed services

 
YMCA Camp Fitch Computer Camp 
- Senior Counselor, Instructor; Summers, 2003 - Present

• Design curriculum for teaching programming and other computer concepts to kids aged 8 to 15
• Curriculum involves tools and environments such as Java, Python, C++, Alice, PHP, Logo, and others
• Adapt curriculum on-the-fly to account for campers' skill levels and interests.
  
  • Often requires learning a new technology in the span of less than a day.
  
  

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EDUCATION 
Earlham College; Richmond, Indiana, USA 
Graduated: 9 May, 2009 
Degree: Bachelor's of Arts 
Major: Computer Science 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
A. Fitz Gibbon, P. Gray, D. A. Joiner, T. Murphy, H. Neeman, R.M. Panoff, C. Peck, and S. Thompson. ``Teaching High Performance Computing to Undergraduate Faculty and Undergraduate Students.'' TeraGrid`10 Conference Proceedings. Aug. 2010. (Best Paper EOT Track)  
 
 
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS, and ACTIVITIES 

• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing 2011 Conference in Seattle, Washington (Nov 2011)
• Co-designer of the 4th version of the LittleFe educational cluster (http://www.littlefe.net)
• Assistant leader for Earlham College's Semester Abroad program in London, UK (Dec 2010 - May 2011)
• Co-author of the ACM TechPack on Parallel Computing (http://techpack.acm.org/parallel/)
• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing 2010 Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana (Nov 2010)
  
  • Education Program Committee; Student Programming Contest Chair
  
  
• TeraGrid 2010: Best Paper in the Education, Outreach, and Training Track (Aug 2010)
• Member and Webmaster for the Educational Alliance for a Parallel Future (http://www.eapf.org)
  
  • Work towards furthering the proliferation of Parallel Computing in Computer Science curricula.
  
  
• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing 2009 Conference in Portland, Oregon (Nov 2009)
  
  • Education Program Committee; Manager of Technology Infrastructure
  
  
• Presenter at the 2009 Oklahoma SuperComputing Symposium (Oct 2009)
• First place in the TeraGrid`09 Undergraduate Student Scientific Programming Contest (June 2009)
• Interviewed for the Earlham College Podcast. (http://pressroom.earlham.edu/, April 2009)
• Top 3 in the Iowa State University Cyber Defense Competition (Feb 2009)
• Assistant Instructor for a prototype international workshop at METU in Ankara, Turkey (Jan 2009)
• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing 2008 Conference in Austin, Texas (Nov 2008)
  
  • Assistant Instructor for the Education Program
  
  
• ACM/IEEE SuperComputing 2007 Conference in Reno, Nevada (Nov 2007)
  
  • First place in the Education Program Student Programming Contest
  
  
• Earlham College Orchestra, Principal Trumpet (Aug 2006 - May 2009)
• Earlham College Jazz Ensemble, Lead Trumpet (Aug 2005 - May 2009)
• Varsity Cross Country (June 2001 - Dec 2006)
• Eagle Scout (Awarded in June 2001)

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