Bogdan I. Cocosel

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OBJECTIVE:

A challenging position in a dynamic company.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (GPA 4.0/4.0)

MS, Computer Science, Polytechnic University, Bucharest, 1996 Software Systems (GPA 3.93/4.0)

BS, Computer Science (minor in Electrical Engineering), Polytechnic University, Bucharest, July 1994 - (GPA 3.76 / 4.0)

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

06/97 - University of California, Santa Barbara, Computer Science Department

Research Assistant under Professor Martin Rinard and Professor Urs Holzle
Working on implementation of the SUIF system (part of the National Compiler Infrastructure Project co-funded by DARPA and NSF) a collaboration between researchers from Harvard Univ., Rice Univ., Stanford Univ., UC Santa Barbara and Cygnus Solutions company. Focused on design and implementation of the symbol table management and dynamic dispatch.

10/96 - 05/97 University of California, Santa Barbara, Computer Science Department

Teaching Assistant
Taught course in data structures and algorithms, C/C++, programming languages - emphasis on implementation, design style issues and programming techniques (graph traversal techniques, object-oriented design issues, functional/logical programming, imperative vs. OOP)

10/95 - 08/96 MacNet Development Co., Bucharest, Romania

Software Developer and Network Manager
Designed and implemented networking software for distributed company management (offers, product orders, stocks) to reduce paperwork. Redesigned the company's network architecture (mixed architecture: Macintosh, PC and UNIX hosts) and connected it to the Internet.

11/94 - 10/95 Ecosi Co, Bucharest, Romania

Software Developer
Implemented some graphic add-on packages for video animation. Added new special effects to the company's effects database and redesigned and troubleshooted the existing library. Gathered experience in UNIX-based system administration.

03/94 - 11/94 DBI International, Bucharest, Romania

Software developer
Designed, in a small team, the next generation of DBI real-estate software package. Developed with the full team version 3 of "DataBalk" package. Major contributions were in security and communication subsystems.

01/93 - 03/94 MacNet Development Co., Bucharest, Romania

Project Manager
Responsible for the design and implementation of an object - oriented software for small firm management for Macintosh. Supervised the team work and, also, developed and troubleshooted the stock and orders subsystems. Gained experience in team work and management.

09/92 - 01/93 MacNet Development Co., Bucharest, Romania

Computer Consultant
- Photoshop, Quark XPress, programming environments (Think C, MPW, Borland C++), networking and hardware troubleshooting.

01/91 - 07/93 Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department

System Administrator
Supervised a public Novell-based network. Implemented some NLM software in order to increase network security. Designed a remote login software for the Novell system to facilitate user access to the other hosts in the university and various utilities for network management.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 1997 ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Reviewer
• UCSB Graduate Student Fellowship (1996-1997)
• First Prize at the National Scientific Contest, Romania (1995)
• Dean's Honor List - Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1993-1996)
• Polytechnic University of Bucharest Fellowship (1992-1996)
• Member of the Romanian Unix Users Group

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (R&D Projects)

- Banking System Simulation (1997)
Applet implementation of a banking system simulation with emphasis over advanced programming techniques like: dynamic dispatch of calls, use of exceptions etc.

- Analysis of Firewall Security (1996)
Analysis of current firewall technology with emphasis over the strength and weaknesses of this technology. Case study over two well-known firewall protected sites: AT&T Bell Labs (research.att.com) and Digital Equipment Corporation (dec.com).

- Parallel Programs Developing System for the OCCAM Language (1996)
(Master's Thesis) Design and implementation of a developing system for the inherently parallel language of the INMOS's Transputer, OCCAM, including a compiler, run-time engine and a micro-kernel architecture for emulating the parallel behavior.

- Time distribution over large heterogeneous networks (1996)
Designed a Unix deamon package for maintaining the real time between networked computers. The system took into account timezones, communication delays, errors, and used a modified least-square approximation to obtain the correct time for each networked site.

- Experimental Secure Mail Delivery System (1995)
Distributed message delivery system with fault tolerance for critical, encrypted, mail transmission. Also included an reliability analysis of standard message delivery (joint work).

- Routing package (1995)
Design and implementation of a set of routing algorithms including Bellman-Ford, Djikstra and Floyd-Warshall.

- Optimizing C compiler (1994)
Implemented a C compiler with code optimizations like dead-code elimination, optimal register allocation, reuse of partial expression evaluation. The optimizations were made in two passes, one over the intermediate 3-address code and the second one over the final machine code.

- Data Compressing System (1994)
Designed a file archiver with compression capabilities based on two advanced compression algorithms: a Dynamic Huffman implementation and a fast, combined compression algorithm (using both Arithmetic and LZW compression at the same time). An error detection algorithm (CRC-32) was also added to ensure error-free compression/decompression.

- "Databalk" Real-estate Software System (1994)
Design and implementation of "DataBalk" package, a large client-server application running into a mixed Windows-Unix-Novell environment designed as a complete document management system for real-estate businesses, which processed, stored and forwarded the document to their destinations. Responsible for implementing the package communication layer (over TCP/IP for data transmission and over IPX/SPX for specific system configuration or management calls) and for the security subsystem (on-the-fly encryption/decryption of packets based on a public key algorithm and an original key-based algorithm for local use).

- Pascal Interpreter (1993)
Implementation of a Pascal interpreter (over a subset of the language) with emphasis over the interpreted advantages like portability and self-modifying code.

- Design of an I8086-based PC system (1993)
Complete design of a motherboard based on the I8086 microprocessor, which included the CPU, memory, bus, I/O and interrupt subsystems, all using standard components and complying to industry standards requirements (joint work).

- Jacobo: an 8-bit Microprocessor (1993)
Full design and implementation (in a simulated environment) of an advanced 8-bit microprocessor with features like: internal cache, instruction pipeline and an advanced arithmetic/logic unit (joint work).

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Programming Languages: C/C++ (Visual C++, Borland C++), Java, HTML, Pascal, ADA, Haskell, Prolog, Occam, SQL, assembler (Intel, Sparc, MIPS, Motorola, PowerPC)

Operating Systems: Unix, VMS, MacOS, Windows, Novell Netware

Internet & Networking: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, HTTP, SMTP/POP3

Unix System Administration, WWW Administration & Consulting

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Fluency in English, French, Romanian
Spanish, Italian working knowledge

SPECIAL SKILLS:

- Special courses of American Business Communication (09/94 - 05/95)

INTERESTS:

Basketball, soccer, badminton, movies, music, business administration, travel, hiking

Date Revised: June 1997

References Available Upon Request