I am a Staff Engineer at Google working on preventing denial of service attacks. Previously I was a Computer Science professor at the University of San Francisco. My largest impact, however, may be my Data Structure Visualizations (see link below) which show up #1 and #2 on most search engines.

Experience

GoogleStaff Engineer

2017 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

University of San FranciscoGraduate Director, Computer Science Department

2016 — 2017

Primary responsibilities:

Graduate admissions, graduate advising, overseeing development and implementation of bridge program

We are adding, in Fall 2017, a 3 year bridge program, which allows potential students without an undergraduate degree in computer science to obtain a masters degree in computer science. The first year, students will take an accelerated sequence of courses that will prepare them for our standard 2 year masters program.

University of San FranciscoAssociate Professor Of Computer Science

1997 — 2017

Courses Taught

CS 107 Robots, Computing, and the Web

CS 110 Introduction to Computer Science I

CS 112 Introduction to Computer Science II

CS 245 Data Structures and Algorithms

CS 345 Programming Language Paradigms

CS 411 Automata Theory

CS 414 Compilers

CS 421 Game Engineering 2D

CS 422 Game Engineering 3D

CS 461 Senior Team Project

CS 606 Software Engineering

CS 686 Artificial Intelligence

CS 662 Artificial Intelligence Programming

CS 673 Graduate Algorithms

CS 675 Theory of Computation

Industrial Light & MagicSoftware Engineer

2008 — 2013

Worked summers doing development on the Zeno toolchain.

LucasArtsIntern Wrangler

2008 — 2008

Created the curriculum for the internship program for the Jedi Academy for game engineers, and taught the first class. Mentored interns as they did gameplay engineering for the Force Unleashed.

Should have held out for an official job title as "Jedi Master".

Education

UCLA

PhD

Stanford University

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Education

PhD

BS

Experience