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     Bryan C. Turner
  bryan.turner@pobox.com
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    Energetic software engineer, enjoys getting hands dirty applying
cutting-edge technologies & research.  Consistently demonstrates
thought leadership, advocates 'do the right thing' and open knowledge-
sharing.  Collaborates well in cross-functional environment.

Cisco Success
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- Software Engineer, Technical Lead & Implementer
    Successfully delivered and demonstrated all components.
       Semantic Search Engine '07-'08
       Bayesian Recommendation Engine '06-'07
       P2P Video Streaming '06
       P2P Services Platform '04-'05
       P2P File System '03-'04
       VoIP Embedded GUI '01-03
       VoIP Instant Messaging '00-'01
- Cisco Media Solutions Group, Technical Reviewer
    Due diligence reviewing external technologies.
- MIT Media Lab, Technical Liaison
    Migrated MIT designs into Cisco projects.
- Cisco Research Center, Technical Reviewer
    7 research proposals
- Patents, Inventor
    26 Patents; 6 issued.

Skills
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- Software Design & Analysis
   - Architecture, Specification, Test Design, Lifecycle Management
   - Multi-Threading, Multi-Core, Parallel, Distributed, Fault-Tolerant
   - Security, Scalability, Transaction Processing

- Applied Mathematics; Algebra, Calculus, Statistics, Physics
   - Inference, Clustering, Bayes, Ratings, Rankings
   - Simulation, Forecasting, Projection
   - Process Optimization, Bottleneck Discovery

- Technology Expertise
   - Distributed Processing, Peer-to-Peer Protocols (P2P), Network Coding
   - Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Error Correcting Codes
   - Anonymity, Identity, Cryptography
   - OS Kernels, Reverse-Engineering
   - Graphics Rendering (2D/3D)

- Programming
     Favorite:
         C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, Scheme, SQL, Javascript
         HTML, XML, XSL, CSS
    Have Used:
         C#, Visual Basic, Excell, MS Office Macros, MS Windows Script
         Ruby, Perl, Bash, Awk, Sed
         MC68000, MC601, 80x88
         Haskell, SML, OCaml, LISP, Smalltalk, Pascal

Non-Technical Skills
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- Presentation, Teaching/Training, Customer Interface
- Technical Writer, Editor, Layout

Publications, Professional
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- 3D Landscape Rendering
     http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000403/turner_01.htm

Publications, Non-Professional
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     http://brturn.googlepages.com
- Paxos Family of Consensus Algorithms
- Efficient Byzantine k-Anonymous Broadcast
- Generalizing Bit Torrent
- Recommendation Engines
- Thoughts on Identity

Prior Work
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   Associate Systems Developer        '98-'00
   SAS Institute   Cary, NC
    - Designed a flexible element layout system for Multi-Dimensional DB
      display and exploration.
    - Implemented user interaction GUI for document editing similar to
      Power Point.
    - Achieved near-perfect report reproduction in HTML and RTF formats.
    - Implemented core technologies for new MFC-based reporting application.
    - Developed unique DLL for Windows 95/98 providing Unicode support
      for any application.

   Cooperative Education Programmer   '97
   Peracom Corp.    RTP, NC
    - Designed and implemented a Universal Serial Bus test suite and
      monitor application.
    - Formed designs for value-add software to new USB products
      in development.

   Cooperative Education Programmer   '95-'96
   Alphatronix    Raleigh, NC
    - Succeeded in customer site-repair of software in Leeds, England
      and Charlotte, NC.
    - Reverse-engineered proprietary protocols over Ethernet.
    - Designed new GUI for improved customer productivity and satisfaction.
    - Optimized image processing algorithms.
    - Automatic database analysis/repair utility.

Education
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   North Carolina State University, College of Engineering (Raleigh, NC)
   Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 1998
   Minor in Business Management
   Graduated with CumLaude Honors