James Mokwa
405 N Wabash #4303
Chicago IL 60611
312-644-1539
mokwa@cs.uchicago.edu

Master of Science in Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston MA. June 1996.

• Implemented image processing system for MRI data from NLM Visible Human project.
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society

Manager of Computing Services
University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science, Chicago, Illinois 60637. November 2001 to Present.

• Managed the technical support staff, four full time and three student system administrators.
• Responsible for 225 computers, including servers, desktops and lab machines, with over 1000 remote users.
• Responsible for building and maintaining services such as email, web services, databases, networked home directory space, tape backups, etc.
• Organized a help desk to assist faculty, administrators and students with use of the department's systems.

Software Engineer
University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, MD. May 1999 to October 2001.

• Developed a Web-based Java/JSP application called ESDI (Earth Science Data Interface) that provides a graphical search engine and user workspace for LANDSAT satellite imagery, as well as other earth landcover images in the Global Land Cover Facility database.  
• Participated in the development and implementation of  the Jazz System: a general-purpose Java toolkit that supports applications using zooming and object-oriented 2D graphics, based on the Java 2D API.
• Supported the Jazz web site, including Java-plugin demos, and administered the open source development site at SourceForge.net.

Software Engineer
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD. September 1998 to April 1999.

• Implemented two Java graphical web based graphing tools, using the Java Swing GUI packages. Applet-Server communication implemented with Sun Servlet modules, and Sybase database access used the JDBC API.

Software Integration Engineer
MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA. December 1995 to May 1998.

• Designed and implemented the multimodal logger, a system for recording, retrieving, annotating and visualizing speech and text data collected about human-computer and human-human collaborative interactions.
• Participated in design and implementation of software agents for data collection, annotation and visualization of multiparty, multimodal (speech, text and mouse gestures) interactions in MITRE's Collaborative Virtual Workspace.

Unix System Administrator/Programmer
Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA. Sept 1992 to Dec 1995.

• Built and maintained Unix networks of 30 to 150 machines
• Extensive software installation, maintenance and documentation
• Designed and developed systems tools in C, Perl and shell
• Supervised 3 full time and 20 part time employees
• Designed and built 3 student computer labs, with over 100 machines

Unix System Administrator
NCARAI, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Sept 1986 to Sept 1992.

• Provided administrative support for Unix mini-computers and Sun workstations.
• Installed software and created user documentation.

Systems Analyst
LOGICON Inc, Arlington VA. August 1985 to September 1986.

• Analyst for a very large scale message passing system.
• Ada Program Design Language

Programmer
Computer Consoles Inc, Reston VA. September 1982 to August 1985.

• Maintained and extended a Unix-based Management Information System.
• C, database programming

Research Assistant
Learning Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh PA. April 1978 to September 1982.

• Created simulations of mathematical learning by children.
• LISP and C

Programming Languages:
C, C++, Java/JNI, Perl/CGI, LISP, Scheme, Python

Computer Systems:
Linux, Solaris, Windows 95/98/NT/XP

Last Updated: April 2008