Hyrum K. Wright

hyrum@hyrumwright.org
(512) 560-5010
http://www.hyrumwright.org/

Objective

Contribute solutions to interesting problems. I work best in a fun, fast-paced development environment, where my skills and abilities can make a significant impact. I am particularly interested in developing great software, and "building cool stuff".

Experience

Dec. 2006-Present | Subversion Open Source Project | Full Committer, Release Manager

• Funded during the summer of 2007, through Google Summer of Code to develop some of the merge tracking auditing features.
• Worked on Subversion-related contract and consulting projects.
• Current release manager.

May 2007-Present | University of Texas at Austin | Research Assistant

• Helped develop and test wireless network prototyping environment.
• Ran experiments to test various MAC and physical layer protocol capabilities.

Sept. 2006-May 2008 | University of Texas at Austin | Teaching Assistant

• Head TA for graduate Engineering Programming Languages course.
• TA for Java-based Data Structures course.
• One of several TAs for entry-level Intro to Programming course.

April 2002-August 2006 | Brigham Young University, Office of Information Technology | Software Engineer

• While an undergraduate student, helped build and maintain the University's academic web applications, including registration and grading.
• For the last year of my time, I was the lead engineer in developing a new student planning product, assisting with the design of the system, and supervising implementation.

January 2005-January 2006 | BYU Ares Project | Avionics Team Leader (Member, Jan. 2004-Jan.2006)

• Directed the design and construction of the flight electronics responsible for controlling a 20-foot hybrid rocket.

Education

2006-Present | University of Texas at Austin

• Graduate student in Computer Engineering
• Research interests: software engineering, open source software development, wireless and mobile networking
• Cumulative GPA: 3.91

2002-2006 | Brigham Young University

• B.S. in Computer Engineering
• Minor in Mathematics
• Cumulative GPA: 3.66

Courses of interest include:

Wireless Communication, Advanced Operating Systems, Computer Networking, Embedded Systems, Real-Time Operating Systems, Verification & Validation, Statistical Methods, Requirements Engineering, Compilers, Collaborative Development

Skills

Programming Languages

• Fluent: C, Python, HTML, SQL
• Comfortable: C++, Java, XML
• Previously used: XSLT, Ruby

Software & Technologies

Linux (development & administration)

MySQL, Oracle databases

TCP/IP networking

HTTP

Version control, particularly Subversion

Publications & Presentations

Publications

1. W. Kim, H. Wright, and S. Nettles, Improving the Performance of Multi-hop Wireless Networks using Frame Aggregation and Broadcast for TCP ACKs, to appear in ACM CoNEXT 2008, Madrid, Spain, December 9-12, 2008.

Presentations

1. R. Grant and H. Wright, Hyrda: A Wireless Multi-hop Wireless Testbed, OSCON 2008, Portland, Oregon, July 21-25, 2008

Awards/Honors

EDGE Center Scholar, 2006-2007

BYU University Academic Scholarship, 2002-2006

Dean's List, 2002-2003, 2003-2004

Eagle Scout, 1995

Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Graduate Student Member

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Graduate Student Member

Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

The Subversion Corporation

Miscellany

Volunteer missionary, 2000-2002

Spent two years as a volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles, California. Responsibilities included directing daily proselyting activities, and managing groups of 6-8 other missionaries in the same.

Amatuer Radio Operator, Extra Class. Callsign: N7YM