Matthew Sayler - Curriculum Vitae

Matthew Sayler
sayler@gmail.com
(713) 581-4950

8/2009	Duke University, Graduate School
M.S. Computer Science (concentration in systems), January 2007-August 2009
	3.9 GPA.  Masters' Project "Open Resource Control with Cloud Middleware"  (Jeff Chase advisor,
	Landon Cox, Ilia Baldine committee members).  Member ACM, IEEE, Usenix.  My Masters Project involved
	integrating cloud computing providers (such as Amazon's EC2) with the Orca project, which was 
	developed at Duke and provides a framework for managing and aggregating heterogenous resources.
	I participated in additional research projects, including Virtual WiFi (providing wireless support
	for Xen guests), mobile blogging (MobiSys 2008 poster paper "Energy-Aware Localization Using 
	Mobile Phones"), and work on distributed error reporting.  Graduate coursework including: 
	algorithms, distributed	computing, queuing theory, operating systems, databases, digital logic, 
	and wireless/mobile systems.  I managed the Spider systems reading group and received support from 
	the NSF and IEEE.
 	
8/2000 	University of Texas 	
B.S. Computer Science. August 1996-August 2000 
	Cumulative 3.4 GPA. Deadman and McNight Scholarships. Member UT
	ACM. Elective course-work in simulation, real time systems, networking, compilers, 
	algorithmic and mathematical analysis, software engineering. Tutoring for CS students 
	(UT-ACM TutorNET)
	
Recent Experience
October 2000-February 2008 SpeedSite Online (speedsite.com)
	Sr. Network Software Engineer   Chicago, IL
	Network operations manager for an Internet Service Provider with customers in
	Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.  Significant experience in virtualization, wide-
	area networking, and network monitoring.  
May 1999-July 2000 Hewlett-Packard
	QA Engineer                     Austin, TX
	Automated test development and execution for Dazel, HP's distributed
	printing/document management product. 
	 
Graduate Coursework
	Operating Systems Distributed Systems
	Computer Networks Systems Modeling / Queueing Theory
	Advanced Database Systems Wireless Networking
	Virtual Data Center Computing

Honors
	National Merit Scholar (1996)
	Deadman Scholar, University of Texas (1996-1998)
	McKnight Scholar, University of Texas (1996-1998)
	Sigma Xi (1995)
	Professional Activities
	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
	IEEE Computer Society
	USENIX Computing Association