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

WORK
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2000 - Present 	speedsite.com / ThoughtPort  	
Chicago, IL
Senior Network Engineer, Software Engineer
	ThoughtPort owns and operates a Midwest Internet service provider (SpeedSite) and
	develops a variety of web applications.  I joined SpeedSite in 2000 as a network engineer
	before it was acquired by ThoughtPort in 2001.   In my role as network engineer, I have
	managed dial-up, DSL, wireless, and other consumer networking technologies as well as business
	Internet service over DS3 and server colocation.  My use of virtualization technologies, including 
	VMWare Server, Xen, and Linux-vserver has enabled SpeedSite to operate on a modest technology 
	budget while providing a high level of service to its customers.  I have built a variety of production
	services, including email (SMTP/POP/IMAP/webmail), authentication (via RADIUS, both as a consumer 
	and service), billing and credit-card processing, DNS, network monitoring, and enterprise routing 
	(IOS, L2TP, PPPoE, BGP, OSPF, etc.).  

	In addition to Internet service, ThoughtPort has provided application development consulting for
	several clients.  Our clients include Anderson Windows (sales management portal), Burger King 
	(promotional music downloads), Interactive Data (formerly the Financial Times of London; financial
	data portal), LG (sales management portal), and many Chicago-area businesses.  These projects have
	been implemented on a variety of languages and platforms, including Java/JSP/Tomcat, Java/WebObjects,
	and PHP/Joomla.  Though I am not a graphic designer, I have worked to implement HTML/CSS layouts
	based on mockups provided by graphic professionals.  I bring a software engineering background to
	my work and have encouraged the use of version control (CVS, SVN, git) and project management
	(requirements tracking, bug tracking in BugZilla, etc.) at ThoughtPort.
	
1999 - 2000 	Dazel Corporation (Owned by HP) 
Austin, Texas
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
	As a QA engineer I was responsible for bug reporting and triage, manual software testing, and
	developing automated tests for various enterprise software packages.  I also helped create
	a Perl toolset for building automated tests and participated in several company-wide workgroups
	on improving development methodologies and analyzing Dazel software message logs.  The products
	I supported were deployed on several platforms (Solaris, Linux, HP/UX, AIX, Windows NT/9x) and
	provided a bridge between SAP and printers, fax machines, and the like.

1997 - 1999 	University of Texas, Department of Astronomy 	
Austin, Texas
System Administrator / Programmer
	I worked for an astronomy research group and supported their Solaris workstations and 
	file servers.  I was responsible for managing NFS/NIS+, backups, and a variety of technical
	software.  I also designed management and data-acquisition software to support
	IR-astronomy instruments.  This software ran on various LynxOS/m68k and VXWorks/SHARC platforms
	and included kernel device drivers for novel hardware.
	
1996 	University of North Texas, Academic Computing Services 	
Denton, Texas
Technical Assistant
	Programming in Dephi and C to support a unified campus-wide computer lab checkin service.  

1995 - 1996 	University of North Texas, Department of Chemistry 	
Denton, Texas
Undergraduate research assistant
	Scientific computing support for chemistry research, including optimization of C-language 
	simulations running under Unicos (Cray C90 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)

1995  	University of North Texas, Department of Computer Science
Denton, Texas
Undergraduate research assistant
	TAMS research grant supporting early research into IP telephony (Informational RFC 1789).  I
	developed a working PSTN <-> Internet gateway.

EDUCATION 	
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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 	
(completed while working full-time for Dazel)
	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)