Cliff Miller

Cliff Miller

Work:
cliff.miller@n-o-s-p-a-m-aventis.com
Aventis Pharmaceuticals
Mail Stop BRWA-103A 1041 Route 202-206
Bridgewater, NJ 07974-0636
(908) 231-2963
Home:
cbm@nightcoder.com

Executive Summary

Senior-level UNIX Programmer and Systems Administrator with 15 years experience in software design, compilers, optimization/profiling, porting, real-time programming, device control, scripting, graphics and GUIs, networking, security, and automated administration.

Employment History

2/03-present	Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ. Senior Systems Analyst. Responsible for global UNIX infrastructure automation, including system builds, server provisioning, application packaging and scripting.
11/96-2/03	Bell Laboratories (Lucent R&D), Murray Hill, NJ. Senior Software Administrator. Responsible for design and development of a new UNIX software environment for everyday use by five research centers in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Communications Sciences. Senior System Administrator. Front-line UNIX support in Computing Sciences Research and back-line UNIX support in Mathematical Sciences Research.
6/93-11/96	Endocardial Solutions, Inc., St. Paul, MN. Senior Software Engineer. Designed and implemented prototype, alpha and beta level software for a new cardiac imaging/diagnostic system (60,000 lines C code on SGI platform). GUI programming, 3D data visualization, real-time computation, real-time Ethernet-based device control.
2/90-6/93	NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ. Research Associate (Physical Sciences division). Designed, built and maintained experimental software for research in neural networks (generalization and inference of regular languages). Authored one published paper and collaborated on several other papers and presentations (see below at Publications). Senior System Administrator. Member of 5-man team building up a network of over 80 SGI/Sun workstations and over 120 PC/Macintosh. Responsible for building UNIX software environment and writing UNIX system/network administration applications and scripts (see below at Software).

Education

1/90	M.S., Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Theoretical and computational work involving the application of singular value decomposition (SVD) methods to stabilize ill-posed inverse problems relating spectroscopic observables (e.g. IR spectra) to parametrized intramolecular potential surfaces.
6/88	B.S. cum laude, Computer Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI. Minor in Chemistry. Worked with several faculty in the Chemistry and Biochemistry departments; projects involved computational chemistry, visualization and instrument control.
6/84	Graduated cum laude, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Prairie View, IL. Extracurricular activities: computer science, mathematics, philosophy, creative writing, cross country, track.

Experience

UNIX Systems Adminstration.
13 years experience in nearly all aspects of administration of large, heterogeneous UNIX environments, with particular focus on tool development, application packaging, infrastructure automation, and scripting.
- Solaris (4.0 thru 5.9)
- IRIX (3.1 thru 6.5)
- Linux (RedHat 5.x thru 8.0)
- some exposure to HP/UX, AIX, OSF, Ultrix.
UNIX Software Development & Support.
Extensive experience in UNIX application development and support. Design, specification, implementation, testing, debugging, porting, configuration, and enterprise-wide software infrastructure. Well-versed in C, C++, Fortran, perl.
Skillsets:
- high-level languages: C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, assembler (x86, 6502).
- scripting: shells, awk, perl, tcl/tk.
- graphics libraries: Motif, X11, UIL, GL, OpenGL, FLTK.
- application programming: sockets, TCP/IP, shared memory and semaphores, real-time programming, kernel interfaces (e.g. /proc filesystem), numerical algorithms, etc.
- application build/port/tune: makefiles, compilers, ABI issues, optimization, profiling, porting, autoconf/automake.

Software Projects

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Publications

C. Miller and C. Giles, ``Experimental Comparison of the Effect of Order in Recurrent Neural Networks", Int. J. of Pattern Recognition and Artif. Intell., 7, 4, 849 (1993).
C. Omlin, C. Giles, C. Miller, ``Heuristics for the Extraction of Rules from Discrete-Time Recurrent Neural Networks", Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks 1992, June 1992, vol. I, pp. 33--38.
C. Giles, C. Miller, D. Chen, H. Chen, Y. Lee, ``Learning and Extracting an Unknown Grammar with Recurrent Neural Networks", Adv. Neural Info. Processing Systems 4, J. Moody, S. Hanson, R. Lippman, eds., Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 317 (1992).
C. Giles, C. Miller, D. Chen, H. Chen, G. Sun, Y. Lee, ``Learning and Extracting Finite State Automata with Second-Order Recurrent Neural Networks", Neural Computation, 4, 3, 380 (1992).
C. Giles, D. Chen, C. Miller, H. Chen, G. Sun, Y. Lee, ``Second-Order Recurrent Neural Networks for Grammatical Inference", Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks, Seattle, WA, 2, 273 (1991).
D. Hankinson, C. Miller, J. Allison, ``Influence of Initial Electrostatic Interactions on Final Product Distributions in Gas-Phase Organometallic Ion Molecule Reactions. II. The Cr+/n-Butyl Chloride System", J. Phys. Chem., 93, 9, 3624 (1989).

References

Available upon request.