Scott Gregory Mansfield

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Projects

• Widow: A distributed web crawler (Java, AWS)widowcrawler.com
• Rend: A cache proxy to manage data chunking and multi-level caching (Go)github.com/Netflix/rend

• DreamHostAdmin: Strightforward GUI to manage DreamHost resources by directly interacting with the API.http://sourceforge.net/projects/dreamhostadmin/
• Creating a reusable library to drive a Charlieplex display on the Digispark platform
• Created an automated website backup to Amazon S3 (PHP, bash)
• Made a simple graphing calculator titled SimpleCalc (C#, WinForms)

Experience

• Development on EVCache, a distributed caching library for dynamic and high-volume systems.
• Design and implementation of back-end management systems around the caching tier.
• Management of 14000+ cache servers that back many important services.
• Introduced and integrated new service and method for managing routing through Netflix's prod Zuul.
• Completed metadata library transition on core website Java application.

• Created a high performance website rendering engine for the next generation of aws.amazon.com.
• Designed a highly scalable search indexer to index the AWS marketing website.
• Attended infrastructure training to learn best practices for large-scale cloud-based system design.
• Support for multiple critical systems behind the AWS Marketing website.

• Created a service to facilitate a new search infrastructure around CloudSearch for aws.amazon.com.
• Integrated the new service with existing Ruby on Rails website for real-time updates to search database.
• Set up thorough monitoring for operational excellence.

• Created application to monitor the health of a large ride-management system.
• Designed and implemented back end database and WCF services.
• Created rich Silverlight client application using Prism, Unity, and the MVVM Light Toolkit.
• Designed extendable code library for collection of data from large systems.

• Led several infrastructure projects to supply application owners with required hardware.
• Created and ran initiative in an extracurricular committee dedicated to leadership.
• Managed knowledge base for external reference and enhanced internal team workflow.

• Created an interactive restaurant table for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.
• Applied human-computer interaction concepts to create an enthralling experience.
• Gained experience presenting and defending concepts and ideas to large groups.

• Created a program using Windows Presentation Foundation to view and edit proprietary database files.
• Rewrote part of an engineering program used to analyze stresses on reactor control rods.
• Taught class on the C# programming language.

• Performed lab tests to test experimental additions to the current wireless communications standard.
• Wrote reports on the current state of wireless network technology.

• Improved organization, usability, and maintainability of company website.
• Created internal website used to organize and coordinate employee information exchange.

Skills

Education

• Distributed Systems
• GPU Architecture and Programming
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Networks
• Embedded Systems
• Software Testing & Verification
• Artificial Intelligence Concepts
• Graduate Algorithms
• Advanced Data Structures

• In Major – Special
  • Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) 1 & 2
  • Created an interactive restaurant table for Disney
  • Information: http://ippd.ufl.edu/
• In Major – Bridging the Gap
  • Reconfigurable Computing (Graduate Level)
  • Embedded Systems (Graduate Level)
  • Chip-Multiprocessor: GPU Architecture and Programming (Graduate Level)
  • Signals and Systems (Signal Processing)
• In Major – Hardware
  • Computer Architecture (Graduate Level)
  • Microprocessor Applications
  • Digital Design
  • Digital Logic and Computer Systems
  • Introduction to Computer Organization
  • Circuits 1
• In Major – Software
  • Computer Networks (Graduate Level)
  • Information and Database Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Language Concepts
  • Computer Network Fundamentals
  • Operating Systems
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Computational Numerical Analysis
  • Computational Linear Algebra
  • Programming for CIS Majors 1
  • Programming for CIS Majors 2
  • Applications of Discrete Structures
• In Major – Other
  • Legal and Social Issues in Computing (Ethics course)
• Engineering
  • Physics with Calculus 1
  • Physics with Calculus 2
  • Analytical Geometry and Calculus 3
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering Statistics
  • Technical Writing
• Business Minor
  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Business Finance
  • Financial Accounting
  • Management
  • Marketing
• Out of Major / General Education
  • Biology for Engineers
  • Chinese Literature and Heritage
  • General Psychology
  • Housing, People, and Places in a Spatially Diverse America

Extras

• Expert level skier
• Completed the Walt Disney World Half Marathon on 1-17-2012 with a time of 2:14:03