[paul.oppenheim]
+1 734 576 5241
paul@pauloppenheim.com
http://pauloppenheim.com 

Objective
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Make a positive difference with smart, driven people I can learn from.
Ideally this will involve software development using graphics, audio, media, simulation, or AI.

Education
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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
BS Computer Science (GPA: 3.44) - Graduated May 2004
* Notable experience with: Artificial Intelligence, Game Development, Graphics
* Extracurricular: Wolverine Soft (Game Development) (President 2002 & 2003), Siggraph (Computer Graphics), Entity (Digital Art), umich-mug (Mac User Group), BUNAC (International Employment Programme) 

Experience
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BDNA Mountain View, CA
System Discovery Engineer April 2005 - present
Worked on BDNA Inventory, a network inventory and analytics system for large enterprises. Helped write software to:
* Communicate with popular operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc.) using various technologies (WMI, SNMP, ssh, bourne shell, etc.)
* Retrieve component inventory (CPUs, Printers, Video Cards, etc.) and relevant filesystem / registry information for further application detection with scripts written in XML, Perl, C#, SQL, etc.
* Export Inventory data to BMC Atrium CMDB, Import data from Microsoft SMS, ISS Internet Scanner, etc.
* Clients include Motorola, US Navy, and Kaiser Permanente.

University of Michigan - AI Lab Ann Arbor, MI
Research Assistant Sept 2004 - March 2005
Worked under Prof. John Laird converting the SOAR editor VisualSOAR to an Eclipse plug-in. Also assisted with Mac OS X port of SOAR.

High Voltage Software Hoffman Estates, IL
Programming Intern Summer 2002
* Optimized media archives and DVD layout for "NBA Inside Drive 2003" on Microsoft Xbox.
* Worked on initial cross-platform build system for "Hunter: Wayward" on Sony Playstation 2 and "Hunter: Redeemer" on Microsoft Xbox using both Codewarrior and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Skills
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* Experienced with: Java, Perl, C++
* Familiar with: Enterprise Application Development, Game Development

Projects
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* The Resistance (April 2004): a Mac OS X game written for the Wolverine Soft 48 hour game competition with Jon Woodard in C++ using OpenGL and GLUT.

Conferences
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* Oppenheim, Paul & Chess, Ben. Mac OS X Patching Documentation Hack. MacHack 16, 2001.

Hobbies
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Music production and DJing, software development, personal IT, video games, blogging and web development.

References furnished upon request.