Resume of John Duncan

Name	John Dean DUNCAN, III
Birthyear	1995
Internet	duncjo01@gettysburg.edu , http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01, https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII, https://soundcloud.com/johndduncan, https://twitter.com/JohnDDuncan, https://www.facebook.com/JohnDeanDuncan3, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/user/JohnDuncan/

2017-???
2016	Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Lincoln Laboratory Summer Researcher Worked with the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems Group 44 on the LEAV program for HURREVAC-eXtended (HVX). Wrote an Android application and a javascript module for the Emergency Manager front-end. Slides and further details below.
2015	Gettysburg College Computer Science Department Summer Intern Worked with Professor Chuck Kann on the Gettysburg Monuments Map website and mobile app.
2014	Lakewood Country Club Outdoor Services Maintained driving range, ensured operation of cards, and cleaned member clubs & bags.
2012	SysArc Summer Intern/Maintenance Technician Helped troubleshooot maintenance issues with client user accounts & servers.
2009-2013	Domino's Pizza Insider Trained new hires, prepared orders, answered phones, operated cash register.

2017-???
2013-2017 (4 years)	Gettysburg College Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Honors (3.60) and Philosophy Honors (3.73) May, 2017 Outstanding Computer Science Student Dean's Honors List Fall 2015/2016 Spring 2017 Dean's Commendation List Fall 2013 Senior Capstone in Computer Science: http://adamswellness.sites.gettysburg.edu     Presented and/or planned seven colloquia for the department (three showing freshmen tips and tricks to succeed as a Computer Science major, two detailing my summer work, one planning a programming competition, and one detailing the finished product of my group Senior Capstone project)     Represented the Computer Science Department during the Spring 2016 Get Acquainted Day. This involved presenting some of my past work and answering questions from prospective students and their extended families. Senior Thesis in Philosophy: Virtual Futures: Virtuality as Political Praxis     Led (along with two others) a Philosophy Department Socratic Club Seminar about the future of work. Eisenhower Institute Undergraduate Fellow 2016-2017: Program offers a select group of Gettysburg College students the chance to develop their leadership skills and their knowledge & understanding of public policy     Researched and wrote the 'New Technologies' section for the group State Department Diplomacy Lab White Paper on Health Care Records in Mixed-Migration settings. We presented our findings to workers from the Office of Economic Security, International Health and Biodefense Population, Refugees, and Migration.     Co-organized and moderated two panels that detailed current issues in public policy, national security, and refugee rights. Secretary (2015-2016) and Vice President (2016-2017) of the Gettysburg Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) chapter     Organized two 'Hour of Code' sessions at the College (with the help of my academic adviser, Dr. Todd Neller) for local students in the Adams County area.     Attended weekly senate meetings as a student representative. Treasurer of the Gettysburg College Independents     Organized (wrote questions, planned events, moderated) three political debates between the College Democrats and College Republicans.
2009-2013 (4 years)	Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School Rockville, Maryland Completed Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) Programming (eight semesters) and Networking (two semesters) pathways. Participated in two national ​networking​ and ​cybersecurity competitions, including the Cyber Foundations Fall 2011 Competition (ranking 87 out of 1,217 participants), and the Cyber Foundations Spring 2012 Competition (ranking 83 out of 615 participants and a class ranking of 2nd out of 16). AP Scholar with Honor. Graduated with MCPS Certificate of Merit. Patriot Ambassador.
2006-2009 (3 years)	Robert Frost Middle School Rockville, Maryland (this space intentionally left blank)
1999-2005 (6 years)	Maryvale Elementary School French immersion schooling in Rockville, Maryland All courses taught completely in French.
July, 21st 1995	I am born at the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.
13.799±0.021 billion BCE-1995 CE	I (probably) did not yet exist.

As a person I am honest and frank. No matter what opinion I have on the subject at hand, I try (above all else) to be patient and kind. I like to approach each person as an individual (who themselves have individual complex feelings, desires, ambitions, etc.).

Languages

Adept at procedural & object oriented programming, abstraction, recursion, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, disguising, and design patterns using the Java and C++ programming languages; also very familiar with Javascript development in both enterprise and personal environments.

Exposed to Microsoft Visual Basic, Ogre 3d, LaTeX, GNU TeXmacs, Scheme R5RS, and Python. Familiar with Acme, Eclipse, Android Studio, Visual Studio, xCode, and emacs development environments.

Proficient at setting up a basic home file server in Windows and Unix environments, setting up a multi-router switch, and end-user local area network in Cisco Packet Tracer and with real hardware.

Competent using UNIX-like systems, the UNIX command line interface, UNIX configuration, and shell scripting. My dotfiles can be found on my Github.

Here is a concise list of keywords that define technologies that I have worked with (experienced in bold):

• golang
• C/C++
• Java (including extensive work with Android SDK)
• Web (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, DOM, Web-APIs, JSON, JIRA; golang, ruby, PHP)
• Shell scripting (sh, rc, awk, sed, perl)
• SQL (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• NoSQL (key/value stores)
• Network (UDP, TCP/IP, Bluetooth, USB, NFC, HTTP(S), REST, WS, QR-/Barcodes)
• Version Control (git, hg, svn, cvs)
• misc: ffmpeg, GCC, Clang, GIMP, XQuartz, UNIX, *BSD (particularly OpenBSD), OS X, Plan9, awk/sed, GNU, Linux, Cygwin, unicode-rxvt, mips asm
• Competent with the setup and maintenance of web servers (Apache, lighttpd, nginx), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), and mail servers (qmail, OpenSMTPD).

Bug Bounties:

• CNAV email portal: During my time at Gettysburg College, I found, documented, and disclosed a bug in the Campus Navigation Portal (CNAV) electronic record keeping system, which was responsible for campus email list-servs, course directories, student information, etc. The bug was a priveledge escalation attack wherein a standard student user could delete any other user from any publicly-displayed group/email list-serv in the system.
• CNAV image leak:I also discovered that user account images for every student, faculty member, and employee (the entire college) are publicly leaked to the web by the CNAV server. I explained the specifics of this bug in my disclosure of the aforementioned privelege escalation attack, but it remains unpatched. Received a cash award.

Open source contributions include: small contributions to the SeaMonkey, WindowMaker, and pkg-src projects.

Simplicity is core to my software development, because it leads to;

• fewer bugs,
• better performance,
• lower memory footprint,
• better maintainability,
• higher scalability,
• longer software lifetime,
• prompt delivery;

...all of which lead to a better quality finished product.

Plagiarized directly from Anselm Garbe

• bitmap art portfolio
• Research @ MIT (web/android; java/javascript/geoJSON/xml): As part of my summer work at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory (Summer '16), I created an android application (LEAV-EM) and a javascript web module for the LEAV and HVX programs, respectively. LEAV-EM alerts users in disaster affected areas (hurricanes/floods/tornadoes) to evacuate from their specific evacuation zone. State Emergency Managers (EMs) have the ability to set the status of the evacuation zones in my HVX module. LEAV-EM then routes users to the shelter that is closest to their current (or home) location and allows the user to directly interact with their state EMs. I designed, programmed, and developed the app individually.
• Wiki/CMS (web; golang/flat-file db): Wrote simple wiki and cms systems in golang.
• MessageFaces (mozilla add-on; javascript/XUL/XPCOM): I ported (to SeaMonkey), updated, and added many new features to an old Mozilla Suite add-on extension named MessageFaces (originally created by Jens Banneman). Newer features include: SeaMonkey compatibility, multiple header photo support, gravatar support (w/ caching), fast X-Face decodes to png instead of bmp (borrowed from mnenhy; original X-Face spec here), picon db support (both local and online databases), custom column support so you can visualize what headers senders are using, and (modern; TB 3+) address book contact photo support.
  Picons: As part of this project, I created many 48x48 picons for various companies and organizations (the Lincoln Laboratory and Gettysburg logos above were created by me as part of this project) that are now included in Steve Kinzler's picon database.
• Gettysburg Battlefield Map (web/android): Created a Gettysburg Battlefield companion application using Javascript and OpenLayers 3 to map points and data onto the Gettysburg battlefield. Published to the Google Play Store as “Gettysburg Monuments Map” and featured on the Gettysburg College Homepage. On the web at http://historicgettysburg.us/
• PokerSquares (android; java/xml; neural-net): Designed, implemented, and coded an Android application to play the classic solitaire-based card game “​Poker Squares​” (utilizing a Native Abstract Reinforcement Learning (NARL) Artificial Intelligence player created by my adviser Dr. Todd W. Neller). Available for download from the Google Play Store.
• RedLightRace (android; java/xml; neural-net): Designed, implemented, and coded an Android application called “​Red Light Race,” published to the Google Play Store and utilizing a neural network approximately player created by Dr. Todd W. Neller and Marcin Malec (‘13) of Gettysburg College. Featured on the Gettysburg College Homepage for my work.
• Classic Macintosh Fonts (macOS; .rsrc hacking): I worked on a Classic Macintosh Typeface conversion project where I created data-fork (.dfont) and fontforge (.sfd) versions of every resource-fork typeface that Apple has shipped (including branding) dating back to the XEROX ALTO in 1979. Sources ranged from pre-release Macintosh versions based on the XEROX STAR operating system all the way up to pre-release versions of OS X (rhapsody).
• Platinum OS X Theme (macOS; .car hacking/GIMP): I created a "Platinum" Macintosh OS 9 theme clone for OS X 10.6, 10.10, and 10.11.
• Playing Cards (gif/png; GIMP): Adapted many different public domain playing card sets into one centralized location for ease of use; created custom skat playing card sets in normal and small sizes (with iconography that I created myself).
• Personal Homepage (web; html5/css3/js/php): I suppose this site itself could be considered a "major project." All html, css, (and most) js were written & created by me. I also created a markdown-to-html shell conversion script (using sed and awk) for my blog and a 7-day weather forecast script (parsing information from NWS api & getting location w/ HTML5 geolocation) for my homepage.
• LogicalIncrements (web): Between late ~2010-2011 I contributed to the monthly Logical Increments guide (what eventually became http://www.logicalincrements.com/)

• computer programming since 2009.
• design (user interface, software, cyberpunk).
• philosophy (of software, knowledge, aesthetics, technology).
• music (singing, listening to all genres & varieties, playing guitar, bass guitar, and trumpet).
• programming & open source.
• history (technology/web-related, ancient).
• biotechnology & biohacking

I devote much of my free time to developing and exploring software and software technologies. I am passionate about trying to port as much free & open-source software to macOS as possible.

I am a hobbyist philosopher, UNIX hacker, and political, economic, and media theorist.

I'm a free & open-source software enthusiasist. My website is full of online applications, source code and articles that can be used to examine my style.

When it comes to software and design, I am passionate about simplicity, beauty, and purity. I have done some 9front development, and highly recommend Plan 9 from Bell Labs for hobbyist OS developers.

My design aesthetic is highly influenced by the 80's and 90's computer art movements. When designing, I attempt to blend the best of color-constrained bitmap graphics (dithered/small color palettes), florals, neons, black & white, and "retro" patterns (found on old tour busses, operating systems, programs) with modern platforms and features.

Publications/Articles/Activism/Performances/Competitions information here

Professional references available upon request.

The personal websites, http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01 and https://dataswamp.org/~john/

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