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Over the years, I've participated in many projects at school and on my own. Below you will find some of the pages that I have created to help me organize my thoughts during these projects and to document some of the work I have done. Hope the information you find here is as informative to you as it is to me Send me an email if you find an error or problem in the below pages.

Network Registration Fall 2001 until Summer 2002	This project actually started out as my Senior Project at Earlham College. The concept of the utility is to provide a simple method for System and Network administrators to allow users to take some of the workload involved in maintaining DHCP and DNS records. The main target for this utility is other university & college campuses and possibly even businesses which have machines coming and leaving the network on a daily or rapid basis.
Grant Research Summer 2001	This was an eight week research opportunity on the Earlham Campus. Funding was provided by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant awarded to the Natural Sciences at Earlham. The focus of the research that I participated in was parallel computation and parallel databases. We were working on and with the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) in an attempt to run a database over multiple machines in parallel on one data store.
System Administration Summer 2000 until May 2002	Beginning in May of 2000, I joined the Earlham College Computer Science Department System & Network Administration Team. For the 2 years I was part of the team, I worked with several other students in the department here at Earlham to maintain our small network (a subnetwork of the total Earlham LAN), servers, our (now) three Linux Labs (of aproximately 35 desktop machihnes running linux), and (now) 2 Beowulf clusters of 16 nodes each. We provided web, networking and email services to 150+ users on a daily basis. This page contains documentation that I have created to assist others here to do some of the tasks that I have been doing and that have not been otherwise documented.
TWIG Early Summer 2000	TWIG is a web email/group-ware client written in PHP and that runs on top of a database. During the Summer of 2000, I was involved in researching its feasibility as a email/groupware client for the Earlham College Campus. I had to leave mid-project in order to take advantage of a study-abroad opportunity in Australia, so the information here is not all that conclusive but what I have is here. In the end, the college did decide to use just the email client portion of the package.