Thomas Kho
  1823 Delaware St, Berkeley, CA 94703 (626) 833-9228 tkho@eecs.berkeley.edu
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Education
      University of California, Berkeley
      Pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, August
      2006 - Present
      University of California, Los Angeles
      B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, June 2006
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Work Experience
      International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
      Graduate Student Researcher, Jan 2008 - Present
      Apple, Cupertino, CA
      Mac OS Performance Engineering Intern, May 2007 - Feb 2008, May - Aug
      2008
          * Analyzed Mac OS X boot performance, adding boot-time metrics from
            DTrace to a process visualizer.
          * Prototyped and measured an install-time cache generator to improve
            initial boot, and identified several other boot optimizations.
          * Developed visualization tools and prototypes for the next major
            release.
      UC Berkeley Computer Science Department, Berkeley, CA
      Graduate Student Instructor, Aug 2006 - May 2007, Aug - Dec 2007
          * Graduate student instructor for the operating systems and systems
            programming course.
      Google, Santa Monica, CA
      Software Engineering Intern, Jul - Sept 2005, Nov 2005 - Aug 2006
          * Developed a proof-of-concept for automated cross-platform GUI
            testing.
          * Helped mentor UCLA undergraduates in contributing to an open-source
            project.
          * Quantified performance regressions and found missed optimizations
            in gcc and in several STL implementations by profiling an index-
            serving benchmark. Achieved a significant speedup.
          * Implemented statistics reporting and other features in a
            distributed compiler (distcc).
      UCLA Network Research Lab, Los Angeles, CA
      Programmer, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
          * Implemented TCP Libra as a congestion control module for the Linux
            2.6 kernel.
      UCLA School of Engineering - SEASnet, Los Angeles, CA
      Programmer, Dec 2004 - Oct 2005
          * Rewrote slow Jabber backend scripts and fixed bugs in a Java Jabber
            client.
          * Implemented features for a PHP/MySQL-based course website system,
            including a Perl screen scraper.
      Matrix Consultants, Santa Monica, CA
      Developer Intern, Jun - Sept 2004
          * Maintainer for a 500+ client VB.Net/MySQL/Windows XP managed sales
            kiosk application.
          * Responsible for data integration, development, internal
            documentation, update and release deployment, testing and
            unscripted phone support.
          * Created and modified reporting and account setup scripts in Perl,
            Tcl, and Bash.
      SurfingPrizes.com, Inc., Roanoke, VA
      Primary Developer, Partner, 1999 - 2000
          * Developed and maintained a PHP/MySQL-based website with over
            100,000 registered users.
          * Created an ad-delivery client in C++, enabling delivery of over
            one-half billion ads in less than one year.
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Skills
      C, Python, shell scripting, Java, C++, PHP, MySQL, and Perl.
      Project experience with Wine, Fuse, and Trusted Platform Modules.
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Activities
      Member of ACM, Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
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     Thomas Kho www.thomaskho.com
     2008-09-03