Gary Briggs

Personal Details

Home Address: 7855 Naylor Ave
Los Angeles
CA 90045
E-mail: gbriggs@rand.org
Phone: +1 (310) 406 7955

Work Experience

Spring 2009 - Present:
RAND Corporation, Research Software Engineer V

  • Current US Government Security Clearance with Single-Scope Background Investigation
  • Software Engineer position supporting many projects and researchers on an ad-hoc basis
  • Overseeing much of RAND's Research Technology
  • Modelling and simulation using Java, Python, SQL, FORTRAN, C++, VB.NET, and others; both building from scratch, and maintaining and running existing models
  • Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Analytic Tool Development
  • Visualisation and GIS work
  • Web development with Java and PHP
  • Linux system administration
  • Project Leader roles, and architecture lead on a number of strategic systems
  • Contributing to RAND Software Quality Assurance Guidelines

Summer 2002 - Spring 2009:
Codehost, Inc, General Engineer. Multiple positions:

  • Software Engineer [C and C++] for server, desktop and limited-hardware work
  • Database and Server administration. Maintaining a variety of servers including SCM repositories, file and mail servers [Samba, NFS/NIS, Postfix, Amavis], MySQL and Apache
  • Printer driver development [for mostly PostScript devices] and associated tool development
  • Web development [PHP and Perl with MySQL, developing an entire licensing system]
  • Project Management including specification writing and managing external teams
  • Documentation authoring
  • QA

Education and Qualifications

York University: Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Other:
US citizenship



Computer Skills

Standard US DoD Models and Simulations:

AFSIM, SUPPRESSOR, BRAWLER
Languages:

Java, Python, SQL, C/C++, Lua, Perl, PHP, PostScript, General unix scripting, HTML, FORTRAN

Operating Systems:

Linux (including RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora), Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, SCO, FreeBSD, MacOS7-9,X, Windows
Development Tools:

JetBrains Suite, Git, Eclipse, NetBeans, XCode, Gnu Compiler Collection, Bugzilla, Doxygen, CMake, Valgrind
Toolkits:

(GUI) Swing, wxWidgets, FLTK, GTK, Qt, (Graphics) OpenGL, SDL, GLUT, aalib
Other:

SQLite, GPSD, DBus, Torque Game Engine(3D), Torque Game Builder(2D), Ogre3D, Bullet, ODE, Raknet, OIS, Google Earth

Other Interests and Experience

Open Source Development:

I have actively taken part in development on a number of open-source projects, including being the current maintainer of OBDGPSLogger (http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger), JuggleMaster (http://icculus.org/jugglemaster), and AAHelper (http://icculus.org/aahelper/), as well as making many contributions to IcculusFinger (http://icculus.org/IcculusFinger/), Loki Setup (http://icculus.org/loki_setup/) and others