Thuy Vu
Email: tvu@prgmr.com 


OBJECTIVE: To obtain Research Assistance position at University of Michigan utilizing my knowledge and skills in Computer Science.

EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia
Graduated in December 2004
Cumulative GPA:  3.66 / 4.0     Major GPA: 3.78 / 4.0

HONORS
2005 CS Student of the Year
Academic Dean List . year 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Kappa Mu Epsilon - National Mathematics Honor Society
Alpha Delta Lambda . National Academic Honor Society for Freshman
	
EMPLOYMENT
January 2006 to September 2006 System Administrator, prgmr.com Inc.
-	Monitor bandwidth for a large network using a Cisco SPAN port and 
	bandwidthd
-	Designed and implemented a shopping cart using the PayPal IPN interface
-	Manually provisioned FreeBSD Jail, NetBSD XEN, Linux Xen, DNS, and HTTP 
	services using both pre-created images and fresh installs.
-	Setup and maintain RT system
-	primary support contact for prgmr.com Xen hosting.
-	object-oriented perl development for the open-source freeSide billing 
	package and other consulting activities.
- 	designed a network monitoring system with multiple access levels - 
	prgmr.com customers could only see the systems they owned, while 
	prgmr.com administrators could see all systems.

January 2005 to January 2006		Assistant Web Developer, CIS Data Systems Inc.
-	Engineer and implement LAN, VLAN, access control and QoS on Cisco routers 
-	Responsible for constructing and managing data center facility
-	Support production system as a 24x7 on-call system administrator
-	Program in-house tools, applications and interfaces in FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 environment
-	Configured network monitoring using MRTG and Nagios.

May 2002 to December 2004     Computer Lab Assistant, Integrated and Learning Resource Center, Liberty University
-	Assist students with PC applications, Microsoft Office, C++ and Java. 
-	Tutor Computer Science students during lab as Teacher Assistant
-	Regularly perform hardware and software maintenance

ACTIVITIES/ VOLUNTEER
August 2003 to August 2004     UNIX System Student Administrator, Liberty University
-	Keep server up-to-date, apply patches and security fixes for RedHat
-	Write Shell scripts and cron jobs for backing up system
-	Set up network shares for users on a Windows network

COMPUTER SKILLS
- Languages: C++, C#, Java, Shell, PHP, Perl, HTML, SQL, Visual Basic, and Assembly Language on Intel x86 and embedded chip platforms.
- Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Windows, and RedHat Linux 
- Hardware: EMC CLARiiON NAS, Cisco routers -1800, 2600, 2800 family, Cisco switches - 2900 family, SuperMicro SuperServer, 3COM switches - 3800 family, Cyclades remote console, Cyclades power management, Macintosh and IBM compatible PC.
- Software: .NET, Zend, MySQL, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Probe, bwmgr, Nessus, GNU tools, and MS Office.

REFERENCES 	       Available upon request