CV for R. Lindsay Todd

Note that I am not currently seeking a change in employment. However, I am sometimes available for contract work or consulting. You can view my CV (also known as a resume).

I am a Senior Systems Programmer at Rensselaer. During most of my employment, I have worked with various dialects of Unix, programming extensively in "C". Of course, as an experienced Unix and Linux systems programmer, I am familiar with Bourne shell, the various utilities, the X Window System, networking, Tcl/TK, and Python. While a member of Rensselaer's Campus File System architecture team in 1991, I was the advocate for replacing NFS with AFS, pioneering what has become the fundamental technological basis of Rensselaer's educational computing network of Unix workstations. Later, I also explored the possibilities of replacing AFS with DCE/DFS. Currently I am working with Linux and Grid Computing.

Additionally, I have a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Computer Science. My thesis work, supervised by Dr. Ephraim Glinert, involved the design of a distributed object-oriented programming system specifically intended to support "multi-interface computing", i.e., user interfaces that may be connected to or disconnected from running applications. I implemented a prototype of this design using the Python programming language, running on Unix.


R. Lindsay Todd
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute