Research Scientist at Citrix Online
Santa Barbara, California Area
- Current
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- Research Scientist at Citrix Online
- Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
- PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara
- Past
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- Lecturer at California State University, San Bernardino
- Software Engineer III at LM Ericsson Inc.
- Associate Software Engineer at Optivus Technology, Inc
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
- California State University-San Bernardino
- John A. Rowland High School
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
Allan Knight’s Summary
I am a Research Scientist and Software engineer with good problem solving skills. Each position I have held I was looked upon to solve the major problem currently holding up a project. In each instance I was able to find solutions and progress the team further. This quality has been true in industry and graduate school.
Allan Knight’s Specialties:
Problem solving, software engineering processes, build environment, OO Analysis & Design, Training, C++, C, Java, PERL, Ruby, TCL, Expect, Linux, Mac, Qt GUI Framework, SIP, RTP, RTCP.
Allan Knight’s Experience
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Research Scientist
Citrix Online
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CTXS; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (9 months)
I am currently working working in the Communications Group and Research Group on the audio conferencing engine. My contributions have been to explore the scalability of the current implementation of the conference engine and to develop a distributed version as a temporary short term solution.
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Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Santa Barbara
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
September 2002 — Present (6 years 1 month)
Currently researching the latest in Education Technologies to create feedback systems for the classroom. These feedback systems help instructors, and students, better understand and mimic the behaviours of successful students. I am also researching techniques for Plagiarism Detection and studying such systems social impact on academia.
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PhD Candidate
UC Santa Barbara
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
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Lecturer
California State University, San Bernardino
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
In the course of one year I taught nine individual courses. The subject matter for these courses included Computer Science I and II, Data Structures, File Systems and Formal Languages and Automata. In addition to these courses I lead several teams of undergraduate research in building a Display Wall and releasing software as an open source project. At the end of the year I was informed that I had the highest evaluation scores within the department.
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Software Engineer III
LM Ericsson Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ERIC; Telecommunications industry)
September 2000 — August 2002 (2 years)
Participated in development and design of Ericsson's CDMA2000 Base Station Controller. This project was implemented using C++ on embedded boards using the OSE real time OS on PPC 705 and 450. My responsibilities, besides descign and implementation, included everything from design and implementation of the development environment to team build engineer. I was also a member of our process group that lead the way to decreasing fault reports for our division.
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Associate Software Engineer
Optivus Technology, Inc
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Junior software engineer responsible for design and development of components for the Proton Beam Treatment System installed at Loma Linda Hospital. Development was done on Solaris and VxWorks for a distributed controll system that controls all aspects of the treatment system including the user interface.
Allan Knight’s Education
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University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD., Computer Science, 2002 — 2008
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California State University-San Bernardino
BS, Computer Science, 1997 — 2000
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John A. Rowland High School
Allan Knight’s Contact Settings
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