John Jacobsen

Current

• Owner at NPX Designs, Inc.

Past

• Computer Systems Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Physics

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

John Jacobsen’s Summary

Software for high energy particle astrophysics and other high performance computing. Emphasis on end-to-end solutions from low-level device drivers through end-user Web applications.

John Jacobsen’s Specialties:

Web applications with Django; Linux device drivers; embedded systems programming; scripting for clusters and distributed systems; Monte Carlo (statistical) simulation; exceptional visual and functional design sense.

Languages: Python, C, Perl, Lisp, Java

John Jacobsen’s Experience

• Owner

  NPX Designs, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — Present (11 years 7 months)

  Sole consultant. Worked for multiple clients on the IceCube project (a neutrino detector under construction at the South Pole); travelled to the South Pole six times; key developer on the IceCube data acquisition system; primary maintainer of embedded system software and device driver for communications interface for IceCube.

• Computer Systems Engineer

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1998 — April 2002 (4 years 3 months)

  Embedded systems programming, device driver development, software for testing hardware prototypes; scripting for operation of remote astrophysical detector and for high performance, massively parallel computing clusters.

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Physics

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

John Jacobsen’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Ph.D. , Physics , 1985 — 1996

Additional Information

John Jacobsen’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

John Jacobsen’s Interests:

Running (marathoner); Buddhism

John Jacobsen’s Groups:

•    PyCon 2008

John Jacobsen’s Honors:

Visiting Professor, April, 2007, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
Emmanual A. Piori Award for Physics Study, 1994, University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Physics
Albert Radtke Scholarship, 1990, University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Physics

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