Kevin Tew

Current

• Strategic IT Consultant at Tew Consulting
• Parrot Contributing Developer at The Perl Foundation

Past

• Consultant at FeatureFifty
• Graduate Research Assisant at Brigham Young University
• Software Engineer at Canyonbridge (Now renamed to Bungee Labs)

• Graduate Research Assisant at Brigham Young University
• Graduate Student Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Network Engineer/Consultant at Kennecott Energy
• Director of Technical Support at The Spectra Group

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Education

• Brigham Young University
• Brigham Young University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Kevin

Connections

58 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Kevin Tew’s Summary

I blog Entreprenuership: Life Long Learning at http://blog.tewk.com
Learn by doing. Share the knowledge.

I'm interested in innovation and rapid development techniques.
My primary interests are split between entrepreneurial activities and research (academic and in industry). I interned at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the summer of 2002 and really enjoyed the mixture of science, research and innovation that occurred there. I'm looking for opportunities to transform exciting research into promising innovative businesses.

Kevin Tew’s Specialties:

Rapid Prototyping, Bootstrapping, Open Source Software, Systems Automation

Kevin Tew’s Experience

• Strategic IT Consultant

  Tew Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Strategic software development consulting: Helping large organizations choose next generation tools, platforms, and personnel to carry out large custom software development projects.

• Parrot Contributing Developer

  The Perl Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Contributing developer to Parrot, the Perl Foundation's virtual machine for Perl6 and other dynamic and late-binding languages.
  
  Author of Cardinal, the Ruby Intepreter/Compiler Implementation for Parrot.
  
  Currently working on Parrots Object System.

• Consultant

  FeatureFifty

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

• Graduate Research Assisant

  Brigham Young University

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

  July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  Academic research in the area of Enterprise Computing, working for Phil Windley. Interests in this area study of computer science include Large Scale Web Systems, Web Services, Digital Identity, Reputation Frameworks.
  
  Research interests include:
  Languages, Type Theory: Scheme, Haskell, Ruby, Perl6/Parrot development.
  Language Integrated Data Query: XQuery, LINQ, OR-Relational bridges and persistance.

• Software Engineer

  Canyonbridge (Now renamed to Bungee Labs)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  Designed and Engineered a custom C++ persistence frame work for a AJAX rich web application framework. Implemented a C++ Servlet like framework called ServApp, which abstract web server interactions across Apache, IIS5 and 6, and Lotus Notes.
  
  These were key infrastructure components to advanced web application server/framework product.

• Graduate Research Assisant

  Brigham Young University

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — April 2003 (3 years 4 months)

  Parallel and Distributed Computing in the Networked Computing Laboratory

• Graduate Student Intern

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

• Network Engineer/Consultant

  Kennecott Energy

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 1998 — November 1998 (7 months)

• Director of Technical Support

  The Spectra Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 4 months)

  Provided technical support and consulting to IBM Healthcare Customers we supported as an IBM Business Partner in Western Kentucky, Indiana and Southern Illinois

Kevin Tew’s Education

• Brigham Young University

  M.S., Computer Science, 2002 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Ruby Users Group

• Brigham Young University

  B.S., Computer Science, September 1996 — January 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Worked as a Research Assistant in the Networked Computing Laboratory in the Computer Science department all throughout my undergraduate education

Additional Information

Kevin Tew’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Kevin Tew’s Interests:

Programming Language Theory, Design, and Development http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Perl6/Parrot Ruby on Parrot Developement #perl6@ircfreenode.net, http://parrotcode.org http://pugscode.org parrot-porters@perl.org

Kevin Tew’s Groups:

Phil Windley's CTO Breakfast
Utah Ruby Users Group
BYU Ruby Users Group
Utah Agile Rountable

•    Alumni and Friends of BYU Computer Science member

Kevin Tew’s Honors:

Best Session Presentation - College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Spring Research Conference (2003, 2006)
Dean's List Colledge of Engineering
BYU ORCA Undergraduate Research Scholarship Recipient
BYU Undergraduate Full Tuition Recipient

Kevin Tew’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch