Christopher D. "Kit" Peters
70C Nassau St
Charleston, SC 29403
kit.peters@gundo.com

Objective:

To obtain a position where I can apply and improve my knowledge of physics in an experimental setting, and where I can use my computer science background to my and my employer's advantage.

Education:

Pursuing Bachelor of Science in Physics and Computer Science - College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Associate in Applied Science in Computer Networking and Systems Administration - Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois

Technical skills:

• Perl, PHP, Python, Java, C, Pascal, and IDL programming languages
• LaTeX, a document preparation system
• UNIX Shell Scripting
• Mathematica 5.1
• Basic network design and maintenance

Relevant experience:

February 2004 - July 2005
College of Charleston Department of Physics - Charleston, SC
Research Assistant

May 2003 - Present
Monolith Software Solutions, Inc. - Charleston, SC
Programmer

August 2000 - November 2002
A World Of Difference, Inc. - Charleston, SC
Customer Service Representative

August 1999 - February 2000
AdvanceNet Inc. - Champaign, IL
Technical Support

Professional organizations:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Society of Physics Students
• College of Charleston Wireless Research Group

Current research:

Researching the implementation of non-Western numerals in Common Lisp. Advisor: Gerard Boetje.

Prior research:

Assisted Dr. Jon Hakkila at the College of Charleston in calculating spectral lags for gamma-ray bursts.

Presentations:

At the 2004 annual meeting of the South Carolina Academy of Sciences (SCAS), presented a poster on gamma-ray burst spectral lags and their correlation with other burst attributes.

Published software:

Nut.pm, a Perl module to communicate with the UPS daemon provided by the Network UPS Tools software package.