P. MATTHEW KNOX

matt@mattknox.com

matthewknox@gmail.com

917-355-6517

Skill Summary:

Programming languages: ruby, Lisp/scheme, Perl, C/C++/java,

Domains: Adaptive optimization, Functional programming, Regular expressions, machine learning via Naïve Bayesian algorithms and Markov chaining, text classification, taxonomy generation, web spidering, data mining, simulated hyperspatial radiance, cryptography, hashing functions, windows internals, high-performance string-matching, cryptanalysis, compiler/interpreter implementation

Database: MySQL: stored procedures, functions, views, cursors

Operating Systems: Linux(primarily Gentoo and Ubuntu), Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Professional Experience:

Technical:

Direct-revenue, LLC New York, NY. Feb 2004 - present

Technical staff

New Technology platform development
Designed, wrote and operated a large subset of a system that optimizes ad delivery at the level of individual advertisements, using numerous different traffic and advertisement sources. This system brought a $10/day account to $3000/day, and made feasible several forms of advertising arbitrage. Documented that system as part of an effort to do a spinoff company.

General business:
Participated in all technical aspects of distribution:
Performed technical analysis of company client-side software to find vulnerabilities.
Assisted in the design, testing and rollout of software intended to improve persistence on the desktop.
Shipped approximately 30 million copies of this software, in various versions, achieving the goal of improved persistence.
Wrote encryption software in java for server-side recreation of obfuscated names. Extended an implementation of DES. Developed hostile uninstallers for in-the-wild rootkits and other malware. This involved understanding blackhat persistance
techniques, including invisible processes, unreadable registry keys, virtual processes, and remote thread injection. Built the various counters to these obfuscation and persistence capabilities into a platform that achieved nearly a 90+%
uninstall rate, outperforming every major antivirus company. Automated labor-intensive portions of the build process with a custom scheme interpreter and various scripting languages.
Optimized a custom scheme interpreter for minimal size-got an r5rs scheme interpreter into a 19K runtime.
Implemented honeypots to find live exploits and webcrawlers to search out vulnerabilities.
Researched text classification, and wrote a text classifier intended to classify webpages in real time.

Self-employed Boston, MA.Jan 2003 - present

Consultant

Developed a number of tools to deal with spam in different ways, including Naïve Bayesian filtering, spidering the sites advertised in the spams, and searching spams for obvious attempted fraud (eg. The URL exploit that can cause IE to display a site with a false URL.)

Self-employed New York, NY. Jan 2003 - present

Consultant

Determined the network topology, original owners, and probable future use of a class C network for an incoming CNO. Developed tools to automate similar actions in the future.

Self-employed Boston, MA. Jan 2003 - present

Consultant

Migrated individuals and businesses from proprietary(MS Office/Windows/) to open source (Linux/OpenOffice) solutions. Specified, acquired, and implemented accounting, bill payment, and business logic on the new platforms. Scripted automated reporting tools, performed training and support.

Advanced Dairy Genetics Ithaca, N.Y. Mar 2002 - Jan 2003

Research director

Developed protocols for an industrial flow-cytometry lab, including sample preparation, Hoechst staining, media preparation, safety, and freezing. Sorted bovine semen to assure sex of offspring, and conducted a quality assurance program, including training employees, testing media and apparatus, and testing product.

Programmer

Determined the parentage of animals in a 14,000-cow population, using data from a PCR DNA test and a perl implementation of a multivariate loose-match equivalence test.

Intellastructure, LLC, New York, N.Y. January 2000 - August 2001

Early-stage biometrics startup

Researched the market, wrote a business plan, hired and trained sales associates, edited website content, prospected sales leads, developed business contacts, OEMed a suitcase fingerprint solution, and wrote to a fingerprint reader API in Perl and python.

Milagro/Sleator labs, New York, NY

Research Assistant. June 1997 - September 1998

Designed, diagrammed, built, and documented electronic devices for an extremely low temperature optical trapping apparatus. (Optical trapping is confining a thin gas with lasers-in this case rubidium at approx -273C). Designed and implemented a sound-suppression device for a vacuum system related to the experiment, designed and set up a water-cooling system for the apparatus, and demonstrated flaws in the lab security that were subsequently fixed.

Systems analyst. March 1998 - May 1998

Specified and wrote a C program on Unix platform for modeling subway traffic flow by a large scale simulation.

Research Associate. January 1997 - July 1997

Wrote a Fortran program for the analysis of survey data. Determined the correct timing information for an array of photomultiplier tubes that made up the detection apparatus for a TeV scale cosmic gamma-ray detector.

Management/human interaction:

Self-employed. New York, NY August 1995 - Present

Teacher/Tutor/admissions consultant

Taught and tutored every subject up to the undergraduate level, and tutored for every non-professional exam. (LSAT, GMAT, GRE, MCAT, DAT, OAT, PSAT, SCI-HI, SSAT, ISEE, andTOEFL). Tutored the entire undergraduate pre-medical science curriculum, as well as mathematics, economics, and business. Offered admissions consulting, essay editing and preparation, and application assistance to a broad spectrum of clients. Said clients secured admission to HBS, Yale Law, SIPA, and Wharton, Columbia, and Cornell business.

EDUCATION

New York University, College of Arts & Sciences, New York, NY

Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics, May 2000

Majors: Physics, Chemistry Minor: Mathematics, Engineering

Electives: Business, Computer Science (4.0 GPA)

Honors: NYU Alumni Scholarship

National Merit Scholar Finalist

Dean’s Undergraduate Research Conference 1997/1998

SPS: Society of Physics Students

MVP-University Mascots

NYU record in Track and Field

Featured Model in The Plague (NYU student magazine)

Activities: Member, Chinese Mei Society, International Filipino Association, Ballroom Dance Club, Inter Residence Hall Council; Volunteer, St. Francis-Xavier soup kitchen; Vice President/Secretary/Treasurer, Weinstein Residence Hall council.

Languages:

Foreign: French, elementary conversational Japanese, elementary Spanish, guidebook Mandarin