John R. Lane

15155 Boom Road
Spring Lake, MI 49456
e-mail: john@cse.msu.edu

Education

Experience
    February 2002 to Present,
    National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University
    Computing Infrastructure Consultant
    • Planning and implementation of all aspects of computing infrastructure, from computing clusters to desktops
    • Responsibilities extending those at computer science department (e.g., complete, ground-up Solaris system planning and installation including all internet and disk (Veritas) services)
    • Created automated install environment for Debian Linux similar to Solaris' JumpStart
    June 2001 to September 2001,
    Aoyama-Morikawa Research Laboratory, The University of Tokyo
    NSF/Monbukagakusho Summer Research Fellowship Recipient
    • Research relating to the STONE Project (a platform for context-aware automated multimedia service creation) and its use in a distributed network environment
    • Worked with project team (in Japanese) on all facets of the project
    May 1996 to January 2002,
    Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
    System Administrator
    • Planning and deployment of all department instructional computing systems (network with 200+ workstations and 20+ servers)
    • Responsibilities spanned the breadth of services provided: internet services (web, mail, login, authentication, etc.), printing, disk serving (RAID, Samba, Netapp) and network, etc.
    • Designed and implemented a markup language for web layout to ease web page authoring and unify site look and feel
    • Designed and implemented pluggable authentication modules for Solaris and Linux allowing password unification with Windows systems and increased security for both

Strengths
    Operating and Network Systems
      Excellent understanding of underlying system layers; proven ability to comprehend problems and develop effective solutions quickly and efficiently. Experienced in planning and implementation of large-scale, networked, heterogeneous computing infrastructures.
    Database Systems
      Research focus on content-based indexing and retrieval of music using relational database management systems. Experienced in relational database layout, indexing issues and programming.
    Programming
      Comfortable with most language paradigms; proven experience with system, network and database programming in multiple languages.
    Languages
      English (native), Japanese (reasonably good fluency, 3.5 years college, significant practical experience working in Japanese at Tokyo University).

Papers
    J. Lane and W. Punch, ``A Relational Database Approach to Polyphonic Music Search Systems,'' MSU Technical Report, MSU-CSE-02-23, 2002.
    J. Lane and W. Punch, ``A Musical Regular Expression Matching System for Relational Databases,'' MSU Technical Report, MSU-CSE-01-25, 2000.

References available upon request.