Paul Hubbard's Resume

Paul Hubbard

(619) 717-2456

1225 Lincoln Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103

Professional Experience

San Diego Supercomputer Center La Jolla, CA	Jan 2008 to present
Senior Software Developer, Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory for Environmental Observing Systems (CLEOS)

Led a team of 2-4 developers on architecture, design and implementation of distributed streaming data systems across multiple platforms. The code is used all over the world for a wide variety of production systems as well as research and development. Coded in Java, Python, C++ and LabVIEW on OSX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.
Co-PI on a 900k NSF software grant.
Lead a transition to open source, both within our group and the larger collaboration.
Lead efforts in agile development, test-driven coding and peer code review.
Designed, purchased, installed and managed all aspects of development infrastructure, from servers to RAID chassis to networking gear to software.
Lead hardware and software deployments to two ecological reserves, from sensors to data acquisition systems, custom software and field installations.

San Diego Supercomputer Center La Jolla, CA	Oct 2004 to June 2008
Senior Software Developer, NEES IT Services Center (NEESit)

Architected and led and open-source C++ software programming team for distributed control of structural control systems and numerical simulations. As an agile project, it had a progress blog, design documentation in the public subversion archive with the code, test-driven development and complex regression tests baked into the code. Based around OpenSSL and STL, it cross-compiled natively on OSX, POSIX Unices, Windows/MSVC and Windows/Cygwin, complete with loading of dynamic libraries, platform threading abstraction and automatic byte ordering.
Architected and lead a team of developers on the streaming data and telepresence systems, ranging from data aquisition code in LabVIEW to distributed development in Java.
Managed the hiring and supervision of contractors, students and developers.
Selected, purchased, installed and programmed a wide variety of hardware, from complex sensors requiring signal processing to network video servers, WAN simulators, networking gear, servo and stepper motors.

Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, IL	Feb 2002 to Oct 2004
Senior Software Developer, Distributed Systems Lab, Math and Computer Science Division

As part of the Globus grid computing project, I worked on the National Earthquake Engineering and Simulation Grid (NEESGrid) project.
I was responsible for data acquistion, control systems, video and audio integration, capture, streaming, etc. Coding in C, Java, LabVIEW (for Linux, Win32, OS X) and more.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL	Jan 2000 to Feb 2002
Developer, Data Handling group, CDF experiment

Designed and implemented multithreaded, large scale cache code on IRIX, Linux and Solaris using TCP/IP and POSIX threads in C. This code used 11TB of disk as a cache/HFS for the 1.5PB Adic-brand tape robot.
As part of the data handling team, responsible for selection, evaluation installation and administration of servers, fibre channel RAID systems, tape robots, workstations and network equipment.
The code was production and critical, so duties also included pager rotation and user support.
Miscellaneous support coding in PHP, Perl and C shell.
System administration as required, on Irix, Linux, Solaris, and OS/2.

Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center Albuquerque, NM	Jan 1998 to Dec 1999
Research assistant

Researched the use of wavelet-domain convolution in the synthesis and localization of audio and wrote code to implement the ideas.
Designed and built a Virtual Reality facility for immersive and projective visualization.
Designed and implemented a virtual reality simulation system (Flatland) using C++, sockets, RPC, OpenGL, and pthreads. System portable between most Unix variants and Windows.
Built a Linux-based parallel processing cluster running MPI.
Did research in parallel algorithms using MPI and message passing, for mixed-mode programs that extract maximum performance from clusters of SMP machines.

Sandia National Laboratories Albuqerque, NM	May 1994 to Dec 1999
Student employee, Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Lab

Designed and implemented cross-platform control, data acquisition and analysis systems for automated experiments on the Bonse-Hart and 5 meter pinhole instruments using Windows, Macintosh and MS-DOS systems in LabView and C/C++.
Investigated enhanced imaging techniques for high-resolution x-ray and neutron radiography.
Held Department of Energy `L' security clearance as well as Radiation Worker certifications from Sandia Labs, Los Alamos National Lab and the University of New Mexico.

University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM	Oct 1993 to May 1994
Student programmer, Advanced Materials Lab, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering

Designed and implemented a LabView-based control and data acquisition system for a ultra-high-vacuum chamber, including an RF quadrapole mass spectrometer and x-ray photoelectron spectrometer instruments.

Key Technologies Walla Walla, WA	May 1993 to Aug 1993
System and network administrator

Programming and network administration on a PC and Unix network. TCP/IP and SMB, Windows, SCO OpenDesktop Unix. Programmed in C for Windows, minor work in Visual Basic and Awk.
System administration on a IBM System/36 and AS/400.

Star Race Computers Walla Walla, WA	Sep 1991 to May 1993
Programmer

Wrote a graphical data acquisition and analysis package in mixed C and 80x86 assembly language. Features include virtual memory, microsecond-precision timing, GUI-based data analysis, hardware and software copy protection, a hardware/software interface to a competing product, and context sensitive on-line help.
Design and programming assistance for the corresponding embedded Z80-based hardware.

Education

MSEE, Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, December 1999
BS, Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, December 1997

Other professional experience

NSF site reviewer for the LEAD project, July 2005. Only non-Ph.D on the panel.

Publications

The Ring Buffer Network Bus (RBNB) DataTurbine Streaming Data Middleware for Environmental Observing Systems, S. Tilak, Paul Hubbard, Matt Miller, and Tony Fountain, to appear in the Proceedings of the e-Science 2007.
NEESit software overview: IT tools that facilitate earthquake engineering research and education, S. Whitmore, L. Van Den Einde, A. Kamrath, T. Warnock, D. Diehl, P. Hubbard, and W. Deng, Proceeds of the Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8NCEE), San Franciso, April 2006.
Using a Network Ring Buffer for Science and Outreach, Paul Hubbard, Jason Hanley, Terry Weymouth and Matthew Miller, November 2005.
NEESGrid: A Distributed Collaboratory for Advanced Earthquake Engineering Experiment and Simulation, Billie Spencer Jr., Thomas A. Finholt, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Cristina Beldica, Joe Futrelle, Sridhar Gullapalli, Paul Hubbard, Lee Liming, Doru Marcusiu, Laura Pearlman, Charles Severance, and Guangqiang Yang, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), Vancouver B.C., August 1-6 2004.
Distributed Hybrid Earthquake Engineering Experiments: Experiences with a Ground-Shaking Grid Application, Laura Pearlman, Carl Kesselman, Sridhar Gullapalli, B.F. Spencer Jr., Joe Futrelle, Kathleen Ricker, Ian Foster, Paul Hubbard, Charles Severance, Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-13), June 2004.
Wavelet-Domain Convolution for 3D Audio Localization, Paul Hubbard, Kristin Umland, Cristina Pereyra, and Thomas Caudell, Proceedings of Wavelets X (SPIE Annual meeting), August 2003.
The CDF Run II Disk Inventory Manager, Paul Hubbard and Stephan Lammel, Conference on Computers in High-Energy Physics (CHEP) 2001, Beijing, Sep. 2001.
The CDF Computing and Analysis System: First Experience, Rick Colombo, Paul Hubbard, Stephan Lammel, Mark Leininger, Fedor Ratnikov, and Terry Watts. Plenary talk, CHEP 2001, Beijing, Sep. 2001.
Particle Size Distribution Inferred from Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering and Transmission Electron Microscopy, Thomas Rieker, Aree Hanprasopwattana, Paul Hubbard and Abhaya Datye. Langmuir 1999, 15, pp. 638-641.
Neutron Reflectivity Investigation of the Effects of Harsh Environments on Ta₂N Thin Films, Thomas Rieker, Paul Hubbard, Jarek Majewski, and Neville Moody. Thin Solid Films (346)1-2, pp. 116-119, 1999.
The University of New Mexico / Sandia National Laboratories Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Laboratory, Thomas P. Rieker and Paul F. Hubbard, Review of Scientific Instrumentation,Vol. 69, number 10, October 1998, pp. 3504-3509.
Accelerated Aging of Tantalum Nitride Thin Film Resistive Coatings, Thomas Rieker, Paul Hubbard, Jarek Majewski, and Neville Moody. 1997 Los Alamos Neutron Science Center Research Highlights.
Monte Carlo Simulation of a Soller Slit Based Ultra Small-angle Neutron Scattering Instrument, Thomas Rieker and Paul Hubbard. Proceedings of the Workshop on Methods for Neutron Scattering Instrument Design, 1996.

Recent invited talks

Open-source streaming data middleware, Scripps Technical Forum, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, December 6 2007.
Advances in the NEES Distributed Testing Communication Protocol, Fast Hybrid Testing Workshop, Boulder CO, Nov 2006.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).