Résumé

Patrick Adam Wagstrom

55 McKinley Ave, Apt DG-11
White Plains, NY 10606

Phone: 612-217-2874
Email: patrick@wagstrom.net
URL: http://academic.patrick.wagstrom.net/

Professional Objective

A challenging research based position that allows me to use my unique skills to develop novel new methods to solve the world's hardest problems of coordination, collaboration, and communication.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy and Computation, Organizations, and Society, May 2009
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dual degree between the Carnegie Institute of Technology (college of engineering) and School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Ph.D. thesis title "Vertical Interaction in Open Software Engineering Communities". Thesis advisors Dr. James Herbsleb and Dr. Kathleen Carley.
MS in Computation, Organizations, and Society, May 2007
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
MS in Computer Science, August 2003
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.
Member of the Scalable Computer Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Xian-He Sun. Developed "Scarlet" a framework of pervasive computing environments built on top of web services frameworks and standards.
BS in Computer Science, May 2002
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
BS in Computer Engineering, May 2002
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
BS in Electrical Engineering, May 2002
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Work Experience

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
August 2009-Present

Work as a member of the governance science research team. Research on understanding how communication affects team performance at the planning, implementation, and maintenance stages of software development. Evaluation of the state of collaborative tools and communities to better understand how to develop tools to support communication and coordination. Model and develop how we can utilize various data streams to provide portfolio wide ROI metrics while taking into account uncertainty.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Software Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 2009-July 2009

Research assistant working to understand the complex dependencies of non-routine intellectual work such as novel engineering tasks and software development. Worked to develop methods to capture these dependencies and understand their implications for team performance.

Graduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2003-May 2009

Research to better understand the complex interactions and motivations involved in Open Source software development. This has required the development of methods to understand software architecture evolution and design, collaborative requirements management, software development governance, and tracing artifacts across the software development process.

Summer Research Intern
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
June 2007-August 2007

Member of the governance science research team. Expanded the Socio-Technical Congruence metric for use in the enterprise environment by allowing measurement at the individual level. Worked with projects within IBM to understand what attributes of projects led to successful Open Source releases of software. Developed visualizations of communication and congruence.

Teaching Assistant
Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
September 2000-August 2003

Designed homework assignments and tests, graded work, oversaw student projects, managed labs, and lectured when needed. From January 2003 to August 2003 I managed a group of twelve undergraduate students on an inter-professional project to understand the place of pervasive and ubiquitous computing on a college campus.

Summer Research Intern
Math and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
April 2002-September 2002

Achievements:

Developed the Grid Services Flow Language, an XML dialect for specifying dependencies and information flow in the GLOBUS Environment.
Worked with the SciDAC Java CoG Kit Team and the Collaboratory for Multiscale Chemistry to develop a grid services based system for analysis of thermochemical tables.

Senior Developer
LEC, Ltd, Chicago, IL
April 1999-September 2000

Achievements:

Worked directly with designers and clients to sell and develop usable, novel, and cutting edge web experiences.
Designed, ordered, installed, and managed a commercial grade data center for advertising agency clients.
Architected and developed E-Stakes, a multi-million user capable system for tying offline purchases to online activities.
Designed and managed the technical components of the Chicago Transit Authority's "Take it and Win" promotion.

Developer
MyPoints, Schaumburg, IL
April 1998-September 1998

One of the earliest employees of the company. Designed and implemented a complete customer service system in PL/SQL and Java to support multiple branded campaigns.

Research/Technical Skills

Programming: Python, Unix Shell Scripting, C, R, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Java.

System Administration: Linux, OpenBSD, Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Wireless Networks.

Data Mining: Harvesting and analyzing information from software repositories, online forums, weblogs, real-time chats, in-person meetings.

Research Methods: Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, Text and Content Analysis, Qualitative Data Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Uncertainty Modeling and Simulation, Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis.

Web Technologies: HTML (and most of the HTML5 goodness like canvas, audio, etc), CSS, XML, SVG, AJAX, XSLT.

Awards and Honors

Best Paper: Academy of Management 2010 Annual Meeting, August 2010
"Communication, Team Performance, and the Individual: Bridging Technical Dependencies" was selected as one of the best papers from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) division at the 2010 Academy of Management annual meeting in Montreal, Canada.
Sloan Industry Studies 2009 Dissertation Award (2nd Place), May 2010
My doctoral thesis was awarded second place in the 2009 doctoral thesis competition from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Best Paper: CSCW 2006, November 2006
Awarded best paper for CSCW 2006 for "Identification of Coordination Requirements: Implications for the Design of Collaboration and Awareness Tools" with M. Cataldo, J. Herbsleb, and K. Carley.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, May 2004-May 2007
Three year highly competitive fellowship based on research potential supporting portions of tuition and stipend at Carnegie Mellon University.
Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, December 2002
Given in recognition of work as teaching assistant for senior level undergraduate courses in computer architecture and operating systems.
Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship, United States Department of Energy, May 2002-August 2002
Competitive fellowship for junior and senior level undergraduates to pursue summer research at a United States Department of Energy research lab. This allowed to research grid and distributed computing at Argonne National Lab.
Styker Outstanding Student Leader Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1999-2001
Award given annually to the top 20-25 most outstanding student leaders at Illinois Institute of Technology. Three time recipient for my contributions to student government, Greek life, and service.
Camras/NExT Scholarship, Illinois Institute of Technology, August 1997-May 2002
Recipient of a competitive five year full tuition merit based academic scholarship.

Professional Memberships

IEEE, 2003-Present:
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The professional society for computer engineers, electrical engineers, and computer scientists.
IEEE Computer Society, 2003-Present:
Special interest group within IEEE for computer professionals.
ACM, 2003-Present:
The Association for Computing Machinery, the society for computer scientists and computer professionals.
ACM SIGCHI, 2009-Present:
Special interest group in ACM on computer-human interaction.
ACM SIGSoft, 2009-Present:
Special interest group on software engineering.
INSNA, 2005-2008:
International Network for Social Network Analysis, the professional society for researchers and practitioners of social network analysis.
Tau Beta Pi:
Honor society for engineers. Inducted into the Illinois Beta chapter in 2000.
INFORMS, 2008-Present:
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.
Academy of Management, 2010-Present:
The Academy of Management is the premiere professional organization for scholars and practitioners that create and disseminate knowledge about management and organizations.