Résumé

Patrick Adam Wagstrom

415 N 1st St, Apt 503
Minneapolis, MN 55401

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

Professional Objective

A post-doctoral research position that allows me to use my skills in qualitative and quantitative domains to study the communication and coordination dynamics of complex socio-technical systems such as software engineering.

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 software governance research team. Research on understanding how communication affects team performance at the planning, implementation, and maintenance stages of software development.

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 Software Governance 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 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:

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 anlyzing 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.

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, AJAX, XSLT.

Awards and Honors

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
Three year competitive fellowship supporting portions of tuition and stipend at Carnegie Mellon
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
This is a competitive fellowship for upperclass undergraduates to pursue summer research at a United Stated Department of Energy research 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.
Camras/NExT Scholarship, Illinois Institute of Technology
Recipient of a five year full tuition academic merit based 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