Portfolio
Feb. 2011 - Present
![Global Dressage Analytics (dressageanalytics.com) [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/gda-front-page.png)
dressageanalytics.com is a web application which allows atheletes who participate in the equestrian sport of dressage
to track their progress, predict their future performance, get training suggestions, and compare their performance with that
of their peers.
June 2011 - Present
![Web-based Control System for the Pixel Luminosity Telescope [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/header.png)
The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is a next-generation diamond detector which uses the same complex and highly advanced readout electronics as the
Compact Muon Solenoid's (CMS) Pixel Detector System. Operating the control software by hand is difficult for someone who has less than a few years
of experience with the detector. Therefore, it was necessary to create a user interface which is easy enough for anyone to use to operate the system, log its state at any given time,
and do quality assurance on the data that comes out of the detector. I was commissioned to design and implement this UI using web-based tools.
Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2011
![Performance Testing and Analysis for Next-Generation Diamond-Based Particle Detectors [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/sipix.jpg)
Diamond is a radiation-hard and heat-tolerant material, which makes it useful as sensor material in harsh environments such as
those found in modern particle accelerator interaction regions. I have helped to quantify properties such as spatial resolution,
charge collection depth, and the Lorentz Angle in lab-grown
diamonds to establish their suitability for different applications.
Oct. 2008 - Aug. 2011
![Data Acquisition and Calibration Framework for the Pixel Luminosity Telescope [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/plt-teststand.jpg)
The Pixel Luminosity Telescope (PLT) is a next-generation diamond detector which uses the same complex and highly advanced readout electronics as the
Compact Muon Solenoid's (CMS) Pixel Detector System. Calibrating and operating the system is a complex exercise, and I was commissioned to help design
the software and firmware to deal with it.
June 2007 - July 2008
![Beam and Radiation Monitoring Realtime Display Framework [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/brm-sample-display.png)
The Beam and Radition Monitoring (BRM) realtime display framework takes the highly important radiation monitoring data which comes from the BRM subsystems and displays
it in such a way that shifters can monitor it 24/7 to make machine-safety decisions based upon the displayed data.
Sept. 2007 - Dec. 2007
![DIP-Cache: A realtime online cache for instrument monitoring data [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/dipcache-architecture.png)
DIP-Cache is a realtime data caching server which accepts data coming from any source that publishes its data through the Data Interchange Protocol (a CERN standard communication protocol).
In addition to simply caching data as it comes in, it responds to queries which allow the user to limit the data length, select the most recent time stamp, choose a specific instrument ID, etc.
April 2008 - Oct. 2008
![Beam and Radiation Monitoring Data Logging and Analysis Framework [thumbnail]](/media/project-thumbnails/brm-data-architecture.png)
The BRM Data Logging and Analysis Framework takes data from a number of sources--my GUTS framework, a CORBA-based CERN standard protocol called CMW, and another CERN-standard protocol called DIP--and
logs the data to files, which are nightly archived to deep storage through CERN's heirarchial storage solution called CASTOR. After the data is archived, it is analyzed using a
ROOT-based data analysis package which can extract various instrument performance parameters.