Peter van Gemmeren

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|   | A position in computer science that utilizes my knowledge of      |
|   | scientific methods and problem solving skills.                    |
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|   | Since 2000 Lucent Technologies Naperville, IL                     |
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|   | Member of Technical Staff                                         |
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|   | -   Developing Software (C, C++ on UNIX) for wireless             |
|   |     telecommunication.                                            |
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|   | 1998 -- 2000 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL    |
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|   | Research Associate                                                |
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|   | -   Member of a research group, analyzing physics data to verify  |
|   |     or falsify the existence of new particles.                    |
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|   | -   Worked in a team to develop software (C++ under UNIX and      |
|   |     Windows NT) for real-time data acquisition and track          |
|   |     reconstruction.                                               |
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|   | -   Co-leader of a group responsible for design, prototyping,     |
|   |     production and quality control of a \$3M silicon device for   |
|   |     particle detection. This includes development and             |
|   |     implementation of testing procedures and software (Excel,     |
|   |     VBasic, LabView).                                             |
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|   | -   Hosted a seminar for \~50 participants (Tevatron University). |
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|   | -   Tutor and tour guide for high school students.                |
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|   | -   Active member of a collaboration consisting of \~500          |
|   |     physicists from 14 countries.                                 |
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|   | 1995 -- 1998 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany         |
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|   | Research Assistant                                                |
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|   | -   Carried out original research to produce the most sensitive   |
|   |     search for new particles.                                     |
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|   | -   Designed and implemented software and scientific tools for    |
|   |     analyzing large data samples.                                 |
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|   | -   Proposed and implemented a detailed computer simulation of an |
|   |     important physics process. The simulated data was used for my |
|   |     dissertation and shared by twelve other university groups.    |
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|   | -   Teacher and tutor of physics for students of science or       |
|   |     medicine.                                                     |
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|   | 1989 -- 1990 University Siegen Siegen, Germany                    |
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|   | Student Aid                                                       |
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|   | -   Tutor of physics and mathematics for engineering students.    |
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|   | 1995 -- 1998 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany         |
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|   | Ph.D. in Physics                                                  |
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|   | -   Grade: Magna cum Laude.                                       |
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|   | -   Thesis: \"Search for Sleptons and Charginos in e+e-           |
|   |     Collisions at energies up to 184 GeV at ALEPH\".              |
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|   | -   Minor: Nuclear chemistry.                                     |
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|   | 1989 -- 1995 University Siegen Siegen, Germany                    |
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|   | Diploma in Physics                                                |
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|   | -   Grade: 1.2 (in Germany 1.0 is the best and 4.0 the worst      |
|   |     passing grade).                                               |
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|   | -   Thesis: \"Measurement of the momentum spectrum for neutral    |
|   |     pions in hadronic decays of the Z-boson\".                    |
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|   | -   Minor: Mathematics and chemistry.                             |
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|   | Native German, fluent English, basic French.                      |
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|   | Assembler (Z80, 8085, 68xxx), VMS, UNIX, KSh, Windows 95&NT,      |
|   | Fortran, Visual Basic, C/C++, Perl, SQL, Words, Excel,            |
|   | Powerpoint, statistics tools (e.g. Monte Carlo methods, neural    |
|   | networks, Fisher discriminate).                                   |
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|   | Available on request.                                             |
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