From: loftsson@mesa.cs.psu.edu (Hrafn Loftsson)
Subject: M.S. CS/OR, UNIX/C, AS/400, NY.
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:51:40 GMT

                                HRAFN LOFTSSON
                                 Heritage Oaks
                    10 Vairo Boulevard, Box 380, Apt. 237B
                            Stale College, PA 16803
                                (814)-867-7379
                          email: loftsson@cs.psu.edu


OBJECTIVE	A position as a Software Engineer and/or Operations 
		Research Analyst.


EDUCATION	M.S. in Computer Science and Operations Research 
		August 1990 - May 1992 (exp.)
		Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
		GPA: 3.79/4.0
		Master's Paper:	Experiments with the 
			 	Quadratic Assignment Problem.
		Advisor: Dr. Panos M. Pardalos


		B.S. in Computer Science 
		(September 1985 - February 1989)
		University of Iceland, Reykjavik.
		Graduated with Ist Class.


		Graduate Class Projects:

		- A compiler for a subset of Pascal. Written in C (4200 lines)
                  on Unix.  Lex used for writing the Lexical Analyser and Yacc 
	          for writing the Parser.  Code generated for a P-Code 
		  interpreter.

		- A Client/Server Relational Database Management System. 
		  A parallel transaction processing system was built.  It
		  provided concurrent access to the database by several
		  transactions, facilitated concurrency control and recovery.
		  Written in C (4800 lines) on Unix.  
		  Chosen as one of the best class projects.

                - Other projects: Heuristics for The Asymmetric Traveling
		  Salesman Problem, The Quadratic Assignment Problem and    
		  The Graph Partitioning Problem.  Written in Fortran on
		  Cray Y-MP/832 and IBM 3090 and in Turbo Pascal 5.0 on IBM PC.


		Relevant courses:

		Algorithm Analysis	   Numerical Optimization Techniques
		Compiler Construction	   Database System Design
		Probability Theory	   Introduction to Operations Research
		Numerical Computations	   Mathematical Statistics
		Combinatorics		   Scheduling Models
		Graphs and Networks	   Neural Networks
		Hardware Fundamentals	   Computer Programming
		Operating Systems	   Business Programming Languages
		Data Structures		   Programming Languages
		Software Design		   Software Design II
		Hardware & Machine Code	   Systems Programming
		Formal Languages	   Programming and Logic
		Software Science	   Distributed Processing
		Operations Research I	   Operations Research II


PROFESSIONAL	Icelandic Software Ingenuity, Inc. ("Islenskt hugvit hf."), 
EXPERIENCE	Reykjavik, Iceland.
		System Designer, Analyst and Programmer, Feb. 1989 - Aug. 1990.
		Developed a system for handling Bonds.  This system is used
		by the largest insurance and transportation companies in 
		Iceland.  Hardware: IBM AS/400.
		Started designing a lottery system for predicting outcomes of
		soccer games.  Hardware: IBM PC.
		
		Data Analysis, Inc. ("Talnakonnun hf."), Reykjavik, Iceland.
		System Analyst and Programmer, June 1988 - February 1989.
		Developed a system for handling Bonds. 
		Hardware: IBM S/36 and IBM S/38.


		Icelandic Banks Data Center ("Reiknistofa bankanna"), 
		Reykjavik, Iceland.
		System Programmer, 1986 - 1987, 3 months each year.
		Created and maintained programs for various bank operations. 
		Hardware: IBM 4381.


OPERATING       UNIX, MS-DOS, 0S/2, VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, MVS, 0S/400.
SYSTEMS


PROGRAMMING     C, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada, PL/I, Cobol, Prolog, 
LANGUAGES       Lisp, RPG III, SQL, 8086/8088 assembly, Basic.


LANGUAGE        English:      Good reading, writing, and oral skills.
SKILLS		Danish:       Quite good reading, writing and oral skills.
		German:       Acceptable reading and writing skills.
		Swedish:      Reading skills.
		Norwegian:    Reading skills.
		Icelandic:    My native language.



ACTIVITIES,     - Organized and supervised a group of young people in municipal
SKILLS AND	  forestry work in Iceland during three summers 1983-1985.
INTERESTS 	- Initiated and managed a gardening firm in Iceland during two
		  summers, 1987 - 1988.

		- Treasurer of an Icelandic Soccer Club during the years 
		  1987-1989.
		- Member of the board of the Reykjavik Chess Club during 
		  the years 1985-1986.
		- Member of Operations Research Society of America.

		- A strong chessplayer with 2377 USCF ratings and 2210 
		  International ratings.

		- Studied cello playing 9 years.
		- Member of a choir for 5 years.
		- Interested in classical music.

		- Participate in sports like soccer, tennis, badminton and golf.


REFERENCES	 Avallable upon guest.