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Summary

Nine years professional experience in consulting and teaching scientific programming, visualization, and algorithm development in both individual and team environments.

Open Source projects

Boulder, CO 2006-present

Independent projects

• Developed, maintained, and managed open source project IDLdoc 3.0 available at idldoc.idldev.com. IDLdoc 2.0 has been downloaded almost 1400 times from ITT VIS code bank.
• Created a unit testing framework, mgunit, available at mgunit.idldev.com.
• Articles and demos posted at michaelgalloy.com.

Software Developer II, Tech-X Corporation

Boulder, CO 2006-present

Responsible for writing IDL and Python computational and visualization software in support of physicists.

• Principal Investigator for Phase I NASA SBIR Grant NNX08CA99P, “Remote Data Exploration with IDL”. Contributed code to IDL-OPeNDAP bindings.
• Contributed to FastDL and FastGPU projects. These projects provide IDL bindings for high performance computing libraries.
• Help maintain VorpalView, an IDL GUI for visualizing VORPAL particle physics datasets.
• Developed TxView, a Python GUI for visualizing several different particle physics dataset formats.

Senior Instructor/Consultant, Research Systems, Inc.

Boulder, CO 2001-2006

Responsible for all aspects of teaching IDL courses, creating and maintaining courseware and assisting the consulting group

• Designed, wrote and produced class methodology for teaching all levels of IDL courses. Collaborated with co-worker in the creation and maintenance of training manuals and example code for courses. Additionally, originated, designed and implemented courseware for iTools Programming and Advanced Topics in IDL.
• Taught IDL courses of all levels to over 750 students nationally and internationally. Instructor evaluations achieved a mean of 4.5 out of 5. Successfully developed content for custom courses based upon student request. Conducted shoulder-to- shoulder instruction/consulting.
• Conceived, created, maintained and updated IDLdoc, a tool for generating documentation of IDL code. This resulted in IDLdoc becoming the standard for documenting code produced by the RSI consulting group. Furthermore, IDLdoc use is spreading in the IDL user community with over 900 downloads.
• Advised and consulted on projects involving ENVI user functions and 3D visualizations.
• Through conducting internal classes and answering informal questions became a resource for tech support, sales engineers, instructors, and consultants at RSI.
• Contributed on a regular basis to the IDL user community with code and whitepapers on the RSI code library.
• Successfully helped ENVI development team by coding and bug finding/fixing.

Member, Technical Services, Qwest/US WEST

Boulder, CO 1999-2000

Member of a group of mathematicians solving optimization problems involving acquisition and deployment of resources

• Designed, coded, and maintained SONET ring planning software in a team environment. Employed extreme programming in all phases of the project. Responsible for maintaining the performance metrics for the team. Using Java, implemented linear programming and graph theory algorithms.
• Created a variety of mathematical models to study DSL qualification.

TRW, Aurora, CO 1999

Researched algorithms involving genetic algorithms.

• Qualified for security clearance

Assistant Professor, Black Hills State University

Spearfish, SD 1998-1999

Tenure track position in the Mathematics Department

• Taught Calculus sequence and College Algebra courses. Obtained “Excellent” student evaluations in each course.
• Invited to serve on Dean of Arts and Sciences’ technology panel.

Education

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Ph.D., Mathematics

• Fellowship
• Major area in Complex Analysis

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN

B.S., Mathematics

• Sousley Award for Outstanding Senior in Mathematics
• Minors in Computer Science and Literature

Publications

• David Fillmore, Michael Galloy, Peter Messmer. “Parallel IDL and Python for Earth and Space Science Data Analysis.” Poster at AGU 2007.
• Peter Messmer, Paul Mullowney, Mike Galloy, Brian Granger, Dan Karipides, David Fillmore, Nate Sizemore, Keegan Amyx, Dave Wade-Stein. “GPU Computing in High-Level Languages.” Poster at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing 2008.
• Michael Galloy, Peter Stoltz, Brian Granger, Doug Dechow. “TxView: A Tool for Interactive Analysis of Remote Accelerator Simulation Data.” Poster at PAC 2007.
• Michael Galloy. “Making Regular Expressions Your Friends.” RSI User-Contributed Library. 2005.
• Michael Galloy and Mark Piper. Advanced Topics in IDL. 2004.
• Michael Galloy. Harmonic Univalent Mappings on the Unit Disk and the Punctured Unit Disk. Dissertation. 1998.
• Jason E. Fulman, Michael D. Galloy, Gary J. Sherman, Jeffrey M. Vanderkam. “Counting Nilpotent Pairs in Finite Groups.” Ars Comb. 54: (1999).

Skills

• Languages: IDL, Java, C, Perl, C
• Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Software technologies: Subversion, Trac, Eclipse, UNIX, Mac OS X

Referrals

Available on request.