Perry Fizzano



EDUCATION

Dartmouth College Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1995
Centralized and Distributed Algorithms for Network Scheduling
M.S. in Computer Science, 1993
Widener University B.S. in Computer Science, 1990
Minor in Mathematics and Philosophy

EXPERIENCE

2005-present Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Washington University
  • Won departmental teaching award, 2006.
  • Taught Algorithms, Data Structures, Bioinformatics and various introductory classes.
2001-present Self Employed, Contracted by multiple clients
  • Created, recorded and produced instructional videos on Linux.
  • Designed and developed web sites using Perl, Javascript, HTML.
2000-2001 Software Engineer, Go2Net
  • Wrote and maintained software related to searching the Internet
  • Worked with team members to solve load related issues.
  • Used C++, C, Perl, PL/SQL, Texis, Javascript on a Linux platform.
1995-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Univ. of Puget Sound
  • Won a university wide teaching award, 1997.
  • Advised a handful of undergraduate research projects on topics such as authentication protocols and parallel and distributed processing.
  • Taught twelve different courses including Operating Systems, Architecture, Theory of Computing, Discrete Math, Algorithms, Data Structures and Introductory courses.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.