Justin R. Erenkrantz
justin@erenkrantz.com

Education:

September, 2002 - present     University of California, Irvine
                              Information and Computer Science. PhD.
                              Department of Informatics, Software Research
                              Group
September, 1998 - March, 2002 University of California, Irvine
Cum Laude                     Information and Computer Science. B.S.

Ongoing research emphases:

  * Creating an architectural style for decentralized applications, with a
    trust-centric perspective. (PACE)
  * Supporting the power generation and distribution domain via
    decentralized software architectures. (APEP)
  * Supporting a common operational picture of a modern battlefield via
    dynamic software architectures. (COP)
  * Supporting efficient deployment of Web Services via adoption of REST.
  * Supporting decentralized development projects by learning from
    open-source projects.

Prior research emphases:

  * Supporting hierarchical events in a scalable event service.
    (Siena-XML)

Publications:

Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott A. Hendrickson, Richard
N. Taylor. "PACE: An Architectural Style for Trust Management in
Decentralized Applications", Institute for Software Research, University
of California, Irvine, Technical Report UCI-ISR-03-9, October 2003.

Justin R. Erenkrantz, Richard N. Taylor. "Supporting Distributed and
Decentralized Projects: Drawing Lessons from the Open Source Community",
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Open Source in an Industrial Context,
Anaheim, California, October, 2003.

Justin Erenkrantz, "Fly High with the Feather: Extend the Apache HTTPD 2.0
server with filters", Linux Magazine, August, 2003.

Justin R. Erenkrantz, "Release Management Within Open Source Projects",
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering,
Portland, Oregon, May 2003.

T.J. Halloran, William L. Scherlis, Justin R. Erenkrantz. "Beyond Code:
Content Management and the Open Source Development Portal", Proceedings of
the 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon,
May 2003.

Justin R. Erenkrantz, "Handling Hierarchical Events In An Internet-Scale
Event Service", ICS Honors Thesis, University of California, Irvine, March
2001.

Industry Experience:

eBuilt - Irvine, California                        April 2000 - March 2002
Junior Software Engineer                           April 2000 - March 2002
Designed and implemented a profile-based load tester. Designed and
implemented a mailbox archive module for Apache 2.0. Contributed
enhancements and fixes to Apache httpd-2.0 and APR projects. Designed and
implemented an Apache-based ICAP server. Designed and implemented a JNDI
toolset. Designed and implemented HTTP servlets to facilitate LDAP, SMTP,
and IMAP transactions in XML. Designed, implemented, and deployed a
corporate LDAP-based mail system.

Ingram Micro - Santa Ana, California            July 1998 - September 1999
Seasonal Associate                              June 1999 - September 1999
Returned to the ESolutions department as a Java developer. Assisted in the
design and development of an EJB that retrieved product and availability
data via CICS. Assisted in the design of EJB components for database
connection pooling. 
Summer Intern                                   July 1998 - September 1998
Assigned to both server and client teams in Ingram Micro's electronic
commerce division. Designed and implemented a web server monitor using VB,
SQL, and ASP. Analysis tool requirements included distributed analysis,
web-based status reports, and dynamic scheduling.

Renaissance Engineering - Dayton, Ohio              July, 1996 - May, 1998
C++ Programmer                                   October, 1997 - May, 1998
Designed and implemented an ODBC driver that interfaced with a custom data
warehouse. Designed and implemented C++ / CORBA server and client code to
handle SQL passthrough. Designed and implemented a C++ SQL parser.

Honors:

Member, Phi Beta Kappa Society           Member, Golden Key National Honor
                                         Society
UC Irvine Outstanding Service by an      UC Irvine Campuswide Honors
Undergraduate                            Program
Julian Feldman Scholarship Recipient     Dan and Jean Aldrich Scholarship 
                                         Nominee
Member, National Honor Society

Associations and Activities:

Member, Association for Computing Member, Apache Software Foundation
Machinery (1998-)
Vice-President, ACM, UC Irvine    Contestant, ACM Programming Contest, UC 
student chapter (2000-2001)       Irvine student chapter (1998-2000)
Member, Undergraduate Computing
Facility (1998-2002)