About Stork

John H. Hartman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer > Science at the University of Arizona, which he joined in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. His research interests include distributed file systems, networks, distributed operating systems, and mobile computing. He founded the Stork project with Justin Cappos. John's Website.

Justin Cappos is currently working on his Ph. D. at the University of Arizona with John Hartman and Beichuan Zhang. His research is focused on improving the security and efficiency of real world networks of computer systems. He (along with John Hartman) founded the Stork project. Justin's Website

Scott Baker received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Arizona. After obtaining his Ph.D., he left the University and now works as a software consultant, with a focus in Linux systems programming.

Past members

Matt Borgard is currently an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, studying Computer Science and Creative Writing. His interests include storage, computational linguistics and interactive storytelling. He is currently working as an intern at IBM in Tucson, testing storage software. He can be reached electronically at mborgard@email.arizona.edu.

Jeremy Plichta is a senior at the University of Arizona majoring in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics. After graduating, he plans to pursue a career in industry with the possibility of graduate study at a later date. He designed and maintained the Stork Repository as well as some aspects of the Stork GUI.

Jason Hardies received a BA in linguistics at the University of Arizona. During that time, he also worked on the Stork project under Justin Cappos. After leaving the university in 2006, he joined the healthcare software company Epic Systems, Corp. in Madison, WI where he is a software developer.

Jeffry Johnston received a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Arizona in 2007. He is currently employed at IBM in Tucson, Arizona where he is a software engineer in the z/OS Storage DFSMShsm department.

Duy Nguyen is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona. He has been working on the Stork Project for a year. His other interests include programming languages, networking, web design, animation, and instructional applications.