Alan Federman Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California

There are tens of thousands cell phone apps. There would be none if the first thing an app developer had to do was to build a cell phone. That is the situation today for robots. A basic platform accessible to everyone is needed to build the app upon. Ubiquity Robotics has delivered this platform.I am one of the original founders of this company, which.

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

I was a system engineer/analyst for the Jack Rabbot project. This is a mobile social robot that gathered data on making a robot move safely in a crowd of people. It has multiple optical and LIDAR sensors, a Kinova arm, a small mounted screen simulating a face with eyes. It is running ROS and YOLO. I maintained the hardware, installed new sensors and.

I teach the woodworking, basic hand tools, electronics and soldering SBU (safety and basic usage) courses. It is fun to get paid for your hobbies, plus share your knowledge with interested people. My article on using a laser cutter to build a Da Vinci mechanical model was published in Make Magazine in 2010. Starting in 2014 I also teach Arduino, STEAM, and.

Customer Facing Field Test Engineer for the first commercial robot butler. This is now called Relay.

Wrote Articles for both Make and Servo Magazines.

Woodside, CA

Coached the Woodside Priory School's FIRST Robotics Team (FRC). I have coached FRC since 1999. Teams I have Coached include the 2000 National Champions, the 2004 National Chairman's Award Winners, the 2001 Botball National Champions, and the 2015 SVR Regional Champions. I've mentored 10 different robotics teams. The latest is 2854, Engineering Inspiration.

USGS, Santa Cruz, CA

Knowledge management of geologic data retrieved from field activities of the USGS (United States Geologic Survey) Working on updating Infobank. Learned postgres, postgis, began migration to Django/Geodjango.

San Jose, CA

Porting legacy Not-for-Profit web site to Drupal, with enhanced bibliographic module.

Silicon Valley

Web site, infrastructure, hardware/software engineering. Lauritzen designs hardware and software that maximizes the efficiency of solar and wind energy systems.

Contract Customer Facing Engineer for Cisco's Stadium Vision. Installed IP-TV set-top boxes - installed software, servers. Wrote scripts in shell, perl to deploy and monitor performance, address customer metric requirements, dealt with MPEG 2,4 encoding, ad insertion, set up QA/Development hardware environments using Linux, VMware. Minnesota Twins Stadium.

Applications support for Java (Tomcat, Jboss) front end, Oracle Back end driven internet commerce site. Mostly concerned with the middleware layer, monitoring data feeds from various partners and QA. Typically, I live in the shell script and use Unix sys admin skills to super glue the various apps into a coherent glob.Corp Website: http://www.openlane.com/

Taught intro oceanography, astronomy. I do this because I am passionate about science and technology and enjoy helping people understand how things work.http://www.foothill.edu

The Research Compliance Office at Stanford University was facing a serious problem. In just ten weeks they needed to finish a 2000 page Adobe Acrobat Document, or risk losing accreditation for human trials from the Federal government, and 800 million dollars in research funding. Every desktop and server needed to be running 100% of the time, and the.

Project manager for emerging technologies demonstrating distance learning, streaming media, online robot and telescope operation. Certified NASA UNIX system administrator, Internet security officer. Webmaster for sites using HTML, perl, CGI, MySQL, C, C#, Java, Tomcat, ASP. Speaker and presenter at industry trade shows and public outreach events. Board.

CIO for the Branch of Pacific Marine Geology.Supervised 25 civil servants in Data processing of Seismic, mapping, side scan sonar and other scientific data. Represented DATA needs to national level. Started First Web Site for Branch (Award winning) Won award for starting one of the first "Ask-an-Expert" Services on the Internet ("Ask-a-Geologist").

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

Lecturer and Asst Prof Earth and Space Sciences - geology 1982-85, Manager Academic Computing 1985-1992

Head of academic computing support at a 10,000 student campus. In charge of PC/MAC labs, staff and faculty courses, department newsletter.Established internet for the campus. Won and innovation award for lab design.

Sold pickles for nickles.

Ph.D, Oceanography

Activities and Societies: American Geophysical Union Geological Society of AmericaI used a number of anayltical techniques to complete my.

Ms, Oceanography

Earned a Masters in oceanography, participated in cruises to Antarctica, used electron probe microanalysis.

Bs, Earth And Space Sciences

Activities and Societies: Polity Vice PresidentStudied Geology, was Polity Vice President.