Albert Baker Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, California, United States

I am the founder and lead of the "Bay Area Artemis Training Fleet", a small unofficial organization that provides hardware, expertise, and operational support to local fan events whose attendees wish to play https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/ We aim for an immersive experience: we have created uniforms and ranks for all our staff, and have designed and built intelligent lighting systems that respond to in-game events.We are currently in our tenth year, and have just run our 25th event, the 2024 https://baycon.org/

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

support, maintenance, and new development for the low level cellular networking for the Kindle ecosystem.Ported numerous legacy subsystems to Native AWS Components: VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Lambda, ECS, Step Functionsmaintained data flow and data stores for a traffic volume/cost data warehouse, and provided data analytics to internal customers for business planning, trend analysis, and fraud detection/prevention.Worked with data analysts to design and implement a tool for predicting ownership of a new network-enabled device based on proximity to existing network devices.

Management of cross-platform builds using cmake and JenkinsDesign and Coding of a C++ module for credit card transformations, with a JNI layer to marry it to our existing Tomcat ServletsTook extensive training in the Secure Development Life CycleContinued to be a champion of Test Driven Development and Continuous IntegrationPromoted to Technical Lead of the Secure Data Appliance productCompletely rewrote the build scripts for the Secure Data Appliance product to simplify them, make them generic and data-driven, and to entirely separate the subversion checkout stage of the build from the actual compile directivesLed the initiative to move Secure Data Appliance from CentOS 5.10 32 bit to CentOS 7 64 bitDesigned and implemented a tool to automate the process of keeping our local CentOS RPM repository up-to-dateresponsible for triaging incoming CVE vulnerabilities and determining to what extent my team’s product was vulnerable, and what the remediation needed to be, negotiating with product owners to properly prioritize remediations in the release cyclesUsed Microsoft’s Threat Modeling tool to create and maintain models of new product features in order to make sure potential threats were mitigated during design and implementation

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Design and Coding of new C# client API for .NETDesign, Coding, and Continuous Integration Configuration of a .NET and Python tool for testing multithreaded correctness and performance of the C# client API. Wrote a C# reference implementation of several of our public encryption algorithms in order to debug the draft NIST specification Developed a Python program for validating correct connectivity between the .h and the .c parts of the JNI APITook extensive training in the Secure Development Life Cycle

Primarily responsible for not only the high level design of multiple releases of our Expert System/AI for automation of optimal Ad Placement, and coding for the same, but also for assisting in the crafting of our office's engineering culture.Over the past decade, I have been the lead architect/designer for almost every software application produced by our coding team, working closely with our mathematical modelers, statistical analysts, and other researchers to turn their ideas into working product. Our application suite is an Expert System which uses historical information about online ad performance to optimally place advertisements on our online advertising network. My specific tasks have included: * architecture at all levels * design and coding of sophisticated numerical analytics in both C++ and Perl. * design and coding of applications that build large-scale Linear Programming problems for optimization, including debugging tools to detect causes of poorly formed LP problems. * crafting of a C++ library that makes extensive use of Template Metaprogramming to easily describe the transfer of data from and to both files and databases, as well as describing arbitrary aggregations of that data as it passes through. * developing highly scalable systems that are required to manage the processing of the billions of records of data per day that our systems generate. * prototyping and designing even more scalable systems using Hadoop and Membase (Couchbase)* significant work in the creation of my department's corporate culture, including: ** aiding in the creation of living documents describing correct coding style for the languages we use ** championing test-driven development ** helping to continuously maintain a culture in which critically analyzing our own processes and procedures is encouraged, in order to continuously improve them.

Led a team of 6-8 people in preparing plans and excuting those same plans in providing Audio-visual technical services to the annually held Baycon science fiction convention. Tasks included:* Designs of lighting plots for a small staged theater setup and dance* Designs of ballroom room layout including positions of light trees, speakers, the stage, and the lighting/sound control riser.* Power schematics to ensure even usage of 120V power circuts in the ballroom.* Building of lighting setups for the convention's Art Show, designing light truss and lighting setups.* Working with the equipment vendors to unpack and set up all equipment used.* Liasing with the programming department to provide projectors, screens and speakers to individual speakers in the breakout rooms.* Creating Requests for Quote and negotiating with the vendors to provide the maximum value to the convention. * Marketing the need for volunteer staff, "hiring" , and managing schedules, shifts, and work assignments for my volunteer staff once at the convention.* Mentoring newer volunteer staff in the many skills required for their job.

responsible for architecting, selecting, implementing, training, and support of systems, tools and processes used to support the local engineering community.* Designed and implemented a graphical, web-enabled tool for tracking historical disk usage and other system statistics, using a Java front-end and TCP/IP to communicate to a Perl back-end * Co-developed a sophisticated system integrating the Scopus QualityTeam defect tracking system with the Rational ClearCase source code control system -- Designed and implemented a Perl library using DBI/DBD-Oracle for a virtual class of Oracle-backed Persistent Perl Objects -- designed and implemented an algorithm for the efficient determination of change-set inclusion in a build, given the interaction between files in the selected change-sets * designed and implemented a parser to do semantic analysis of a proprietary language for the description of voice-mail call flows * Supported widespread use of the Atria ClearCase source code control system -- designed and implemented scripts and programs that increased user productivity -- co-developed processes and policies for ClearCase use -- assisted users of ClearCase with day-to-day issues -- designed and taught classes in use of ClearCase under Unix * assisted in the support and improvement of build processes, source code control systems, and other engineering group concerns

responsible for the architecting, impelementing, training, and supporting of systems and tools for the local engineering community* Designed and implemented an HDL-to-C translator, as part of a team effort to add hardware functionality to a behavioral simulator -- invented a language to describe primitive hardware components and implemented a parser for it -- added features to do hardware-level design checking for the input HDL code, using a graph representation of the hardware described * Designed and implemented an Intranet change tracking system -- designed and implemented a versioning DBMS for logging and associating changes to users -- designed and implemented a CGI script that seamless handled and generated all Forms HTML pages in the system * Designed and implemented new features of a DOS program used to debug embedded controllers -- implemented a scrolling help and history facility -- implemented a real-time virtual front-panel display for the product * Supported widespread use of the Atria ClearCase source code control system -- designed and implemented scripts and programs that increased user productivity -- co-developed processes and policies for ClearCase use -- assisted users of ClearCase with day-to-day issues -- designed and taught classes in use of ClearCase under Unix

worked primarily during the summers on various small programming and QA projects in the Unix OS ranging from bootloaders to the disk format program to user interfaces.

Tested software and wrote in-house shell scripts to assist dissemination of genetic and protein databases to our customers.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

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