Bob Zacher Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Developing critical Java applications for GatewayChecker corporation. Gateway Checker provides SaaS applications for End to End tracing of products with serial numbers. The current focus is on tracing pharmaceutical supply chain shipments. I developed an application to read EPCIS XML documents, analyze the data and then generate consolidated reports.

Burlington, MA, US

• Worked on the Performance Measurement and Attribution (PMA) project for CRD. This team was developing new, higher performance code to replace the legacy PMA product. PMA compares the total return of the mutual fund.
• Developed new C# server side and UI code and Java Server side code to display the results of the PMA calculations in a grid display in the CRD UI.
• Worked on the Fixed Income (Bond) Analytics team, developing and fixing calculations for characterizing the performance of bonds and bond-like financial instruments. An example calculation is “Bond Duration”, which.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Cloud Managed Application Services (acquired from Verizon 2017)
• Wrote a REST based integration layer for an Object Storage system (nodejs)
• Supporting customers on the Verizon Object Storage system.
• Developed a Dashboard for monitoring alerts from part of our cloud.
• Developed a program to do synthetic logins to the CMAS Cloud Console for monitoring (java/selenium). They had been trying to solve this problem for two years without success.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Verizon Cloud Object Storage project
• Team lead for FedRAMP qualification of Verizon Cloud Storage (VCS). Successfully led the 10 person team in a 12 month project to security harden VCS for use by the Federal Government.
• Lead Engineer for metering/billing related code.
• Lead Engineer for new Reporting solution
• Lead Engineer for a new Nagios based monitoring solution.
• Lead Engineer for a new database backup solution.

• August 2011 - December 2013IHM built cloud-based, Hospital Electronic Health Records reporting software.
• Worked on the core application suite. Wrote groovy code for the middle tier. Wrote Database queries against a SQL and Mongo backend.
• Designed and Implemented 3 applications to identify data quality issues in hospital data.
• Implemented a program to de-identify Private Health Information

• Team lead for the new web based configuration program for the core business unit product "Contact Center Enterprise". Led the effort from concept, functional specification, design, implementation and testing. Lead a.
• Pioneered the use of User Experience studies in the BU.
• Team Lead for a team of 12 engineers for 6 months to fix critical problems with our core software release.
• Team Lead for Knowledge Base project for the Business Unit.
• Team Lead for the Messaging Layer. This was a Multithreaded, distributed, Java Messaging system. It was the core piece of software used to integrate four very large enterprise software products.
• Team Lead for the Business Unit on Cisco Security Agent project. Drove the implementation of the Cisco Security Agent Intrusion Prevention Software for my Business Unit. This entailed developing a security policy for.

São Paulo, SP, BR

• Specialized in estimation theory based tracking algorithms and pattern recognition algorithms.
• Designed and implemented a program in C++ on Solaris for very large DOD/DARPA “DDB” project to provide battlefield awareness.. Our code used sophisticated statistical reasoning algorithms to track vehicles.
• Wrote programs which implemented a database "hash-join" algorithm, an “optimal association” for tracking, and an image processing algorithm to benchmark performance on a novel chip-based parallel processor.
• Wrote a video tracking program for a biomedical company.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• I worked as a software engineer for almost five years at the Chandra Science Center Data Center. NASA’s Chandra is a multi-billion dollar, space-based, X-ray telescope.
• Wrote large parts of the telescope Aspect solution software. The Aspect solution software calculates where the telescope is pointing at any given time.
• Wrote a computer model of the CCD X-ray detectors used at the focus of the telescope. The software was used to plan and analyze the calibration of the telescope
• Wrote several programs for analyzing and displaying the total X-ray dose received by the telescope CCD detectors during the telescope calibration.
• Wrote programs for automating analysis of early calibrationresults. The program combined other executables into a processing“pipeline”.
• Organized the weekly lunch talk series for the High Energy Astrophysics Division at Harvard for two years. This entailed publicizing the events, and selecting, recruiting and introducing speakers.

National Research Council/National Academies of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship developing Superconducting Tunnel Junctions for X-Ray Astronomy.

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Ph.D, Physics