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Goleta, CA, US

Goleta, CA, US

Responsible for IT at Nations Info Corp, which operates many real estate web sites, including RealtyStore.com, the Experian Hitwise most-visited foreclosure web site and one of the top twenty most-visited real estate web sites overall.

Santa Monica, California, US

Directed TrueCar (then Zag.com) developers. Helped manage software developers in Asia & Europe.Manager and chief architect of Zag’s B2C web sites, including Overstock.com Cars, CapitalOneAutoBuying.com, and the auto-buying sites of USAA, Administaff, Parenting, Progressive, & many AAA clubs, launched ahead of schedule and under budget.Manage security of.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Was offered the position of lead of the algorithms group for NATO's air command and control system (ACCS).Helped develop the world's largest J2EE system, NATO's air command and control system, with over 2000 database tables in multiple locations and integrating dozens of military systems. Architected the Java,.NET, and ESRI GIS integration.Helped develop.

Architected, designed, and developed key components of i18ngenious, an internationalized real estate web site solution. The product allows agents to add and edit their own listings in multiple languages. This application is based on J2EE and PostgreSQL technology. Addressed issues of performance, scalability, reliability, extensibility, manageability, and.

Palo Alto, California, US

Within very tight deadlines and on-budget, successfully led a team on a project crucial for the success of Composite Software, then a startup.

Calabasas, CA, US

Architected, wrote specifications, and led implementation team for the server portions of the IxCore product for performance monitoring of networks.Wrote code to gather and warehouse data from distributed C++ servers.

Solely designed and wrote a lean, fault-tolerant custom Java application server especially well suited for bidirectional HTTP communications (for HTTP-ng/MUX-like applications). This server is now used by Pratt & Whitney, CarsDirect.com, LRN, and Path Communications.Wrote Apache::Gateway mod_perl gateway module and customized it for LRN.Performed numerous.

New York, NY, US

Instrumented LRN's Legal Compliance and Education Center (LCEC), running on multiple Linux Apache/mod_perl and Solaris Oracle servers. Improved performance and scalability so that hundreds of thousands of employees across numerous Fortune 500 companies could simultaneously use it.Helped design their next generation Legal Compliance and Education Center.

East Hartford, CT, US

Made recommendations on SSL strategies for their web site and other security issues.Architected and directed senior developers in custom web server SSL implementation using JSSE.AeroOffer is now Pratt & Whitney's real-time aftermarket aircraft parts procurement reverse auction web site and the core of PWCS's (Pratt & Whitney Component Solutions, Inc.).

Assisted in trying to get company to IPO. Helped set directions and goals for the company.Designed architecture for numerous projects (most Java, some Perl) and set project milestones.Directed lower-level managers.Trained and directed system administrators and programmers.Single-handedly wrote the embedded Java application server still used in the.

El Segundo, CA, US

Helped CarsDirect.com win numerous awards for its web site.Designed and implemented EAI solution, which processed their two-month and growing backlog of orders in a single night. Solution used WebLogic, servlets, XML, WebSphere MQ (MQSeries), Visual C++, and Visual Basic for tying together their many software systems: ordering, accounting, workflow.

Developed their e-commerce software services, including check and credit card processing, using Perl, RMI, and C.Integrated check and credit card processing with Intershop using Perl and Apache.Implemented SSL and other security for electronic payments.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Worked with ex-Lighthouse Design employees in Sun's applications group, then headed by Jonathan Schwartz, now President and COO of Sun.Developed part of Sun's Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition.

Boise, Idaho, US

Created a custom demo incorporating 3D and live video to show off their Vérité graphics chips.Debugged problems in their graphic chip firmware and drivers.

New York, NY, US

Pitched and got funding for a then cutting edge project designed to inspire interest in mathematics in teenagers.Wrote original story material and design.Hired and managed multiple writing teams, graphics houses, and designers.Created budgets and project milestones.Displayed at Electronics Entertainment Expo.

Designed and wrote core of Bäcchus' high-resolution real-time 6-DOF 3D graphics engine and ported it to multiple compilers and platforms.Designed web and home pages.Contributed to assorted well-known UNIX applications.Designed and wrote the commercial Pixel Magician and Image Agent image conversion and processing products, used by many prominent clients..

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

Installed and administered hundreds of Suns and other workstations at Abbott worldwide corporate headquarters.Trained and directed system administrators.Made Abbott's networked medical test management software suitable for Internet usage by finding and solving security and networking problems.Contributed to entire software life cycle of the medical test.

Reported directly to and worked closely with the CEO, Stanley Osher, also then Director of Applied Mathematics at UCLA.Researched and designed new CFD-based image processing algorithms used in crime scene reconstruction, military target identification, and medical applications. Work has been featured in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, the Reginald Denny.

Pasadena, CA, US

Helped teach a graduate course on differential geometry.First undergraduate TA and Head TA for Caltech's core junior/senior-level applied mathematics course, required for science and engineering students.

Pasadena, CA, US

Edited Professor Paco Lagerstrom's final work, "Matched Asymptotic Expansions", the definitive graduate textbook in that field. Verified all exercises and wrote some pages.

Pasadena, CA, US

Built upon Sophus Lie's research into systems of ordinary differential equations with continuous group structure.

US

One of a team of three analysts that created global market timing algorithms used to manage client portfolios worth ten billion dollars.