Chris Cera Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Arcweb Technologies specializes in building custom digital products in partnership with growth-focused leaders. We work with innovators to rapidly deliver complex systems with proven, high-performing, cross-functional teams.

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Negotiated final transaction to sell Vuzit.com to Accusoft in June 2015.
• Co-founded B2B enterprise software company focused on document control and analytics.
• Closed >$1M revenue incl. Fortune 500 companies: General Dynamics and ING DIRECT.
• Created Professional Services group, negotiated procurement, and reported to Executives.
• Patented online document viewing technology later replicated by industry giants.
• Built full stack product: Ruby/Rails, Javascript, and MySQL on Amazon Web Services.

Bluebell, Pennsylvania, US

• 3rd employee of startup building mobile law enforcement apps (later #7 in Philly100).
• Supported closing $3.6M DOJ project to oversee technologies for US law enforcement.
• Managed all research and development, customer relationships, and IT operations.
• Responsible for evaluation and procurement of mobile device hardware and platform.
• Developed applications for disruption-tolerant location services using 802.11 networks.
• Responsible for communications during emergency exercises with law enforcement.

• Lead developer, co-inventor and -designer of the real-time graphics library in TrafficPulse Jamcast/Nexgen for 3D graphics and animations used on live television daily in over 35 cities from 70+ individual stations.
• Patents: 20060253246, 20060247846, 20060247850, 20060253245, and 20060247845.
• Deployed software quarterly, and added 2 new customers monthly with unique assets.
• Optimized performance of processor(s), memory, graphics hardware, OS, and video drivers.
• Provided documentation and support to all artists to streamline station deployments.
• Implemented dynamic environment w/multi-threaded update-loop and live sensor updates.

• Developed 2D video games (libSDL) for museums/hospitals deployed in multiple countries.
• Designed software requirements, specifications, and deployment plan for three products.
• Implemented motion detection and after-effects using hardware sensors.
• Worked w. engineers, artists, and carpenters incl. world-renowned designer Remo Saraceni.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Publications
• Complete list of publications: http://cera.us/cera_cv/
• 3 Refereed Journal Articles: Elsevier AEI [2006], Elsevier CAD [2005], ASME JCISE [2005]
• 1 Refereed Magazine Article: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications [2002]
• 8 Refereed Conference Articles: ACM SMI [2005], ASME CIE [2005,2003,2001], CIS [2003], ACM SIGCSE [2002-2003]Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (GICL)
• Technical lead of MUG (Java3D) and FACADE (OpenGL) projects with 3 CAD developers.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Developed 2D molecular visualizer in C, libX11, and Postscript.
• Implemented steepest descent minimization for high-quality planar depictions.
• Investigated neural networks for high-throughput screening using SNNS (Perl/Batchman).
• Developed a batch interpreter and pattern generator for testing of neural networks (Perl).
• Designed sub-programs solving analytical, physical, and structural chemistry problems.

Master Of Science; Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Diploma