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Palo Alto, California, United States

Insted provides an experimental STEM program in Palo Alto from elementary school to high school. The program includes teaching programming, robotics, AI, energy concepts, science, and math. Our teachers are mainly researchers, instructors, or graduate students, drawn ideally from the Stanford academic community with a student/faculty ratio: 5:1. With Ph.D. holders consisting of 80% of the faculty.Job PurposeI direct the educational activities at Insted. The past years at Insted have been incredible! Founding an educational startup and designing and developing an experimental STEM school has been a profoundly rewarding experience. I am responsible for all aspects of the STEM Program, recruiting teachers and students, advertising, marketing, sales, curriculum, and program development. Please see Insted.orgAchievementsLed Stanford science researchers, visionary educators, and parents to create an immersive STEM after-school educational space. Deep efficient learning arises from questions on STEM subjects that the students formulate while working on real science projects and research. This academic style sparks curiosity that intersects with the fundamental question of modern science. We discuss, mentor, and collaborate with students one-on-one through projects rather than just supply information. Merit scholarships are available. If students have a dream and will persevere, there is a way!Here are some specific things that I think are great about our program. Science is made interesting and fun and this helps our students excel in physics, math, astronomy, and robotics. The program provides merit scholarships so that students from all backgrounds can participate. Above all the curriculum is designed to be fun and engaging, making students excited to learn.Knowledge Skills and AbilitiesI recruited a team of highly qualified teachers. I functioned as a skilled leader and communicator and was passionate about education.

New York City

Management Consulting, Project Development, and System Development.Designed and developed an Expert System for Manufacturing and Business Process Planning. Developed a Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) system and an enterprise management system.Developed a Billing System for the MRP system which was installed and used by the Printing Industry.Designed a Price Estimating System for in-the-field sales force cost estimates in real-time.Designed a software system for a US Navy procurement for installation at 150 networked sites. Installed, tested, and trained clients on using the manufacturing, MRP software systems developed at ARPDeveloped and installed an Expert System for the Printing Industry.I provide continuous leadership at Automation Research Partners, a research and development limited partnership founded with venture funding. The following technology was developed and spun off to corporate research partners. A key technology developed was Conversational MRP a system for encoding the knowledge of the resources, materials, and components needed to manufacture a product. It is a critical technology to ensure the management has automated manufacturing to meet the demand for its products. I also led a consulting team of researchers and developed and managed client relationships, as well as led the performance and deliverables of consulting projects. This role also involved managing goals, and resources and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget and with a high level of performance.Developed an Expert System for medical cost containment for Health Insurance Used CASE design tools for large system design. Worked with UNIX, Informix, Sybase, Oracle C, C++ and Prolog and LISP.

Davis, California, United States

EmployerThe University of California Davis, School of Graduate Studies required a student admission process that is fully online and highly reliable. All aspects of the application, including letters of recommendation, transcripts, and other uploads were to be handled electronically through the online application portal. The design goal was to help UC Davis streamline processes so that they could admit students more efficiently, adapt to changing needs, and reduce costs.Job PurposeTo explore a new software architecture for the graduate admissions department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for their admissions computer system. SOA is a software architecture that connects all the education system services together over a bus-like software infrastructure. It acts as a communication center in the SOA by allowing the linking of multiple systems, applications, and data and connects all components with no disruption. The core concept of the SOA bus architecture is that you integrate different applications by putting a communication bus between them and then enabling each application to talk to the bus. The bus acts as a central point of communication so that applications don't have to worry about how to talk to each other software directly. The admissions system could be improved incrementally and new functionality provided in stages. This involved educating stakeholders about the benefits of these technologies, as well as implementing them in the graduate admissions systems. This design has had a significant potential impact on the graduate admissions systems at UC Davis. The new architecture offers the potential for a more flexible, efficient, and scalable system. It has also made it easier to integrate with other legacy systems, which improves the overall user experience. AchievementsI provided hands-on leadership in developing a design based on SOA.

San Francisco, California, United States

State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund), is a public enterprise fund established by the State of California through legislation enacted in 1913 to provide an available market for workers' compensation insurance to employers located in California. It is the largest workers’ compensation insurer in California.Job PurposeI identified the need for automating and building an online user process for the premium billing and payment processes at State Fund which were then manual. I wrote a proposal to the board of directors for the development of a system automating premium billing and premium payments. Then I proceeded with the development of technical requirements and communicated with departments across the company to ensure a unified and encompassing design incorporating all requirements. At the time, State Fund premium billing and premium payment was processed manually. The scale of the payments system was very large. State Fund Yearly earned premium at the time was $7.633 Billion, paid by over 265,000 policyholders using a costly manual system based on a paper billing process and paper payment processing methods.DutiesI oversaw the design, development, and deployment of the eBilling and ePayroll systems. I was the architect for a high-performance system design that optimized mainframe resources and planned for system scale-up to more than 50,000 simultaneous users. The implementation of this system resulted in experience managing hardware and software deployments and implementations related to; high-volume electronic financial transactions, networking, routers, switches, firewalls, circuits, POS, and LAN/WAN. I was responsible for successfully performing the following project activities:1. Develop the requirements for a state-of-the-art for electronic billing and payment system 2. Prototype the new software and test functions.3. Recruit consultants and project technical staff.4. Oversee the data performance and loading to scale up the system.

Education record

Computer Science