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Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Designed, developed and implemented a site search system for CBSSports.com using an Apache Solr cluster, ajax-solr and jQuery. User actions are tracked for analysis of search effectiveness and efficiency. Significant improvements were achieved over the Google Search Appliance based system.Developed and implemented the Receptionist, Waiting Room and Doorman software objects used by the NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) project. This algorithmically allocated bandwidth, from several… Show more Designed, developed and implemented a site search system for CBSSports.com using an Apache Solr cluster, ajax-solr and jQuery. User actions are tracked for analysis of search effectiveness and efficiency. Significant improvements were achieved over the Google Search Appliance based system.Developed and implemented the Receptionist, Waiting Room and Doorman software objects used by the NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) project. This algorithmically allocated bandwidth, from several CDNs, among users viewing the NCAA Basketball Championship. Over four million users were processed in the first four days. Due in part to this efficient allocation of bandwidth, the MMOD video player set an internet record of 268,000 simultaneous live streams. The software was updated and used in 2007 by expanding the MySQL database to a MySQL Cluster, and in 2008 by creating closer integration with the Akamai bandwidth monitoring web services. CBSSports.com and CBS Sports were awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy award for MMOD, and the system was subsequently patented.Designed, developed, and implemented the sports alerts platform for CBSSports.com. This was comprised of two main parts. The first part is a user application for entering alert requests for various areas of interest such as teams, players, scores, and news. The second part is a dispatcher process that runs constantly to respond to messages from live game scoring, publishing, and other systems by matching those messages to the requests, generating individually customized alerts for users, and sending alerts via e-mail, SMS and MMS. The dispatcher load is spread across hundreds of servers so that alerts may be received within seconds of the occurrence of the event.Responsible for the official online MVP balloting for SuperBowl.com from 2004 through 2006.Developed many other high-traffic interactive web applications for CBSSports.com, NFL.com, PGATour.com, and NCAA.com. Show less

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Provided technical leadership, working with sales, marketing, and operations groups to develop interactive features, contests, and promotions. Developed user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript, and Java. Developed cgi programs on Sun Solaris for the Netscape Enterprise Server using Perl, C, and C++. Created and interfaced to Oracle databases using Perl DBI, Pro*C, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL. Project life cycles typically varied from a few weeks to a few months with deadlines fixed to sporting events… Show more Provided technical leadership, working with sales, marketing, and operations groups to develop interactive features, contests, and promotions. Developed user interfaces with HTML, JavaScript, and Java. Developed cgi programs on Sun Solaris for the Netscape Enterprise Server using Perl, C, and C++. Created and interfaced to Oracle databases using Perl DBI, Pro*C, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL. Project life cycles typically varied from a few weeks to a few months with deadlines fixed to sporting events. Projects were for many high traffic sites, including sportsline.com, superbowl.com, nfl.com, mlb.com, worldseries.com, nfleurope.com, soccernet.com, golfweb.com, pgatour.com, tigerwoods.com, netscape.com, sports.com, citysearch.com, and aol.com. Types of projects included bracket contests with live scoring for the NCAA Basketball Championship, US Open Tennis Tournament, and World Golf Championships Match Play; online voting for the 1999 Major League Baseball Allstar Team, 2001 All-NFLEurope team, 2001 World Bowl MVP, and 2002 NFL Pro Bowl Team; and rating and review products such as the GolfWeb Course Guide, and the GolfWeb Gear Guide. Show less

Plantation, Florda

Proposed, designed, coded and implemented a web site for manufacturing quality statistical reporting. The site served management, manufacturing and test-systems engineers, as well as new-product design groups. Managed an Oracle database for collecting and warehousing manufacturing quality data from product assembly, tuning, and test processes. Assisted the CAM group in achieving assessment as SEI-CMM level 2, and pursuing level 3, by developing processes for the Software Planning key process… Show more Proposed, designed, coded and implemented a web site for manufacturing quality statistical reporting. The site served management, manufacturing and test-systems engineers, as well as new-product design groups. Managed an Oracle database for collecting and warehousing manufacturing quality data from product assembly, tuning, and test processes. Assisted the CAM group in achieving assessment as SEI-CMM level 2, and pursuing level 3, by developing processes for the Software Planning key process area and the Software Project Tracking and Oversight key process area. Developed a web interface to the group's AutoPlan project data through the Oracle Project Data Warehouse. Show less

Plantation, Florida

Lead a group of 3-4 engineers in building robotic systems for electronic circuit board assembly, and final product assembly for 2-way radios, pagers and cellular phones. We developed software in the C programming language to control workstations consisting of an assembly robot, machine vision system, and process sensors and tooling. We interfaced the workstations to a UNIX CAM system for factory-floor control.

Plantation, Florida

Responsible for research and development of machine-vision-guided robotic assembly systems for integrated circuit and pc-board assembly. Designed and integrated mechanical, optical, electrical, and software subsystems. Developed a proprietary machine vision software product for video image analysis, object recognition and location, and robot guidance.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation titled "Study of a Mobile Robot Controlled by a Microcomputer", 1985. http://bit.ly/MnOk6T

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering