Dennis Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Guide for the Architecture Cruise (see http://bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Boat_Cruise) and Reinventing Boston (see http://bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Boston_Engineered).Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for 2020.

Greater Boston Area

Art & Architecture Tour guide at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square (see https://www.bpl.org/visit-central-library/art-tours/).

Greater Boston Area

Developed and teach Boston By Map for the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (see https://www.leventhalmap.org/event/boston-by-map-4/?instance_id=2257).Creating a geographical index of 19th century land surveys by W.A. Mason & Son using Carto.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Study Group Leader with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Brandeis. Developed and teach a History of Waltham class (see https://www.brandeis.edu/bolli/prospective-members/courses-programs/wednesday-courses.html#hg8).

UI architect/developer in Learning Management Applications & Services. Designed the UI software for a suite of learning modules, and led the development team. Worked with UX designers to translate their visual and interaction designs into HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript. The UI is an AJAX web application which interacts with the middle tier through a REST web service. The software design is based on the MVVM pattern, using the jQuery and Knockout JavaScript libraries.

Member of the advanced development group at Kronos.Kronos Workforce Central (WFC) is the market leading enterprise workforce management software. My projects included:• Touch Screen UI: create a touch screen user interface for an embedded device using standard web application technology (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/AJAX). I championed the use of component based development, and developed a library of touch screen custom controls based on YUI.I also trained other developers to create additional controls.• Portal Integration: integrate WFC with customers’ enterprise portals. I prototyped custom portal components for SharePoint (.Net) and WebSphere (JSR-168), and then lead the product development team that turned the prototype into a product feature. I also trained the service organization how to configure and customize the portal components.• Software as a Service: offer the Kronos product as a service(Platform as a Service), using cloud technology. We Prototyped a multi-tenant versions of WFC based on AWS, Azure, force.com, and Dynamics CRM. We later gave a talk on PaaS based on this work at a joint ACM/IEEE meeting.• Excel Integration: deliver information from WFC to analysts working in Excel. I prototyped Excel integration alternatives using several Microsoft technologies (IBF, BDC, OBA), and then joined the development team that turned the OBA prototype into a product feature.

Software Architect at OneSource Information Services., OneSource sells information about businesses as a subscription service. My projects included:• Next Generation Content Management System: refresh the technology in the content management system that delivered information to subscribers, to improve load time and query performance. As a member of a small team, I designed a data model and query interface based on XML schema and XPath, designed a high performance ETL process based on Oracle message queues and PL/SQL jobs, and devised a method for pre-computing , storing and retrieving query results using an inverted bit map algorithm.• Personalizable User Interface: replace an ASP web application with a portal style user interface using .Net. We prototyped a user interface based on ASP.NET and DotNetNuke.

Senior Technologist in the Operational Systems Laboratory, tasked with applying emerging technologies to the business operations of a telecommunications carrier, including:• Business Process Management and Workflow: use business process management tools and infrastructure to accelerate the launch of a new business unit. Worked on multi-functional team to design and document operational processes, and provided guidance on how to use workflow software to support the execution of those processes.• VoiceXML: adopt a new voice user interface technology to augment call centers. I championed the use of VoiceXML within Verizon, represented Verizon on the VoiceXML Forum, and founded the Boston VoiceXML User Group.

InConcert was a Xerox business that turned a research prototype into a commercial workflow management product. The business unit was later sold to Tibco. The InConcert product is still in use today. I started as a research scientist, and eventually became chief architect.• Member of a team of three research scientists who developed a prototype workflow management system, which was then a new category of software.• Architect and lead developer for the first release of InConcert; its n-tier, object oriented architecture is still not obsolete 20 years later• Chief architect for subsequent releases, continuing my technical leadership within engineering and adding externally facing responsibilities: communication with customer and analysts, and representing InConcert on the Workflow Management Coalition.

M.A., Mathematics

B.S., Mathematics