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Currently working as a "multi-hat" consultant for All Of It Now, whose previous clients include Apple, Paypal, MTV, NASA, Epson, Nvidia, VH1, Huff. Post.Most recent project: Helped build/ maintain an interactive virtual reality exhibit ("MOFAD CITY") at the Museum of Food and Drink in Williamsburg, NYC• Acted as NYC Point of Contact for project co-sponsored by INFINITI and Vox Creative• Installed, maintained and troubleshot computer hardware and software + audio visual hardware• Rescued live exhibit computer system and manually rebuilt partition tables, after hard drive malfunction• Helped build, and disassemble the onsite exhibit• Wrote troubleshooting manual for museum staff

Greater New York City Area

After 16 yrs. architecting software systems, applied my design and engineering approach to the grand scale - building a model to understand and troubleshoot all of society• Comprehensively studied societal issues and human behavior• Built a wholistic model to systematically pinpoint and address key root problems in society• Created 500+ page outlined coverage of all areas and issues of society - using model…• Personally Created 2-Hour Demo Documentary - Episode 1 of Mini-Series on Strategically Solving Most Fundamental Issues of Society• Achieved endorsement of senior government economist

Greater New York City Area

• Helped write speeches for promotion and competitions for Cook Science, a start-up which crowd-pools and shares best practices and formulas for scientific work• Worked directly with co-founder so that speeches advanced 'Cook Science' objectives

Greater New York City Area

• Worked on writing a series of 5 books to pioneer deeper understanding of human behavior and design, and use that for us to better thrive individually and collectively - an instruction manual we never came with as humans• Researched, took courses, and integrated many systems of philosophy and psychology to develop new operational model for human behavior

Greater New York City Area

• Created business start-up idea to take advantage of a new promising stem-cell-derived discovery • Wrote and recorded a 23-minute introductory and enrollment speech

Greater New York City Area

• Built graphical system concept with initial content to train people to contend more powerfully on-the-fly in social situations - based on many years of social dynamics study• Created curriculum of reading material and multimedia for people to improve their dating lives and social skills• Compiled a large compendium of personally crafted and curated material and techniques to be used for practice

Greater New York City Area

• Created a prototype for next generation dating website using VBA expert system and excel to generate html• To this day, methods are mathematically more accurate and functionally superior to all current dating sites for ranking matched clients• Algorithms can be applied to any other lines of business which rely on complex result matching

Greater New York City Area

STARS Enterprise Application (and earlier versions)(Visual Studio.Net, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Windows XP, ADO.NET, JIRA, Confluence, Visual C++, Visual Basic 6, COM, SQL Server, Oracle)• Programmed wide range of RMIS features for Claims, Incidents, Transactions, Financials, Occurrences, Currencies, OSHA, Policies• Personally developed and coded extremely complex Fast Crystal Query reporting engine that allowed important reports to run up to 20 times faster• Created complex JavaScript custom-formula designer for automatic field population. Feature recognized on total development-wide conference call as probably being the most successful and well-designed feature for its product release.STARSUpdate Application(Visual C++, MFC, Windows NT/9X, ODBC, Crystal Reports, SQLAnywhere, Oracle)STARSUpdate performs complex updates and consolidation of insurance carrier data, sophisticated error checking and data reconciliation.• Personally responsible for development, and programming of all major areas of product• Assisted as senior technical advisor to help secure new business involving my product. Produced new workflow and technical solutions to allow this lucrative business to expand easily.• Programmed entire new dimension of functionality into product via detailed transaction update process (when only a more general claim update was available previously).• Designed whole new expert system with a powerful user-interface wizard, to make it easy to investigate, decide upon and automatically respond to complex data situations.• Single-handedly performed:- Software design and research (included user interviews)- Quality assurance testing- Product support and hotline for the entire US + some areas in Europe.- Overseeing of work and training for junior assistants, and business product trainersCIDBIS Application • Designed and programmed from scratch software application that coordinated data between billing and client systems.

Greater New York City Area

• Developed many releases of large-scale high end project management software products for MS Windows through their full project life cycles, using Visual C++, MS SDK 3.1, MFC, Resource Workshop. • Sales growth of our very small group's products accelerated by millions of dollars per year.• Leader of GUI Team (GUI Interface specialist) and Estimation and Analyses Programming Team. Additionally generated schedules, distributed, tracked, oversaw work, and provided training.• Designed and programmed estimation/formula functions, profiling / what-if analyses and spreadsheet windows, product customization functions, progress bar engines, using DLL's, MDI, more.• Coordinated with quality assurance, documentation, configuration, and professional service departments to secure project goals.• Designed sophisticated batch files and macros to automate processes and save company time.

Greater New York City Area

• Through discussions with President, ascertained needs of company and personally designed and programmed whole new custom office automation system in 4GL. • Provided training to staff

Greater New York City Area

Academic Computing Facilities• Provided assistance to faculty and students with software, hardware and programming on IBM PCs, Macintosh, and VAX systems. • Taught classes for software and computer use

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 3.6 Gpa

NYU Honors Scholar Dean's Honor List / Founder's Day Award/ Cum Laude

Computer Science, Mathematics And Physics Course Tracks

Diploma