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Massachusetts Usa

Massachusetts Usa

Develop production-quality software on multiple tech stacks, work with architects, evangelize agile, contribute to usability

Bedford Ma

Smart Cloud offers a multithreaded AI decision support framework in F#/.NET. Clients include a European government concerned with VAT fraud and a Florida chemical plant planning to “go green”. My contributions included developing a calculator for real-time inference, implementing a free-form NL parser prototype, and ensuring agile Test-Driven Development throughout the company.I received glowing performance reviews, but I was affected by a company-wide layoff.

Cambridge Ma

QuickBooks-based payment apps (2000-2015). As Senior and Staff Engineer, I developed, and contributed to, many profitable products and features in the credit card payment space. I was affected by a layoff of the entire Cambridge office (about 200 people).⁃ 2014-2015: QuickBooks online payments refactoring, bulletproofing, and enhancements(Java/Dojo/node.js)⁃ 2013: Tech refreshed now-legacy 2001 card processing(Java, Tomcat, Spring MVC, Intuit open payments SDK)⁃ 2010-13: Standalone browser-based recurring payment portlet in Merchant Portal product(Java portlet + Struts then Spring MVC + Tiles > Hibernate data access > JBOSS then Tomcat > JSP then JQuery then node.js + HTML5)⁃ 2009: Migrated payment reconciliation to Flash stack for browser independence. (Java portlet > SQL payment data > Flex SWF + JSP + HTML)⁃ 2008: Online check processing app - via scanner or by key-entered transactions ACH(Java + C# > scanner driver + SQL payment data > JSP)⁃ 2007: Desktop-based recurring payment app(C++ & COM > Java servlet > SQL/XML payment data > HTML/Javascript)⁃ 2006: Payment feature discovery - pushing up-to-date transaction data to desktop (Java + SQL > XML > TCP/IP > C++ & COM)⁃ 2005: Auth/Capture (e.g. the hotel doesn't charge until you check out) & card refund(C++ & COM > Java servlet > HTML + JS)⁃ 2003-4: First online payment reconciliation app for QuickBooks desktop product(C++ & COM > Java servlet > SQL/XML settlement data > HTML + JS)⁃ 2001-2: First web-based credit card processing app for QuickBooks desktop product(C++ on desktop > OLE-embedded browser > Java servlet > HTML + Javascript)

Burlington Ma

developer in various "two pizza-sized" teams:Knowledge Reach - online document repository - GTE productUS Foods eCommerce websitesales and customer tracking - GTE intranet

Cambridge Ma

G2 is a real-time production-style expert system, running in Common Lisp ported to C. Customers included DuPont, NASA, and Asahi Breweries. My backend contributions included garbage-free file system access and time- and memory-bounded system calls into UNIX and VMS. My frontend contributions included an OLE implementation of drag-and-drop for G2's visual programming UI, and Java syntax autocompletion as a UI into G2's remote procedure invocation feature.

Cambridge Ma

various real time AI-related projects including:- rule-driven billing system (for US West)- real-time ATN parser for funds transfer and letters of credit (for Citibank)

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Master's Thesis: "Episodic Reminding, Epiphenomenon No More"

Bfa, Electronic Music