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| Desired Industry: Information Technology |
SpiderID: 12029 |
| Desired Job Location: oakland, California |
Date Posted: 3/29/2007 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 4/29/07 |
| Desired Wage: 150,000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Doctoral |
Willing to Relocate: Undecided |
Objective:
My professional career has evolved from hands on engineering, to directing and managing multiple teams on multiple projects, to co-founding companies. Common throughout has been my focus on gathering, integrating, and displaying data over the web. I started working on web technologies the earliest days of the mosaic browser and Java 0.9 to VRML (web3D) to advanced Flash applications. Most gratifying to me is the constant applicability of my research work at the University of California, Berkeley. There I focused on understanding how various and dispersed building designers and engineers were able, and at times, unable to communicate with each other. Exploring and solving those issues tend to carry over to more common problems of communication and collaboration between other disciplines.
Now, after more then 20 years in the IT field, I am able to apply my training as an architect to the field of software development. Interesting enough, they are not that different. Project opportunities get identified and defined. Teams consisting of both in house and outsource talent are assembled. Over all system architecture is designed and master specifications are drawn up. Components of the project are assigned to appropriate teams and progress is monitored. Client expectations are managed, issues are discovered, explored and resolved. QA/QC is maintained until project deployment.
Although I find my primary tools are whiteboards and MS project instead of compilers and graphics editors, I still try to keep my technical abilities alive by occasionally taking in a production sub task myself. I've found that if you let your skills languish for too long, ones ability to think through product design and estimate project times becomes less effective. That and I still enjoy it.
Experience:
Simulat, Berkeley, CA 10/05 04/07
CTO
Duties: Manage all projects. Project lead with focus on product Architecture. Manage customer relations during project definition and production. Authored IP documentation for current and future technology.
Projects of Note:
Conception and definition of the Simulat's lead product; Vyew. This product is the first web2.0 application to mix real-time web based collaboration and social networking functionality.
Project lead and Architect on a very complex web application that allows a user to create mosaic tile designs, apply those designs to objects in a 2D CAD application as well as viewing in a real-time 3D display.
PureSense, NASA/Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 9/01 – 10/05
CO-FOUNDER / MANAGER, CONTENT DELIVERY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
Duties: Identify information needs of diverse user communities and establish the process for translating priority needs into technical specifications for an information system and visualization. Directed the design, testing and development of the foundation product as well as directed other engineers and programmers. As a co-founder, I was also involved in the setting up the business, budgets, road maps, presentation, etc...
Projects include:
Manage the installation of a limited number of remote sensors in a water utility. This project required coordination between the water utility and experts at PureSense resulting in a report on possible sources of aggressive water. Manage the design and implementation of a dynamic GUI which communicates the changing values of water quality using GIS and other data presentation techniques. Coordinated the team to create this display using primarily Macromedia Flash and .net applications.
Babcock & Brown, San Francisco, CA 9/00 - 7/01
MANAGER, CONTENT DESIGN & DELIVERY
Duties: Establish and facilitate appropriate use of company design standards and protocols. Contribute to the assessment of how the company can leverage new information and communication technologies to better business presentations. Evaluate presentation interfaces used by different employees to access, research and manipulate information online.
PeriVisioN, Oakland, CA 1/00 - 9/00
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Duties: Consult and recommend courses of action on the development of new technologies and the implementation of said technologies. Be present at various level meetings as an advisor on technical issues. Help plan scheduling, time and cost analyses. Manage the design and production of products.
Planet9, San Francisco, CA 7/97 - 1/00
3D DESIGNER / MODELER: VRML PROGRAMMER
Duties: Design virtual environments for viewing over the Internet using VRML, JavaScript, and Java. Research and plan the implementation of new technologies as it relates to new projects. Find technical solutions to design problems and create a test product to demonstrate solutions. Many of my duties involve quickly creating design ideas and then implementing then using VRML, JavaScript and Java.
Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, CA 6/94 - 9/95
FACILITY PLANNER
Duties: Oversee departments moving from area to area. This included contacting and coordinating all elements involved. Planned and drew up space layouts with limited wall construction and demo planning. Typical projects were: designing an office floor for a new department moving in, creating space landscaping proposals for merging departments, redesigning space within the hospital to accommodate changing needs.
U.C. Berkeley Athletic Department, Berkeley, CA 8/93 - 12/94
VIDEO EDITOR
Duties: Filmed and created video highlights from football games and practices with graphics on the Video Toaster graphics system for PAC 10 teams and for Pro teams when requested. Also created weekly coaches' edits with graphics for the Cal Bears football team. Most of my time was split between two tasks: filming during all kinds of weather, and long nights creating video compositions for the PAC-Ten teams. Other tasks were to create highlight films given to pro scouts from various teams.
Education:
University of California, Berkeley, CA 1997 - 2003
Ph.D in Architecture; primary research conducted on virtual technologies and their application in the construction of online workspace environments and the use of visual interfaces to support unique forms of collaboration throughout the design process. Minor in Cognitive Science and Program Evaluation in Education.
Dissertation title: SPATIAL COMMUNICATION IN COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 1995 - 1997
Masters in Science of Architecture, minor in Visual Cognition. Masters thesis: SPATIAL PERCEPTION IN
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS: Visual Cognition Gain with Head Mounted Displays
University of California, Berkeley, CA 1993 – 1995
AB in Architecture. First undergraduate to be invite to take a joint graduate level course at Stanford
University.
United States Air Force 1987 - 1992
Technical training on integrated radar and navigation systems. Stationed in Oxford, England as well serving in Desert Shield and Storm. Supervision of aircraft support equipment and personnel; Radar and Navigation Computer system analysis and repair at component level.
Skills:
Techniques
User Requirements Mapping, Information Delivery and Standard Creation, Solution Architecture, Project Scope and Planning, Presentation Design and Creation, GUI Design, Web Publishing Management, Design Documentation
Tools
MS Office Suite (& Project, Visio), Macromedia Flash (Programming and design), HTML, CSS, Javascript, PhotoShop, 3DSMax, AutoCAD, Illustrator, VRML, some experience with Java, Visual Basic, ASP
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