Focus and Areas of Interest: interactive multimedia software for young people designed to impart lasting benefit including artistic creativity and cogniive development. The art based on the interaction of visuals, music and sound.
Current Emphasis on Early Education Programs: Pre-K, K, First Grade - providing engagement and developmental benefits for children starting at age 4.
Special Interest in STEAM (STEM + Art) in Education Employing Art as a means of engaging and inspiring an interest in STEM subjects in middle- and highschool-age students by providing insight into the STEM working within the software they use and control. Major focus on presenting STEM to girls to make it more appealing in order to overcome discouraging socialization effects so that more of them pursue educations and careers in technology fields.
Earlier: Corporate and Project Management:
Team and personnel management across a variety of projects and organizations including AT&T Bell Labs, Cambridge Medical Systems/Picker International, Peobody Engineerng, New York University, AT&T Information Systems, and VisiSound Technologies. Managed projects in software and systems design, development and testing in medical diagnostic systems and equipment, financial data information systems, reseearch in visual information processing, education and training curricular and course development (including in expertise development), in mainframe operating systems implementation and deployment, and in interactive multimedia systems, software and apps.
Programmer/Designer/Developer:
Software design, development, testing, optimizing, maintenance across
application areas including business and financial, Internet /Intranet,
multimedia, image & signal processing, information system interfaces,
training & education. Substantial database management experience.
Experience in documentation development from design specifications to online
user document systems. Includes documenation for and trainging in each area.
Information Systems and E-commerce Consultant:
Designed and implemented strategies and solutions across a variety of systems
and platforms for a variety of clients. Solutions effected improved
efficiency and performance for client employees and customers alike. Used
state-of-the-art tools, technologies and techniques to achieve desired ends,
and have designed and provided training and instruction in use of systems and
technology to personnel including management. Solutions involve analysis,
problem statement and logical problem solving based on extensive experience
and knowhow.
APPLICATION Areas/Companies SUMMARY
VisiSound
Technologies - Multi-Media Software design, development, testing,
enhancement - DSP, Video-audio-text functionality, multi-thread processes,
text processing and I/O, user-system interfaces, graphics generation,
processing and manipulation, file manipulation and control, printer
control/interface, data compression/codecs, command interpreters and
compilers, and Web-client communication and interfaces. Extensive database
management from creation through maintenance. Applications and Tools written
and developed in C, C++ (using MS Visual C++, C#), Unix Shell (Korn-, Borne-,
C-, R-), TCP/IP Sockets, HTML, Java, Servlets, MS Access, Excel, JavaScript,
Windows 32 API’s, Flash Video Programming/Development, Photoshop Graphics Editing, PhotoMax Graphics, AVS4YOU Video/Audio Editing, AviEdit avi.
AT&T
Bell Laboratories – Software Quality Group, Developer/Project Manager – Proposed, Planned
and Managed projects focused on software development expertise and software engineering,
and software team productivity. Managed R&D teams investigating software
projects practices, performance and metrics; software debugging expertise (“What makes Expert Programmers experts”);
best current practices in large software development projects; best practices
for software engineers, programmers; team problem solving methods to improve
team interaction, communication and performance. Designed and developed
software using AT&T Unix, C, C++ and Shell. Software and documentation
maintenance using SCCS, RCS. Taught Problem Solving Methods, Software Team
Productivity, Expert Software Testing/Debugging courses.
AT&T Information Systems – Unix
OS Project Manger – Mainframe Unix
OS (System V/VM for IBM/Amdahl Computers) and Applications. Managed projects
and teams responsible for deployment and support of Unix Operating Systems
and Applications for major mainframe clients – business planning, contract
administration, recruitment, budget control. Designed and developed software
for testing and interfacing application to Unix OS. Trained personnel and
clients in use of systems.
Cambridge Medical System - Direcrot of Software and Systems Development - Designed medical diagnositc computers and software for Electr Cardiaology. Created nework of computers spanning the US and reaching to Europe for the design and implementation of diagnostic sofware for use by Cardiologist. Network included computers located at UC San Diego Medical Center, UC Irvine, New York University (Human Information Processing Lab), University ofHanover, Germany and Catholique University, Brussel, Belgium.
New York
University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – Research Assistant – Extensive design and
implementation of image and digital signal processing software, display and
machine control, and data analysis programs in Berkeley Unix environments in
C, C-Shell and Bourne-Shell on DEC 11/780 and PDP-11 computers. Taught a
variety of graduate and undergraduate course related to research work in The
Human Information Processing Lab. Collaborated and published with a variety
of researchers and engineers.
E-Business/Commerce
Consultant – Web/Internet Business Applications Design, Development - OPTimum
Technology - Leading-edge
technologies and expertise applied to the development, optimization,
implementation, testing, and deployment of retail and financial e-business
solutions.
Bloomberg Information Systems: Training
and consulting/development in Unix, C, and C++ based technology. Technology
used to implement and update Bloomberg information terminals (data and
communications worldwide)
Goldman Sachs Designed, developed, tested, enhanced financial data entry
and display systems. Trained employees in use of technologies. RDMS: SQL
Server/Sybase OS: Unix; Languages: Unix Shell, C, C++.
Lehman Brothers (Consultant, American International
Group/AITE) – Y2K/Financial Systems software design, development and testing
in Java, using Servlets, JavaScript, C, MySQL, Excel, HTML in IBM Unix,
WebSphere, VM and MVS environments. Optimized performance of key worldwide
Intranet data retrieval, entry and display systems.
Trained software development team and personnel in C and
Unix Shell programming.
Software
Applications Design & Development (Consultant)– OPTimum Technology - Major Clients included: Bloomberg Information Systems, Chubb
Advanced Training, Hoffman LaRoche, State Farm, IBM, Bell Atlantic, AT&T,
Bell Labs, Technology Exchange, Sys-ED, Bank of New York, Federal Justice
Department, US Navy, Advantis, Ameritech, Goldman Sachs, PaineWeber, Univ.
Penn, Univ. Michigan.
Developed applications for training programmers and
developers. Languages and areas covered: C, C++, AT&T Unix, HP-UX, Xenix,
Shell (Bourne, Korn, C), Sybase/SQL-Server, Windows 32 & NT Programming,
Java, Visual Basic, Client/Server Communication (OSI), Unix systems
administration, O-O design/development, expert software design and debugging.
Technolgies Enlisted and Specialized in
Java
(J2EE), JSP, C, C++, Java SDK, Eclipse, Google Android NDK, ADB, Unix Shell,
Visual Basic, Visual C++, PowerBuilder, SQL Server (ODBC), Sybase, Oracle,
MySQL, PHP5, MS Access, MS Excel, SQLite, JavaScript, J-Query, Ajax, DOS Batch,
CGI/Perl, PSP, HTML, HTML-5, XML, Macromedia
Flash, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Photomax Pro, SWF Tools, NVU, AVS4You Video/Audio Editors, Word Press,
Apple Developer MS Developer Network
Environments/Platforms: Windows32/NT/XP, Windows Server,
IBM VM, MVS, Websphere, BSD Unix, AT&T Unix, Xenix, SCO-Unix, Linux, Sun
OS, Solaris, HP-UX, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla,
Netscape Navigator
EDUCATION SUMMARY
Ph.D. - Human Information Processing (Sensory and
Experimental Psychology, Computer Science/Technology)
New
York University
– Research/Thesis/Publications: Spatial Frequency bands and Human
Visual Information Processing; Designed, developed sophisticated image
processing models and video processing software.
MASTERS - Human Information Processing - NYU Research: Neuromagnetic Detection Methods and
Information Content in Human Visual and Auditory Systems. Computer simulation/modeling
neurological processes.
BACHELORS -
Science & EE
- Manhattan College – Digital and Anolog theory, design, and programming.
PROFESSIONAL
Courses/Seminars:
Management, Project/team management, Training and Education in Avanced
Technology.
Curriculum/Course
Design Training: AT&T
Bell Laboratories Education Center, Chubb Advance Training Center among
others
.
DESIGNS and AWARDS
* Video Graphics Entertainment and Education Software –
Copyright, Pat. Application in process
* Individual & Team Leader Performance Awards -
AT&T Bell Laboratories
* Design Award - Electronic Design Magazine - Cambridge Medical
Systems
* Character Generation & Writing system - Patent -
Cambridge Medical Systems
* Television Signal Translator system – Patent
* Registered Trademarks for various multimedia software designs
PUBLICATONS
Articles, papers, symposia, courses, seminars in various
areas of software and technology design, human interfaces, video/image
processing, human expertise, human and visual information processing
research. Published extensively at AT&T Bell Laboratories and in the John
Wiley Encyclopedia of Software
Engineering and at Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute.