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WORK EXPERIENCE
CEO, Developer /// Ariston Design /// 2005 -> Present
Worked as a consultant, development and design company.
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LocalTherapySource. Portal for physical therapists (PT) to put paid listings for
their services, customizable by the PT. A job board and blog for PTs.
ExpressAuto is a car service and repair shop
Implemented there web site using wordpress with customizations using
AngularJS, TypeScript, SaSS, MySQL and HTML5.
The back end application created a portal for the company to schedule
bays, optimized repairman billable hours, handling of parts and supplies as
well as a portal for customers.
The back end was developed with PHP in a Zend Framework using Zend
Studio for the IDE. In addition, the code was finally implemented for crossbrowser capability.
OptiRate – OptiRate, a highly funded start-up was a web portal for high wealth
customers wishing to invest in highly yielding CDs.
Previous programmers were unable to deliver. Coded over 250k Lines of
code of medium complexity in 9 months meeting there delivery date.
Front end used AngularJS, Less, PHP, Smarty template in the back-end
using PHPStorm as the development IDE.
Bug rate was less than 1%. Reduced complexity of code, and optimized the
code by roughly 45-55% serving thousands of visitors per week.
Managed and integrated with Cooperative banks software to find high yield
CDs.
The back end consisted of user accounts who tracked there investments.
The app interfaced with third party identification systems.
The front end used react.js for the view layer with FlexBox for more styling
and Redux for state management.
The microService tier used PHP for back end development using the
Laravel Framework and the data/storage/persistence layer was in MySQL.
Dlife.com – Dlife is a large sized nutritional information portal company.
Programmed a module for dlife.com that took recipes and broke them
down into nutritional info for specialized diets.
Used Vue.js and bootstrap in the view/front end layer,
PROFILE
Highly motivated, results driven software
developer with over 20 years experience
working on all facets of software
development. From transforming business
and technical requirements, to coding and
creating the product, testing and debugging,
and finally release, support and
maintenance. Experience working with large
organizations, small, and startups mastering
the art of managing technical decisions and
trade-offs, always knowing how to avoid
analysis paralysis as well as rushed solutions.
Worked as a technical lead both within large
teams as well as an individual contributor.
With a strong research skill and focus, I know
how to attack a problem and have the
tenacity to solve even very hard problems
using appropriate tools in pressure and
challenging environments.
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Ph.D attended but not completed
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
M.S. in Computer Science GPA:
GPA: 3.5/4.0
State U. of New York – Potsdam
Potsdam, NY
B.S in Computer Science
GPA: 3.5/4.0
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microService or middle layer utilized a self-hosted node.js based middle
tier using PHPStorm IDE and MongoDB.
Client was satisfied that the code was finished rapidly with no bugs
discovered, highly optimized and was easily integrated into their current
system by architecting a clear and separable API set.
Developed a web site using Wordpress Woocommerce as the store front
The view layer used react.js, less, html5
PHP was used in the back end using Symfony Framework, Zend Studio IDE
for the company to sell its health and vitamins within wordpress.
The program also took health information for clients with different health
requirements and suggested products for them
Other Projects:
UpTo29, National Hellenic Society, TravGroup, Fox and Dole, ToursToChile and
more
Technologies Used in other projects: PHP, JAVA, MongoDB, MySQL, Zend
Framework, Less, SaSS, SCSS, Ruby on Rails, Docker, NPM, KVM, libvert, AWS
Lambda, bower, Jquery, DOM, Eclipse, CodeIgniter, PHPStorm
CTO, VP of Engineering /// Digital Authentication Tech. /// 2005 -> 2009
Digital Authentication Technologies patented technology provides the World’s first
environment-aware identity and access management (IAM) solutions using GPS
Vitazon – The company sells healthcare supplements, food and drink products
Skills & Abilities
Slashed complexity, antiquated and non-clear API and redeveloped the core
technology porting it from legacy forth to Java and C++ on Windows and Linux.
Developed interface between in-house developed GPS device and the core API.
The core technology was integrated into numerous horizontal business
segments and companies. As a result core code was reusable and deployed in a
multitude of integrations cleanly and scalable.
Increased performance by 40% by optimizing queries and profiling.
Successfully Gathered requirements and implemented them into RequisitePro
Architected and designed the system using Agile and Scrum techniques
Implemented GitHub, Subversion and Rational ClearCase for versioning, Rational
Purify for debugging and profiling depending on clients codebase
Used Trello and Jira for Agile project management.
Incorporated bug free code into third party platforms using differing
technologies depending on clients platform: Some technologies that were
utilized were Jquery, AJAX, JSON, JUNIT, cppUNIT, subversion, svn, github.
CEO /// Institute of Materials Science /// 2003 -> 2005
A premiere institute, that is offering high-level research conferences, short courses,
and online courses to executives in product development, sales, product managers,
and development engineers. The institute also produced proceedings from its
conferences that were offered for sale.
Strong command over the
integration & implementation of
complex APIs and web services.
Strong verbal and written
communication skills
Complex problem solving skills
Time Management & Organization
Ability to thrive in collaborative
environment
Strong attention to detail
Creation of fast & scalable solutions
Optimized and fast code
Clean and well documented code
Fast bug fixing & problem resolution
Ability work in pressure & complex
work environment.
Team player
Technical Skills
Front End Skills
ES5/6
JQuery
Angular
React
Redux
JSON
Bootstrap
HTML5, DOM
Vue
TypeScript
MicroService/Middle/Back End Layer
PHP
C++
Java
Python
Node.js
Ruby
REST
Sass
Less
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Programmed the web site using PHP, Javascript, and the virtual courses in
Ruby on Rails, Javascript and CSS.
Created merchant accounts and developed storefront for sale of
proceedings using osCommerce
Due to economic recession moved courses from on-site courses to virtual
online courses using a JAVA interface to allow PowerPoint presentations
with annotation tools broadcast via the JAVA interface with voice and data.
Created requirements specifications and architecture using Rational
ClearCase, and Requisite Pro
Created test procedures for verification of designs, and PHP using selfcreated test platform
As a result the Institute was able to increase by 300% its sales from red to
profitability.
Lead Developer /// Hewlitt-Packard (HP)
Worked on NetworkView a GUI application that allowed topological administration of
a SAN network, including switches, storage controllers and servers written in JAVA,
and Java Swing. Spent much time as a lead develop on Secure Path a program for
non-stop, multi-pathing software. Lead liaison to Prisa Networks bought by EMC for
Network View. Coded Secure Path in C/C++.
Lead Developer /// Compaq
Developed a multi-threaded, parallel processing program (~150K lines,C++) to assist
in verification of the Alpha AXP Microprocessor called stimp.. Program allowed user
to tune all parameters of the architecture: Branch Predictors, cache construction, hit
and miss rate, register selection, register renaming, shared memory, instruction
types etc.
Lead Developer /// Smithsonian Institute
Developed software to deploy the Chandra xray high-speed telescope into orbit.
Chandra was developed between NASA, Smithsonian, MIT, and TRW. Programmed
the TCP/IP transfer protocol between the ground station capture of data into a
sybase database and created/Assisted the data analysis algorithms for astronomers
to analyse the data. Was brought onto each subsystem of the telescope (Hardware
CCD’s to transmission (network protocols) of data to ground station, to storage into
database system, to creation of astronomical applications to manipulate the data
Other
Accomplishments
Technologies
Used:
Author – “UNIX awk and sed Programmer's Interactive Workbook”, ISBN-, Publisher: Prentice Hall
Patent Pending – "A template language for the verification of MP and SMP
Microprocessors" Digital Equipment Corporation
Certificate – “Five Disciplines of Innovation” SRI International
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from State University of New York at Potsdam
Scala
Data/Persistent Layer
MySQL
MongoDB
Postgres
Oracle
Development IDEs
PHPStorm
Microsoft Visual Studio
IntelliJ IDEA
Zend Studio
Komodo IDE
Development Framworks
Laravel
Zend Framework
CodeIgniter
Symfony
Yii
Debugging Tools
Chrome Dev Tools
React Dev Tools
Rational Purify
Node.js Inspector
Postman
Visual Studio
Gdb
Release Management
GitHub, Git
Jenkins
Jira
Other Tools
EC2, Amazon Web Services
SAN/NAS/Fibre
CloudFront
XenServer, KVM, libvert