An accomplished visionary technologist, Avi creates innovative solutions to technical challenges. He is an energetic leader who inspires and empowers his teams.

Experience

• Project Manager / Sr. Principal Software Engineer Secret Clearance 2011 -

  Engility Corporation

  Project Manager and Software Engineering at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWC-WD) Point Mugu, primarily in Electronic Warfare and Mission Planning: EA-6B Prowler, EA-18G Growler, ETIRMS, EWDS, Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS). Project Manager for GPI and Next Generation Jammer (NGJ).

• Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. Software Architect Secret Clearance 2008 - 2011

  GBL Systems Corporation

  Evaluated requests for proposals, then analyzed and proposed innovative solutions in support of new business development.

  Led innovative new IR&D efforts - Facebook API, Google Map API, Cloud Computing, OpenStreetMap, Mapstraction, XBox/Kinect, iPad/iPod/iPhone/Android.

  Designed and built a new IT infrastructure when company moved to a new location - Evaluated, specified and configured servers, router, firewall, networking, phone system, etc. Specified, installed and configured operating systems and services. Evaluated and selected service providers.

  Requirements analysis, research, architecture and leading the implementation teams that:

  • Designed an innovative Artificial Intelligence based Electronic Combat Decision Support System (ECDSS) using Java, intelligent agents (Jade), Belief-Desire-Intention (Jadex BDI), rule/inference engines (JESS, SHINE), ontologies (Protege/OWL). Ported portions to parallel algorithms using C & MPI on a Sony PS3 Cluster.
  • Created a web based application for Use Case creation, re-use, and archival (PHP/Cassandra/jQuery/AJAX). Elicited multiple compliments from the customer, resulting in additional funding.
  • Developed a project management decision support system (PHP/MySQL/Confluence).
  • Performed an independent assessment of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for DoD use and evaluated SOA testing tools

• Lead Software Architect 2006 - 2008

  Robert Maron Inc.

  Architecture and development of an e-commerce web site (PHP/MySQL/Smarty), attracting new customers and increasing sales. Devised a new IT framework. Hired and mentored IT team.

  • Designed and developed inventory tracking and management system and integrated it with the e-commerce site and e-bay store, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

• VP Information Technology 1995 - 2006

  Over TheNet

  Managed organization, consisting of: hired, managed and mentored a team of project managers, programmers and graphic artists; devised the IT framework; created and presented innovative original ideas to customers that measurably improved their business. Established business processes, managed budgets and substantially reduced costs. Effectively communicated with sales staff and clients to clarify and specify needs and functional requirements.

  • Designed innovative custom software solutions and interfaces for Honda, NCR, KNX 1070 Newsradio, and Ossur, to name a few.
  • Created one of the first shopping carts on the Internet, before cookies were available.
  • Developed and implemented technical project requirements, plans, goals and milestones.
  • Structured and streamlined development processes, increasing team collaboration and productivity.
  • Implemented source version control, quality control and delivery processes.

• Member Technical Staff 1992 - 1994

  HRL Laboratories Formerly Hughes Research Laboratories

  Collaborated with the team that developed the Image Understanding Architecture (IUA).

  • Created IUA parallel algorithms for intelligent cursive handwritten character recognition (ICR) reducing complexity of algorithms from O(n²) to O(1).
  • Designed and developed algorithms for ICR, both for individual character recognition and for contextual analysis, using neural networks, expert system, and fuzzy logic techniques.
  • Received high performance award for ICR contributions.

• Member Technical Staff 1991 - 1994

  Hughes Aircraft Company

  Researched and developed various image processing algorithms, computer vision, classification and learning systems using cutting edge artificial intelligence technologies such as neural networks and fuzzy logic.

  Researched genetic programming and developed a genetic programming system for classification.

  • Created the SGPC (Simple Genetic Programming in C) framework for developing genetic programming systems.
  • Extended Genetic Programming to use islands of populations.
  • Devised an automated system for executing thousands of SGPC runs in parallel on multiple machines, accelerating research by 90%.
  • Developed and analyzed a simulation for scanning focal plane array (aka wide field of regard or WFOR). Implemented the system on real-time hardware.
  • Designed and developed algorithms for "Brilliant Pebbles" LIDAR simulation and moving target indicator (MTI) system.
  • Created pipelined DataCube algorithms for AutoCuer program.
  • Received high performance awards.

• Member Technical Staff 1987 - 1990

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Led a team of six engineers that defined, specified, designed, implemented, debugged, tested and documented (i.e. entire SDLC) the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) prediction generation system in support of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN)

  • Developed and maintained various other metric prediction and scheduling systems through the entire software lifecycle.
  • Received an award for contribution to the DSN.

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