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The Mitre Corporation Information Systems Engineer, Lead, Center for Air Force Command and Control Systems.
Jan 01 – Current As one of the Federally Funded
Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) in the nation,
www.mitre.org
MITRE addresses issues of critical national importance in Systems Engineering
and Information Technology. As
Technical Lead of the “Skunkworks” Software Development and Integration
Division of the Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center (ESC) Mission Planning
Program office, I managed critical R&D projects in collaboration with Air
Force Research Labs, and spearheaded a high-visibility initiative for streamlining
the Combat Air Force Command and Control Operations Enterprise using Workflow
Management Engines (Microsoft Biztalk), Web Portals (Microsoft SharePoint), and
XML Web Services. This initiative was presented at the annual Microsoft Air
Force Systems Symposium in Redmond in June of 2003, and to the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard B. Myers at the C4ISR Summit in August
of 2003. The initiative was rewarded with the Innovator of the Year Award by
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. Also contributed in the technical direction of
USAF R&D expenditures with SBIR Topic submissions and in the Source
Selection of a multi-billion dollar technology acquisition. Renaissance Technical Lead & Developer. Assisted in the design and
development of a Distributed June 00 – Nov 00 linking nationwide fleets of Trucks with fixed dispatch
operators in order to optimize (Consultant) shipping and delivery. Responsibilites included implementation of the business
logic www.rens.com and
data tiers for Windows Server
platforms and SQLServer databases, and daily management of a team of engineers
working on the client tier which consists of ruggedized hardware running the
Windows CE platform. Driving goals included leveraging Enterprise services
offered by Windows Server platforms, and scaling up the system to hundreds of
thousands of remote clients. Xerox Corporation Architect & Developer. Original member of a team tasked to
develop a custom release Apr.
98 – June 00 of a Windows Embedded platform for a new
generation of multifunction office (Consultant) machines
(fax/scan/print/copy) from Xerox PARC that can be reassembled on the fly www.xerox.com into various
configurations. The goal
was to move from proprietary processors and network stacks to off-the-shelf
Operating Systems and networks, and to integrate legacy Xerox document
management technology with Windows Operating System services. My technical
responsibilities included building an Operating System from Windows NT
components, porting UNIX legacy code to Win32, and leveraging Windows
middleware. Management roles included interaction with the NT-Embedded team at
Microsoft. e-Parcel Mitsubishi Developer. Participated in the development of the
Enterprise version of HelpDesk and Jan.
98 - Mar. 98 Remote Control & diagnosis software
over the Internet, similar to Symantec’s (Consultant) PCAnywhereã. Responsible for porting the back-end
Server to an NT service, for www.e-Parcel.com multi-threading
the Server in order to scale up to thousands of concurrent connections, and for
tunneling across firewalls in corporate environments. MIT Nuclear Eng. Visiting Scientist. Research and development of
experimental fluid dynamics Sep.
97 – Sep. 98 algorithms on Windows platforms, in
support of the Department of Energy’s (Consultant) Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship through
simulation program. Research included inner web.mit.edu loop optimizations using the MMX
library and Intel’s specialized compilers, and parallelization using networked
workstations and distributed computing middleware. Exa Corporation Senior Software Engineer - Responsible for implementing
Lattice-Gas/ Boltzmann Sep.
96 - Sep. 97 methods on Sun Ultrasparc workstations
with multimedia acceleration instruction sets www.exa.com (Vis,
similar to Intel’s MMX).
These methods are an original approach to fluid dynamical
simulations which lend themselves to today’s multimedia chipsets, since the
physics are inherently integer arithmetic based. Implemented heat transfer and
moving boundary capabilities (rotating wheels and engine HVAC), and numerical
methods to accelerate steady-state regime convergence. The software is in use
today by Chrysler/ Daimler-Benz for
external and internal flow simulations of car bodies and car engines. Vectis Corporation Architect & Developer. Architected the design and led
development of the database Aug.
94 - Aug. 96 replication and communication
technologies in a distributed and mobile Clinical www.physicianweblink.com Information System at the
Point-of-Care. The system optimizes the Business to Business flow of patient
records within practices, hospitals, and insurance agencies. The technology
involves local database synchronization as a background task for a wireless
network of Handheld Pen Computers which roam freely in and out of range of
stationary servers. The replication scheme is multi-master and per-property,
with queuing, and with collision resolution logic instead of 2-phase locking.
Similar technology has been implemented in Lotus Notes and in Microsoft’s
Active Directory. Picked by Blue Cross/Blue Shield -MA for a next-generation
pilot program in paperless Clinical Environments. The Mesa Group Software Developer. Principal developer of the database
for Polaroid’s mobile Aug.
92 - Jul. 94 identity badge issuing system, used to
issue smart IDs to World Trade Center personnel in New York, following the ‘93
terrorist incident. Also participated in the development of a high-performance
text indexing and mining engine, and of an award winning commercial bulletin
board add-in to Microsoft Mail. USAF Phillips Lab USAF Research Fellow. Assistant to a
principal investigator, in the modeling of Hanscom
AFB turbulent fluctuations in the
atmosphere using chaos dynamics. In related Sep.
89 - May 92 research, invented a new algorithm and
wrote the software for an implementation of chaotic antidiffusion for image
deblurring (eg. filtering out spherical aberration in Hubble Space Telescope
images). A new family of wavelet
functions well suited for analyzing and processing images were developed in
parallel to similar wavelet technology research and development. Robotics Lab Research Fellow. Software development of inverse
kinematics and communications Boston University for a workstation computer controlling a
heavy 6-axis robotic arm by sensing force Sept.
87 - May 89 directly
applied by a human operator and powering the arm into desired trajectories. A
sensor rigidly attached at the wrist joint of the robotic arm sensed forces and
torques applied, and communicated parameters to the workstation which solved the inverse manipulator dynamic
equations and hydraulically powered the
wrist into spatial trajectories. Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering. The doctoral thesis introduced and
applied a new Boston University family of wavelets, a
novel and powerful tool in applied mathematics and computer Jan.
92 science. Wavelet methods were applied
to signal and image processing and data compression. Research papers in
deblurring of digital images were published in journals in mathematics,
physics, and computers areas of expertise. Boston University M.S. Aerospace Engineering, (4.0), May
87 Grenoble University B.S.
Mechanical Engineering, Valedictorian, France, June 86. Skills C/C++
(12 years), VB (8 years), Windows platforms (8 years), UNIX platforms (5
years), Distributed, Client/Server, and Internet computing (8 years),
Object-oriented technologies, middleware, and databases (8 years), mathematics
of signal & image processing and wavelets (5 years), fluid and gas dynamics
(5 years), Workflow Engines (Biztalk), Web portals (Sharepoint), XML Web
Services, C#, Visual Studio.NET
Distinctions · Best Presentation, Basic Lessons in Mission
Planning , 5 June 2002 · Most Entertaining Presentation, Basic Lessons in
Mission Planning , 5 June 2002 · Networks Expo, Hynes Convention Center,
Boston, Feb. 1994: Microsoft Mail booth. · Optimizing Data Locality in distributed
PDE simulations, Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Math and Computer
Science, Argonne, Illinois, March 1999 Publications · Deconvolution of Gaussian Filters and
Antidiffusion, Journal of Applied Physics
A, 68 (4),
15 August 1990, pp.1415-20 (D. Konstantopoulos, L. Mittag and G. Sandri). · Schrödinger Free Particle Flow Group and the Classical Diffusion Semi-Group. Il Nuovo Cimento, 106B, pp. 1003-1009,
1991 (D. Konstantopoulos, L. Mittag, R. Beland, and G. Sandri). · Closure of the Semi- Group of Convolutions, Notices of the American Mathematical
Society, October 1990, Vol 37 (8),
p.1049 (D. Konstantopoulos, E. Ma and G. Sandri). · Transmission though a Moving Chiral Slab. Journal of the Optical Society of America,
8B, p. 1958, 1991 (M.K. Hinders, K. Trott, H. Moses, B.A. Rhodes, D.
Konstantopoulos, and G. Sandri). · Novel Deconvolution of Noisy Gaussian Filters with a
Modified Hermite Expansion, Computer
Vision Graphics and Image Processing (superseded by Computer Vision and
Image Understanding), Vol. 56,
pp. 433-441, 1994. Other Member
AIAA, IEEE. Gold Medal at 1993 Royal Canadian
Henley Regatta, Master's 4+ (Men's Crew). Staff & Volunteer, Boys & Girls
Club of America (91 – 98). Languages: English, French, Greek,
Spanish, Italian.Worldwide, Inc Computing Environment for
mixed Cellular and Satellite-based communications
Awards · Air Force Center Data
Interoperability Award, September 25 2002
· Mitre Employee of the Quarter (1
March to 30 June 2002)
Presentations · Closure of the
Diffusion Semi-Group. American Mathematical Society, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990.
· Electromagnetic
transmission through chiral media. American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Yale University, 1991.
· Microsoft Tech-Ed 94,
New Orleans, April 1994: Microsoft Mail island (100 PCs).