An accomplished software engineer, Avi creates imaginative solutions to technical challenges. He is passionately curious and has a unique gift for analysis, intuition, and a broad range of knowledge and skils, enabling him to see unseen patterns and underlying relations. He loves to be intellectually stimulated, always thinking of ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Multiple software technologies, frameworks and languages Superior problem-solving and analytical skills able to analyze and resolve complex issues Passionate about quality, and getting the job done right, not just "done"

Highly skilled software architect and object oriented design Exceptional ability to research, evaluate and apply new technologies Committed to the success of the product and his team

Experience

• Senior Principal Software Engineer (TS/SCI) SMX  2018 -      

  NavAir NAWCWD, Digital Information Technology Analysis and Cyber (DITAC) - responsible for developing, maintaining, and upgrading Navair applications. DevSecOps, CI/CD, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript, Node.js, Vue.js, GraphQL, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL

• Senior Principal Software Engineer, Engility Technical Fellow Engility (now SAIC)  2011 - 2018

  Design Lead and Software Engineering at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWC-WD) Point Mugu, primarily in Electronic Warfare and Mission Planning. Responsible for the full software life-cycle: analyzing requirements, creating use cases, designing, coding, debugging, testing, deployment and maintenance, lead design and code reviews and defect evaluations.

  "Go to" person for answers to difficult problems and new product and process ideas, for example developed a concept, dubbed "ABC" for "Avi's Brain Child", which helped unify baselines and resulted in a more efficient process.

• Senior Software Engineer / Senior Software Architect GBL Systems Corporation  2008 - 2011

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

  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).

• Lead Software Architect Robert Maron Inc.  2006 - 2008

  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.
• Professor (part time) California State University, Channel Islands  2006 - 2009

  Designed curriculum and instructional technology for web development courses, created assignments and tests.

  • Challenged, mentored, and inspired students.

• Contractor FBI  2007 - 2008

  Top Secret Clearance / CI Polygraph

• Owner Over TheNet  1995 - 2006

  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 HRL Laboratories  1992 - 1994

  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 Hughes Aircraft Company  1991 - 1994

  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 Jet Propulsion Laboratory  1987 - 1990

  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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