|
|
Resume Updated: Apr 16, 2015
Professional Summary
I am a highly experienced software and system architect, developer,
and project leader with a
solid track record of achieving results.
For over 35 years I have tackled increasingly
complex, cross-discipline projects, and created timely, effective
solutions in commercial, clinical, and academic environments.
I know what it takes to turn vague, or seemingly intractable
requirements into viable solutions or products. I have piloted such
projects through the full software development life cycle, and have
worked extensively in all phases, from research to development to
documentation to customer support. As such, I have a solid
understanding of the whole picture, from the 40,000-foot view down to
the nuts & bolts in the trenches.
A natural planner, organizer and leader, I am self-motivated and
results oriented.
Quickly adapting to new endeavors, I hit the ground running and
rapidly make an impact. This is facilitated by my in-depth, hands-on
experience in a broad range of technologies and work environments,
coupled with my formal background in Computer Science, Physics,
Mathematics, and Electronics.
|
Ph.D.
|
Computer Science
|
University of Utah
|
Security design in distributed computing
|
|
M.S.
|
Computer Science
|
University of Utah
|
Networking and distributed systems
|
|
B.S.
|
Physics Math minor
|
Indiana Univ. of PA
|
Focus on analog & digital electronics
|
Technical Strengths and Background
- Design and implementation of complex systems from low-level hardware to high-level software
- Commercial product research and development
- Product life cycle (SDLC), from specs to support
- Integrating diverse, cross-discipline requirements
- FDA software quality system controls
- Software testing methodologies
- Geographically distributed software development
- Workflows and operational processes
- Technical project leadership / management
- Research, publications, presentations
|
- Attention to detail, accuracy, integrity
- Object oriented / data flow / 4GL programming
- Image / signal processing and analysis
- 3D visualization / computer graphics
- Databases: relational, text, image, PACS
- Distributed computing and networking (M.S.)
- Security in distributed systems (Ph.D.)
- Web development, dynamic, database driven
- Network design, implementation, support, and troubleshooting, from LAN to WAN
- Enterprise system / network administration
|
- Proven track record of working remotely from home office since 1996, including:
|
Universitiy of Utah - School of Computing
|
2012
|
‑ 2015
|
3 yr
|
FULL TIME
|
On-site for meetings only
|
|
NYU Medical Center & Karolinska, Sweden
|
1998
|
‑ 2016
|
18 yr
|
3500+ hours
|
On-site a few days
|
|
HP Labs
|
2007
|
‑ 2010
|
3 yr
|
2100+ hours
|
On-site just 1/2 day
|
|
Southern California Earthquake Center USC
|
2007
|
‑ 2010
|
3 yr
|
750+ hours
|
Never on-site, never met
|
|
Incorporated Research Inst. for Seismology
|
2007
|
‑ 2009
|
2 yr
|
235+ hours
|
Never on-site, never met
|
|
RAHD Oncology Products
|
1996
|
‑ 2006
|
10 yr
|
FULL TIME
|
On-site a few days/year
|
|
Employment History and Highlights
|
|
Senior Research Associate
|
Univ. of Utah, School of Computing,
Natural Language Processing Lab
|
2012-2015
|
|
- Software R&D for IARPA-funded Open Source Indicators project (predict the news before it occurs).
- Pattern search/processing tool accepting input from many common NLP toolsets.
- Automated tools for Twitter API to gather data, track timelines, process results.
- Automated WEB sites for complex document annotation for Amazon Mechanical Turk.
- Deeply immersed in full life cycle of Mechanical Turk projects for data annotation.
|
|
Software R&D Consultant
|
HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Technology Initiatives
|
2007-2010
|
|
|
|
Software R&D Consultant
|
Univ. of Southern California
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN)
|
2007-2010
|
|
|
|
Software R&D Consultant
|
Univ. of Washington
Incorporated Research Inst. for Seismology (IRIS)
|
2007-2009
|
|
|
President & Founder
Chief Software/System Architect
|
Saya Systems Inc. (sayasystems.com)
Applied Technology for Science & Engineering
|
2003-NOW
|
|
|
Technology Development Manager
Chief Software/System Architect
|
RAHD Oncology Products (rahd.com)
Software Research & Development
|
1999-2006
|
|
|
|
Software Developer
|
RAHD Oncology Products
|
1995-2006
|
|
Visiting Scholar
|
Univ. of Utah Medical Center, Radiation Oncology
|
1995-2002
|
|
|
|
Network/Unix Support Manager
|
Univ. of Utah, Campus Networking, Computer Ctr.
|
1994-1995
|
|
Senior Programmer
|
Univ. of Utah, Campus Networking, Computer Ctr.
|
1990-1995
|
|
- Actively set directions as member of campus network committee, director's cabinet, VP reviews.
- Key facilitator in installation and testing of campus FDDI network and support of Cisco routers.
- Launched first campus-wide monitoring of backbone routers, bridges, and FDDI utilization.
- Facilitated knowledge exchange, e.g., presented seminars on network management and SNMP.
- Reduced support costs as key architect in converting campus servers to homogeneous platform.
- Improved server performance through extensive performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning.
|
|
Software R&D Consultant
|
RAHD Oncology Products
|
1993-1995
|
|
- Developed high profit products to import CT data from proprietary formats on disk/tape.
|
Assistant Project Director and
Technical Lead
|
Univ. of Utah, Computer Science, URSA Project (during project startup)
|
1983-1984
|
|
Senior Programmer
|
Univ. of Utah, Computer Science, URSA Project
|
1983-1990
|
|
- Key player in all specification and design phases, project staffing, presentations, and reports.
- Developed the network communication system that URSA was built upon for 10 years.
- Designed the initial application-level communication protocol from which URSA evolved.
- Greatly improved developer productivity as codesigner of the software development environment.
- Reduced downtime and improved operation of Apollo workstation network by aggressive redesign.
- Spearheaded research in distributed systems and multi-level security for CIA.
|
|
Research Assistant
|
Univ. of Utah Medical Center, Medical Physics
|
1981-1983
|
|
|
|
Digital Imaging Specialist
|
New York Univ. Medical Center, Radiology
|
1977-1981
|
|
- Improved performance and reduced downtime and operating costs of CT systems.
- Established innovative quality control and preventive maintenance procedures.
- Spearheaded new methods to optimize image quality from film and video displays
- Served as liaison between the medical and engineering communities.
- Actively pursued research in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS).
|
|
Electronics Consultant
|
Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
|
1975-1976
|
|
|
Education
Skills (Highly Proficient)
|
| Languages |
Applications |
OSs & Networking |
| C, C++, Make, Visual Studio |
PowerPoint, Excel |
Unix (e.g., BSD, Sys5, Solaris, DU) |
| Unix / Linux shells & tools |
Word, Emacs, LaTex, Scribe |
Linux (e.g., Red Hat, Suse, Fedora) |
| (e.g., sh, csh, awk, sed) |
Open DX Visualization Toolset |
Admin of Unix, Linux |
| Perl, PHP, CGI/Perl, CGI |
Photoshop, ImageReady, Acrobat |
TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, routing ... |
| HTML, XML, CSS, DOM ... |
Joomla (CMS), FrontPage |
Ethernet, T1, FDDI, Frame Relay ... |
| Javascript |
Subversion, CVS, RCS |
Routers (e.g., cisco) |
| SQL, MySQL |
Custom IDEs (created via CVS, |
Switches (e.g., Linksys) |
| OpenDX data flow nets (4GL) |
RCS, Web/Unix tools, MySQL) |
Protocol Analyzers (e.g., Sniffer, |
| Fortran, Basic |
OnProject (project management) |
Ethereal, tcpdump) |
| Debuggers (e.g., dbx, gdb) |
FDA Medical Device |
Firewalls / Security |
| JSON JavaScript Object Notation |
Requirements Compliance |
Admin of LANs, WANs |
| Twitter API |
Amazon Mechanical Turk |
|
|
Skills (Comfortable)
|
| Languages |
Applications |
OSs & Networking |
| Java, JSP |
Dreamweaver, Flash |
Windows XP, ME, 98 |
| XSL, MVC ... |
MS Project |
Admin of Windows XP, ME, 98 |
| ASP |
U.S. Patent EFS / Applications |
Mac OS X, MS-DOS |
| Visual Basic |
Natural Language Processing |
Network Management Tools (e.g., |
| Python |
NLP Toolsets / Interfaces |
SunNet Manager, HP OpenView) |
| UML and methods |
GUI testing tools |
Hadoop MapReduce clusters |
| LISP, Pascal |
IIS, Apache web servers |
System monitoring (e.g., Nagios) |
|
Skills (given my experience, I could quickly be productive with other technologies, such as)
|
| Languages |
Applications |
OSs & Networking |
| .NET, J#, C# |
IDEs (e.g., Rational, Eclipse, |
Windows Server, Cluster Service |
| OO-Perl, ColdFusion |
Borland) |
High availability clusters |
| Oracle, other RDBMSs |
MS IIS, SharePoint (portal) |
Load sharing clusters |
| CMSs (e.g., Ruby / Rails, |
Windows or Mac software |
Beowulf cluster computing |
| Zope / Plone) |
development environments |
IPv6, IPSEC |
| Any 4GL or 5GL++ |
Apache OFBiz |
System/network monitoring tools |
|
"Extending the CISN Earthquake Early Warning (EEW)
Web Site into the CISN EEW Testing Center," American Geophysical Union
Fall Meeting (poster session), December 15-19, 2008, San Francisco, CA, M
Zeleznik, P Maechling, M Liukis, S Callaghan, M Boese, E Hauksson, G Cua, K
Solanki, R Allen, D Neuhauser, M Hellweg, M Fischer, T Heaton, and T Jordan.
"Page Content Detection For The Purposes Of
Achieving Accurate Cropping," Research Disclosure, November 2008,
disclosed by Hewlett-Packard Company, P Reddy, J Fian, M Zeleznik
"Clinical Application of a Semiautomatic 3D Fusion Tool Where Automatic Fusion Techniques Are
Difficult to Use", Third International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, July 2006,
M Noz, G Maguire, M Zeleznik, et al.
"Method and System for High Availability Services on Multiple
Servers," United States Patent Application 11/161,428 - August 3, 2005, M Zeleznik.
"A Versatile Functional-Anatomic Image Fusion Method for Volume Data
Sets", Journal of Medical Systems, Vol 25 No 5, 2001, pp 297-307, M Noz, G
Maguire, M Zeleznik, et al.
"3D Visualization: What Does it Mean?", presented at XII International Conf. on the Use of
Computers in Radiation Therapy, May 1997, M Zeleznik. View the slide presentation
"Security Design in Distributed Computing Applications",
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Utah, Computer Science, December 1993, 412pp. M Zeleznik.
"Introduction to Network Management", presentations to Univ. of Utah, Computer Science networking
classes and campus network managers, 1991 – 1993, M Zeleznik.
"A Portable, Network-Transparent Communication System for Message-Based Applications", presented
at IEEE 6th International Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1986, M Zeleznik.
"PACS Data Base Design", SPIE Proc. Conf. on Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACSII),
418:287-295, May 1983, M Zeleznik, et al.
Honors / Societies
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (elected in 1988)
- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (elected in 1987)
- Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics Honor Society (elected in 1975)
|
- IEEE Computer Society
- ACM
- Society of Physics Students
|
|
|
|
|
|