MIGUEL

ALONSO

JR,

PH.

D.

Senior

Software

Engineer

with

15

years

experience

developing

leading-

edge

technology

and

startups.

acoj9f@r.postjobfree.com

305-

741-

6441

http://www.miguelalonsojr.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelalonsojr

https://github.com/drmaj

SUMMARY

OF

QUALIFICATIONS

• Deep

understanding

of

product

development

and

business

incubation/acceleration

using

the

Lean

LaunchPad

model

via

customer

development

and

agile

engineering

• Expert at Mobile/Web Lean/Agile Application development on iOS, Android, and Ruby on Rails

• Able

to

analyze,

research,

and

design

hardware

&

software

solutions

for

Mobile

Computing

&

Embedded/Digital

Systems,

Digital

and

Analog

Signal

Processing, Image

Processing,

Computer

Vision,

&

Machine

Learning

• Expert

at

overseeing

all

phases

of

product

(hardware/software)

development

lifecycle,

from

design,

implementation,

and

testing

to

documentation

and

deployment

• Outstanding

technical

skills

with

ability

to

quickly

learn

cutting

edge

concepts

and

technologies

• Strong

team

leader

with

extensive

background

managing,

training

and

mentoring

junior

associates

&colleagues

TECHNICAL

EXPERTISE

• Product

Development:

Accelerator

to

Success

Model

for

rapid

product

development

(Concept,

Development,

Stability,

Growth

x

Market,

Customer,

Process,

Financials),

Lean

Startup/LaunchPad

Model

for

startup

and

entrepreneurship

via

customer

development

and

agile

engineering

• Languages:

Objective-

C,

Ruby,

Java,

C/C++,

Php,

MATLAB

• Web

App

Frameworks:

Ruby

on

Rails,

CakePHP,

Foundation

4,

Twitter

Bootstrap

• Software

Engineering:

Agile,

XP,SCRUM,

BDD

&

TDD,

Unit

Testing

• SCM

and

Version

Control:

Git,

Hg,

ClearCase,

ClearQuest,

github.com,

bitbucket.org

• Tools/Tool

Chains:

Android

SDK

&

NDK,

XCODE,

Android

Studio,

RubyMine,

AppCode,

Bitbucket,

JIRA/AGILE,

inVision,

JDK,

gcc,

g++,

gdb,

make,

cmake,

swig,

openCV,

fftw

• Hardware:

Digital

Logic

&

Systems,

VHDL

(Xilinx),

TI

OMAP,

MSP430,

TI

DSP

C6000&

C64x+

Series,

OrCAD,

Ultiboard,

ProtelDXP

• Operating

Systems:

OSX,

Linux,

Unix,

Windows

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE

Chief

Technology

Officer

–

Inceptures,

LLC.

6/2014

–

Present

http://www.inceptures.com

Responsible

for

Strategy

and

Planning,

Implementation

and

Deployment,

and

Operational

Management

for

the

CharityBox

Web

and

Mobile

application

platform

for

empowering

donors

to

give

how

they

want.

Currently

lead

the

effort

to

take

the

company

through

the

Lean

LaunchPad

Model

of

customer

development

and

agile

engineering.

–

http://charitybox.com

• Oversee

a

team

of

5

engineers

and

designers

to

develop

the

CharityBox

web

and

mobile

app

(on

iOS

and

Android)

• Used

the

Lean

Startup

and

Lean

Launchpad

approaches

to

developing

a

minimum

viable

product

• Implemented

Software

Engineering

best

practices,

including:

o Behavior

Driven

Development

–

RSPEC,

SPECTA,

HAMCREST,

ROBOLECTRIC,

OCMOCK,

MOCKITO

o Scrum

Agile

Development

–

JIRA

Agile

o Continuous

Integration

on

XCode

Server,

CodeShip,

and

Jenkins

o AARRR

–

Startup

metrics

for

pirates:

KPIs

specifically

for

startups

o Error

reporting

and

diagnostics

on

Crashlytics

and

New

Relic

o Deploy

and

maintain

web

stack

on

Heroku

with

multi-

threading

and

background

processing

for

scaleability

o A/B

testing

using

Split,

Vanity,

Optimizely,

and

Apptimize

• Coded

a

RESTful

JSON

API

on

Ruby

on

Rails

to

allow

for

user

authorization/authentication,

donation

management,

and

payment

processing

using

puma,

a

multithreaded

webserver

and

resque

for

background

processing,

along

with

many

open-

source

gems

such

as

devise,

activemerchant

etc.

• Coded

web

front

end

using

Ruby

on

Rails,

Javascript

(in

CoffeeScript),

HTML,

CSS

• Coded

iOS

app

in

Objective-

C

to

consume

the

JSON

API,

including

user

signup/signin,

payment

processing,

donation

collection,

and

receipt

management

using

custom

code

and

leveraging

open-

source

projects

when

possible

for

RAD

o Cocoapods

used:

JSONModel,

MBProgressHUD,

SWRevealViewController,

Lockbox,

Reachability,

JRSwizzle

(Dismissy

uses

swizzling

to

achieve

the

keyboard

dismissing),

StanKit,

Crashlytics,

Facebook/Google

oauth

pods,

KIF,

Specta,

Expecta,

OCMock,

and

PivotalCoreKit

• Coded

Android

app

in

JAVA

to

consume

JSON

API,

including

user

signup/signin,

payment

processing,

donation

collection,

and

receipt

management

using

custom

code

and

leveraging

open-

source

projects

when

possible

for

RAD

o Gradles:

robolectric,

roboguice,

espresso,

hamcrest,

and

mockito

Co-

Founder

and

Chief

Technology

Officer

–

Doxio,

LLC.

6/2012

–

12/2014

http://www.doxio.co

Responsible

for

Strategy

and

Planning,

Implementation

and

Deployment,

and

Operational

Management

for

the

Doxio

Web

and

Mobile

application

platform

for

physician

networking

and

referral

development.

Leading

the

effort

to

take

the

company

through

the

Lean

LaunchPad

Model

of

customer

development

and

agile

engineering.

–

http://doxio.co

Chairperson

–

Miami

Dade

College

Department

of

Engineering,

School

of

Engineering

+

Technology

8/2011

–

6/2014

http://entec.mdc.edu

• Oversee

a

team

of

over

25

faculty

and

staff

in

the

operations

of

an

academic

department

of

engineering

• Increased

Associate

of

Science

and

Bachelor

of

Science

in

Electronics

and

Computer

Engineering

Technology

enrollment

by

over

85%

within

two

years,

most

recently

showing

in

increase

of

16%

• Project

manager

for

the

Entrepreneurship

Institute

Pilot

and

MDC

C.R.E.A.T.E

(Center

for

Research

Acceleration

and

Transformative

Entrepreneurship)

Miami

startup

incubator/accelerator

• Mentored

a

student

team

take

to

their

product

to

market

and

successfully

launch

a

crowd

funding

campaign

that

raised

of

$350,000

within

60

days

• Oversee

the

ABET

accreditation

process

for

the

BS

in

Electronics

Engineering

and

Wrote

three

standards

for

SACS

reaffirmation

(ETA

October

2014)

• Directed

four

research

projects:

o RESDEC

–

Android

app

to

automatically

decode

resistors

o SCIDS

–

Skin

Cancer

Identification

System

–

Android

app

to

detect

skin

cancer

using

images

on

taken

with

android

devices

o Computer

Vision/Machine

Learning:

Low-

cost

LiDAR

3D

Range

Finding

for

Simultaneous

Localization

and

Mapping

in

Autonomous

Robotics

Applications

o HCI:

EMG

Controlled

Prosthesis

Associate

Professor

–

Miami

Dade

College

Department

of

Engineering,

School

of

Engineering

+

Technology

6/2010

–

6/2014

Obtained

a

$970,000

grant

(CNS-

0940575)

from

the

National

Science

Foundation

to

increase

the

participation

of

underrepresented

groups

in

computer

science

and

engineering

via

several

initiatives

1. IN-

COMMAND:

INtroduction

to

COMputing

through

Mobile

ApplicatioNDevelopment

2. Peer-

Led

Team

Learning

(PLTL)

–

http://www.pltl.org

3. Affinity

Research

Groups

(ARG)

–

http://www.cahsi.org

4. Mentoring

&

Workshops

Assistant

Professor

–

Miami

Dade

College

Department

of

Engineering,

School

of

Engineering

+

Technology

9/2007

–

6/2010

• Developed

7

new

courses

for

a

new

Bachelor’s

Degree

in

Electronics

Engineering

Technology,

including

Applied

DSP,

Advanced

Microprocessors,

Applied

Robotics

Lab,

&Programmable

Logic

Controllers.

• Led

a

team

of

5

faculty

and

2

administrators

in

reviewing

and

updating

10

existing

courses

in

the

Computer

Engineering

&

Electronics

Engineering

Technology

Degrees

Software

Engineer

–

Beckman

Coulter,

Inc.

5/2007

–

8/2007

• Developed

algorithms

(in

C#

with

unmanaged

code)for

processing

of

hematology

and

flow

cytometry

data

• Optimized

algorithms

related

to

hematology

and

flow

cytometry

with

a

25%

reduction

in

execution

time

• Developed

data

transformation

based

on

dual

sigmoid

curves

for

improving

the

analysis

and

interpretation

of

flow

cytometry

data

Researcher–

Digital

Signal

Processing

Lab,

Florida

International

University

9/2001

–

9/2007

Computer

Engineer

–

CPS

Products,

Inc.

1/2001

–

2/2002

Engineering

Intern

–

G.E.

Medical

Systems

5/2000

–

8/2000

EDUCATION

Ph.

D.

Electrical

Engineering

M.S.&B.S.

Computer

Engineering

Florida

International

University

Florida

International

University

GPA:

3.96

May

‘07

GPA

(M.S.):

3.92

Outstanding

M.S.

Graduate

–

May

’03

Concentration:

DSP,

Computer

Vision,

Control

Systems

GPA

(B.S.):

3.84

Magna

Cum

Laude

–

Aug.

‘01

HONORs,

AWARDS,

&

MEMBERSHIPS

Miami

Dade

College

2011

Excellence

in

Teaching

Award

•

Florida

International

University

Dean's

Award

for

2006-

07

($2K

stipend)

•

Florida

International

University

Dissertation

Year

Fellow

($15K

over

9

months),

2006-

2007

•

National

Science

Foundation

Graduate

Research

Fellow

($121.5K

over

3

yrs.),

2003-

2006

•

The

8th

International

ACM

SIGACCESS

Conference

on

Computers

and

Accessibility

2006

-

Invited

Attendee

•

The

10th

International

Conference

on

Computers

Helping

People

with

Special

Needs

(ICCHP)

2006

Young

Researcher

•

Consortium

Fellow

&

Best

Young

Researcher

Award,

The

7th

International

ACM

SIGACCESS

Conference

on

Computers

and

Accessibility

2005

-

Doctoral

Consortium

Fellow,

•

Senior

Member

IEEE,

ACM,

Tau

Beta

Pi,

Eta

Kappa

Nu

•

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