Michael E. Allen

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Chicago, IL **659

773-***-**** (M)

773-***-**** (H)

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Nielsen Company, Chicago, IL Jan, 2003-July, 2011

Senior Developer, Research & Development

Responsible for research into and development of techniques to improve efficacy and efficiency of delivering market analysis data to manufacturers.

Worked as member of small team to design, develop and maintain three tier applications built on Flex and Java and using an infrastructure of Blade, Cairngorm, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate. Development was using a modified Agile (daily standups, no paired programming) with two week delivery cycle.

Designed, implemented, and deployed a web service that enabled applications to make remote calls to a SAS server. Saved the company $50k/year in licensing fees. Web service was deployed to both a Tomcat and Glassfish server.

Responsible for maintenance and continued development of batch process marketing data analysis code; mostly Java, but also C++.

Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, IL Oct, 2002-June, 2009

Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Science

Teach courses in math and computer science, as needed.

Integrated DNA Technologies, Skokie, IL Feb, 2002-Oct, 2002

(IDT is an oligonucleotide manufacturing company that attempted to start an informatics research group; group was canceled for lack of funds.)

Senior Research Scientist and Manager of Informatics

Built and managed informatics group (4 programmers, one other scientist), providing vision, project planning, mentoring, and technical direction.

Motorola, Cellular Infrastructure Group, Arlington Heights, IL 1994-Feb, 2002

Senior Engineer, Performance Analysis Department 1998-Feb, 2002

Responsible for providing the necessary analyses to build highly reliable cellular infrastructure systems with excellent performance. Analysis of field data from existing systems, “what-if” analysis of proposed systems and/or modifications, and modeling of subsystems and algorithms were provided. In addition, tools were designed and implemented to allow the system engineering groups to perform their own “what-if” analysis; drastically reducing the cost of delivering highly reliable systems, as the reliability and performance could be designed in, rather than added on.

Mined databases (Oracle and other) of equipment outage information.

Designed and implemented database and forms-based UI for reliability and availability modeling. The database allowed a reliability engineer to define a hierarchical model of the failure modes of the system. The system was written in VBA/VB and Access.

Designed Oracle database schema using Designer/2000 for project management; allowing project managers to see and manipulate all resources from a single interface, facilitating accurate project accounting and resource utilization. Also enabled management of larger projects than the system it replaced.

Taught class on advanced statistics and probability to peers.

Lead Engineer, EMX Cellular Switch Group 1994-1997

Architected network capacity analysis tool to plan expansion of cellular telephone networks.

Collaborated with Tandem consultants to port short message service system from lab prototype written in C/C++ and implemented on loosely coupled Unix microcomputers to Tandem Guardian system in C; implemented, tested, and delivered Tandem based short message system into product line on time.

Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory, Waxahachie, TX 1988-1993

(The SSC laboratory was an ambitious, DOE supported project to build a 20 TeV proton accelerator for advanced high energy physics research. The funding for SSC was canceled by congress in 1993.)

Application Physicist

Collaborated with other scientists to model and design control systems for the SSC accelerator, resulting in innovative design to collect and distribute more than 1 Gb/s of monitoring and control data over the nearly 100 miles of the accelerator complex. Portions of work published in peer-reviewed journal.

Supervised 10 analysts and engineers in the design and implementation of real-time data acquisition and graphics software for operator consoles. Software was written in C++ and was distributed over a network of Unix computers – including Sun 3 and 4 (SunOS), HP (HP-UX), and Masscomp (RTU). System was used to control accelerator experiments and contributed to the successful execution of the initial magnet string test.

Loma Linda Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA 1986-1987

Physicist

Designed and implemented control system for a 250 MeV proton synchrotron for cancer treatment.

The control system is written in C++ and ran on a real-time Unix computer networked via token ring to system of distributed process control computers.

The accelerator was moved to Loma Linda in 1990 and is used to treat approximately 100 patients per day. Software was also used in the upgrade of the Fermilab linear accelerator control system.

Physics Dept, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 1985-1986

Instructor

Taught non-calculus based freshman physics for pre-med majors. Class enrollment was approximately 250 students.

Managed six teaching assistants who were responsible for recitation sections and grading.

Other Important Experience Entire Career

Worked throughout graduate school as a teaching assistant; at times having responsibility for entire classes.

Conducted internal seminars on broad range of topics; from accelerator physics and advanced mathematics to programming in C++ and Java, and using object-oriented analysis and design.

Mentored both summer interns and new employees.

Community Activities

“Big brother” for several boys who are missing a father at home. Learning and other activities.

Weekly class at Grosse Pointe Nursing home for several years.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC SKILLS

Computer Languages: Java, Adobe Flex, C/C++, SQL, Visual Basic

Operating Systems: Unix (many flavors), Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/95, VAX/VMS

Applications: Oracle, Developer/2000, MS Access, MS Excel, UltraSAN

Exposure To: Linux, SQL Server 2000, Sybase, Perl, UML, HTML, Mathematica, MatLab

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Physics Dec, 1986

University of Utah at Salt Lake City Thesis: General Relativity

M.A. in Physics June, 1978

University of California at Davis

B.S. in Physics Dec, 1976

University of California at Davis

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