Manager Electrical

CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrew E. Stevens

Ph.D., P.E.

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Rye Brook, NY 10573

Email: abox0p@r.postjobfree.com

Phone/Fax: 914-***-****

EDUCATION AND THESIS RESEARCH

Ph.D., Columbia University, May 1995

MAJOR: Electrical Engineering

RESEARCH: Analysis and design of receiver preamplifiers for optical communications.

Investigated signal-to-noise performance for second-order, raised-cosine-output, and

matched filter receivers. Implemented a switched-capacitor optical receiver with parallel

architecture and improved sensitivity in 1.2 um CMOS.

THESIS TITLE: "An integrate-and-dump receiver for fiber optic networks."

ADVISOR: Prof. E.S. Yang

M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania, May 1988

MAJOR: Electrical Engineering

RESEARCH: Architecture and design of low-power analog circuits for use in instrumentation

for high-energy physics experiments. Designed tracking chamber time measurement and analog

storage electronics in 1.6 um CMOS.

THESIS TITLE: "Design and implementation of a time-to-voltage converter/analog memory for

colliding beam detectors."

ADVISOR: Prof. J. Van der Spiegel

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1986

MAJOR: Electrical Engineering

RESEARCH:

Characterization of modeling problems in integrated circuit CAD programs such

as SPICE. Examined errors due to lack of charge conservation and numerical oscillations.

THESIS TITLE: "Characterization of errors in circuit simulation programs."

ADVISOR: Prof. C. G. Sodini

GRADE POINT AVERAGE: 4.6/5.0

WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Electrical Science, Inc., Port Chester, NY September 2001-present

Founder of consulting firm in the fields of computer software and hardware design,

network engineering and security, and embedded systems. Projects include: a metadata

database for digital object identifiers (DOIs), including XML bulk loader and URL pinger;

multiserver hosting environment for Web ad syndication; development of laboratory

techniques for recovering data from damaged magnetic tapes; due diligence on a startup

company for a venture capital group; due diligence on the possible infringement of issued

patents in the areas of CDMA mobile telephony, bar code scanners, MIMO wireless data

transmission; a reporting database for a direct marketing company to compile revenue data

from multiple sales channels; implementation and deployment of a new ecommerce Web site,

including shopping cart, credit card authorization, fulfillment, and reporting; a

management system for "coinbox" service on 802.11b wireless LANs; custom firmware for a

wireless access point using embedded Linux; architecture and deployment of a UNIX-on-the-

desktop office environment for a startup semiconductor company; a patient database for a

major hospital; LAN architecture and backup strategy for a law firm; recovery of audio

data from voicemail and voice logger systems; design and implementation of a PCI-compliant

secure LAN including virtual machines, two-factor authentication, LDAP authentication,

intrusion detection, disaster recovery; integration of a custom ecommerce system with

multiple credit card merchant acounts and detailed approval, decline, and chargeback

reporting; design and implementation of a VoIP gateway using Asterisk; prototyping of RF

transmitter hardware in the cellular bands (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), including design,

assembly, and testing; implementation streaming audio and video services over wireless

LANs. Clients include Barmensen Labs, Hospital of Saint Raphael, Linkstorm Corp. (formerly

Content Directions, Inc.), McDermott Will & Emery, National Data Conversion, OpenAir

Communications, Persistent Systems, Proskauer Rose LLP, Speedus Corp., Trusted Data

Solutions, utMOST Technologies, Younkins & Schecter LLP.

Double Agent, Inc., New York, NY January 2000-September 2001Chief Technology Officer for a technology startup company dedicated to providing improved

navigation and analytic software for Web sites. Member of senior management team, helped

write business plan, met with key investors, customers, and business partners. Hired and

managed staff of 10 fulltime engineers. Oversaw all new product development, including the

Site Aviator browsing tool for hierarchical data sets, Laser Search search engine for

generating metadata-sorted result sets, SteppingStones session mapping tool, ClickTrail

server traffic analytic suite, xCSS crossbrowser JavaScript library. Built and managed

consulting practice.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY February 1997-January 2000Associate Director of Content Systems Integration for the Scientific, Technical, and

Medical division. Coordinated reference linking to and from online content, including

journals and encyclopedias. Technical manager for Wiley participation in the DOI (Digital

Object Identifier) initiative, a collaborative effort among publishers to assign

identifiers to online content. Lead developer for journal article metadata database and

registration system which eventually became the basis for the CrossRef journal linking

service (www.crossref.org). Worked first two years as Manager of Internet Product

Development for new publishing technologies group. Coordinated Internet activities

globally within the company, including corporate Web site (www.wiley.com), online catalog,

electronic commerce. Lead architect for "Coltrane" global book catalog database using

Oracle and mod_perl.

EarthWeb, Inc., New York, NY September 1996-January 1997Ecommerce Technical Director for the Gamelan Java directory (www.gamelan.com).

Responsible for electronic commerce system for sales of Java software and related

products. Supervisor of programming group for deployment of new commerce software

(www.earthwebdirect.com).

The Voyager Company, New York, NY November 1995-September 1996Director of Online Services for multimedia publishing company (www.voyagerco.com).

Designed and implemented systems for online secure transaction processing, credit card

authorization, electronic software delivery, Web site database. Managed online ordering

and fulfillment for CD-ROMs and video laserdiscs. Technical director for online publishing

projects (Narrative Corpse, Grand Street, Flood) and live Webcast events (Media and

Democracy Congress, Unconventional Coverage).

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY June 1993-May 1995

Research on lightwave receivers for protocol-independent fiber optic computer networks.

Worked on tunable receiver for broadcast-and-select WDM network utilizing grating

demultiplexer, photodetector array, and electronic selection matrix. Performed laboratory

testing of optical and electronic components at bitrates of 1 Gbps and higher.

IEEE, New York, NY March 1992-May 1993

System administration consultant in the electronic publishing of IEEE journals. Optimized

the conversion of author-supplied magnetic-media manuscripts into standardized SGML

electronic format. Wrote LaTeX-to-SGML and troff-to-SGML converters.

Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA Summer 1991

Designed low-power circuits for a 22-bit sigma-delta modulator for use in an oversampling

analog-to-digital converter. Developed a new method for boosting the slew rate of a

switched-capacitor integrator with extremely low power consumption.

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL September 1989-August 1990

Initiated R&D program for the design of radiation-hard integrated circuits for use in

detectors at the proposed Superconducting Supercollider. Performed radiation damage

studies on IC processes from several different vendors. Collaborated with scientists at

Brookhaven National Laboratory on the radiation and temperature effects on low-noise

detector preamplifiers.

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, NJ July 1986-September 1989

Design, prototyping and programming of microprocessor-based circuit boards for use in SLC

Series 5, a T1 digital subscriber loop (DSL) carrier system. Designed new transmit-receive

unit and ISDN BRI channel unit. Developed modified system architectures to implement added

features and Bellcore requirements. Interned at North Carolina Works manufacturing

facility.

IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY Summer 1985

Worked on experimental parallel-processing CAD workstation. Designed and implemented a

parallel bus interface between the 8088 and 68020 microprocessors.

MIT Dormitory Telephone Service, Cambridge, MA February 1983-May 1986

Maintained a 3000-line PBX for on-campus housing at MIT. Maintained and repaired two step-

by-step central offices, including Strowger switches, MDF, power plant, DID and Centrex

interfaces. Installed and terminated trunk cables. Did field repairs and installations.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Preceptor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS, EE 3910, Fall 1992

Lectured a core course in the undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum. Wrote

syllabus, lectures, course notes, homeworks, and exams for class of 48 students.

Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

CIRCUIT ANALYSIS, EE 3201, Fall 1990

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS II, EE 3302, Spring 1991

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS II, EE 3302, Fall 1991

Taught recitation sections. Wrote homework, exam, and review problems. Graded problem

sets and exams. Held tutoring and review sessions.

SYSTEM AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE

Electrical Science, Inc., Port Chester, NY September 2001-present

Implemented wireless LANs using Enterasys RoamAbout R2, Cisco 1200, Cisco 1400 hardware.

Implemented custom wireless coinbox router with Linux firewall. Reflashed the USRobotics

2450 wireless access point to run the OpenAP Linux distribution, and added extended

firewalling capabilities. Created system test laptop for software QA with disk images for

eight versions of Windows (95 through XP). Restored and performed post-mortem analysis on

hacked Red Hat Linux machines which were compromised via vulnerabilities in BIND, Apache,

OpenSSH and OpenSSL. Configured VPNs with Linux PoPToP server and Windows PPTP client.

Extensive experience installing Oracle on Linux. Experience with Sun Cobalt Qube3 server,

Red Hat Linux 7.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5, Debian Linux 3/4/5/6, CentOS 4/5,

Snapgear Linux, OpenWRT, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Oracle Advanced Security, PostgreSQL, Microsoft

SQL Server 2000, CNRI Handle System, Apache 2, Tomcat 4.1/5.5, Apache mod_jk connector,

OpenSSL, Tripwire, Extensis Portfolio, VMWare, X-Cart, LZS data compression, SpamAssassin,

FTPS, Linux sg (SCSI Generic) loadable module, WebTrends On Demand, Omniture, NoCatAuth,

MRTG, Comedi, SoX, OpenVMS 7.3, Wifidog, Xen, Cryptocard Authentication Server, OpenLDAP,

Subversion, Dovecot, Nagios, Git, Live555, Gstreamer. Voice recording hardware: Dictaphone

Guardian, Dictaphone Prolog, NICE NiceLog, NICE NiceCall, Racal Wordnet, Racal Mirra,

Eyretel, Mercom, ASC Marathon, Comverse, TantaComm, AT&T/Lucent/Avaya Audix, Northern

Telecom Meridian Mail, Nortel CallPilot. Legacy computer hardware: Alpha, PowerPC, SPARC,

MIPS, 68000, VAX. Tape hardware: LTO, SuperDLT, DLT, DDS, AIT, Exabyte, QIC, 3592, 9940.

Double Agent, Inc., New York, NY January 2000-September 2001

Installed and administered corporate servers, networking, and infrastructure, including

three-zone Linux firewall with ipchains, network file server for heterogeneous network

(Unix, PC, Mac) with Red Hat Linux 6.2, desktop Unix environment with NIS/NFS/automounter,

mail server with UW imapd and IMP web client, time server with NTP, network tape backup

system for Linux and Solaris with DLT autoloader. Built multiplatform RDBMS development

environment with Oracle 8.1, Sybase ASE 11.9, SQL Server 7.0, MySQL 3.22. Experience with

Tomcat 3.2, Documentum 4i, iPlanet.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY February 1997-January 2000

Administered private Ethernet segment for R&D and customer technical support groups.

Experience with Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0, Apache 1.3, mod_perl 1.2, DBI, DBD, Sybase

Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5, Sybase Full-Text Search Specialty Data Store, Verity

Information Server 3.1.0, Oracle 7.3, Oracle 8.0, Oracle ConText Cartridge, mSQL 2.0,

Mysql 3.21, Lotus Notes 4.5, Lotus Notes 5.0, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, MacOS 8.0, Red Hat

Linux 5.2, samba, DAVE, Toast, HP JetDirect, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, Bay Networks RemoteAnnex

2000

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EarthWeb, Inc., New York, NY September 1996-January 1997

Administered Web servers for online commerce. Experience with Netscape Enterprise Server

2.0, ssh, CyberCash Merchant Server, TCP wrappers, PGP, mSQL 1.0, Solaris 2.5.1, MKStats.

The Voyager Company, New York, NY November 1995-September 1996

Administered Unix servers for company email, Usenet news, World Wide Web. Experience with

Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, Linux, Windows 95, MacOS 7.5.3, Netscape Commerce Server 1.12,

ICVerify, sales tax databases, INN, Hylafax, wwwstat, SSL.

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY June 1993-May 1995

Administered approximately ten RS/6000s, X-Terminals, and PCs on Watson's internal TCP/IP

network. Experience with AIX 3.2.5, AIX 4.1.1, Token Ring, AFS, DOS 6.3, Windows 3.1, IBM

TCP/IP for DOS 2.1.1, X11R6, public domain PC networking software (Kermit, NCSA Telnet,

XFS, Trumpet), Mosaic, Netscape, SOCKS, HTML, Wabi.

IEEE, New York, NY March 1992-May 1993

System administration consultant for a network of approximately fifty Sun SPARCstations.

Experience with SunOS 4.1.2, automounter, TeX, troff, yacc, lex, sendmail, Arbortext

Publisher.

Columbia University, New York, NY September 1990-May 1993

System administrator for a subnet of approximately 15 Sun SPARCstations, Sun 3, X-

Terminals, and PCs. Supervised office relocation and domain name change. Performed

hardware and operating system upgrades. Automated disk backups. Experience with SunOS 4.1,

SunOS 4.1.2, PC-NFS, NIS, NFS, Ethernet, X11R5, GNU tools, TeX, public domain software.

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL September 1989-August 1990

Supervised initial installation of Unix workstations in the high-energy physics division.

Experience with Sun SPARC and Tektronix 88000 platforms.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPSSmartUp Group, Netanya, Israel May 2010-present

Member of board of advisors for a startup accelerator specializing in Israeli and

international ventures.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.

Recipient of 1993-94 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council Predoctoral Fellowship.

Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1998.

CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York.

Member of IEEE, 1985-present.

Member of MIT Educational Council. Interviewer for high school students applying for

admission to MIT, 2006-present.

COMPUTER SKILLS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Java, Perl, C, C++, JavaScript, BASIC, LISP

MARKUP LANGUAGES: XML, XSL, SGML, HTML, LaTeX, troff

ENVIRONMENTS: Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Unixware, Windows

Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT/Me/98/95/3.1, MS-DOS, Macintosh OSX/OS9/OS8, VAX/VMS, OpenVMS,

VM/CMS, OS/400

PACKAGES: Word, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Access, Adobe

Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Sybase PowerDesigner, AmiPro, emacs, X11, Mathematica, MATLAB,

SPICE, MAGIC, KIC, OCT, AutoCAD

OUTSIDE INTERESTS

Participant in mentoring program for New York City Public Schools' "School of the

Future." Supervised high school student interns at Voyager Co. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

1996-1999.

Manager and booking agent for Postcrypt Coffeehouse, a live acoustic music venue located

on the campus of Columbia University, NY. Produced a compact disc featuring live

performances by nineteen local and nationally-renowned recording artists. 1992-1995.

Volunteer at Democratic National Convention, NY. July 1992.

Member of Amnesty International, 1989-present.

Member of Hunger Committee, a college group which cooked food for soup kitchens in

Cambridge, MA. 1983-1986.

Hobbies: music, traveling, biking, skiing, genealogy, construction, karate.

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