@androwis androwis abumoussa github.com/androwis
********@******.** Rochester NY 828-***-****
technical expertise
- Developing w Java, Python, C, Puppet, various DBs, & the cloud
- Building web applications w Jetty, Spring, jQuery, HTML and CSS
- Working knowledge: Scala, Lisp, Prolog, Clojure, Mobile & Ruby
- Hacking on Linux Kernel building home automation/monitoring sys
- Managing and using SUSE, Debian, Mac and Windows systems
professional experience
Co-Founder/CTO Fount.in Inc (Rochester, NY) 5/2012-Present
Artificial Intelligence as a Service. Using AI and Machine Learning
we track how and where diseases are spreading in real time w twitter
data. We provide clients with tools to monitor consumer health for
product placement, market research and more.
Head of Engineering SimplyHome (Asheville, NC) 10/2010-5/2012
Design, develop and maintain systems to improve the quality of life
for aging and handicapped populations. As the chief technologist, I
built the cloud infrastructure, supervised the hardware development,
and implemented solutions for our customers. SimplyHome is Medicare
approved in 30 states.
Founder/CEO Scenedipity (Asheville, NC) 4/2011-4/2012
Open data platform for restaurants and foodtrucks. This personal
project introduced me to the open source community (specifically
Github) and Twitter. I learned most of my enterprise development
through this personal project.
Lead Dev/Sys Admin IWANNA USA, LLC (Asheville, NC) 1/2010-7/2011
Managed the complete rebuild of a classifieds website that serves
over 25k classifieds weekly generating more than 1 million unique
visitors every two weeks. Largest development focus was placed on
the UI and user experience. Website changes grew engagement and
content by over 15% and 30% respectively.
Developer Bishara Textile Manufacturing (Cairo, EG) 5/2008-9/2008
Designed an online management tool for a 2000+ worker Egyptian
textile factory. The software manages the different aspects of
garment production, by measuring worker output and factory capacity
to scheduling design calendars. Resulted in a 12% productivity increase.
Draftsman Shamburger Design Studio (Hendersonville, NC) Summer 2007
Created my first ftp style website where clients could securely
access rendered designs. Architectural draftsman for 10 projects in
excess value of $15 million. Trained another intern.
Intern Shamburger Design Studio (Hendersonville, NC) Summer 2006
Apprenticed architect through all stages of design, from initial
meeting with clients, to sketching the ideas, to final presentation
of plans and bidding of project to contractors. Became proficient
with AutoCAD, archiCAD, and Google's Sketch-Up.
publication and speaking engagements
Real-Time Captioning by Groups of Non-Experts UIST 2012
W Lasecki, C Miller, A Sadilek, A Abumoussa, D Borrello, R Kushalnagar, & J Bigham
Crowd sourced captioning to power mobile interfaces for the deaf
CIVHC.org Health Conf - Innovating with Open Health Data
Company Lab Demo Day - Corpora Health Insights in Real Time
Health Datapalooza 2012 - Analysis of Health Insights in Real-Time
FoodTech 2012 - Reverse Engineering UIs for Food Trucks
U of Alabama CSE 2011 - Innovative Engineering at SimplyHome
education
CS Ph.D. Student University of Rochester 1/2012-present
Accessibile User Interfaces for the Blind [under Dr. Jeffrey Bigham]
Artificial Intelligence [under Dr. Henry Kautz]
Double Major University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2005-2009
B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics [under Dr. Sorin Mitran]
B.Sc. w/ Honors in Computer Science [under Dr. Gary Bishop]
Mathematics GPA - 3.69/4.00 Overall - 3.42/4.00
North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics 2003-2005
Fell in love with Fractals and Chaos, exhausted biology and maths
curriculums & surprisingly, did 0 programming.
extracurricular
RocHack - League of hackers at the University of Rochester
Skydiving, Scuba, Belay
References available upon request. [http://androw.is/resume] for links