Howard Matis

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Work: 510-***-**** Home 510-***-**** E-Mail: ac76d9@r.postjobfree.com Goals

Desire to join industry to solve practical problems. Vast experience in data science, data acquisition and analysis, modeling, statistical modeling, machine learning, simulation, data mining, silicon detectors, and designing equipment. Easily can learn a new technology or software. Projects (recent)

• Chief Software engineer - effort to photograph automobiles at vary locations. Neighborhood Org.

(2013 – present)

o Use the images from a commercial camera, send the images to a temporary buffer on a Linux computer, and then upload them to a web server.

o Created digital architecture model for distribution of data. o Created software that allows for diagnosis of system failure using Python. o Wrote various programs in several languages including Linux scripts. o Analyzed system to improve reliability.

o System has performed and identified suspects.

o Currently using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Project to make the City of Oakland’s Council’s record available to public – Open Oakland (2017- present)

o Using various technologies to create interactive web pages and mobile apps so that the Oakland Public and know and interact with the Oakland City council. o Technologies include Python, Docker, and SQL.

o Creating mobile apps.

• Luminosity detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN-Switzerland – Berkeley Lab (1999 – 2017)

o Monte Carlo Simulation involving half a million CPU hours to determine properties of detector. Involves statistics and error analysis to understand data. o Designed hardware testing to insure operability of detector. Used search engine techniques to refine data. Analyzed using big data techniques.

o Wrote software, created algorithms, and analyzed data to determine whether detector met requirements with Matlab. Built applications from end-to end. Designed visualization software. o Member of design team. Designed, built, and tested sensors for project. o Data Scientist for group. Used predictive analytics to describe behavior of detector. Developed the architecture of directing the digital services to the United States. Used data mining techniques to describe operation of the detector. Analyzed large data sets using Big Data techniques on NERSC supercomputer.

• Silicon Detectors -– Berkeley Lab (1999 – 2008)

o Nobel Prize Committee declared two of our papers for this project as critical for the 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize in Cryo-Electron Microscopy. o Developed and designed CMOS APS detectors.

o Designed data acquisition software and used LabVIEW to implement it. o Analyzed data and developed data algorithms.

o Analyzed sensor characteristics with Matlab.

o Designed detector with extensive mathematical modeling. o Developed data mining techniques to show that rare signals can be found in simulated data. Created statistical model of analysis.

o Developed large-scale data mining program to identify charmed particles. Howard Matis

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o Data scientist to study to identify rare processes using machine learning. Created and tested algorithm to identify D0 particles using Support Vector Machines. o Developed 3D software and pattern analysis to mathematically model the detector. Used different algorithms to study characterizations of data. Design of large-scale data analysis for detector. o Used 3D visualization techniques to study ray-tracing algorithms. o Wrote real-time software and designed hardware to acquire data from sensors. More than three other universities adopted this system.

o Lead testing, wrote software and analyzed data to verify performance of silicon CMOS sensors. Designed test sensors. Created visualization software for detector.

• Designed and delivered a measurement test platform for medical instrumentation – Mynosys (2013 – present)

o Interface included a USB camera, digital and analog inputs and outputs, bar code scanner. o Created software specifications for device.

o Created software specifications for device and implemented it in LabVIEW. o Debugged code making sure sensors accurately recorded. o Periodically update software to add new features. o Platform is now certifying medical products for human eye surgery.

• SSD project manager for silicon vertex tracker for $30M DOE project at BNL – Berkeley Lab (2006 – 2012)

o Developed budget and schedule and design.

o Led project to Department to Department of Energy acceptance.

• Contemporary Physics Education Project - Berkeley Lab (2012 – present) o President

o Led organization to E-Commerce on Amazon.com. Responsible for marketing of products. o Recently won the 2017 “Excellence in Physics Education” award from the American Physical Society.

• Neutrino telescope in the South Pole-IceCube – Berkeley Lab (1999 – 2009) o Tested prototype circuit board and analyzed performance. This work lead to $250M project accepting this technology. Designed, built, and tested sensors for project. o Responsible for electrical quality control. Designed system where more than 5000 very complex circuit boards with an FPGA and CPU can be tested for extreme temperatures. o Designed custom Integrated Circuit (IC) chip tester. Wrote software data acquisition. Selected Computer Languages & OS

UNIX Python Matlab LabVIEW

JAVA Macintosh Big Data C/C++

Excel Computer Security Cybersecurity Amazon AWS

Positions

• Staff Physicist Affiliate, Lawrence Ber0keley National Laboratory (LBNL) Berkeley, CA

• Consultant for Mynosys Cellular Devices, Fremont, Berkeley, CA

• President, Contemporary Physics Education Project 2012-present

2014-present

2012-present

• Staff Physicist, LBNL, Berkeley, CA 1983-2012

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Management Experience

• Integration electrical physicist for ~100 M$ project. Designed electrical system for ~5 MW of power. Responsible for coordinating activities of 100’s of physicists into a plan that can accommodate everyone’s requirements.

• Subsystem manager for Silicon Detector. Responsible for budget and planning.

• Supervised many students and postdocs in their research.

• Reviewer for Department of Energy SBIR/STIR proposals.

• NSF/NSDEG Reviewer for Graduate Research Fellows

• Leading Contemporary Physics Education Project to ecommerce through Amazon.com Awards (recent)

• Excellent in Education Award from the American Physical Society

• American Association for the Advancement of Science - Fellow

• Massapequa High School (New York) Hall of Fame

2017

2017

2013

• Service award from the American Physical Society California Section 2011

• U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Outstanding Mentor Award 2008

• University of Chicago Sydney A. Rosen Award 2008

• Hero Award from the City of Oakland 2008

• American Physical Society - Fellow 2006

• North Cal. Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication Distinguished Award 2000 Professional Development

American Institute of Physics, William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award, This project has lead to an inexpensive cosmic ray detector that is used throughout the world.

1996-2008

Contemporary Physics Education Project. Leader of a group that produced widely used wall chart on nuclear physics for high school and college students. Editor for text: Nuclear Science A Teacher’s Guide to the Nuclear Science Wall Chart. President/2012-present

Vice-President/1997-2012

Board of Directors/1998-

present

Numerous committees for the Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society

1998-2006

Consultant to the Boy Scouts of America on Nuclear Science Merit Badge 2005-2009 Howard Matis

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Education

Ph.D. Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL S.M. Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL B.S. Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate.

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