Ken Yetzer

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Rising Sun, Maryland 21911

Cell Phone: 301-***-****

E-mail: acn5tl@r.postjobfree.com

Career Long Term Objective

My main objective is to be an entrepreneur in the IT industry. I want to develope unique

solutions in the Internet of Things (IOT) technology area of IT (e.g., remote health

monitoring of things like people or machines, remote control and automation of

machines). I want to bring in a team of people to help me in my endeavors and I want to

help patent, market and sell the final solution. I also want to teach at the university level

covering all the unique things I have learned over the course of my career (e.g.,

integrated modeling and testing, remote health monitoring, data analytics, modeling and

simulation).

Short Term Objective and why Am I a fit

for this role

I have both industry experience and I have teaching experience. I have a PhD in

Atmospheric Science and have taught as a lecturer. Teaching/tutoring is one of the things

I would like to do once again

Career Summary

• As a graduate student at Ohio State University I Obtained a Phd in Atmospheric

Science doing research work in modeling and simulation. I gained valuable

experience in both programming on unix based machines (shell and c) and using

sensors to measure a wide variety of properties.

• I worked for a startup business that offered weather observation/forecasting services

to clients. I performed a wide variety of duties including developement,

management and sales and learned a lot about running a small business.

• I worked at Nasa Goddard Space Flight center for 5 years in the Climate/Radiation

Branch doing research (simulation of radiative transfer) and software development

(Java,Fortan,unix shell). I began learning about object orientated programming in

this role.

• I worked 2 years for the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization

Program. I was the director of technology area called Integrated Modeling and

Testing with responsibilities to teach, train, market, manage, sell and help convert

software. I gained valuable experience in how to market and sell in this position.

• I spent 6 years working for a small business as a solutions architect, developer,administrator and manager. I applied what I learned about object oriented

programming and data analysis in this role. I also learned how to program in SQL.

• I spent the last 3 years working for a mining company to help provide remote health

monitoring solutions to customers. I learned how data analytics can be used in real

time to provide value to a service and how difficult it is to sell that value to a

customer.

• I am currently doing some work for a startup involving the use of the Auduino

platform and the Kinect sensor and doing research into various Internet of Things

technologies. This is the next step in achieving my long term objective.

Technical Expertise

Category Years of Experience (Used Within last 2 Yrs)

Computing Languages:

Java(J2SE,JDBC) 15 (yes)

Java(Mobile/Android) 2 (yes)

C++, C 22 (yes)

Fortran 15 (no)

JavaScript 15 (yes)

SQL 8 (yes)

R (Statistical program Language) 3 (yes)

Matlab 3 (yes)

Statistical techniques for signal/image processing:

Fourier/Wavelet Transforms 8 (yes)

Neural Networks, Bayesian Networks 2 (no)

regression 8 (yes)

Principal Component Analysis 1 (no)

Professional Experience

Coovert Technical

128 Sunset Rd. Ontario, Ohio 44906, 2014-present

Title: Solutions Architect

Administrator: Nathan Coovert 419-***-****

Primary Responsibility: This is a startup that offers a variety of IT related services.

The following work is being performed:

• I have developed user interfaces for clients including dashboards, mobile apps

(using Sencha Touch) and regular desktop interfaces.

• I have developed several GIS applications using Google Maps.

• I am currently working on data fusion type algorithms. One involves combining

HD video from a Sony camera with time of flight data from the Kinect sensor

(version 2) and GPS tracking data. The end result will be 3 dimensional video

with location and orientation information. Another project involves using the

Kinect sensor to determine characteristics of individuals in its view (approximate

age, sex, total number). The use case for this might be for the Nielson Ratings

Company and advertising.

• I am working on several projects involving the use of the Arduino open source

micro-controller. One is a seismograph and the other is a 3 axis accelerometer for

monitoring purposes.

Joy Global Inc.

20th Liberty Street, Franklin PA, 16323, 2011-2014

Title: Remote Health Monitoring Engineer

Administrator: James Wilson 814-***-****

Primary Responsibility: Joy Global is a manufacturer of mining equipment for both

above and below ground operations. I was hired to work in a department known as Smart

Services whose primary task is to provide remote health monitoring of machines in real

time. The following work was performed:

• I helped configure and maintain the environment that is used to transfer data from

the machines to the cloud using a Internet of things application known as

Thingworx

• I developed queries/routines in a real time database solution known as IP.21.

These routines would perform real time data analysis and issue alerts when

something is discovered (aka predictive maintenance algorithms).

• I developed web page mashups for both internal and external customers that

would be used as dashboards/real time data displays/data retrieval portals. These

mashups were developed using HTML5 technologies from Sencha and

Thingworx

• I helped configure client PC's to properly run the Thingworx Platforms.

• I helped analyze data to come up with new ideas for predictive maintenance

algorithms.

• I developed an auto install package for Thingworx (consisting of a Java Servlet

and a windows .bat executable) that reads in the existing package and inserts

relevant information. Then it zips up the contents and returns it to the user. All

the user has to do is manually transfer the file to a server and run the windows

.bat file to auto install.

• I help deal with any issues the our internal customers would have. This would

entail either fixing the issue myself or reaching out to the right person either in

our company or outside our company.

• I have created requirements documents for developers to follow in creating an

application and I have written numerous help documents describing how an

application or algorithm works.

Sauls Seismic Inc.

3710 4th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35222, 2007-2013

Title: Independent contractor

Administrator: Nathan Coovert 419-***-****

Primary Responsibility: Sauls Seismic is a consulting business that specializes in

vibration monitoring for the construction, mining, and quarrying industries using

seismographs. This is a contract job that involves building a complete web based content

management system for the client. The following work has been accomplished.

• I designed the outline of the entire system for the client.

• I setup an HP Proliant blade server with 4 hard drives in a raid configuration

where 2 drives mirrored the other two.

• I used all open source software on the system including

CentOS,MySQL,Java,Apache Tomcat, Open Office and UltraVNC,PhP.

• I developed numerous scripts using shell, C-shell, K-Shell to help with

administration of the server including backups, deletion of old data and retrieval

of data from other resources on the web (i.e., weather data).

• I developed the database Schema and created hundreds of tables and wrote

thousands of queries

• I developed hundreds of Servlets and supporting libraries in both Java and PHP

for the server side communication and I developed the entire client side interface

using the HTML5 JavaScript framework ExtJS and Sencha Touch.

• I developed software to communicate with the seismographs and download event

information

• I developed a Google mapping application that allows a user to place markers

showing locations of seismographs,blast events,buildings and cell phone towers.

The application also allows the user to automatically draw distance lines from

shot locations to seismographs and includes a utility that shows the predicted peak

park velocity from an event to any distance from that event

• I managed a few developers who helped with the effort.

• I developed several JavaScript apps using Sencha Touch in combination with

Phonegap/Apache Cordova.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center

Onsite Contractor for the Dept. of Defense High Performance Computing

Modernization Program at the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.

2006-2007.

Title: Director of the integrated modeling and testing computational technology

area

Administrator: Ashok Kristamurthy

Primary Responsibility: Reach out to users throughout the DoD (who work on testing

of systems, components, etc) and help them with their High Performance Computing

needs. I was also responsible for teaching training classes/seminars and writing

proposals and papers.

• I taught training classes in Matlab, Real-time computing, Monte Carlo methods in

science and engineering

• I presented talks on Distributed testing and analytical processing tools (applied to

a database of vehicle sensor data)

• I developed signal processing algorithms for vehicle sensor data that performs

both de-noising of the data and validation of the data. The de-noising algorithm

used wavelet transforms to act as a low pass filter. The validation algorithm used

a Bayesian network to check for outliers.

• I developed a spatial data mining application for the vehicle sensor data that reads

in GPS coordinates and displays outliers in Google Earth (shows locations of the

outliers along the test track).

• I managed a group of programmers that helped with code development.

• I helped sell the service to potential clients throughout the DoD by talking with

people and giving presentations to groups.

Digital Radar Corporation

Cleveland, Ohio 1995-2005

Title: Solutions Architect

Administrators: Gil Gomez 330-***-****

Primary Responsibility: This was a startup business that began as a weather forecast

service provider to clients and later on included other services. My responsibilities

included the following:

• I designed, built and maintained a website for clients.

• I created dashboard displays for the clients in near real time which was obtained

from free sources of data (both observational and numerical modeling) on the

network.

• I performed system administration on the server running the web site. This

included setting up and maintaining the routines that automatically download the

weather data.

• I managed a couple of programmers who helped me with the work. This included

making sure the entire operation ran smoothly and in particular making sure the

forecast products were provided to the clients by the deadline.

• I created a school bus routing system that schools can use to store bus stop and

other data in a database and then use it to generate routing information for bus

drivers using a mapping engine. MySQL is used as the database engine. Java is

used on both the front end and back end (client viewer is an applet). A JavaScript

version of the client viewer was also created. The Simple Object Access Protocol

is used to communicate with the mapping server (Navteq's MapTP). This system

also displays weather information along the bus route including road conditions.

• I helped sell the service to new clients.

Raytheon ITSS (Information Technology and Scientific

Services)

Onsite Contractor at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Climate-Radiation Branch Code 913-****-****

Title: Researcher/Developer

Administrator: Bob Cahalan 301- 614-5390

Primary Responsibility: Gathering/analyzing data, developing software/visualizations

and doing research that supports various projects.

• I participated in the Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (i3rc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

project. I Developed the I3RC website, including both the static images that

show the statistical comparison and the Java routines that show the comparison

interactively. I helped with the analysis of the comparison data and helped run

the models on supercomputers.

• I worked on the Thickness from Offbeat Returns (THOR-LIDAR) project. I was

responsible for modifying the operating software. I participated in the field

campaigns to Oklahoma (2002) and Antarctica (2003). I helped retrieve and

analyze the gathered data both from THOR and (in the case of the Oklahoma

campaign) from various ground instruments located along our flight track. Some

of these instruments included millimeter cloud radar, Micropulse Lidar,

Ceilometers, Wind Profilers, Surface Met stations.

• I provided UNIX system administration on various machines including security.

• I Developed a Java applet that performs atmospheric correction on retrieved

satellite images from the Landsat satellite.

• I worked on a GPS study titled “Using inexpensive GPS receivers to obtain more

accurate coordinates”. This study involved the collection of GPS data using an

inexpensive hand-held receiver and then post-processing the data to reduce the

bias errors that are associated with GPS signals.

Ohio State University

Department of Geography (Atmospheric Science Program)

Columbus, Ohio 1986-1999

Title: Teaching/Research assistant

Administrator: John Rayner 614-***-****

Primary Responsibility: Teaching and technical related activities

• I worked on setting up weather data ingestion software on a UNIX workstation

that retrieves data in real time. Setup and modified software that displays this data

(NcarGraphics, WXP, Gempak, Mcidas). I created routines that generate and print

off weather maps that were used for forecasting and teaching in the programs

weather lab.

• I performed UNIX system administration on SGI and SUN Microsystems

workstations.

• Setup and ran a Mesoscale atmospheric model (MM5) using the real time

ingested data, in order to provide weather forecasts.

• I worked as a teaching assistant while pursuing a master’s degree and I worked as

a lecturer while pursuing a PhD. Taught math, geography and atmospheric science

courses.

Education

Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio

B.S. in Applied Mathematics, B.S. in Atmospheric Science, June 1991

M.S, in Atmospheric Science, June 1994

PhD, in Atmospheric Science, December 1999

Publications

Cahalan, R. F., M. McGill, J. Kolasinski, T. Varnai, and K. Yetzer: THOR – Cloud

Thickness from Offbeam Returns. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., Submitted March 2004

Cahalan, R. F., L. Oreopoulos, A. Marshak, K. F. Evans, A. Davis, R. Pincus, K. Yetzer,

B. Mayer, R. Davies, and I3RC participants: The International Intercomparison of 3D

Radiation Codes (I3RC): Bringing together the most advanced radiative transfer tools for

cloudy atmospheres. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Society, Submitted August 2004

Yetzer, K., and M. Stokes: Distributed Test Events: An Army Perspective. HPCMP

User Group Conference, Denver Co, 2006.

Yetzer, K., and Andrew Warnok: On-line Analytical Processing Tools for the VISION

EUDB Database. HPCMP User Group Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007.

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