Senior Software Engineer

acrk3p@r.postjobfree.com MARK R. LAFF

Phone: 914-***-****

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / FULL STACK / TEAM LEAD - with extensive hands-on experience taking first-of-a-kind software applications from concept to deployment. Holder of 5 U.S. patents. Author of 17 peer-reviewed technical articles. Recipient of 8 IBM awards for innovation and technical excellence.

CORE COMPETENCIES – Core Java; REST / Jersey / Jackson; AngularJS / Jasmine; MongoDB; Spring; Hibernate; Maven; AMQ / JMS; Git; SVN; XML / SAX / Freemarker / JAXB; PostgreSQL; Flex/ AIR; Javascript; HTML5 / JQuery; Puppet; Liquibase; Jenkins, IntelliJ Idea; Linux / Bash / Awk PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LAB49, New York, NY (financial services consulting) Strategy, design and technology consulting firm that creates advanced solutions for the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers and exchanges

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER [June 2015 – present]

Highlights: Creating new flagship communication vehicle for top financial firm. Full-Stack Software Engineer – Develop key user story functionality – REST endpoints in Java with Drop-Wizard; MongoDB; AngularJS.

WALKER DIGITAL TABLE SYSTEMS, Stamford, CT (casino gaming) Tech Startup creating an RFID-based Casino Gaming Table product SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / TEAM LEAD [September 2009 – June 2015] Highlights: RFID Casino Gaming Table – Baccarat – plus Server Infrastructure; >$10B Market (Macau) Configuration Lead – Delivered major product feature Empowering End-User implementation of Business Rules & Asset Management instead of static customization; streamlined deployment to new customers; eliminated customer configuration costs for WDTS support organization; Scalability Lead – Delivered Simulated Load performance metrics and analysis; identified performance bottlenecks; eliminated 30x message backlog; critical Marketing Acceptance tool in customer engagements.

Build/Install Tool Transformation Lead - Reduced developer edit/build/run time from 7-10 mins to 1 min; reduced webapp .war size from ~500 MB to ~10 MB; IBM TJ WATSON RESEARCH, Yorktown Heights, NY (world class tech research lab) RESEARCH STAFF MEMBER / MANAGER [1977-2009]

Highlights: R&D in advanced software technology projects for transfer to IBM Software divisions with a 2 year to 10 year horizon.

Accessibility Lead - IBM PowerUp 3D Virtual World Game - NY Team Enabled Visually-Impaired, Blind, and Dexterity-Impaired users to access to 3D Virtual World educational game (MMO). Patented the Orientation and Navigation Accessibility algorithms; Published 1 Journal Article, 3 Conference Papers; Earned IBM Corporate Innovation Award; acrk3p@r.postjobfree.com MARK R LAFF Phone: 914-***-**** Interaction Plugin Lead - IBM Accessibility Plug-In for Firefox Enabled Web Browsing experience for people with visual, motor, and cognitive disabilities through browser plugins, DOM transformations, and Text-to-Speech. IBM Donated to Mozilla Foundation; 2008 Corporate Partnership Award from Lighthouse International; 1 Journal Article, 2 Conference Papers; Web Portal Lead – IBM Reinventing Education (RE3) Web Portal Delivered IBM Reinventing Education 3 web portals: Teachers’ Workplace and Teachers Workbench; used by over 6,000 Educators, Teacher Candidates, and Mentors at 8 Grant Teams (collaborations between colleges of education and large school districts); $15M IBM RE3 grant program; 2 Conference Papers, Division Award;

Web User Interface Lead – IBM Social Computing Group Created novel activity visualization components (Social Proxies) and client-server protocol for social collaboration tools (Babble, Loops). Internal IBM deployment, approx 600 users; 3 Patents, 6 Journal Articles, 1 Encyclopedia Article, Division Award;

MacOS PORT LEAD – IBM NetVista product

Ported IBM NetVista product (Internet Gateway for K-12 schools) to Mac OS 9; 1 Journal Article, Division Award;

Client Application Lead – IBM Entertainment Applications Created Power Visualization System supercomputer-based film/video special effects software products used in production of Hollywood Feature Films; 1 Journal Article, Corporate Award. Manager – IBM Interactive Media Project – Lead multi-disciplinary team (developers, social scientists, graphic designers, video engineers,3D animators). Created first-of-a-kind multimedia authoring tool; award winning interactive multimedia installations; 2 Corporate Awards; Senior Manager – IBM Software Technology Institute - Researched state-of-the-art software development tools; invented first edit/compile/go IDE for mainframe software; Corporate Award; Manager – IBM Workstation Operating Systems – Lead team of five developers responsible for porting Berkely UNIX to ROMP Workstation; re-targeting C compiler; re-engineering virtual memory subsystem, creating new device drivers for disk, display, networks; Corporate Award; Staff Programmer – IBM Logic Simulation Machine Interactive Control Console - Create software control panel and design/build interface logic board [wire-wrap] for computer design simulators; Division Award;

Staff Programmer - Fractals - Design and implement graphical algorithms for exploring Fractal Geometry in collaboration with Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot, IBM Fellow, inventor of Fractal Mathematics AFFILIATION / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / EDUCATION Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Special Interest Groups: SIGCHI, SIGACCESS, SIGGRAPH B.S. in Mathematics / Minor in Computer Science, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY acrk3p@r.postjobfree.com MARK R LAFF Phone: 914-***-****

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