Richard Katz (ad1k96@r.postjobfree.com, ad1k96@r.postjobfree.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardkatz/)

Summary

Richard is a seasoned professional data engineer and software devleoper with experience with Spark, Pandas, Airflow and he is also a software engineering architect with group leading experience. He is 10 years of data engineering includes medical devices, and cloud - configuring and deploying AWS EMR and Databricks, plus 6 years SOA Microservices. I am strongly based on SQL with 20 years. 12 years of Java/JEE/Spring, 10 years Python plus PySpark Flask, Django and Anaconda plus C/C++ and assembly. As a lead, in analytics I work i with developers to help them solve problems and to create efficient architectures. I am an experienced project leader with 8 years of team management.

SUMMARY

Currently working on materials related to Python, Spark, and Mathematics software.

I have worked as data engineer, and software developer plus software architect, team leader software engineer, performance engineer and security analyst. I work largely with Python but have extensive Java/JEE experience as well. As team leader, I infuse groups with design and architectural work also and sharing the vision and design and bring people on board. I work with Python, SQL, Java, Spark, Pandas, HDFS, Jupyter Labs and Databricks, Linux, and AWS EMR and Azure Databricks. Experienced project manager: Supervised teams of up to 7 developers. planning, budgeting, performance review.

I have worked in API server environments that require both security and privacy. I have worked in OWASP security groups at UC, and Wells Fargo. I have also built and designed and trained people in building Rest Applications such as are required for Patient privacy. I have done installation and setup for CI/CD, Jenkins and have helped setup add new CI/CD environments.

Experience Summary:

Data engineer - 9 years: Python, Spark, SQL, Scala, Java, EMR, Databricks, Pandas, JupyterLab, Colab

Currently working on Data engineering optimization study including Python and Math.

Applications Software Developer – 16 years: JEE/Spring, Spring, 6 Years: Python, Django, Flask, EC2

Languages: Java 14 years, Python 8 years, Assembly language 5 years,

Highly proficient SQL Developer: Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Procedures with recent Snowflake training

Successful Cloud Development and deployment: (5 years) including: AWS/EMR, GCP, and Databricks and data acquisition on Azure.

Microservice Infrastructure Architect: 6 years SAAS, EC2

InfoSec: on 5 years OWASP security teams.

Highlights:

Current research project: Python Math: includes SymPy, Z3, Blender, MLOps Optimization.

Designed and built successful SOA microservices systems at Wells Fargo and UC Berkeley: Won UC Chancellors Award. Led building of UC Course Management. System.

Led UC effort to Java/JEE Stack. Assisted UC-LBL Cal-Trans data engineering project Spark Databricks. Organized of traffic patterns using Spark, PyTorch and TensorFlow.

Total of 8 years of data engineering including ETL, Pipelines. Applications include medical, mortgage, manufacturing, and software industries.

9 years Python including Spark, Pandas, Flask and Django. 6 years SOA Microservices. 20 years of SQL. 12 years Java/JEE, 3 years Scala.

Technical Skill Summary:

Data Engineering

Data Engineering (9 years): Databricks Spark, EMR, PySpark, R, Scala, Pandas with Modin/Dask, Ray, Jupyter and Colab, ETL, SQL, Spark/SQL, NoSQL, Dashboards, Complete configuration and deployment of Spark on AWS EMR, Databricks, S3, Pandas and Spark DataFrames, RDD, Keras, TensorFlow, Torch,

Graphics: Bokeh, MatPlotLib, JupyterLab iPyWidgets, Apache Hive, Parquet, JSON, CSV, ProtoBuf, AirFlow. ROLAP/BI. Work in medical, manufacturing, financial, ISO 9001

Languages and Application Server

Python: 3.10, 3.9 –2.7 Flask, Django, ORM, Pandas, and latest Jupyter (iPython), PyWidgets, SQLAlchemy, DB-API, psycopg2, PyMySQL, JSON, PySpark, Boto3, data classes, http client, Numba, Numpy, bs4, LXML,.

Java JEE/Scala, Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere: Spring Integration, JPA, Hibernate, ORM Process Choreographer NES, GWT, and Struts systems with multiple entry points, Spring Security, Session Management, ThreadLocal, ADF/JSF. Entire J2EE platform: JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, JMS, RMI, JNDI, Velocity. Worked with the Scala language Scala-Spark, Akka and Lift.

C, C++, Assembler, Fortran, Prolog, MATLAB, SymPy. JavaScript:(8 years) JS programming, Prototype, JQuery

Analytics, ML Scientific Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Spark MLib Machine Learning algorithms, random forest, K-Means. Also worked on Spark/PySpark KPI study using Hive data where we produced KPIs dealing with enormous big data pull (7 hours long) to determine how fast regional data was coming in I have also worked with NumPy, Numba, SciPy, SymPy.

Scientific programming: Structural Engineering, Finite element analytics, response spectrum analysis, led structural engineering programming group.

Statistics – Statistics based projects using SQL and Spark, Pandas ML study for California Dept. Trans.

SOA: SOAP Web services (5 years), JSON, REST, JMS: IBM MQ Distributor, Apache ActiveMQ, IBM BPEL orchestration, parallel processing, transformations, and message routing Apache Camel, Apache CXF, Fuse ESB, Architecture, design planning, development and testing of integrated message processing applications in a SOA environment. Apache HTTP Client, WSDL, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXP, JAXB, JXPath, SAAJ, XML, XSL, XSD, JAAS, SSO, Quartz.

Platforms

(4 years) Cloud: AWS: Complete configuration and deployment: EMR, EC2, S3, RDS, Docker, Databricks, Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Desktop: Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, VB/VBA, Visio, Lucid, PC, Mac. Linux

Data Base and Object Relational

SQL (18 years), Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Sybase, Domain modeling, query optimization. DB Normalization, ORM: JPA, Hibernate, JXPath. SQL Alchemy, Django ORM Spring JDBC. SQL Alchemy, FoxPro.

NoSQL: Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, Lucene, DB4O, Elastic Search

Data Warehousing (OLAP, Star Schema)

Aggregation tools for to create data for Essbase, Looker, Tableau, Jupyter Lab.

Software Engineering DevOps & Performance Optimization, Security

CI/CD Set up Jenkins/Hudson on multiple projects, OS Support. JEE set up Maven/Nexus/Spring Boot, VMs for Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS. Docker, Vagrant, Chef, Docker Built SAAS systems

Built speed enhancements to Fortran SAP, mainframe performance analysis, recode in assembly language, benchmarking. SQL query optimization.

Application Security: OWASP, Network AppSec, Spring Security, Single Sign-on, SAML

Work with End users.

Source Control & IDEs

Git, SVN, ClearCase, Perforce, Piper, CVS, PCVS, Jenkins, SourceSafe.

Eclipse, IntelliJ, Sublime, VS Code, WSAD-IE, JDeveloper, TSO/ISPF

Project Management and Leadership

Project management of development teams (12 years); Trained in EEO and AA Interviewing and Hiring, Performance Evaluation, Project Funding, budgeting, for multiple year projects, forecasting. Project planning and cost benefit analysis. Employee Engagement. I have worked with numerous methodologies including SDLC: RUP, UP, SDM, and ITIL

Professional Work Summary

DataEngArch.com Nov 2021- to present

Data Engineer Architect

Current work projects:

1) Healthcare: Currently working on data science/ data engineering for studying and analyzing certain diseases.

2) Data Engineering Scalability: Working on Scalability and Speed Optimization Guide for Spark.

3) Installation Guide for Anaconda A Training Guide for Installing Anaconda especially on new Windows 11.

4) Mathematical Modeling with Python, SymPy, Z3, Scipy Jupyter, R and Other related math and symbolic math software. This focuses on how to integral calculus and symbolic mathematical models using SymPy, Z3, with SQL and then employ the model system in Spark data analytics. Includes cross-section model of the Data industry and software selection process. Express analytic data architecture. Build representation of data engineering and data science industry with Lucid. Apply analytical and econometric model of the data industry.

2/2023-3/2023 Performed additional consulting data engineering work for individual clients:.Client VTech and USDA I planned out modernization a large-scale library processing system to Python 3. And 6/2022-7/2022 for Applied Materials.

Use Python and Java environments for data engineering Python 3.10, 3.11, PostgreSQL, Java 8, Scala 3.2 PySpark, using SymPy with Torch, Anaconda, Jupyter, Colab with Polars/Modin/Pandas

Google (InfoObjects) via info objects, San jose,ca May 2021- to Oct 2021

Map Data Engineer

Modernize geographic data platform on GCP and Python 3. Built data graphics application Flask in new Python 3 infrastructure Worked on conversion of application from previous Python 2/6/2.7 to current 3,7 and upgrading documents for client.

Python 3.7, GCP, Google App Engine, GCloud, on Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD)

LoanPal, direct contract, Northern California Dec 2019-Jan 2020

Data Engineer

Set up Spark data analytics application program using Scala. Set up data aggregation system using Airflow and CI/CD system using Jenkins.

Autodesk via rose international, san francisco Sep 2018-Apr 2019

Senior Data Engineer

Python, PySpark, R, Databricks on AWS EMR, and EC2 backend, PySpark, SQLAlchemy. work included design and implementation of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in PySpark. Autodesk centralizes a vast world wide network of customer services. They needed to find out how fast the data was coming in. Configured and deployed Spark deployment to EMR using dynamic deployment with Docker. Configured and deployed Airflow. Wrote KPI output to Aurora (AWS MySQL). Wrote and deployed data graphics display using a PHP program using Google Charts,

I also worked on end User data access system which ran on an EC2 implemented using SQLAlchemy under Flask. Designed implemented Query Grouping for User Subscription and Pay-Per-Use Account Product Usage: Improved SQL- Alchemy MySQL back end: added user selectable query feature. Did Docker deployment for Chalice (Flask) application on EC2. Upgraded architecture document using Lucid Chart. Built TDD Unit Tests and Continuous Integration Tests: Unit Test To do this I did complete configuration and deployment of both EMR and EC2.

PySpark and Python 3.6, on AWS, with Docker, EMR/EC2, Spark/PySpark, Spark 2.4., Java 8, Spark SQL, Spark-JDBC, S3, Parquet, Aurora, MySQL, EC2, Google Charts, Bulk load, Boto3, Lambda, SQL Alchemy, MySQL, Aurora, Magic Mock, Patch, Jupyter, Eclipse, Python, Visual Code

Stanford University,(fulltime), Palo Alto Nov 2017 to Apr 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Designed and implemented Email Alert processing system converting existing Perl program to Python. Especially worked with end users at Stanford Hospital.

Implemented DevOps JIRA, Addressed issues using ServiceNow

Worked to make Email program both Python 3.6 and 2.7 compatible. The original Perl used Regex extensively and lacked a menu-driven method to identify types of email. I wrote special Regex functions that returned multiple values so as to modularize and I used a Dict with else to create a proper menu. Produced output in JSON and wrote to MongoDB Document the conversion in detail on Git using Sphinx

Earned Amazon Web Services AWS certification .

Debian Linux, bastion host, Python 2.7, Python 3.6, Perl 5, Sphinx, Email, Pip, Nose, PyLint, PyTest, flake8, PyMongo, JSON, click, MongoDB, AWS.

University of California (fulltime), Berkeley Jan 2009 to June 2017

Lead Software Engineer Implementing Java/JEE Stack

Led the introduction of new Java/JEE/Springs stack at UC Berkeley and our implementation of a multi-university effort called Kuali a joint project with UC, MIT and other universities. This led to successful SOA microservices systems as well.

Led implementation of Hudson/Jenkins. Worked in application security and assistend with JIRA and application management tools.

I led the first implementation - Kuali Ready, a campus-wide disaster recovery system. Worked with end users to design and build this new Kuali system. I then led a 2nd major JEE installation of the Berkeley Course Management System using Elastic Search. Also managed the implementation of Jenkins CI/CD.

Berkeley developed Spark and I became interested and I took the Berkeley Apache Spark class. I then led a group of programmers who eventually became a data engineering project for Cal-Trans. We trained on Azure Databricks we used it PySpark and R to analyze Cal-Trans traffic pattern data. We imported it using Pandas and ran analytics using both PyTorch and TensorFlow.

Scala, Python programming Learned to use UC Berkeley Spark, Jupyter, and Pandas. Studied R with Spark under Dr. Matloff. Maintained and enhanced Schedule Builder, Django and Python.

Security work: for and with UC Berkeley OWASP Application Security group.

Courses taken

Stanford Artificial Intelligence (online) from Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun

UC Berkeley CS 100 Apache Spark

UC Santa Cruz Java JDBC

UC Berkeley Business System Development with Excel

Studied and consulted with Norm Matloff on software and his favorite - the R language: at UC Davis.

ITIL Training certified.

SANS 522 training. Consulted with Dawn Song of CS on secure healthcare data transfer using REST.

JEE, Java 6, 7, 8. 9, GWT, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Java Database/JDBC, Spring Boot, Lucene, Jenkins, Hudson, Nexus, Jasper, CAS, Shibboleth, Tomcat, SOA Workflow, Scala, Python, R, Django, Memcached, Oracle, Spark, PySpark, PostgreSQL, Maven, IntelliJ, Rake, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Mac OS.X, Anaconda, Jupyter, Spark, PySpark, Pandas, NumPy, Numba, Matplotlib, Bokeh, DB-API, psycopg2, Virtual Box, Vagrant, Windows, Ubuntu, CENT OS Red Hat, PeopleSoft.

Pythology, Pacifica, CA Sep 2008-Jan 2009

Author

Managed industry webie, JavaSkyline that covered major Java efforts, e.g. JEE, JDBC

Began work on book set on Python and Applications "Mastering the Art of Python Basic structures, FP, OOP, Design, Design Patterns, Installation and expansion, IDEs, Jupyter, Data Engineering with Spark, and Spark add-ons: and Web Development, Algorithms and Structures, Web Top, Data Engineering, AI, ML, DL

Flask, SQL Alchemy, Spark, Java, Database, TLA+, Spark, PySpark, Dask, Pandas, Modin (RISELab), PyWren, GIT, Markdown, Jupyter, Eclipse

Wells Fargo San Francisco(contract), CA Nov 2006 to Sep 2008

Platform Senior Software Engineer

Designed and built successful SOA microservices systems at Wells Fargo:

Wells Fargo Alerts Team. Worked on integration with Wells Fargo SOA financial services. Tech Lead, Architect and Developer on the Alerts platform interactive SOA integration projects and Customer Notification Authoring System. Implemented scalable parallel processing high- performance environment with Web and JMS architecture using Identify and resolve Web and e-mail security issues using Fortify. Design code and implement new user tool (Julius) to design customized content with expanded domain model to reduce service alert cost: for customer banking messages. Implemented 2FA, DKIM solutions..

Also provided architectural long-range planning to corporate team. Coordinate work between Alerts Team and other development teams. Develop domain object, model, and described business use cases

WebLogic 8.1, 9.0, WebSphere MQ/MQI, J2EE, JMS, Spring,Velocity/Ajax Hibernate, Oracle 10i, Toad, Web services, Hermes, MQJ-Explorer, JUnit, Solaris Unix, MyEclipse, Ant, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Toad, ERWin, JDK 1.4, 5.

Charles Schwab(contract), San Francisco, CA Apr 2006 - Oct 2006

Senior Engineer/ Developer

Employee Stock Purchase Program. Build J2EE Applications in Java, Struts, Hibernate, Swing, Web services, for WebLogic, Oracle. Clarify use cases and UI Specs. Write component specifications in UML 2.0.

WebLogic Oracle, Ruby on, Rails, Web services, Hibernate, Ant, Linux.

Ingenuity Systems, Redwood City, CA Jan 2006 - Mar 2006

Software Architect

Short software architecture project in Java/JEE on ontology-based bio-informatics systems, knowledge base and ontological and software.

Spring, ACEGI, Hibernate, iBatis, POJO framework, Ant, Maven, Protégé, Eclipse, Swing, YWorks, Oracle 9i, UML, Sparx, JUnit, ER Studio, Python.

Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA (contract) Sep 2004 to Nov 2005

EBAM SOA BPEL Business Process Engineer

Took on the team leadership role and built up a team of 4 to to implement IBM BPEL-based solutions, We worked with the IBM development and implementation teams directly. I organized business process analysis and Led design, illustration, and implementation to set up BPM based business process message routing solutions for the bank including design of special monitoring for claims-fraud management.

We created proof-of-concepts, and BP prototypes, and the actual implementation. Defined the integrations, design methods, development methods, target architecture for SOA BPEL solutions using IBM WBI-SF Process Choreographer Documented integration architecture including JMS and Web Service integrations with MQ series, mainframe systems, and, Microsoft-based Web Services.

We designed high-performance scalable engineering solutions for business and systems using UML 2.0, BPMN and BPEL tools with design patterns in WebSphere Process Choreographer integration applications WSADIE 5.1 J2EE JAX-RPC, BPEL and Web Services, WSDL and XSD through complete life cycle, end-to-end testing, Q/A, and production. Designed for SOAP fault handlers, logging handlers, process-to-process integration, and XML schema validation and implemented overall BPEL and Java/J2EE workflows.

IBM WebSphere 5.1.1, Linux Cluster, MQ Series, DB2, WSADIE 5.1, WBI-SF, BPEL, J2EE, EJB, WSDL, SOAP, XSD (XML Schema), UML, BPMN, Sparx Enterprise Architect, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, SoapScope, XML Spy, Andromeda, Hibernate, Maven, Axis, Tomcat, Linux, Eclipse, ClearCase.

USPS via Northrop Grumman, San Mateo, CA July 2003 to Aug 2004

Lead Architect

Lead Architect for WebSphere platform. As result of work and proposal with Northrop, San Mateo center become the central focus of WebSphere projects for the USPS. Lead multiple software projects and designed architecture for Web-based and Web Service systems using MDA-based modeling with Java Spring and database

Supervised 3 to 5 person groups for and as architectural resource on WebSphere applications. Provided instructions and assignments using Agile methods. With the group, design, model, prototype, and develop J2EE Web and Web Service applications using Struts, Spring framework with Oracle 9i and DB2. Analyze and prototype integrated enterprise retail payment system. Produced models and design documents for WebSphere apps – UML, XMI and other tools. Work with IBM to analyze WAS deployment, single-sign-on, and XML-based Web Services.

Trained of USPS staff in J2EE, WSADIE, Struts and Web Service technologies and UML tools.

Implemented CVS change control with WebSphere WSAD 5.0 and 5.1, and defined security realms page protection, roles, and sign-on mapping for WebSphere applications Developed USPS management plans for security, and disaster recovery and multi -system Active Directory single-sign-on solution

J2EE 1.4/1.3 Spring, Struts 1.1, JAX-RPC, JDBC, EJB, JSP, XML, XSL, XSL-FO, Apache Axis WebSphere/WSAD 5.0., 5.1, Eclipse UML, Tomcat, JDeveloper, Metamill, Visio, Describe, UML 1.5-2.0, SPF, DB2 7.1, Oracle 9i PL/SQL, MQ Series, Axis, FOP, Krysalis Barcode4J, Ant, Quartz, -WAS-RBAC, Active Directory, Oblix, CVS. Retail accounts payable, weighing and rating, logistics.

SBCGlobal, San Ramon, CA May 2002 - Nov 2002

Front-End Developer

Design and implement High-volume on-line Web tool for SBC Yahoo! DSL service conversion/provisioning, Build JSP/J2EE/IBM WebSphere 4.0 Design, develop implement Web-based tool in J2EE: JSP to EJB interface, MVC architecture, flow control manager using, Bean-based components, extensive JavaScript, DHTML, HTTP Design Web application using MVC and DTO design patterns. Application design. Train other developers on WSAD, ADO Oracle 9i.

WebSphere 4.0, WSAD 4.02, CORBA, JSP, JavaScript, ASP, JDeveloper, Perl, Dreamweaver Oracle 9i, BMC Patrol, Tomcat, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Perl, DHTML, Win 2000, Solaris, JacORB, CORBA

Java Skyline,Pacifica, CA Aug 2001 to Mar 2003

Editor-in-chief

Write articles and maintain industry magazine for Java Software Engineering. Studied and track industry news about the Software field, the J2EE and Web Service platforms and posted information on JavaSkyline.com. Develop technical info on: SOA, UML, WS-BPEL. Develop J2EE developer tutorial solutions and training guides for J2EE, Web Services and IDEs

WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss.org, Tomcat, Axis, Java, J2EE, Web services, UML, XML

Mpath/HearMe, Mountain View, CA Jun 1999 to Aug 2001

Team Leader and Lead J2EE Architect.

Supervised two groups of 1 and 3 developers to construct a J2EE service management infrastructure, Network Management, and Message based JMS Billing integration. Assess product development platform, NMS and SNMP solutions. SNMP.

Designed service architecture and J2EE business platform for of IP Telecom/Telephony product. Architectural network designs for Voice network with Cisco switches for HearMe Voice Sever solutions. Architectural design including Web-based workflow and J2EE deployment business architecture.

Developed SNMP. Wrote Enterprise MIB. Integrated with SNMP products including DDRI ExAgent, Solstice, MS-SNMP, HP OpenView, Castlerock to run on Windows, Solaris. Architecture presentation materials for OSS CDR processing for voice solutions.

Linux, Solaris, NT, J2EE, EJB/ Servlet/JMS, JSP, Perl, Ant, GCC/Sun C++, LDAP, JBoss, AWT GIF/JPG conversion, WebLogic, Python, JProbe, Together, Rational, IntelliJ, JBuilder, Excel VBA, JavaScript, XSLT, IE 5 Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MS SQL.

Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA 1998-1999

Data Engineer: ETL Developer Architect

Developed data extraction and datawarehousing solution for Amdahl Performance Datawarehouse. Built extraction system using Amdahl ObjectStar (Huron), FoxPro and SQL to extract and wrangle data from various sources Built data extractions from Amdahl source data using their ETL system, and DB2 database used SQL queries written in ObjectStar and FoxPro. Loaded data from ObjectStar into Essbase (now known as Oracle OLAP) from which business intelligence cubes were createdUsed Essbase to generate, build, and email Microsoft Excel workbooks.

Amdahl, DB2, SQL, ObjectStar, Essbase, FoxPro, Excel

Mortgage Information Corporation, san francisco 1/1997- 8/1997

Data Engineer

Designed and built data engineering ETL pipeline system to collect and organize data for mortgage industry from various sources to create Mortgage Datawarehouse .

SQL, Visual Foxpro, Windows.

InsWeb, San Mateo 1996 (6 months)

C++ Programer

Built Vehicle Rating Engine in C++. Took over, prepared, tested, and maintained C Expert System written by Lee Fesperman that performed Policy Underwriting

Microsoft C, C++, SQL, SQL Server, Visual Basic

Guidant Cardiac Pacemakers (now Boston Scientific), San francisco 1994-1996 1.5 years

Data Engineer

ETL data engineering produced FDA Clinical Trial Statistics for Guidant Tachycardia team We built and maintained Clinical Data Extraction system. We extracted data from multiple sources: Hospital, Patient, Intake, Doctor, Device, Operation, Observations, Complications, follow-up. I built SQL scripts and schemas and to load this data into a relational database, I wrote analytical queries to produce required the statistical data for the FDA.

For Cardiac Pacemakers, we optimized SQL to create and generate reports system on Device Efficacy and safety and produced FDA clinical trial reports. Overall this required about 200 SQL Queries were required per clinical trial study

SQL, Visual FoxPro, Visual Basic, Windows.

Bechtel/Bechtel Power Division, San Francisco, CA

Senior Engineering Programmer

Led highly successful and recognized engineering programmer team for ME101 Pipe Stress analysis of 4 to 6 programmers. ME101 is far faster than its predecessor ME632 and it still in use today. ME101 was built UC Berkeley SAP created by Jurgen Bathe with a faster bandwidth solver. using high and low-level code.

I wrote engineering programs, and led team of engineering programmers to validated structural and mechanical engineering programs Fortran and Assembly Language on Univac 1100-40. The group consisted of 4-6 engineering programmers and required mathematical, programming, and engineering skills. I wrote code in Fortran and Assembly language.

Reported to both Bechtel Corp and Bechtel Power Division. I worked directly with Pipe Stress Engineering Management and advised the mechanical engineering groups in Bechtel Power.

Organized and conducted hiring interviews and advised my manager on hiring and evaluation of job performance of programming

Fortran, Basic, Assembly Language, OS 1100 for U-1110.

Education:

BA, Syracuse University, Sociology, Math/Science.

28 hours Masters credits in computer science all with A average including 16 at University of California, Finite Element Analysis, Java Database, Spark with Tensorflow and Torch and Business system software and 12 at American University: Operations Research, Simulation and modeling, Computer systems This includes Operations Research, Simulation and Modeling, Finite Element Analysis (Berkeley SAP), Databricks Apache Spark, JEE/JDBC.

Additional post-graduate courses also include 12 hours of Independent Film with Sandra Davis of Canyon Cinema at John F. Kennedy 3 hours Artificial Intelligence with Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun at Stanford (97 on final) 6 hours of Statistics and 6 hours of Economics at Golden Gate.

Industry Education

AWS Architecture, AWS Technical Essentials (Stanford), SANS Security, OWASP, ITIL (Berkeley). TDD (Wells Fargo) Java Refactoring, Management Training, Fluid Mechanics Programming (Bechtel), Large Scale and Real Time Systems, (Unisys)

Courses and presentations Delivered

Optimization of Scientific Program Performance (Bechtel Engineering), Scala Actors (Berkeley IST), Spreadsheets for Business (InfoWorld), Servlets & JDBC (Amdahl IT), Implementing Applications in IBM WebSphere (USPS IT), SQL OOP with VFP (Cardiac Pacemakers), Using Cookie-Cutter at BayPiggies (Python Software Foundation)

Contact Information

Richard Katz

415-***-****

2160 Manchester Road

San Leandro, CA 94578

415-***-****

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