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Nov 2011

T I L O S L O B O D A

San Jose, CA Email: tiloDOTslobodaATgoogleEmail
WWW: http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/
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S U M M A R Y

Founder of Stealth Start-Up in Mountian View, CA.

2011 to present: Senior Architect at Profuture Mobile Technologies Inc. in Mountian View, CA.

Between 2008 and 2010: working for Kosmix Inc. in Mountian View, CA.

Between 2007 and 2008: working for Data Domain Inc. (DDUP) in Santa Clara, CA.

Between 2001 and 2007: working for SUN/iPlanet in Santa Clara, CA.

Between 1999 and 2001: Senior UNIX Systems Architect at Netscape Inc, Mountain View, CA.

SONY US Research Labs

Before 1998: working towards a PhD, while employed as a Speech Researcher for the Interactive Systems Labs (ISL, now interACT), jointly located at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and Universität Karlsruhe, Germany. Have been with the ISL from day one, and contributed significantly to its development.

Qualifications include:

+8 years research in speech recognition and in parallel computing
+15 years in software engineering, software project design
+15 years in software development in multiple languages (e.g. C/C++, Perl, Ruby) and in diverse UNIX environments
+10 years UNIX Systems Architecture
+10 years programming Ruby, contributed to Open Source, Books and Facets of Ruby
+5 years programming Ruby on Rails (RoR)
team-lead for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
project management, international coordination, and contract negotiation
consulting, teaching, good communication skills
diverse UNIX and Internet experience since 1990
system administration in diverse UNIX environments since 1992
6 years research towards PhD after MS CS

C O M P U T E R S K I L L S

Special Skills:: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Software Design, Ruby-evangelist, Rails-enthusiast, Object Oriented Programing, Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Language Modelling, Parallel Algorithms, Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing.
Web Solutions:: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, MySQL, SqLite, NoSQL: MongoDB, TokyoCabinet/Tyrant; Git, SVN, CVS; HTML5, CSS3; Unicorn, NginX.
Computer Languages:: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Perl, perLDAP, Perl/tk, tcl/tk, sh, csh, C, C++, MPL, C*, Modula 2, Pascal, 68xx and 68xxx Assembly Language, Lisp, Basic, Fortran.
UNIX Skills:: LDAP Architecture and Automation, UNIX Architecture and System Administration, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Computer Systems:: SUN Ultra (Solaris), DEC Alpha (DEC-OSF), HP9000 (HP-UX), DEC Mips (Ultrix), SGI (IRIX), MasPar MP-1, CM-1, CNAPS, Macintosh, NeXT, PC (LINUX, DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000), IBM/AIX
System Administration:: LINUX, openBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, DEC OSF, DEC UNIX, Ultrix, IRIX

E X P E R I E N C E

Stealth Start-Up, Mountain View, CA

Founder, CTO & Sprocket

Sept 2010
until present

Development of customer facing Rails (RoR) Web Application:

End-to-End development with Ruby on Rails 3.0.3, Unicorn, Nginx
Database backends: MongoDB, MySQL

UNIX Architecture and Infrastructure planning
Automation and scripting with Ruby, e.g. for data-gathering

Profuture Mobile Technologies Inc., Mountain View, CA

Senior Architect

June 2011
until present

End-to-end development of customer-facing Back-Office application, using Rails 3, MySQL, MongoDB.
Developed flows and architected DB schema, including the following scenarios: order process, order fulfillment, deliveries, returns, inventory and order tracking, payment, account and end user management.
Achieved less than two months to launch as part of a 2 developer team.
Architected requirements for custom firmware and testing
Developed Roadmap for System Architecture and Firmware
Actively participated in bigger picture strategies for product development and marketing

Kosmix Inc., Mountain View, CA

Senior UNIX / Tools Architect

Sept 2008
until Aug 2010

Development of internal and external facing Rails (RoR) Web Applications:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Developed several tools for SEO purposes
Developed Automated Test Framework for integrity testing
Developed Tools for Unique Content program
Developed several consumer facing modules

UNIX Architecture and infrastructure planning
Automation and scripting with Ruby
Ruby and Rails Evangelist

Data Domain Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Senior UNIX / Tools Architect

Feb 2007
until Sep 2008

Rails (RoR) Web Application development
Re-architecting integration between Bugzilla and Version Control System,
including Rails application for tracking and reporting bug status per branch.
LDAP-Architecture and Schema design.
Automation around OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory
Designed Rails application for LDAP-based Corporate Directory
UNIX Architecture and infrastructure planning
Internal Tools development
Automation and scripting with Ruby and Perl
Ruby and Rails Evangelist

SUN Microsystems Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2001
until Jan 2007

Web-Application development using Ruby on Rails
Developed Build Automation Web-Interface
Automation using Ruby, Perl, LDAP
Internal Tools development
Ruby and Rails Evangelist

Netscape Communications Inc., Mountain View, CA

Senior UNIX Systems Architect

Nov 1999
Sep 2001

Designed and implemented CVS security model to protect intellectual property, using a PKI-infrastructure to certificate-enable CVS to allow secure CVS-operations on the Extranet.
Successfully split CVS content from Netscape CVS-repositories and migrated it to iPlanet, splitting the CVS-infrastructure in two independent parts (approx. 4000 users affected, flawless transition).
Modified the CVS source code to implement strict acess control, based on an ACL, which is pulled from LDAP.
Designed parts of iPlanet's UNIX-tools and CVS-Infrastructure (for approx. 2000 people)
Designed and implemented the corporate-wide LDAP-based directory for all of AOL/TW as part of a team.
Designed high availabiliy CVS-Server infrastructures, with multiple CVSROOT directories, using multiple NetApp file servers, and users accessing repositories worldwide.
Centralized CVS-Maintainance for all of Netscape and iPlanet with multi-platform Clients worldwide.
Centralized Multi-platform UNIX-Tools installation and maintainance for all of Netscape and iPlanet worldwide.
Last-Tier Senior CVS Administrator for all of Netscape and iPlanet
Last-Tier Senior UNIX-Tool Administrator for all of Netscape and iPlanet
Set up high availability WWW-Servers, hosting multiple domains (using software virtual servers), including staging server, revision control of content with CVS, and pushing latest contents from staging to production servers via rsync.
Designed processes and built multiple PERL and perLDAP-based tools to implement them
UNIX System Administration in a large scale, diverse UNIX environment

Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA

Senior Researcher

Jan 1998
until
Oct 1999

Team-lead for development of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) engine.
Consulted in state-of-the-art LVCSR for SONY's D21-lab in Japan and it's lab in Germany, to provide input to local speech recognition projects.
Developed CSR demo system for WSJ task and presented it.
Improved speed and memory requirements of CSR search algorithms.
Implemented a C++ Language Model module, supporting multiple LMs, class-based LMs, and LM interpolation.
Developed continuous speech data collection and transcription method.
Coordinated and planned CSR development between SONY groups in the USA, Japan, Germany
Negotiated contracts with outside vendors.
Project liaison between groups within SONY.
Project liaison for the C-STAR project.
Planned UNIX computer infrastructure for the group
Part-time UNIX System Administration fire fighting when necessary.

Interactive Systems Laboratories (ISL, now interACT)
jointly located at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and at Universität Karlsruhe (Germany)

Researcher

1991 to 1997

Research:

Automatic Learning and Aquisition of Pronunciation Dictionaries:
real-life pronunciations and dialects in spontaneous speech (papers).
Contributed to the JANUS source code in a multi-platform UNIX environment
Sped up feature extraction of the JANUS speech recognizer, using a new algorithm
Sped up search and score computation of JANUS, using POSIX and SOLARIS threads on multiprocessor machines (MIMD)
Developed parallel algorithms for fast implementation of Neural Networks (MS-TDNNs, TDNNs, MLPs) on different SIMD machines
Comparison Studies of multiple parallel computers (SIMD and MIMD)
Developed parallel search algorithms for speech recognition
Contributed work for speech recognition evaluations with hard deadlines
Developed parallel algorithms for speeding up the Score Computation, and Dynamic Time Warping of the JANUS speech recognizer and implemented them
Wrote and maintained multiple tools and scripts for the use by the group
Faciliated setup of speech database collection and transcription formats

Teaching / Lecturing:

Presented research work at international conferences and workshops
Guest lectured for graduate level speech recognition and parallel computing classes
Advised and guided students working on their Diploma (Masters) Thesis in speech recognition
Demonstrated the JANUS speech recognition system to international audiences at demos and fairs

Project Management:

Represented group at international and national contract as well as project related negotiations
Facilitated interaction between the German and American groups; this included interfacing with people, solving unexpected problems and handling difficult situations.
Wrote the initial version of the specifications and coordinated the planning of the speech recognition package for a German government project (VERBMOBIL-2) (volume: 1230 man months over 4 years)
Wrote and coordinated grant proposals and project reports
Project coordination and contract negotiation for large projects, including contracts
- with industry partners
- between university and government
- between German, American and Japanese partners
Project liaison between project in the C-STAR project, with partners in the USA, Germany, Japan, Korea, Italy.
Represented group in the GENOA project, including a multi-media server and an automatic Meeting Transcription and Browsing utility.

System Management:

System Administration in a multi-platform UNIX environment
Planned, purchased and installed computer system infrastructure;
e.g. high-performance multi-processor computing solutions including a 150 GB RAID
Introduced a solution for mastering/writing platform-independent CD-ROMs
Introduced, initially set up, and administred rsync'ed World Wide Web servers in the USA and Germany, and designed pages to represent the laboratories
Developed several CGI programs and scripts (e.g. to set up a database with publications over the World Wide Web)
Solved problem of software inconsistencies by introducing a shared Revision Control System between American and German groups.
Improved software quality by enforcing consistency through use of standards

E D U C A T I O N

Karlsruhe University

6 Years Research towards PhD after MS

Masters Thesis in CS

Algorithms for Speech Recognition on Massively Parallel SIMD-Computers

Prof. Walther F. Tichy

Prof. Alex Waibel

Dr. Lutz Prechelt

http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/TiloSlobodaDiplom.ps

Graduate Coursework

Including:: Software Engineering, Speech Recognition, Parallel Programing, Parallel Algorithm Design, Compiler Construction, Operating Systems, Automata Theory, Formal Languages, Database Design Principles, Internetworking, Parallel Computing Seminars; minored in ECE.