Vic Bancroft

Current

• Principal Architect at LexisNexis
• Principal Architect at ChoicePoint, a LexisNexis Company

Past

• Principal Architect at Choicepoint
• Senior Engineer at Semagix
• Principle Engineer at Zvolve Systems

• Visiting Fellow at UGA AI Center
• Senior Consultant at BTG Enterprises
• Senior Software Engineer at Sterling Software
• Software Engineer at KnowledgeWare

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Education

• University of Georgia

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Vic Bancroft’s Summary

Victor Bancroft has over seventeen years experience in software development and distributed systems with current interests in graph operations and distributed computation. His recent positions include Principal Architect in the Choicepoint public records group, Senior Engineer in Semagix (semantic web) research and development group, Principal Engineer in Zvolve Systems' research and development group and Visiting Fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Center at the University of Georgia.

Vic Bancroft’s Specialties:

detail design and implementation of modeling, analysis and visualization systems; large scale systems of distributed agents; ; c, c++, java and prolog; MySQL, Oracle and DB/2; linux, NetBSD, Solaris and AIX; vi, emacs and eclipse;

Vic Bancroft’s Experience

• Principal Architect

  LexisNexis

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• Principal Architect

  ChoicePoint, a LexisNexis Company

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• Principal Architect

  Choicepoint

  (Public Company; CPS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years)

• Senior Engineer

  Semagix

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  Primary work in the Knowledge Delivery group to maintain and extend the semantic enhancement engine : migration of c/c++ programs and SQL scripts from Oracle 8, through 9i to 10g, maintenance and extension of c/c++/java semantic enhancement server packages, port c/c++ programs and SQL scripts from Oracle to DB/2 (version 8.1) and evaluation of IBM Virtual Loaner Program for application porting, testing and validation support for AIX 5.3.

• Principle Engineer

  Zvolve Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  April 1999 — April 2003 (4 years 1 month)

  An innovator of business driven real-time traffic engineering technology, the Zvolve’s Conscious system won the SUPERQuest award for “Most Promising New Technology,” in the OSS/BSS Category at SUPERCOMM 2002.
  
  Software Agent Community (development) : autonomous agents community event server design (BerkleyDB 3.1.14), linear programming based analysis agent in c++ (ILOG/CPLEX 7.0), MySql client call interface wrappers for prolog (mysql-3.23.53), prolog DCG implementation of a command line interface (sicstus/readline) and port code base from Solaris to AIX.
  
  Development and Deployment Environment : Solaris 2.9 traffic generators (Netra T1), Solaris 2.8 workstations (Ultra 10), Solaris 2.7 servers (220R) and AIX (5L) deployment controlling Cisco routers (7200).

• Visiting Fellow

  UGA AI Center

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  December 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 1 month)

  Internet based research and development 'Dynamic Web Server' Development, Java Applet programming and Defeasible Logic Graph research with AI Center, University of Georgia.

• Senior Consultant

  BTG Enterprises

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1996 — April 1999 (2 years 5 months)

  Vic implemented the internal internet services, later served on the Board of Directors and maintained a steady consulting revenue stream.
  Assistance to Empirical, Inc., a Cambridge Technology Partner (CTP) for Hawaii Medical Services Association (HMSA) in the conversion of the CTP tools to the IBM AIX environment. The requirements met by this project effort resided in three areas : the port of EPTalkSNA to IBM Comm Server HLLAPI libraries, the port of PCMT to the Warp TCP/IP stack and the upgrade of the existing toolset to the AIX 4.2 XLC compiler.
  Analysis and engineering services to Confident Software, Inc. (CSI), a Software Engineering of America (SEA) development partner. The TRMS/Net Client and Server (TRMS/CS) system of mainframe and workstation components designed to provide report distribution and management.
  Business analysis, data modeling, database design and multi-platform programming services to Internet Excellence, Inc. (iXL) using the Oracle WebServer.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Sterling Software

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  Key: Enterprise Platform, OS/2 CASE tool development, Atlanta Georgia.
  Implemented Encyclopedia Utility/2 (EU2) service access point for third party vendor access to Key: Enterprise models. Call interfaces from C, C++, Delphi and Smalltalk supported.
  
  KnowledgeWare was acquired by Sterling Software, Inc. which was subsequently acquired by Computer Associates International

• Software Engineer

  KnowledgeWare

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 1992 — December 1995 (3 years 1 month)

  ADW/CWS GUI Project Team, OS/2 CASE tool development, Atlanta Georgia.
  Project lead for GUI port to 32 bit version of the Knowledge Coordinator v.4.*, and team lead for UNIX port to SUN and HP.
  Implemented a graphical user interface design tool. written in C and Prolog. Multi-process, multi-threaded GUI Layout Diagramer (GLD) component in KnowledgeWare's Advanced Development Workbench (ADW).

Vic Bancroft’s Education

• University of Georgia

  BA , Philosophy , September 1981 — June 1985

  graduated with honors

  Activities and Societies:

  Foundation Fellows, Defender Advocate, Demosthenian Literary Society, College Republicans

Additional Information

Vic Bancroft’s Groups:

•    Open Source
•    KnowledgeWare Alumni Group
•    Open HA Cluster

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