Cary Bakker

Current

Project Architect - Mobile Initiatives at American Express

Past

Technical Manager at Oracle Corporation
Software Engineer / Team Lead at TradeStation Technologies (formerly Omega Research)
Software Consultant at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Hurricane Research Division

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Education

Florida International University
Miami Beach Sr. High

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Cary Bakker’s Summary

Software Engineering and Project Management - current emphasis is around Mobile channels as an evolution of my web development experience.

Licensed Florida Realtor - Primary interest is around both residential and commercial investment properties. Finding

Other interests include application of technolgies to real estate investment analysis.

Cary Bakker’s Specialties:

Software: Innovation, Application/Interface Design (useability), Problem Solving, Creative Solutions.... Current area of interest: Mobile.

Real Estate: Investment Property Analysis, Software Solutions for Real Estate, Buyer Services.

Cary Bakker’s Experience

Project Architect - Mobile Initiatives

American Express

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXP; Financial Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Primary focus is on development of American Express Cardmember services in the Mobile space (Mobile Website Servicing, Mobile Applications, SMS/MMS, LBS, Payments, via Mobile Phone/PDA/portable devices)
Technical Manager

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 4 months)

Consultant, primiarly for J2EE web application development based on Oracle's suite of products. Accumulated a broad range of experience during this time based on varying roles and numerous challenging projects.
Software Engineer / Team Lead

TradeStation Technologies (formerly Omega Research)

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TRAD; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 2001 (5 years)

Team Lead for RadarScreen application - allowing for real time market scanning and ranking of entire exchanges.

Software Engineer for Global Server - Implemented price data storage (PDS) engine for real-time storage and bar building logic for TradeStation's Global Server.
Software Consultant

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Hurricane Research Division

(Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

Cary Bakker’s Education

Florida International University

Bachelor of Science , Computer Science, Minor in Physics , 1990 — 1995

Graduated Cum Laude

Worked as software consultant for NOAA/NHC while in school to pay own way through school

Simultaneously worked for Physics department to further software engineering experience - developed cutting edge 3D Protein folding animation system.

Activities and Societies:

Association for Computing Machinery
Miami Beach Sr. High

Additional Information

Cary Bakker’s Websites:

Cary Bakker’s Interests:

creative technologies, mobile technologies, web technologies, computer security, intelligence & memory formation, problem solving, artificial intelligence, real estate investment, financial planning, reading, drawing, martial arts

Cary Bakker’s Groups:

Mensa (www.mensa.org), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (www.acm.org), ACM SIGMOBILE (www.sigmobile.org), IEEE Computer Society (www.computer.org)