CEO, Avatrian, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO and Founder at Avatrian, LLC
- Past
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- Web Applications Developer at IDEO
- Software Systems Engineer at Affymetrix
- Information Systems Engineer at Clorox
- Advisory Systems Engineer at Bank of America
- Account Manager at Mortgage Information Corporation
- Education
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- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- University of California, Berkeley
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Dennis Bacsafra’s Summary
After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and Economics, I worked for various companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have also been involved with small to large-scale software engineering projects for consumer goods, finance, biotech and industrial design institutions in Silicon Valley. In addition, I hold a Master's Degree in International Development Studies from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. My graduate school thesis is an assessment on the impacts of micro-finance on rural poverty.
In 2006, I started a metaverse consulting company... Avatrian. The company provides products and services for 3D online digital worlds such as Second Life. It is headquartered in Emeryville, CA and has an operations base in Cebu, Philippines. I started Avatrian because it fulfills three of my most fervent goals...entrepreneurial, technological, and developmental. My avatar in Second Life is Chenin Anabuki who can often be found in SL teleporting to various sites while overseeing in-world projects at Avatrian.
When I have free time (which is rare lately), I enjoy drinking tea, reading Harry Potter and snowboarding down a black-diamond run at Lake Tahoe. Fortunate enough to travel and visit over fifty cities in the world, I consider Barcelona as my favorite. When asked about my proudest achievement, I always recall the time when I hiked by myself to the peak of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco. It was when I realized how much more I am capable of doing.
I am also an aspiring polyglot. Apart from English, I am versed in Tagalog at a native-speaker level. I am conversant in Spanish. Have also been exposed to Dutch (but found Germanic languages very tricky). And now, I'm absorbing the Cebuano dialect. Next up, Mandarin (if I ever find the time and intestinal fortitude for it).
Dennis Bacsafra’s Specialties:
metaverse consulting, 3D design, social networking in virtual worlds, Second Life development, application of Web 2.0 technologies
Dennis Bacsafra’s Experience
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CEO and Founder
Avatrian, LLC
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Avatrian is a full-service metaverse development shop that delivers products and services for 3D online digital worlds such as Second Life and Entropia Universe. Avatrian helps individuals and businesses understand and harness the power of virtual reality.
More information about Avatrian can be viewed at http://www.avatrian.com.
And, examples of our work can be reviewed via our Flickr pages at http://www.flickr.com/photos/avatrian/sets/72157600280357003/ -
Web Applications Developer
IDEO
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Design industry)
June 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 6 months)
Worked in the Marketing and Communications department. Developed an array of Web 2.0 applications for internal IDEO projects and external client programs. Technologies used include Ektron CMS, PHP/MySQL, Flickr API, HTML 4.0 and CSS 2.0, VB Script, Visual Studio.
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Software Systems Engineer
Affymetrix
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AFFX; Biotechnology industry)
December 2000 — June 2004 (3 years 7 months)
- Provided in-depth training and presentations to biologists, statisticians, and engineers who use Affymetrix' GeneChip® technology. Subject coverage includes the use, administration, installation, and maintenance of Affymetrix' bioinformatics software suite which includes a three-tier client-server application.
- Implemented server side solutions with large-scale Relational Database Management Systems on the back end for high-volume customers
- Managed Dell PowerEdge and Compaq Proliant servers, RAID partitions, Powervault data storage devices, and tape backup devices.
- Worked in the quality assurance, testing, feature enhancements, documentation and beta roll-out phases of software version releases.
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Information Systems Engineer
Clorox
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CLX; Consumer Goods industry)
February 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 4 months)
- Performed Visual Basic and SQL programming work in enhancing application used to monitor inventory and shipment turnover. This involves managing metadata files and databases in Oracle, administering the DSS Server, coding PL/SQL store procedures, creating reports, and upgrading client applications.
- Deeply involved in the selection of an enterprise level decision support OLAP application. Prototyped, developed, and implemented chosen OLAP software of Essbase/Hyperion.
- Wrote a client-side Visual Basic application with a back-end SQL Server database for the CPF system used to manage and allocate funds for Sales and Marketing.
- Performed analysis of web statistics software including Webtrends, Andromedia Aria, and Marketwave Hitlist. Developed prototype application, gathered user feedback, and rolled out the full production system.
- Designed and developed on-line surveys using Active Server Pages with MS Access backend. -
Advisory Systems Engineer
Bank of America
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)
June 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 9 months)
- Developed Java-based financial application used to manage credit limits of corporate clients. Responsibility included front-end design, database connections, and sql queries. Rewrote previous JDK 1.02 code to JDK 1.1
- Created applications in Visual Basic 5.0 with connectivity to Access 95
- Unix C Shell programming for data validation and batch loading
- Wrote windows CGI application that receives various input data from HTML pages, runs a process on the server which queries a Sybase database, and outputs results into dynamically created HTML pages with embedded Java applet for graphical interpretation of data
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Account Manager
Mortgage Information Corporation
(Real Estate industry)
June 1994 — June 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Responsibilities included Data Coordination, Project Management, Database Programming in FoxPro, Quality Control Direction, Software Training, Client Support, Marketing Support, and Sales Support.
Dennis Bacsafra’s Education
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
International Development Studies, Microfinance and Poverty, 2004 — 2006
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University of California, Berkeley
1991 — 1994
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Dennis Bacsafra’s Interests:
3D virtual platforms, metaverse developments, Second Life, international development, micro-finance, digital design, backpacking, snowboarding, camping, golf
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