Manager of Planning Systems at St. Louis Metro
Greater St. Louis Area
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- Manager of Planning Systems at St. Louis Metro
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- Volunteer Patrolman at Northwest Citizens Patrol
- Software Engineer II at AAI Corporation
- Senior Engineer, Vehicle Software at Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Volunteer Paper Reviewer at Transportation Research Board
- Senior Engineer, Data Customization at Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and Logistics
- Summer Intern, Bus Operations Oversight at Chicago Transit Authority
- Undergraduate Researcher at MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yeshivat Kerem B'yavneh
- Torah Academy
- Politz Hebrew Academy
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Isaac Moses’s Summary
Transportation systems engineer with strong software engineering experience. I am particularly interested in using technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of large systems that directly affect many people's lives.
Isaac Moses’s Experience
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Manager of Planning Systems
St. Louis Metro
(Non-Profit; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
June 2010 — Present (2 months)
System Administrator for Computer-Aided Dispatch / Automatic Vehicle Locator (CAD/AVL) system. Provide data for analysis by Research and Development, Planning, Scheduling Customer Service, and Operations. Backup for Director of Scheduling - oversee the scheduling of bus and light rail service.
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Volunteer Patrolman
Northwest Citizens Patrol
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 2008 — May 2010 (2 years 3 months)
Volunteer night-watch patrols every seven weeks. Drive around the community in a marked car, report any anomalies via radio, and monitor special event crowds.
* 100% attendance record to date.
* Possibly saved the life of a Baltimore City Police Officer. -
Software Engineer II
AAI Corporation
(Public Company; TXT; Defense & Space industry)
February 2008 — May 2010 (2 years 4 months)
Designed and implemented new software features for systems that test the effectiveness of military aircrafts’ electronic warfare systems, using C++ and Ada. Lead for a two-person effort to maintain the software for a military test platform.
* Ensured customer satisfaction with a year-long package of software updates by implementing a beta testing program.
* Contributed to win of a $11M production contract for an IR&D project by developing a critical software module and making continuing improvements to the software.
* Advanced company technology portfolio by completing two IR&D projects on time and under budget. -
Senior Engineer, Vehicle Software
Orbital Sciences Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORB; Defense & Space industry)
February 2005 — February 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented new features and bug fixes for the software embedded on in-vehicle units in a Computer-Aided Dispatch / Automatic Vehicle Location (CAD/AVL) system for public transit, using C++ and the QNX operating system. Resident expert on the module that tracks route and schedule adherence (RSA) using GPS, odometer, and schedule data inputs.
* Won the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2006 for major improvements to the RSA module.
* Enabled system aceptance on two critical, multi-million-dollar projects by resolving 100 core software issues and enhancement requests.
* Led two other engineers to create a lower-cost radio communications technology for bus stop signs.
* Won an innovation incubator contest in its first year and led a team that developed a business plan for a new product.
* Enhanced company reputation in the industry by presenting a research paper at a public transit industry conference. -
Volunteer Paper Reviewer
Transportation Research Board
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
September 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Reviewed public transportation operations papers for potential publication or presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the division of the US National Research Council that promotes innovation and progress in transportation through research.
* Contributed to the control of research quality by reviewing 10 papers. -
Senior Engineer, Data Customization
Orbital Sciences Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORB; Defense & Space industry)
July 2004 — February 2005 (8 months)
Conducted end-to-end functional testing of a Computer-Aided Dispatch / Automatic Vehicle Location (CAD/AVL) system. Troubleshot customer-provided schedule data to enable its use as an input to the CAD/AVL system.
* Increased product usability and stability by identifying 60 software issues for correction by development teams.
* Facilitated customer use of the system by resolving schedule data issues for four transit systems.
* Streamlined software testing by adding features to an in-house, Python-based tool for GPS data simulation. -
Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and Logistics
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
September 2002 — June 2004 (1 year 10 months)
Conducted research on transit microsimulation and on applications for real-time transit data in the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) bus systems. Thesis topic was “A Transit Route Simulator for the Evaluation of Control Strategies Using Automatically Collected Data.”
* Created a data-driven transit route simulator using MATLAB.
* Maintained MIT’s relationship with the CTA by briefing the president and senior staff on research progress.
* Contributed to other students’ research by developing a transit schedule clustering algorithm.
* Supervised two undergraduate independent research projects. -
Summer Intern, Bus Operations Oversight
Chicago Transit Authority
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)
Investigated potential uses of data from an early-stage Automatic Vehicle Location / Automatic Passenger Counter (AVL/APC) system that would become one of the largest in the country. Assisted the Data Services & Technology Department in campaigns to test and improve the AVL/APC system.
* Provided guidance for special event operations by collecting and analyzing AVL/APC and manually-collected data.
* Produced a detailed set of recommendations for custom AVL/APC reports that would be useful for transit operations.
* Helped customers understand impending service changes and special event transportation options. -
Undergraduate Researcher
MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory
(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
September 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Developed modifications for the MitSIM Microscopic Traffic Simulator, using C++ and Lex/Yacc. Contributed to ongoing research on the uses of the simulator.
* Enabled expanded simulation of transit environments by implementing a representation of bus stops.
* Conducted simulator experiments to evaluate demand estimation techniques.
Isaac Moses’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS , Transportation , 2002 — 2004
Courses included: Public Transportation Operations, Urban Operations Research, Demand Modeling, Mathematical Programming
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS , Civil Engineering Systems , 1999 — 2002
Courses included: Transportation Systems, Systems Simulation, Engineering Systems Design, Laboratory in Software Engineering (Java), Intro. to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving (C++)
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Yeshivat Kerem B'yavneh
Talmud, Jewish Thought 1998 — 1999
Advanced, seminar-based Talmud study
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Torah Academy
High School , 1994 — 1998
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Politz Hebrew Academy
Elementary School , 1986 — 1994
