Isaac Moses

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.
* Possibly saved the life of a Baltimore City Police Officer.

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Government Agency; 10,001+ 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.

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.