Ron Price

Current

• Senior Developer at Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah

Past

• Software Architect and Quantitative Developer at Quantica
• Technical Specialist & Software Developer (internship) at Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah
• Technical Assistant: at Sweetwater County School District

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Education

• University of Utah

Recommended

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Connections

75 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Ron Price’s Summary

Software engineer with over ten years of general IT experience and five years of experience as a developer. Currently working on designing and developing Grid Applications.

For more information about my career interests please visit:
http://ronald.charles.price.googlepages.com/ronprice

Ron Price’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)

  Collaborated with Berkley on a SOA that enables a scientists to run combustion simulations faster and easier
  -Lead a team of developers in the implementation of a Java web services prototype used to submit combustion simulations to super computers. The prototype was successfully presented in a live demonstration in front of top decision makers at the US Department of Energy
  
  Lead Software Developer to the Digital Sherpa project. Digital Sherpa is a grid application for executing jobs on many separate HPC resources across the TeraGrid . Digital Sherpa automates non-scalable tasks such as authentication, staging, job submission and monitoring
  -Implementation was done in Java using the Globus Toolkit 4.0
  -Implemented a multithreaded profiling tool in Java
  -Pioneered Gid Application Development
  -Digital Sherpa quadrupled the efficiency of national super computers by saving thousands of hours of time and money; enables previously un-solvable scientific problems to be solved

• Software Architect and Quantitative Developer

  Quantica

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  March 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  Quantica is a desktop Java application for pricing derivatives and their related products. In addition, the platform will act as a base for risk management, analytics graphics and bring together streaming data available as web services and DDE licenses (Bloomberg, Reuters, etc)
  -Implemented pricing models for forex and equities
  -Object oriented analysis, design and implementation
  -Designed and implemented dynamic user driven customizable feature
  -Implemented the GUI using the Java Standard Widget Toolkit
  -Successfully engineered a prototype of graphical volatility surfaces using Java OpenGL (JOGL)

• Technical Specialist & Software Developer (internship)

  Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  September 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 3 months)

  Support to Users of 5 Super Computers
  System Administration (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows)
  Network Analysis Research Project
  Software Development (network analysis & work flow mgt.)
  Database Design and Administration

• Technical Assistant:

  Sweetwater County School District

  (Educational Institution; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  User Services
  System Administration
  Implemented Networks

Ron Price’s Education

• University of Utah

  Computer Science , 1999 — 2003

  GPA 3.4 overall, 3.5 in major
  Courses of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Data Communications, Numerical Analysis, Web Architecture, Advanced Java

  Activities and Societies:

  National Society for Collegiate Scholars
  
  Volunteer Work:
  Various National Society for Collegiate Scholars Events
  Computer Consultant for an Archaeological Expedition on Easter Island, 2003
  Winter Olympics, 2002

Additional Information

Ron Price’s Websites:

• My Company

Ron Price’s Interests:

Interests include applying my knowledge of grid computing in real-time biomedical surveillance systems; computationally intensive finance problems such as high frequency trading, hedging strategies, pricing of financial derivatives and arbitrage systems trading.

Ron Price’s Groups:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM

•    University of Utah Alumni
•    Cloud Computing

Ron Price’s Honors:

Deans List 3 times

Ron Price’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests