Joe Orost

Current

• Senior Technical Director at AT&T

Past

• Lead Developer at Echo Logic
• Senior Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Concurrent Computer Corporation
• Programmer at Interdata

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Education

• Rutgers University
• Thomas Edison State College

Recommended

17 people have recommended Joe

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Band's MySpace

Joe Orost’s Summary

A seasoned Technical Manager, Project Leader, and Computer Scientist skilled at running a multi-million dollar professional services group. Highly experienced in selling technical services, creating proposals, screening candidates, staffing projects, providing status updates, and delivering effective solutions on-time and on-budget. Adept at the RAD methodology to provide faster solutions to business problems. Solid development (Web/UNIX/C++/SQL/Java) background, with a MS in CS from Rutgers University. Noted software author of the UNIX "compress" command (which WINZIP is based on) and the BENCH++ benchmark suite. Listed in Who's Who. Recipient of the Dale Carnegie Highest Award for Achievement. Six Sigma Green Belt.

Joe Orost’s Specialties:

selling technical services, creating proposals, screening candidates, staffing projects, delivering effective solutions on-time and on-budget, RAD methodology, process automation and improvement, six sigma, extensive hands-on Web/UNIX/C++/SQL/Java experience.

Joe Orost’s Experience

• Senior Technical Director

  AT&T

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

  January 1995 — Present (13 years 10 months)

  Manage a large and diverse group of internal consultants that provide systems engineering and advanced software development expertise to a plethora of internal partners. Turn Research prototypes into software products and build web-fronted database applications that automate business processes. Responsible for internal sales, proposals, budgeting, staffing, and project management of multiple simultaneous projects.

• Lead Developer

  Echo Logic

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1991 — December 1994 (3 years 3 months)

  Echo Logic was an AT&T startup venture that pioneered the field of binary translation. The FlashPort™ for Macintosh product translates 68K based Apple Macintosh software to several platforms including PowerPC, SPARC, RS/6000 and HP-PA RISC. I was the Lead developer on the team that crafted the optimizing code generator. Also designed and implemented new build procedures which allowed for parallel development, improving the quality and reliability of the software. Realizing the enormous potential of the brand new World Wide Web, I set up our own web server, and created the Flashport web presence. Echo Logic was later absorbed into the Labs.

• Senior Consulting Member of Technical Staff

  Concurrent Computer Corporation

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CCUR; Computer Software industry)

  May 1978 — October 1991 (13 years 6 months)

  Project lead: C3Ada Compiler Development: Led the team through four major releases, and 7 official government certifications. Improved compilation speed 20-fold. Senior Instruction Set Architect of the 3280-C processor. Redesigned the Code Generator and the Parser of the industry-leading optimizing FORTRAN-VII compiler.

• Programmer

  Interdata

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1974 — May 1978 (4 years 1 month)

  Designed and implemented major portions of the OS/16-MT2 operating system. Coded in Assembly Language.

Joe Orost’s Education

• Rutgers University

  MS, Computer Science, September 1991 — June 1995

  Created BENCH++ benchmark suite for Master's project.

• Thomas Edison State College

  BS, Computer Science, September 1989 — June 1991

  Received Arnold Fletcher award for exceptional achievement in independent learning.

Additional Information

Joe Orost’s Websites:

• Band's MySpace

Joe Orost’s Interests:

Electronics, Music, Investing

Joe Orost’s Groups:

ACM, Rock Musician (bass guitar)

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Joe Orost’s Honors:

Listed in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Technology, and Who's Who in the World. Dale Carnegie Highest Award for Achievement, 5/2002. Six Sigma Green Belt, 6/2005.

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