Jay Marvin

Current

• Vice President, Engineering at Alphacet

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Total Immersion Software
• Senior Software Engineer/Lead at Autodesk
• Principal Software Engineer at Innovative Interfaces

• Manager/Senior Software Engineer at Brightware
• Senior Product Engineer at Firepond
• Senior Computer Scientist at Spacetime Arts
• Senior Computer Scientist/Lead at Capital Market Technology
• Computer Scientist at Advanced Decision Systems

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Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

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Industry

Computer Software

Jay Marvin’s Summary

With both a Masters degree and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, I engage in algorithm development as an art form and can visualize processing in order to produce innovative and efficient code.

Jay Marvin’s Specialties:

Languages/Packages: Java, XML, DOM, HTML, XSL, JavaScript, Servlets, SWT, RCP, Eclipse, Swing, SQL, C++, C#, .NET, Lisp, Scheme

Databases: Oracle 9i, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Sybase.

Operating Systems: Windows and UNIX.

Jay Marvin’s Experience

• Vice President, Engineering

  Alphacet

  (Financial Services industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Lead development of software for building automated trading strategies and delivering real time market data.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Total Immersion Software

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Created Real World Builder scenario editing tool using Java Eclipse Rich Client Platform technology.
  
  Also worked on C# and C++ components of the system.

• Senior Software Engineer/Lead

  Autodesk

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

  Enhanced platform deployment using C++ and C# in Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0, .NET.
  
  User interface development for custom configuration of AutoCAD and other Autodesk products.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Innovative Interfaces

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years)

  Enhance and maintain Millennium product using Java for extensive PC user-interface implementation.
  
  Develop server-side systems in C, Oracle and MySQL in UNIX.
  
  Devise multi-threaded code solutions in Java clients and on UNIX servers in C.

• Manager/Senior Software Engineer

  Brightware

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 2002 (6 years)

  Senior Product Engineer (1999 – 2002) Java eCommerce apps
  
  Web-based chat system for customer support.
  
  * Designed HTML, XML, JavaScript, and Servlets for the architecture supporting the user experience.
  * Used J2EE to communicate with Contact Center services.
  
  Knowledge engineering app created data to process customer messages and define action.
  
  * Designed the architecture including packages, utilities, internationalization and MVC.
  * Built knowledge base API and defined policies for KB creation.
  * Implemented drag and drop functionality, and Undo/Redo support.
  
  Manager (1996 – 1999) Produced ART*Enterprise, a rule-based AI framework
  
  * Led six other programmers through 15 releases on NT, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris using C++.
  * Resolved problems with the system to improve productivity and desirability.
  * Addressed customer issues, handled beta programs and patches.
  
  I was hired by Brightware, Inc. in 96. which was acquired by Firepond, Inc. in 2001.

• Senior Product Engineer

  Firepond

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years)

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• Senior Computer Scientist

  Spacetime Arts

  (Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  Builders of 3D simulation systems for virtual reality applications.
  * Designed and implemented the user-interface with Win32, MFC, and VC++.
  * Introduced subsystems such as sound and serial port interfaces to various devices.
  * Led the production and programmed the 3D simulation content for two customer contracts.
  * Used Microsoft networking APIs to add multi-user capability.

• Senior Computer Scientist/Lead

  Capital Market Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years)

  Built an options real-time trading, analysis and risk management system.
  
  * Advanced to director of software development, overseeing software engineering and IT, including source and release control mechanisms, while managing up to ten employees and contractors.
  * Implemented the entire relational database using Sybase.
  * Created the system architecture and implemented in C on UNIX.
  * Extensive user-interface storyboarding and programming.
  * Designed and led development of distributed system for real-time delivery of market data.
  * Assisted traders by constructing software as needed for analyzing a position or marketing.

• Computer Scientist

  Advanced Decision Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1988 (3 years)

  Designed and built a distributed system that allowed Lisp processes to communicate and migrate between a variety of hardware.
  
  Wrote sections of a proposal, and spoke at off-site presentations that resulted in a large follow-on contract.
  
  Designed and implemented a Lisp-based, non-blind backward-chaining inference tool for signal analysis.

Jay Marvin’s Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  1978 — 1985

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