Mike Landis

Current

CTO / Program Manager at PocketNumerix

Past

Consultant at Z-Circuit Automation
Regional Sales Manager at Microware Systems
Director of Sales & Business Development at Midwest EDA

Product Manager / System Architect at Motorola
Applications Engineering Manager at EDA Systems
Director of Strategic Planning / Engineering Manager at Automated Design Enterprises
Sr. Applications Engineer at Tektronix
Applications Engineer at Tektronix/CAE Systems
Software Engineer at Texktronix/VR Information Systems

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Education

University of Illinois at Chicago
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Mike Landis’s Summary

Senior technical program manager with extensive product, program, engineering, and sales management experience. Current work involves data mining, predictive analytics, stock selection, and algorithmic trading.

Mike Landis’s Specialties:

DataShaping certified number cruncher, specializing in clustering, classification, feature/model selection, mean-variance optimization, Value-at-Risk, derivatives and fixed income securities valuation, sensitivity analysis, artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, C++/MFC, Java/Swing, Matlab, R, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Maple, Python, Ruby. Significant previous work in Java/CORBA, Smalltalk, and CommonLISP.

Mike Landis’s Experience

CTO / Program Manager

PocketNumerix

(Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years)

Developed product/release plans for mobile computational finance software. Designed/developed server and embedded client databases, Graphical User Interfaces, plot utilities, bond and option pricing analytics, portfolio valuation and sensitivity analysis, XML/HTML parsers, curve fitting, mean-variance optimization (MVO), license cryptography, a ‘keyed’ Bill-of-Materials driven installer, pnmx.com, e-store, anti-piracy strategy, and documentation. Research: Data mining income statements and balance sheets to characterize top performing issues; cross-correlating market prices, trading volumes, and commodity prices to identify leading signals and candidates for statistical arbitrage.
Consultant

Z-Circuit Automation

(Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)

Selected/deployed a Customer Relationship Management system, migrated companies/contacts from SalesForce.com, reinvigorated cold accounts.
Regional Sales Manager

Microware Systems

(Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Responsible for business development and sales of Microware’s OS-9 RTOS, embedded browser, Java Virtual Machine, MPEG demux/decode, and consulting services in upper Midwest and Canada. Largest sale: $901k. Re-engineered Microware’s quote process, resulting in a 48x productivity improvement. Acquired by Radisys.
Director of Sales & Business Development

Midwest EDA

(Computer Software industry)

December 1995 — August 2000 (4 years 9 months)

Profit & Loss responsibility. Solicited and negotiated contracts with technology suppliers, developing a technology portfolio including code coverage analysis, architectural and HDL synthesis, HDL simulation, ASIC place & route. Drove strategic sales and contract negotiations in the Midwest and Canada. Managed vendor relationships and product portfolios from Avant!, C Level Design, Exemplar Logic, Model Technology, TransEDA, and Translogic. Reengineered Microware’s quote process, resulting in a 48x productivity improvement. Recognition: Exemplar’s Top Rep Award, Translogic’s top rep; booked C Level’s first two $150k+ orders.
Product Manager / System Architect

Motorola

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

May 1992 — November 1995 (3 years 7 months)

Developed five mobile-data product concepts (efficient client-server architectures for low bandwidth networks) targeting utilities and public safety. Pursued a mobile distributed content management system for fire departments. Developed business plans, whitepapers, corporate and trade show presentations; interviewed strategic customers, promoted nascent mobile data technologies; led QFD requirements analysis and development of intellectual property. Developed license cryptography, content management, and communications protocols (became WAP Agent Profile, Push, and Data Synchronization) to support ThinAir distributed document management and Wavesoft-Fire! integrated dispatch, mapping, and content management solutions. Development process managed according to the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model and SixSigma.
Applications Engineering Manager

EDA Systems

(Computer Software industry)

May 1991 — May 1992 (1 year 1 month)

Managed technical negotiations with strategic customers, providing customized solutions, pre- and post-sales support of automated version control and configuration management framework. Developed an extensive engineering workflow system for Texas Instruments.
Director of Strategic Planning / Engineering Manager

Automated Design Enterprises

(Computer Software industry)

May 1988 — May 1991 (3 years 1 month)

Developed business strategy and product plans and raised venture capital for Xpress FPGA architecture simulation, analysis, and production layout tools. Managed engineering, marketing, and technical writing. Developed/presented whitepapers and product brochures. Developed topological traversals, persistent objects, Graphical User Interfaces, and the design browser. Contributed to the development of the place and route engine.
Sr. Applications Engineer

Tektronix

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; Telecommunications industry)

May 1986 — April 1987 (1 year)

Pre and post sales support of ASIC place and route, custom IC design, and microwave simulation tools.
Applications Engineer

Tektronix/CAE Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; Telecommunications industry)

January 1984 — August 1985 (1 year 8 months)

Pre and post sales support of schematic capture, digital simulation, signal processing workstation (SPW), and related tools.
Software Engineer

Texktronix/VR Information Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TEK; Telecommunications industry)

January 1982 — December 1983 (2 years)

Benchmarking and tuning VR's ASIC place and route suite. Coauthored a global router. Developed a unified DCL interface to the main tool flow for my own use that was later productized and promoted as a competitive advantage.

Mike Landis’s Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

PhD , Bioinformatics , 2000 — 2004

Developed an optimality criterion for model selection that is unbiased w.r.t. dimensionality and elicits a substantially stronger model efficacy signal than Bayesian and Akaike information criteria. Applied Bradley-Mangasarian, principal components, factor analysis to genetic disease classification & prediction, discovering the first eleven gene solution to colon cancer. Surveyed clustering techniques for optimal application to noisy cheminformatic data. Developed ion-fueled spiking neuron models and applied Hodgkin-Huxley diffusion to in silico hippocampal models hoping to control seizures and spreading depression. Investigated eigenvector survival models for optimizing biodiversity and sustainable development.

Activities and Societies:

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Association for Computing Machinery, Biomedical Engineering Society, Second International Summer School on Biocomplexity.
Illinois Institute of Technology

Masters , Computer Science , 1999

Data mining, machine learning, optimal allocation, parallel algorithms, production rule systems, inductive reasoning, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, robotics, Kalman filters, adaptive/autonomous systems, digital signal processing, VHDL design, search engine architecture.

Activities and Societies:

Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Illinois Institute of Technology

Bachelors , Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Math minor , 1985

Operations Research, Control Theory

Activities and Societies:

WIIT broadcaster, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Additional Information

Mike Landis’s Websites:

My Company

Mike Landis’s Interests:

Speedskating, jam skating, road & mountain biking, 16” softball, soccer, football, basketball, skiing, sailing, camping, climbing, horse riding, woodworking, piano. Artificial life and emergent behavior, chaos theory, cosmology.