Mirco A. Mannucci

                                             6425 Brass Button Court

                                             Centreville, VA, 20121

                                             mircom@cox.net

                           http://www.linkedin.com/in/mircomannucci

                                                                  

                                             Home: (703)    830-3460       

                                             Cell:    (703)    625-4252 

                             

                                                           

 

Key Expertise:

 

Api Management, Rapid Evaluation,   Social Web Applications,  Agile Project Management, Advanced Data Structures, Data Visualization, Web Mining,  Open Source Java Server-Side Development, Search Technology, Applied Mathematics,Computational Neurosciences.

                    

Status:

 

US   Citizen.

 

Education:    

  

April 1995: Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Graduate School of CUNY (GPA 3.75/4.0).

October 1987: MS in Mathematics from Pisa University, Italy.

 

Training:

 

November 2006: Java Best Practices Hands-On, Learning Tree International. Four days course on JMX, JMeter, Java5 annotations, new concurrent threads library and generics.

November 1999: ACM Workshop on Java 1.2 (Swing, RMI, Java Beans).

October 1998-December 1998: Capability Maturity Model, PRC Mentor Program.

 

Experience:

 

December 2011-Present: Social Competency Lead & Community Architect, Virtusa

·          I have been working as a in-house Community Platform Architect at Virtusa's client, Scripps Networks, Digital .My job involves leading a small on-shore and off-shore team of products evaluation engineers, recommending new tools to enhance the existing community platform.

·          I have evaluated Community Platform Solutions, such as Hive, KickApps, Echo, and several others, social login tools such as Gigya and Janrain, social widgets such as RealTidbits, API Managements platforms such as WSO2, Mashery, 3Scale, Apigee, etc. I have created metrics, reports, summaries around my team's findings, proposed alternatives, participated in architectural reviews, and related activities. 

·          I have been assisting the Director of Engineering and the Chief Architect at Scripps Digital in a number of high-level architectural tasks, as well as participated in a number of other related activities to promote engineering processes and architectural improvements to current CP

 

January 2006-Present: Founder and CEO, HoloMathics, LLC.

 

l      Developed a new tweet management application in Grails, using JTwitter, a java wrapper around the Twitter API. This application uses several Grails plugins, including Quartz, Taxonomy, Feeds, Jasper, RichUI, Mail.

l      Developed WebCATS, a prototype web based Computer Aided Training System, for HumanBionics, LLC. The prototype is entirely built in GRAILS.

l      Designed, implemented and deployed MergingPot , a new ground breaking web social tool for enabling people from all over social nets to meet on the basis or their real interests.

l      Developed a Data Mining & Data Visualization FaceBook Application, called MPotConnector, which helps FB users to better understand  their FaceBook Social Graph. MPotConnector uses the FB API to upload visualizations of user's social links.

 

November 2010-October 2011: Lead Architect, Social Graph, ReachLocal.

l      Designed, developed  and tested a Grails module for automatically creating albums and uploading/updating photos on a target facebook page, using restFB,  a java wrapper around the Facebook Graph API

l      Enhanced a thread pool job scheduler inside a Grails application for data ingestion

l      Designed and implemented a reporting tool for social activity using Grails Google Visualization Plugin and Grails templates.

 

  February 2008-June 2008: R&D Manager, Intelligenx.

 

l      Provided technical assistance with Intelligenx client in Prague (Yellow Pages) on local search optimization

l      developed prototype for enabling Facebook users to connect with a local search engine and provide user's product recommendations. Prototype was developed using Solr and the java FaceBook Connect API

l      lead the R&D Team on a number of new directions in local search, including

automated key-words extraction from web ads (used Hadoop for crawling).

 

August 2006-January 2008: Senior Research Engineer, Analytics & Search Groups, AOL LLC.

 

·         Designed and implemented a web site visualization engine aimed at monitoring web crawlers activity. The engine is written using the open-source graph visualization library Jung 1.2, is exposed as a Java Axis web service, and displays the resulting web graph remotely on browsers using the JSON data format.

·         Conducted research on community-enhanced search engines. A test social network was built using the open-source PHP  framework  Elgg.

·         Architect for a new AOL channels distributed   recirculation search engine. The crawler uses Apache’s Nutch and Hadoop.

 

 

September 2004-November 2005: Director of R&D, Human Bionics, LLC

 

l      Managed a small group of senior researchers and developers working at a disruptive technology in the area of bio-adaptive, intelligent human-computer interfaces. This technology will have applications in the gaming industry, bio-medical devices, and in the defense community.

l      Streamlined Engineering Processes (Weekly Timesheets, Monthly Reports,

            Code Source Control, Coding Standards, Architecture Documentation, Tasks   

            Priority).

l      Coauthored two successful SBIR proposals on innovative methods in the areas of Intelligent Team Training and Intelligent Malicious Intent Detection

l      Coauthored three research papers in the area of Augmented Cognition that were accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference of Human-Computer Interfaces, Las Vegas 2005.

l      Designed from the ground up an immersive, totally distributed, Java agent-based environment built on top of the Torque 3D Game Engine that evolves according to user's cognitive status. This environment can be used in warrior training, education and for recreational purposes.

 

April 2004-August 2004:  Contractor as Senior Research Scientist, Human Bionics, LLC.

 

l      Designed, implemented and tested an intelligent agent on the DARPA-GlobalInfoTek CoAbs Architecture, a Java Middleware for integrating heterogeneous agent systems. This agent classifies multiple channels EEG data to determine human response to stress, as a part of the DARPA Augmented  Cognition Project (AugCog).

 

May 2002-September 2005: Contractor as Software Trainer, Software Technologies Computer Training Center, Inc.

 

l      Taught a 5-days course on Java Web Services using JWSDK1.4 (JAXP, JAXM, JAXB,   JAXR)   and Jakarta Axis 1.2. Course included architectural guidelines for implementing enterprise-level Web Services in EJB environments, as well as a hands-on section on security for WS using SSL and JAAS.

l      Taught 3-days courses on Web Applications using C#, XML and Visual Studio.NET (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI Web Services).

 

January 2002-Present: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, George Mason University (GMU), National-Louis University (NLU) & University of Maryland University College (UMUC)

          

l      Taught advanced undergraduate courses on Software Engineering Practices, Compiler Design, Object-Oriented Design and OpenGL/Computer Graphics, Software Safety, Data Mining and Data Warehousing  with  Megaputer’s Polyanalyst 5.

 

July 2002-January 2004:  Contractor as Senior Developer, General Services Agency (GSA).

 

l      Designed, coded and tested an enterprise-level, mission-critical Web Text Search Engine based on the open-source Jakarta Lucene Project, Oracle 9 and iPlanet J2EE Server 6.

l      Tested and improved the functionality of the servlet-based GSA FedBizOpps site. Built a Java Web stress tool based on the new JDK 1.4 NIO API that evaluates web server performance and weaknesses to Denial-of-Service attacks.

 

 

March 2002-April 2002: Contractor as Senior System Engineer, American Hungarian Technologies.

 

l      Enhanced a Real Estate Web Site using JSP, JavaBeans, Servlets and Java Mail Technology.

l      Performed System Administration tasks on a Linux Red Hat Server, including installation and maintenance of Apache, MySQL, SMTP, Tomcat 3.1.3.

 

April 2000-December 2001: AI Architect, Concannon Technologies, Inc.

 

l      Designed and developed a rule-based multi-media communication routing engine (telephony, e-mail, fax) based on Java Server Side Technology (Java Threads Pool, JDBC, Sockets, RMI) and the open-source Java Data Mining library WEKA3.

l      Built an ActiveX Control with VC++/ATL3.0 encapsulating the speech recognizer library Speechify 1.2 API.

l      Documented Class Diagrams & Process Diagrams for the AI Engine using UML 1.2 and Rational Rose  2000 .

l      Implemented automated testing modules using JUNIT, the open-source Java testing library. Implemented Java code refactoring policies as prescribed by Fowler's book.

l      Built a Web-based Customer Care Service from ground up using ASP, VBScript,   MS SQL Server, ADO, JavaScript 2.0.

 

January 1999-April 2000: Senior Developer/Mathematician, netViz Corporation.

 

l      Conducted research on several algorithms for Automatic Graph Layout and 2D/3D visualization of multi-layers networks for Data Management.  Implemented and tested layout algorithms in both C++ (using Visual C++ 6.0 and STL) and Java (JDK 1.2.2, the Java3D API and JBuilder).

l      Designed and developed a MFC DLL that encapsulates AGD 1.01, a C++ library

            for graph layout. Written a   CORBA IDL wrapper around the layout module.

 

April 1998-December 1998: Software Engineer II, The Intelligent Systems Group, Datamat Systems Research, Inc.

 

l      Developed 3D knowledge visualization landscapes with the commercial C++ Visualization Library In3D and built a MFC framework for the Infer View Decision Support System, sponsored by the BMDO.

l      Conducted research on visual pruning of rules generated by C4.5 Decision Trees.

l      Co-authored a SBIR Proposal in the domain of Collaborative Workspaces and Distributed Visualization of Data based on mobile Java agents (Aglets).

 

May 1997-March 1998: Technical Staff (R & D) at Graphical Media Arts, Inc.

 

l        Worked at the development of an innovative Video Compressor, sponsored by the Army Research Labs. Performed Research in Data Compression using MATLAB 5 & its Toolboxes (Image Processing, Neural Networks, Wavelet Transform).

l        Designed, implemented, tested and debugged a C++ Object-Oriented Expert System for Predictive Video Coding.

l        Co-authored a successful SBIR Proposal on the combined usage of wavelets analysis and hierarchical neural networks in early breast cancer detection.

 

Computer Literacy:

 

Operating Systems: Windows XP & 2000, UNIX  (Solaris OS 9 and Linux Red Hat  Enterprise Edition).

 

Programming Languages:  Groovy, Java (JSE 6), Visual C++ /MFC, C#, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, Perl 5,   Haskell 98 (GHC & Hugs), Common Lisp, SQL, Unix shell scripting(Bash), Python,  PHP.

 

Databases (no-SQL/SQL):  Neo4J, MongoDB, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server/Transact-SQL, Oracle 9/PL-SQL, MySQL.

 

Web/App Servers, Clouds, API ManagementFrameworks:  WSO2, Apigee, Vordel, Mashery, 3Scale, Parse.com, EC2, Heroku, CloudFoundry,  iPlanet Server 6, JBoss 3.2.5, Tomcat 5, Apache, IIS, ORBACUS, CoAbs/JINI Agent Architecture, STRUTS,  Spring/Hybernate Framework, Ajax,  Axis 1.2, Lucene, Nutch, GRAILS.

 

Social Networking & Social Media Software: Echo, LiveFyre, Gigya, Janrain, Hive, KickApps, RealTidBits, TokBox, Elgg (open-source social networking architecture), DRUPAL 5, WebCT, Twitter API,  RestFB, FaceBook Graph API.

 

Development Tools: Grails 1.3.5, Object Space Toolkit, Rational Rose, Visio 2000, SourceSafe, CVS/JCVS,  Ant,  JUnit,  Eclipse, IntelliJ Toad, Visual Studio.NET, Log4j, Torque 3D, JMeter, Subversion.

 

Data Mining  & Applied Math Tools:  Polyanalyst 5.0, WEKA 3,  GNU open-source statistical language R,  Octave 2.1.73, CoCoa  (Computational Commutative Algebra package) 4.6,  MATLAB 7, JUNG 2.

 

References:

 

References available upon request (see also my Linkedin Page)