Ralph L. Vinciguerra ralph@vinci.org http://vinci.org/rlv

Areas of Performance

• Software
  • Emerging Java and Web technologies
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (UML, Booch, OMT)
  • Web technologies (Java Applets, HTML, XML, XSL, Perl, CGI)
  • System Engineering (Large and Distributed)
  • Software design and development in Java, C++, and C
  • Graphic User Interface Design and Development in Java
  • Object Oriented Databases (Object Store)
  • Mobile platform development (J2ME CLDC on PalmOS)
  • System integration of UNIX software (Linux, Solaris, IRIX)
• Hardware
  • Embedded systems development and programming (TINI, 68HC11 ATMega128 )
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis
• Programatics
  • Internal Research and Development (IRAD) programs
  • Software versioning, release, and build strategies (CVS,Subversion,Clearcase,Ant,Maven)
  • Personal Software Process implementation and practice (PSP)

Available for contract and consulting work

• Boston Area: onsite or telecommuting
• North America: telecommuting with limited travel
• Global: telecommuting

Employment Summary

A detailed employment history with figures is available:
[ http://vinci.org/rlv/resume/history.html ]

2003.02 - Present : Trinity Research and Development Corp., President [ http://vinci.org/trinity ]

Dr. Vinciguerra assumes the position of President and continues on a balanced workload between our primary client, ALPHATECH, Inc., and internal research and development at TRDC.

ALPHATECH activities include design and development of J2EE components (Java), Sensor Resource Management components (C++), build environment rengineering (Ant, Maven, and bjam), team training (UML).

2001 - 2003.02 : Trinity Research and Development Corp., Director of Research [ http://vinci.org/trinity ]

Dr. Vinciguerra is one of the founding members of TRDC, and is responsible for internal research and development activities as well as supporting multiple TRDC clients:

• ALPHATECH, Inc. - Terrain visualization algorithm development and implementation, Software Process implementation
• SSG Precision Optronics - Electro-Magnetic Compatibility analysis
• Flight Materials Group - Materials and Process Electrical Testing
• SAIC - Java Training and Development

1990 - 2000 : Litton/TASC, Principal Member of the Technical Staff [ http://www.tasc.com ]

Dr. Vinciguerra has contributed as a senior architect on 7 large system projects and 2 internal research and development efforts. Over the last 5 years he deployed the first web servers and Java technologies into several projects. By acting as a senior architect and through mentoring and formal instruction of staff, TASC was able to employ emerging technologies in its research and development operations.

1987 - 1990 : Litton-Itek Optical Systems, Senior Image Scientist

Dr. Vinciguerra was a member of the Image Sciences Department and managed the Internal Research and Software Development projects for his department. He also contributed on several projects involving multi-band image processing directed at automatic target recognition. In addition, he also redesigned and reimplemented a target recognition system simulator for an optical joint transform correlator. The task verified the theoretical soundness of the simulation, recreated the software chain in maintainable modules, and implemented a testing and verification strategy.

1976 - Present : Personal Research Projects

Dr. Vinciguerra executes a self-funded program of personal research spanning many projects as a means for continuing education. These include digital circuit design, embedded systems development, home control, Java applications and applets, Internet and Web technologies, PalmOS applications, and power control circuits.

Education

• PhD, 1988 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Computer Graphics / Color Vision
• MS, 1982 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; Image Coding
• BS, 1980 Electrical Engineering, MIT; Digital and Video circuit design

The Ph.D. degree program included a minor program in Human Visual Perception. The thesis studied the problem of color anti-aliasing in computer graphics and involved the research and implementation of a hybrid color space trajectory technique. The technique provides a method to interpolate colors in a perceptually accurate manner for use in anti-aliasing and image processing.

A list of continuing education activities is available:
[ http://vinci.org/rlv/resume/education.html ]

Technology History

• Programming Languages
  • Java [early 1996-present]
  • C++ [1991-present]
  • C [1983-present]
  • FORTRAN [1978-1980,1988-1990]
  • APL [1974-1976,1978-1979]
  • PASCAL, LISP, BASIC
  • Scripting: Perl, sh, awk, sed, ARexx, Rexx
  • Assembly: 8080, Z80, 68HC11, 68000, PDP11, IBM 360/370, TMS320
• Software Development Frameworks and Tools
  • Java Beans [1997-present]
  • CORBA [1996-present]
  • ObjectStore [1994-1996]
  • C++ STL
  • Java J2ME CLDC development on PalmOS
  • Rational Rose IDE
  • Concurrent Version System (CVS)
  • Clearcase source control system
  • Galaxy
  • Xlib, OpenWindows
• Multimedia and Document Languages
  • XSL [2000-present]
  • XML [1998-present]
  • HTML [1994-present]
  • LaTeX, TeX, nroff
  • Hypercard, CanDo
• Hardware
  • Analog circuit design (D/A interfacing and power control)
  • Digital Circuit Design (TTL/CMOS)
  • Embedded systems (68HC11/68000/Z80/8080)
• Operating Systems
  • Sun, Solaris 2.3-2.7
  • SGI, IRIX 4-5
  • Intel&SPARC Linux
  • DEC, VAX/VMS
  • Win95/98/NT, MacOS, CP/M

Teaching

Dr. Vinciguerra designed and taught two courses through the TASC Institute, an internal education organization: Introduction to Java (twice per year for 3 consecutive years) and C++ Coding Techniques and Tools.

During graduate degree work at M.I.T. Dr. Vinciguerra taught recitation sections and laboratories in Electrodynamics and Digital Circuit Design.

Societies and Organizations

• Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
• Reading Schools PALMS curriculum program
• Reading Schools Technology Committee

Publications

R.L. Vinciguerra, "vinci.org", content from activities in many diverse areas.
[ http://vinci.org/ ]

R.L. Vinciguerra, "Corporate World Wide Web Server", TASC Internal Publication, content on many topics (Intranet access only, not generally accessible), a snapshot of the entry point is available. [ http://vinci.org/rlv/resume/tasc/web/index.html ]

S. Zabele, S.L. Rohall, and R.L.Vinciguerra, "High Performance Infrastructure for Visually-intensive CSCW Applications", CSCW'94 Conference.
[ http://vinci.org/rlv/resume/tasc/cscw/cscw.html ]

R.L. Vinciguerra, "Color Anti-aliasing in Computer Graphics", M.I.T. PhD Thesis, 1988.

Personal Interests

Inventing, sailing, jogging, cycling (commuting by bike since 1990), hiking, skiing (alpine and cross-country), environmentalism, creating "Open Software" in Java, home computing, home networking, and volunteer work with my church and my children's schools.

See my web site [ http://vinci.org/rlv ] for published material in some of these areas.

See my Yachting Resume [ http://vinci.org/rlv/resume/yachting ] for details on my Yachting experience.

Ralph L. Vinciguerra - 2008-02-03