Experience
2002 — present		Michael Rothman & Associates, LLC Vice President for Technology Developed Java-based premier explorer currently in use by a major pharmaceutical firm. This powerful interactive tool enables a wide range of data exploration and comparisons to be made and reported. Premier explorer has been tested with a wide range of of database and operating systems.
2000 — 2002		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Research Staff Member - Blue Gene Project Developed Java-based visualizer to allow designers to see the inner workings of a highly parallel supercomputer having 64,000 processors, with a rich set of 2D and 3D views and drilldowns. Resulted in several improvements in projected system performance. Created graphical performance monitor for observing traffic patterns in distributed Websphere e-commerce applications. Implemented on a Linux cluster supporting the IBM bioengineering project "Blue Gene"; written in Java, and scalable to grid computing.
1991 — 1999		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Research Staff Member - Parallel Applications & Algorithms Group Developed personalized "recommender" for supermarket shoppers as member of award-winning research team. Exploited data mining of databases, achieved significant 1.8% revenue boost at major supermarket chain. Wrote IBM Intelligent Miner's fast parallel neural data mining C++ code Created Kmap, "the best data mining result visualizer ever." Developed high-performance parallel seismic image-processing code: 100X speedup on IBM supercomputer. Developed solutions for rapid transfer of data into computers, such as a "supercache" combination of parallel file system and DB2 Parallel Edition.
1984 — 1990		Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO IBM Distinguished Professor, Geophysics Department, Colorado School of Mines 1990 Gordon Bell prize special mention in cost/performance category for parallel speedup in seismic image processing obtained with network-connected workstations. IBM Technical Assistant to General Manager, IBM University/College Systems Developed strategic concepts and operations; responsible for joint studies with MIT, Colorado School of Mines. New York University Adjunct Professor, NYU Author — "Highly Parallel Computing" (with co-author Allan Gottlieb) — used as text in many universities Taught parallel computing courses at IBM and NYU
1982 — 1984		IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Senior Manager/Highly Parallel Architectures Department Started and managed architecture definition of prototype highly parallel shared-memory supercomputer (RP3) Chairman, Parallel Processing Research Council (university, industry, and government representatives). Set up joint projects with NYU, Columbia, and other universities
Publications & Patents
		40 papers, 4 books, 21 patents.
Education
1966		Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering
1961		Syracuse University Syracuse, NY B.S. in Electrical Engineering