Ryan Cuprak
760 Mix Ave. 6L
Hamden, CT 06514
RESUME
Home: (203)-407-8267
Cell: (203)-376-8789


Objective:
Technical Sales Engineer position in an innovative environment.
Summary:
Excellent pre-sales and professional services experience helping non-technical customers understand and implement highly technical grid computing software. Deep development background with 6 years of software development experience covering a broad range of current and emerging technologies in a variety of environments.
Professional Activities:
President of the Connecticut Java User Group (JUG) and member of the Connecticut Objected User Group’s executive board. JUG responsibilities include recruiting speakers, logistics, and managing/organizing monthly meetings. Professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Education:
Bachelors of Arts and Sciences (May 2001) from Loyola University Chicago. Graduated Cum Laude with a Double Major in Biology (Honors) and Computer Science.
Undergraduate Research Experience:
Studied the phylogeny of plant retroelements based on insertions and deletions of DNA. Analysis was performed using MacVector, NCSA’s Workbench, and NCBI’s Blast program. Project involved the development of a custom algorithm.
Technical Skills:
Java, Tapestry, Hivemind, Hibernate, Struts, JSTL, IBM TSpaces, C++, Java Advanced Imaging (JAI), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java Management Extension (JMX), Objective-C, Swing, SQL, XML, SOAP, and XML-RPC. Software packages: Apache Axis, Apache Ant, Apache Tomcat, Junit, JBoss, Log4J, Postgres, and Hsqldb. IDEs: IntelliJ’s IDEA, TogetherSoft Control Center and Eclipse. Version control systems including CVS. Proficient with UML and J2EE design patterns. Operating Systems: MacOS X, Linux, Windows. Shell scripting including Perl, Bash, and TCL.
Presentations:
At the September 21st, 2003 and December 5th, 2003 Connecticut Java Users Group and New York Java Users Group meetings presented “Introduction to Java Imaging” along with Dr. Douglas Wood of Eastman Kodak. Presentation covered Java2D and Java Advanced Imaging (JAI).
Work Experience and Projects
August 2006-Present EnginuityPLM - eFormuation Analyst

January 2006-August 2006 Eastman Kodak Molecular Imaging Systems - Software Contractor
Designed and implemented regulatory image database solution using Tapestry, Tomcat, Hivemind, Hibernate, JAX-WS with many supporting libraries from Apache Jakarta. Used a mixture of libcurl and gSoap to support communication between the native camera acquisition software on MacOS X and Windows. Software is CFR-11 compliant. Wrote over 350 junit tests to verify system functionality.
May 2003-January 2006 TurboWorx Inc – Software Developer and Client IT Architect
August 2004-Present – Client IT Architect
  • Served as primary pre-sales technical contact for customers using the TurboWorx high performance software suite.
  • Developed pre-sales training material and provided technical support for the sales force.
  • Provided post-sale Professional Services. Met with customers to determine requirements, write statements of work, and implement on-site solutions. Customer projects included image processing, microarray analysis, and bioinformatics.
  • Developed training material for products and delivered training to customers.
  • Designed and developed a custom dataflow and Java Swing based visualization client for MIT’s Whitehead Institute. Dataflow identified the optimal de-convolution parameters for the restoration of 3D volumetric images in time using SVI’s Huygens package. Used IBM Tspaces for coordination (JavaSpaces/GigaSpaces competitor).
May 2003-August 2004 Software Developer
  • Designed and implemented easy-to-use web interface to TurboWorx’s grid software that allows biologists/researchers to run and monitor complex workflows with little technical knowledge. Integrated portal with the existing webservices front-end.
  • Developed installers and deployment documentation for TurboWorx products.
  • Developed and implemented a test plan for TurboWorx’s Cluster Manager batch queuing system.
2001-May 2003 Scientific Imaging Systems Eastman Kodak – Software Developer

Member of research and development software engineering team.
Key accomplishments:

  • Proposed, designed, and constructed a prototype enterprise application for the storage and retrieval of gel/microscopy images and related scientific data. Purpose of the system was to explore an enterprise architecture facilitating the integration and data mining of research data for low budget academic institutions. Frontbase was used as the database and EJB container Jboss with Jetty integration was used for the application server and for managing transactions across multiple beans. Struts was used as the application framework. Created a custom build system using ant to package the EARs and WARs as well as run unit tests.
  • Member of a development team that constructed a prototype image processing application using a backend database to store gel electrophoresis and microscopy images. Prototype was to test the performance and image processing capabilities of the java platform.
  • Constructed an image processing graph editor using Java Advanced Imaging (JAI). MDI Java Swing GUI was used for the interface and the image processing graph was archived as XML and validated against a custom XML schema.
  • Implemented UPGMA, WPGMA, Neighbor joining clustering algorithm for the construction of phylogenetic from gel electrophoresis data.
  • Implemented CFR-11 compliant GMP/GLP information management system for Kodak’s BioMax 1D gel analysis software. System included a web application written using Tomcat, Axis, Struts and Hypsersonic as the embedded database. Prototype C++ bindings were developed to connect 1D with the information management system via SOAP/XML-RPC.
1998-2000 Aeltus Investment – Internship
2000
Designed, developed, and deployed a custom in-house database system to manage and store economic statistics for senior management. Used in generating forecasts, evaluating performance, and various reports. System was written using Visual Basic and MS SQL Server. System interfaced with Factset and Bloomberg data sources. Other duties included routine production maintenance and developing automated reports for portfolio managers.
1999
Member of a Program Re-engineering team rewriting a major internal financial system. System was developed using ATL COM components with a MFC front-end developed using Rogue Wave's Objective Grid. Rewrote and tested a new version of the proprietary algorithm used in the system. The system managed client accounts against an indexed fund.
1998

Member of a Program Reengineering team in charge of evaluating and remediation legacy systems written in C, dBase, and Clipper for Year 2000 compliance. Successfully evaluated and remediate five systems. Additional duties included problem solving on production problems and migrating financial analysts from MSDOS/Windows 3.1 systems to Windows NT 4.0. Duties included working with PVCS.
1996-1997 American Quality Resources - Internship

ISO 14000 Coordinator and Web Page Designer at AQR. Researched the ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards and wrote a paper entitled "Implications and Approaches of ISO 14000 Integration". This paper was published and I presented it at Quality Week V., Hungarian Society for Quality's International Conference in Budapest, Hungary. Designed and created AQR's web page as well as created Microsoft Word template files for the technical writers. Other duties included computer troubleshooting and processing and filing technical data.
References Available Upon Request