Mark E. Shoulson

Education

September 1999-2002

Rutgers University Graduate School: New Brunswick, NJ. Degree: Ph.D. (Computer Science, not completed)

September 1990-May 1991:

Harvard University Graduate School: Cambridge, MA. Degree: S.M. (Computer Science)

September 1986-May 1990:

Columbia College, Columbia University: New York, NY. Degree: A.B. (Computer Science; concentration in mathematics)

October 1985-June 1986:

Bar-Ilan University: Ramat-Gan, Israel. One-year program, no degree offered.

Employment History:

2016-present

1010data, New York, NY: Senior Software Developer. (Acquired by SymphonyAI in June 2023.) Responsibilities include:

• Development and maintenance of C library for interfacing with company's servers
• Design, development and maintenance of Java and Python libraries (built using the C library)
• Maintenance of .NET and R libraries (also built using the C library)
• Compiling and deploying various client tools, including the high-level language libraries
• Design and development of a library to write queries in the company's XML scripting language on-the-fly from expressions and function calls like those in the statistics library pandas
• Writing documentation for the above (reference documentation as well as user guides).

2012-2016

Choice Logistics, New York, NY: Senior Software Developer. Responsibilities included: maintenance of large base of legacy software (HP/UX, C, C-ISAM Database), transitioning to Windows-based architecture. Designing solutions for managing legacy database. Some systems administration (HP/UX). Troubleshooting and user support.

2005-2012

3Phase Computing, Brooklyn, NY: Senior Programmer. Responsibilities included: programming mostly in Python, Perl, and PHP; systems administration (mainly Linux), web-site coding.

September 2003-May 2005:

Yeshivas Beis Tzvi Yaakov, Newark, NJ: Teacher. Responsibilities included: designing and teaching courses in Linux System Administration and Perl and Java programming for beginners.

September 1999-May 2002:

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: Teaching Assistant. Responsibilities included: teaching courses for Computer Science majors. Courses taught: introductory and intermediate programming in the Java programming language, and Numerical Analysis.

September 1997-May 1998:

The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ: Instructor. Responsibilities included: teaching courses for Computer Science majors. Courses taught: introductory and intermediate programming in the Java programming language, discrete mathematics.

June 1996-June 1997:

Salomon Brothers, Inc., Rutherford, NJ: System Programmer, Information Security. Responsibilities include: monitoring and maintenance of internet gateway, design and research of new security systems, installation of new security software, upgrade of existing systems.

• Researched, installed, and tested configuration to permit secure input of data to the company's network.
• Participated in design of a multiplatform secure architecture.

May 1995-May 1996:

NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ: Sr. Systems Programmer. Responsibilities included: system administration for UNIX systems (SGI/IRIX and SUN/Solaris), systems programming.

• Providing support to the user community, troubleshooting, fixing problems, and responding to questions and complaints.
• Installing, upgrading, configuring, and maintaining public-domain and commercial software for the needs of a diverse community of users.
• Writing system scripts, including interfaces to track user requests and support-group responses.
• Maintaining website, writing pages and CGI scripts, including systems to solicit user requests and to track paperwork of incoming employees.
• Monitoring proper functioning of news and other servers.

September 1990-April 1995:

Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ: Member of Technical Staff. Responsibilities included: C programming for MVS and UNIX environments and UNIX system administration.

• Database-management programming in C under MVS, particularly testing of an entity-relational database for sanity.
• Documentation of programs written and giving demonstrations, both internally and for clients.
• On-site support for the software at clients' locations, explaining the nature and meaning of messages returned.
• System administration for a LAN of SUN workstations, troubleshooting including adding new workstations and users to the LAN and serving as a resource for UNIX expertise.
• Serving on Development Environment Focus Group, studying the development environment and alternatives and ways to improve it.

1987-May 1990:

Columbia University, New York, NY: Student Consultant for the Center for Computing Activities (now Academic Information Systems). Responsibilities included:

• Managing computer-labs consisting of IBM-PCs, Macintosh computers (working both on their own and as terminals) and dumb terminals accessing UNIX and CMS servers, including troubleshooting configuration problems and maintaining printers and other equipment.
• Advising users regarding difficulties in using the equipment, including helping with UNIX shell-script, Pascal, C, LISP/Scheme, GNU Emacs, vi, and other common UNIX tools and languages.

September 1988-December 1988:

Columbia University, New York, NY: Teaching Assistant for the Computer Science Department for Artificial Intelligence class. Responsibilities included:

• Grading homework and tests for Artificial Intelligence.
• Holding office hours to explain grades and tutor students in Artificial Intelligence and the LISP language.

Professional Skills:

• Experienced with several computer systems, particularly UNIX (SunOS, Linux).

• Have done some system administration for a LAN of SUN workstations, including configuration and hardware setup.

• Have been involved in computer teaching and training on various levels, from basic training on spreadsheets through teaching Artificial Intelligence.

• Computer languages include Python, Perl, UNIX Shellscript, C, APL, K, LISP, YACC, LEX, PHP, Java, AWK, T_EX, and METAFONT.

• (Former) Assistant Director, Klingon Language Institute. Webmaster and site maintainer and designer (http://www.kli.org/). Wrote its original web pages back in the early 1990s.

• Very good writing and communication skills

Other Interests:

• Languages and Linguistics (including Natural Language Processing, as well as studying natural and artificial languages)

• Teaching

• Mathematics and Physics (many aspects thereof)

• Typography and writing systems

• A great many more...