Lisa VanderSluis Whitney's Resume

Lisa VanderSluis Whitney
http://www-cs-students.Stanford.EDU/~dwhitney/lisa vandersl@cs.utk.edu (650)369-1591

Objective
Senior Architect or Project Manager position involving web-based technologies.

Summary
I have over twelve years experience in the Software Industry with a Masters in Computer Science and an MBA. My experience includes architecture design and project management, as well as hands on experience with technology such as Internet distributed computing, object oriented programming, and databases. I am self motivated, skilled at rapidly integrating new knowledge, and a creative problem solver. I also have excellent communication skills and experience in giving technical presentations. I am looking for a challenging position as a Sr. Architect or Project Manager.

Education
University of Washington, MBA, 1997
Concentration: Management of Technology,3.6
Project Experience

Boeing: Consulted on Boeing's Intranet design structure.
FTC: Consulted on Internet business education.
UW Human Interface Technology Lab: Architected Collaborative Learning using VR.
Manifold Graphics: Managed new product research team.
Starwave: Wrote marketing plan for new multi-player Internet game, "Castle Infinity".
Market and Industry Analysis of technology innovation: "Audio Books on Demand".
Taught MBA Class on Client/Server technology.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS, Computer Science 1992
Concentration: Distributed Computing, 3.6, nominated for most original research paper.
University of Tennessee, BA, Computer Science & Business Minor 1982, Honors.

Professional Experience
STERLING SOFTWARE Moffett Field, California 1998 - Present
Web Group Lead
Providing technical direction for the NAS Web Group at NASA Ames Research Center and ensuring that all contract goals are met.

Managing team of 7 - 9 with responsibility for both technical and staffing issues.
Responsible for software/hardware budget of $125k.
Managed Software Archives Project from design to production. Architected system and ensured that all requirements were implemented with delivery a head of schedule.
Managed design and implementation of Web Team Page which highlights services and documents functions of the Web Group.

STERLING SOFTWARE Moffett Field, California 1993 - 1995
New Technology Specialist
Provided leadership in evangelizing new technology at NASA Ames Research Center. Technology included: the Web, object-oriented programming, databases, and distributed/parallel computing. Additionally responsible for the architecture of several object oriented systems. Strong customer relationship focus.

Developed new technology strategic plans.
Initiated development of company-wide information resource (Intranet) on the Web.
Led Beta Partnership with Sybase's Gain Momentum database product.
Responsible for OO architecture and prototype implementation of several database systems: Softlib Reuse Library and NSI Internet Connections.
Managed team in development of C++ Guidelines Document.
Created prototype to demonstrate and teach: Object-Oriented Design and C++ and Java implementations.
Investigated a parallel distributed system of networked workstations using DQS(Distributed Queuing System) & PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine).

CRAY RESEARCH, INC. Eagen, Minnesota 1992 - 1993
Senior Programmer Analyst
Lead developer designing a distributed load balancing system for a heterogeneous network of Unix workstations and servers.

Developed prototype for distributed load balancing system, Network Queuing Environment [NQE], for Crays and workstations.
Researched and analyzed load balancing algorithms for system.
Designed a graphical display of machine information for NQE.

TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, INC. New London, Connecticut 1987 - 1992
Project Computer Prog/Analyst
Consultant serving scientists and engineers in all aspects of using a Cray computer and Unix workstations, including Internet distributed computing architecture and scientific visualization. Part of team that ran the Supercomputer Center at the Naval Underwater Systems Center.

Pioneered distributing computations and graphics between a Cray and Sun workstation using Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and wrappers around legacy code.
Architected and developed, RPCX, tool for generating RPC templates.
Researched and architected RPC communication algorithms for cooperating parallel applications.
Advanced use of Cray's parallel processing for scientific applications such as CFD and FEA.
Authored and presented several papers on distributed visualization including "Designing a Distributed Scientific Visualization Tool" at IEEE Visualization '91.
Architected and developed local accounting system for tracking supercomputer costs.

NAVAL UNDERWATER SYSTEMS CENTER Newport, Rhode Island 1983 - 1987
Computer Scientist, Computer Prog/Analyst
Responsible for enhancements to the Personnel Database System, and liaison between Computer Information Services and Personnel. Responsible for several systems including Executive Merit Pay System, Workman's Compensation System, and Naval Civilian Personal Data System.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COMPUTING CENTER Knoxville, TN 1979 - 1981
Tape Operator, I/O Clerk
Ran tape jobs, and acted as liaison between students and University Computer Staff.

Publications

Achilles, Martin, Olsen, Paul, VanderSluis Whitney, "A Collaborative Learning Environment for Foreign Language Instruction". Presentation given at Global Information and Telecommunications Industries (GiTi) Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 1997.
Copeland and VanderSluis, "Object-Oriented Rapid Prototyping: Tools and Reuse". TOOLS USA '94 Proceedings, Santa Barbara, California, August 1994.
VanderSluis, "Synchronization for a Loosely Coupled Distributed System Using Parallel RPC". 8th Annual HGC Computer Science Conference Proceedings, Hartford Connecticut, April 1992.
VanderSluis, "Designing a Distributed Scientific Visualization Tool". IEEE Visualization '91 Proceedings, San Diego, California, October 1991.
VanderSluis, "RPCX - An RPC Software Tool for RPC Paradigms". Cray User's Group Proceedings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 1991.
VanderSluis, "Distributed Processing between a Cray X-MP and a Sun Workstation". Cray User's Group Proceedings, London England, April 1991.
VanderSluis, "Guide to Fortran Optimization under Cray Unicos". TAI Technology Report, 1989.

Special Skills and Associations
Hardware: Cray(C90,Y-MP,X-MP,EL,Cray-2), Sun(Sparcstation10,4,3), Macintosh Power PC, IBM PC, Sgi Iris, Vax, Dec-10, IBM/370, Sperry Univac

Operating Systems: Cray Unicos, Sun Unix, VAX/VMS, MS-DOS, Windows, NT

Languages: Perl, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Fortran, X11, SQL, GEL, C & Bourne Shell, Lisp, Cobol, Basic, PL/I, QLP, Datatrieve, DCL, ECL, JCL, XCALC, IBM/370 Assembler

Networking: TCP/IP Sockets, RPC, XDR, NFS, DQS, PVM, HTML, CGI, HTTP, FTP, Netscape, Xmosaic, Apache

Databases: Sybase, Oracle, Access, dBaseIII, TDMS, DPS1100

Adv Prog Env: CodeWarrior, GainMomentum, ViewCenter, ObjectCenter

Other: Word, Excel, Frame, Lotus 1-2-3, HyperCard, ObjectModeler, PVwave

Activities
University of Washington: High-Tech Club, Business Diagnostic Center (Consulting Group)
University of Tennessee: Varsity Swim Team(Lettered)

Hobbies
Running (6 miles daily), Gourmet Cooking, Traveling (Australia & Europe), Golden Retriever