Ed Staub

Experience

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  Hastech

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1989

  Senior Software Engineer

  Participated in and later led group developing the client facilities for AdWizard, an interactive VAX VMS-based newspaper graphical ad layout system. Led development of high-speed back-end typesetter management system.

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  Keyfile Corporation

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1997

  Principal Software Engineer

  Major contributor to Keyfile, a document management, workflow, and image processing system built on Windows 3.0.· Component interaction design and middleware (a light-weight COM-like mechanism for loosely coupled components.)· A light-weight end-user scripting language· Early development and design of the application layer, written in a Keyfile DSL.

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  Zydacron

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1994

  Software Developer
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  Silknet Software

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Senior Software Architect

  Worked in a team providing the architecture for a highly scalable Java+XML-based eBusiness platform, supporting “farms” of appservers and webservers. Areas of specialization included:· persistent object models for business process support· security architecture· internationalization design· XML usage standards· classes and beans for presentation support (under JSP’s)· event publication/subscription handling· workflow architecture and design· cache managementSpecified, designed and prototyped a general-purpose workflow engine, using a relational-XML translation layer for storage, intended for support of eBusiness applications, especially customer service. Contributed to design of workflow authoring environment. Show less

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  Deka Research & Development

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Technical Contributor

  Designed and developed prototype user interface for a small wearable medical device, with a small LCD, a few buttons, and a thumb-wheel. User interactions were complex for the size of the device. Requirements for usability were very high because of safety concerns.Led software development for a complex medical laboratory process controller. In a safety-critical application, the operator is led through a series of operations on several independent devices, while controlling operation of the devices themselves. Co-inventor on patents. Show less

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  KMC Systems

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Principal Technical Specialist

  Designed and developed software for a platform for microarray assays. C on Motorola 56800. Major technical challenges included tight control of rapid temperature cycling in a poorly-understood thermal system, and direct phase-control of BLDC motors. Software lead on a system with an X/Y/Z robot that did overlapped cycling of samples through several active stations, including a very high-resolution X/Y/Z imaging stage. For both systems, wrote software development plan, schedule. Performed informal system engineering role in qualifying behavior and shortcomings of hardware components. Show less

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  Ericsson

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2014

  Senior Software Engineer

  Specified, designed, implemented, tested new features in enterprise-level software (Granite Inventory) for modeling of services, networks, and equipment for major telecommunications companies, where a company may model hundreds of millions of objects, down to individual wires in some cases. Used JavaEE, specializing in design and implementation of services, XML pipelining, SQL, performance enhancement. Designed and implemented features and performance enhancements for pipelined high-speed, XML-based data import facility. Supported customers and the services organization. Show less

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  Semanterra, LLC

  Oct 2014 - Apr 2015

  Managing Member

  Researched more effective ways to describe and catalog Open Linked Data, especially public-sector statistical data. Development effort involved data-mining of Socrata and CKAN-based open data repositories, using Scala, MongoDB, Play Framework, and various reactive Scala libraries like Dispatch (HTTP).

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  Growlab.io

  May 2015 - Feb 2016

  Lead Developer

  Full-stack developer of product to enable communities to encourage local procurement. SAAS product on Angular + Meteor (MongoDB back end).

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  Semanterra, LLC

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2018

  Designer/Developer

  Developing citizen engagement platform for state legislature, www.yeanay.us . Developed using React, Typescript, Node, and Postgres.