Alan B. Scrivener

                abs@well.com
               753 N. Glassell St.
               Orange, CA 92867
                (714) 289-1554

skills

applications

languages / operating systems

hardware

experience

Object|FX Corporation (2515 Wabash Ave., Suite 100, St. Paul, MN 55114), a producer of object-oriented geospatial visualization tools for client/server and World Wide Web (WWW), as systems engineer (pre-sales) provided technical support for Smalltalk-based software development tools for Geographical Information System (GIS) functionality as application components in network environments connecting desktops to databases. (April 1996 to November 1996)

Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. (300 Fifth Ave., Waltham, MA 02154), a visualization software producer: as systems engineer (pre-sales) provided technical support for salespeople of 3D graphics software tools including UNIX, Mac and Windows system administration, programming and operating demos, technical presentations and assisting customers with software design and debugging. Job success was measured by sales. In 1994 the salesperson I supported made the biggest sale in company history ($1.8 million) and in 1995 that salesperson was highest over quota (%110). (August 1992 to April 1996)

Kubota Pacific Computer Inc. (2630 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051) a manufacturer of graphics supercomputers: as senior systems analyst (pre-sales) ported and tuned prospects' computational benchmarks in FORTRAN and C, used prospect data in scientific visualization demos, wrote graphics demo programs, prepared and gave technical sales presentations and customer training sessions, planned and executed trade and road shows, administered office/road demo systems, and wrote RFQ technical responses. (January 1992 to August 1992)

Stardent Computer Inc. (85 Wells Ave., Newton, MA 01581), a manufacturer of graphics supercomputers: as senior systems analyst (pre-sales) duties identical to Kubota (above); was voted systems analyst of the year for western U.S. two out of three years and sent with spouse to Sales Club. (February 1988 to December 1991)

Rockwell International's Space Station Systems Division (12214 Lakewood Blvd., Downey, CA 90241), a manufacturer of manned space vehicles: as consulting programmer designed and implemented an interactive key-frame animation package in C to run on a real- time 3-D graphics system; as staff computer graphics programmer designed and implemented software tools in C and used these tools to produce simulations and videotapes of space station assembly as well as other space vehicles and mechanisms. (October 1985 to February 1988)

GTI Corporation's Computer Graphics Division (10060 Willow Creek Rd., San Diego, CA 92131), a manufacturer of real-time 3-D interactive graphics systems: as applications engineer (pre- and post-sales) worked with customers to resolve graphics software problems, wrote graphics demo programs and gave presentations with them; as software project leader wrote specifications for the user interface to graphics system software, managed software development teams to implement, enhance and maintain internal real-time software of graphics systems; and as documentation manager hired and trained technical writers for hardware and software and established documentation guidelines and version numbering systems. (January 1983 - May 1985)

conferences / publications

• SIGGRAPH 1995: Special Interest Group (SIG): "AVS In Medicine" (chaired)
• SIGGRAPH 1994: technical sketch: Architecting AVS Express (with Jeff Vroom, AVS Inc.)
• SIGGRAPH 1994: SIG panel: "The Virtual Actor and the Human Factor" (chaired)
• Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 1994: paper: The Impact of Visual Programming In Medical Research.
• SIGGRAPH 1993: panel: "Electronic Image and Popular Discourse" (Benjamin Bratton, chair); topic: Hypertext or Game Boy: We Are At a Fork In the Road.
• AVS '93 (International User Group): paper: The Nature of Scientific Visualization.
• Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 1992: paper: The Somascope: A Tool For Guided Self-Healing Using Medical Imaging.
• Federal Computer Conference 1991: panel: "Visualization and Simulation" (Richard Friedhoff, chair); topic: A History of Scientific Visualization.
• SIGGRAPH 1991: technical coordinator of Tomorrow's Realities Gallery (juried multimedia and virtual reality exhibits).

training

• "Introduction to Web Objects" by Next Software Inc. (1 week)
• "Introduction to SmallTalk" by Parc Place, Inc. (1 week)
• "C++ Programming" in-house training by Clarity Learning Inc. for AVS Inc. (1 week)
• University of California at Irvine (UCI) Extension: "X Windows Programming" (2 days)
• University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) extension: "Linear Systems Analysis" (2 hrs/week for 10 weeks)
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM) conferences on "Dynamical Systems" May, 1990, Orlando, FL (5 days), and October, 1992, Snowbird, UT (3 days)
• UCLA Kineseology 197 "Neuroscience for Physicists, Mathematicians and Engineers" audited by permission of Dr. Alan Garfinkel, world expert on cardiac chaos (4 hrs/week for 13 weeks)

education

Last update: 27-Mar-1997

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