agentidea/grantsteinfeld

Grant Steinfeld - Curriculum vitae

Titles

Software Architect
Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer

Skills

Agile Methodologies ( TDD, Pairing, Pivotal Tracker ) 
Languages ( JavaScript, Python, SQL, PowerShell, SPARQL, Lisp, Erlang, Java, Visual Basic ) 
Database ( Redis, CouchDB, AllegroGraph, MSSQL, Oracle ) 
Frameworks ( mod_wsgi, AngularJS, Ionic, NodeJS, Celery, Sphinx ) 
OS ( CentOS, Ubuntu, Mac/IOS, Windows, Mainframe ) 
Tools ( Jenkins, PyCharm, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Blender, Photoshop )

Employment History

####January 1998 – Present Consultant AgentIdea Technologies Inc, [New York – Menlo Park – Cape Town]

Engineering consultancy focusing on creating intelligent enterprise systems in the health, financial and analytical business domains

####January 2009 - Present Physical Therapist (per diem aprox 3 weeks / year) Part time locum for Dawn Utstein at Physio Sports Center East [Manhattan - New York]

Orthapaedic, Gyrokinesis and Alexander Technique for sport rehabiliation.

####January 2004 – January 2008 (4 years 1 month) SmartOrg Inc Chief Software Architect

Architected, assisted coding with and deployed Portfolio Navigator a browser based decision analysis tool that is deployed at R&D departments at DOW, Bayer, Boeing and Chevron

####January 2000 – January 2002 (2 years 1 month) Jefferies Execution Service / Helfant Group Technical Manager/Senior Architect

Managed a team of six programmers, to create AgentTrader a Tibco RV FIX hub that currently handles 5% NYSE order routing
In addition it normalizes and allows traffic to 18 exchanges and 238 securities firms

####January 1988 – January 2000 (12 years 1 month) Prudential Securities

V.P. Futures and Options – Technology
Ported the futures and options portfolio management system to the Web Based Boss 3000
Created and coded Visual Basic Research tool for pdf management - and then ported to web interface for ease of management

####February 1997 – January 1998 (1 year) Square Earth Software Engineer

Developed Financial and Ecommerce internet applications development with Visual Basic ActiveX, IIS/ColdFusion and MSSQL
Website development by collaborating with Graphic Design firms, to create showcase sites for Bass Ale, Citibank, Plaid, OneStar, UPS

####June 1995 – December 1996 (1 year 7 months) VIM Software Engineer

Member of a team that designed and implemented an ecommerce web site using IIS 1.0 IDC and MSSQL.
Responsible for setting up internet/TCP/IP stack for Windows 3.1 workstations, email and database servers, and 56k dedicated UUNET connection

####January 1995 – August 1995 (8 months) Webmaster Bergman Associates Created award winning graphic design website for musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Managed SGI Multimedia server for Real Audio Server

####1991 - 1994 (3 years) Physical Therapist PhysioSports - Dawn Utstein, New York Sherril Hulett and Associates, Cape Town, South Africa

####Education 1985 – 1991 University of Cape Town Bachelor degree in Botany + Physiotherapy

####Interests Health, joy, learning, dogs, photography, hacking, making, baking, geometry and the great outdoors