Aaron C. Birenboim

                             1248 Princeton NE
                       Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106
                               (505) 350-1996
                            aaron@birenboim.com

Objective:

     Work in software development, real-time/embedded systems,
     signal processing, systems administration or computer systems
     engineering work which can be performed, at least in part,
     from Albuquerque, NM.

Experience:

     4/01 to  Contract Software Engineer
     present
              Upgrades and maintenance of data acquisition and data
              analysis software in IDL, PV-Wave, Perl, C and C++ under
              Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, LINUX, VxWorks and Windows at White Sands
              Missile Range with Applied Technology Associates.

              Developing laser data analysis application in IDL for
              Boeing-SVS.

     10/00 to Signal Processing Engineer, Blue Spike
     6/01
              Developed digital image watermarking algorithms in C++, C and
              IDL under Windows and Linux.
              Developed numerical algorithms to improve existing audio
              watermarking software in C++.

              Developed real-time data acquisition software under Linux.
              Designed and prototyped Postgres database system and
              interfaces under Linux.

     7/00 to  Senior Software Developer, Essential Communications
     10/00
              Maintainance of device drivers for HIPPI networking cards
              under Solaris and AIX.
              Research for prototype hardware selection to develop next
              generation networking cards.

     3/95 to  Applied Technology Associates
     7/00
              1/00 to Signal Analyst, Reflective Tomography Imaging Program
              7/00
                      Refined algorithms for processing of LaDAR signals
                      for imaging application. Software developed in IDL
                      and C.

                      Continue to provide development and maintenance
                      support for data analysis under Solaris, and
                      real-time control systems development in VxWorks for
                      HABE/ATP project (described below).

              5/99 to Computer Scientist, Adaptive Optics
              12/99
                      Developed real-time systems for data acquisition and
                      control of Adaptive Optics. Systems implemented in a
                      VME environment using custom real-time hardware and
                      embedded array processors hosted under SunOS.
                      Programming was done in C, controlled by a Motif GUI.
                      Test and prototype systems developed under Windows in
                      Visual C++. Data analysis software developed in
                      MatLab.

              3/95 to Systems Analyst, High Altitude Balloon Experiment (HABE)
              5/99
                      Developed real-time systems for data acquisition and
                      feedback control systems in VxWorks and parallelC.
                      Developed software for the analysis and
                      characterization of video streams and control
                      systems. Developed software and procedures for data
                      acquisition and management. Design and development of
                      of WWW systems.

                      Provided software development and maintenance support
                      for a similar data analysis and management system
                      installed at WSMR.

     8/94 to  Software Developer, Zirkle Wells Software Group
     2/95         (Sold to SkyConnect which was sold to NCUBE)

              C and C++ programming, MPEG-2 systems coding standards,
              Novell UNIXWare administration, Informix DBA

     5/91 to  MTS Math/CS, Hughes Information Technology Corp.
     8/94         (Now Raytheon Information Technology Company)

              Earth-location and radiometric calibration of meteorological
              satellite data;
              satellite data cartography; data fusion; satellite
              astrodynamics and navigation problems;
              image restoration, and image compression.

     9/89 to  Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech
     12/90    Department of Electrical Engineering

              Research in neural networks and stochastic process parameter
              estimation.
              Teaching Assignments : electromagnetics laboratory, data
              structures in C

     1/88 to  MTS, The Aerospace Corporation
     8/89     Signal Processing Department

              Projects included : digital image compression, feature
              extraction for pattern recognition,
              shock spectra analysis, CCD fidelity analysis, and optical
              sensor simulation.

Education:

     9/89 to Georgia Institute of Technology
     12/90   M.S., School of Electrical Engineering  GPA 3.7
             Major : Digital Signal Processing

     9/85 to University of Southern California
     5/89    B.S.E.E., Cum Laude                     GPA 3.8

Computer Skills:

     Expertise in C++, C, perl, HTML, CGI, UNIX, Embedded Systems, and
     VxWorks. Highly skilled with a variety of analysis and visualization
     tools such as IDL, PV-Wave, Matlab, Mathematica. Well grounded in
     software engineering practices and Object Oriented design. Familiarity
     with many other operating systems and programming languages.

Publications and Awards:

     Awarded ATA Technical Employee of the Year, 1998.

     ``Performance of Data Compression Applied to Satellite Data'',
     American Meteorological Society proceedings, 1992 conference.

     ``Principle Components based clustering for vector quantization of
     color images'',
     Cleared for publication by Hughes Aircraft

Security : DoD Secret, SSBI debriefed 8/94