Edward G. Heflin
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OBJECTIVE
To provide outstanding technology services requiring strong communication, quantitative, and technical abilities specifically in development and application of autonomous, intelligent computer solutions.
EXPERIENCE
iCognate, Inc., New York, NY
9/00 to 9/01
Advanced computer technology company developing and commercialization artificial cognition technologies for applications to personal computers.
CEO & Founder: Strategized and converted Market Solutions Company (below) to advanced software technology company.
- Sales & Marketing : Developed web site, employee-client sales scripts, company presentations,
and all marketing materials.
- Product Development : Designed and directed development of all iCognate products:
iNterAct™, iSearch™,
iWork™, and iTrade™.
- Technology Development : Developed web site, employee-client sales scripts, company presentations, and all marketing materials. Conceived, programmed, and implemented proprietary meta-language parsing and sentential recognition system
Artificial Cognition Engine (ACE). Integrated e-mail (MAPI), telephone (TAPI), and speech (SAPI) technologies with ACE.
The Capital Markets
Company, New York, NY
8/99 to 9/00
New, global financial services consulting firm specializing in advanced strategic and technological solutions for the capital markets.
Senior Consultant: Developed and implemented technology solutions for the Capital Markets Company and clients.
- Research Team : Member of
the Critical Research Team specializing in eCommerce, EAI, and Risk Management
Research.
- Risk Management System : Design, creation, and implementation of integrated mid market risk
management system.
- E-Commerce Solutions : Designed and developed Intelligent Agent framework for e-Commerce solutions.
Market Solutions Company, Pittsburgh, PA
1/99 to 9/00
Specialized software firm producing and marketing integrated risk management systems for application to mid-sized banks and utility companies.
CEO & Founder: Developed and implemented technology solutions for the Capital Markets Company and clients.
- Executive Team : Directed
executive team responsible for strategic plan and product development
direction.
- Risk Management System : Designed, created, and implemented integrated mid market risk management system (VaR
Manager).
PNC
Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
5/98 to 5/99
PNC Bank is the largest regional bank, ranking 11 in the nation, highly respected for its strong customer focus with assets of over $73 billion.
Director in Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Trading: Traded and hedged for the PNC derivative portfolio as well as researched and developed pricing models for equity derivatives
trading.
- Professional Qualifications : Passed Series 7 and Series 23 (NYSE/NASD and PA Registered Representative
Exams).
- Project Development : Researched and developed pricing models for equity derivatives trading and
front office systems.
- Trading Management : Traded and hedged for PNC Swaps Portfolio.
Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS), Tokyo, Japan
7/94 to 7/96
ISAS is a premier developer of aerospace technology with over 1,000 employees and a budget of $300 million.
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow: Responsible for performing research and project management as a member of a Japanese collaboration. Conducted responsibilities in Japanese.
- Leadership : Led team of 5 Japanese research students in a scientific
collaboration.
- Implementation : Created
key analog and digital systems for 150% increase in quality of data.
- Solutions : Programmed
advanced data software solution with over 5,000 lines of code.
- Coordination : Performed multiple tasks initiating, evaluating, and publishing research.
European Center for Particle Physics Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
5/89 to 5/93
CERN is operated by a consortium of 19 European countries and has over 10,000 associates with an annual budget in excess of $700 million. CERN boasts 5 Nobel Prize Recipients and is the originator of the World Wide Web.
CERN Research Associate: Responsible for performing research in a collaboration of scientists and engineers from America, Europe, and Asia. Conducted all responsibilities in French, German, and English.
- Communication : Conducted research in an international scientific collaboration of 376 members.
- Operations : Implemented
dual CPU system resulting in 200% increase in efficiency for data acquisition.
- Analysis : Developed software to analyze over 100 Gbytes of data from the
OPAL detector
operation.
- Publications : Completed original research for doctoral thesis and co-authored 132
publications.
OTHER WORK
Strategic Energy Limited (SEL) - Energy Systems Developer, 1997.
University of Maryland - Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, 1994.
Kaplan Test Preparation Services - Senior Instructor, 1993.
Columbia University/Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) - Research Assistant, 1985-1987.
Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory (LBNL) -
LBNL Research Assistant, 1984.
State of California - Licensed Real Estate Broker.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
- Operating Systems : Apple/MacOS 8.0, DOS, Windows 3.X, 95/98/00/NT, Linux, SunOS 4.X,
VAX/VMS
- Languages (2GL-3GL) : Assembler
8086/486, Cobol, FORTRAN, Lisp,
Pascal, Visual Basic
- Languages (3GL-5GL) : Java/Java++, C/C++, FoxPro, ActiveX, SAPI, ATL, MFC,
COM, DCOM
- Editor Tools : SGML, TeX, LaTeX, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Project,
Emacs, Pico, HomeSite 4.5
- Applications : MS Excel, Outlook, Explorer,
and Visio, Lingo, Lindo, Mathematica, MATLIB, UML
- Networking : Apache HTTPD, PHP, FTP,
SLIP/PPP, TCP/IP, SMTP, MAPI, TAPI
- Internet : XML,
D/HTML, Java Applets, JavaScript, VBScript, CGI, Perl 5, C#, MS ASP
- Web Tools : Photoshop 6.0, MS Frontpage 2000, Macromedia Flash 5 and
Dreamweaver 4.0, Microsoft
- DataBase : mySQL, MS Access, SQL, and SQL Server, DB2, Oracle 8i, JDBC, ODBC
EDUCATION
OTHER INFORMATION
Enjoy skiing, ice hockey, museums, foreign languages, comedy, and reading.
Varying fluency in Chinese, English,
French, German,
Italian, Japanese,
Russian, and Spanish.
Copyright © 2002 Edward G. Heflin. All Rights Reserved.
This page was last updated on Saturday, September 04, 2004