Leonid Furman
Email: lfurman@usc.edu
Phone: [Send email to request phone number] 31-8735
Education
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics of Computation
Relevant Coursework
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Artificial Intelligence, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
Machine Learning, Algorithms Design, Computer Security, Cryptography, Database
Systems, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Compilers Design.
Technical Skills
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J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, JNI, XML, Swing, AWT, Web Services); Frameworks
(Struts, Hibernate 3.0, iBatis, Spring, Open Laszlo); C# (C-sharp), ASP.NET;
C/C++ (TCP/IP, UDP, OpenGL). JavaScript, VBScript, ASP; HTML/DHTML/CSS; Perl/CGI,
PHP; SQL; Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (UML, OMT). Oracle 9i; MS SQL
Server 2000/2005; MySQL. Unix (Free BSD, Linux 6.2, HP-UX 11), Windows
NT/95/98/2000/XP; Macintosh; MS-DOS. Weblogic 8.1; Apache Tomcat 4.0 and 5.0;
JRun 4.0; JBoss 3.2.2. Java IDE (Netbeans 3.6 and 4.0; Borland JBuilder 7.0;
IntelliJ IDEA 4.5, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0; Eclipse 3.0). WinCVS, Visual Source Safe.
Visual Studio .Net; Visual Studio 6.0; Visual Studio 2005. Poseidon for UML;
Microsoft Visio. MS Office 2000/2003/XP (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point).
Professional Summary
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Accomplished Java/J2EE Developer with extensive related experience. Highlights
include:
Extensive working knowledge and coding experience with Java/J2EE.
Strong hands-on experience with EJB, Hibernate, Servlets, Struts, JSP, and
JDBC.
Well-versed with Eclipse, Netbeans, Apache Tomcat, and Web Services.
Well-versed with Object Oriented modular design, utilizing re-factoring and
pragmatic programming methods.
Good working knowledge of source control systems such as CVS, along with strong
debugging/testing skills.
Good working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript programming.
Experience
5square Corporation, Westlake Village, CA
03/2008 - Present
Senior Software Engineer, Java
Developed workflow solutions to optimize a dealership's sales process.
Utilized Java Spring framework to control the data flow in the system; stored
and maintained the data in Oracle 10g database.
Softbrands Corporation, Lake Forest, CA
1/2006 - 6/2007
Software Engineer, Java/J2EE
Worked with various technologies, including: JSP 2.0, Struts, Servlets, Java
Beans, Spring, Ibatis, and SQL Server 2000 (stored procedures, migrations
scripts, triggers, views, etc).
Designed and implemented the web based Property Management System utilizing Java
Spring framework on the backend in combination with OpenLaszlo framework for
animated presentation.
Designed and developed the web interface for hotels to create package plans and
property rate plans, as well as offer promotions. Struts framework was used to
control the data flow, and the rate plans were stored in the MS SQL 2000
database.
Designed and implemented the tools for automatic build and deployment to
distributed environments. These tools generated build and installation scripts
and executed them in a timely fashion.
Executed the release of candidate builds.
Configured Windows and UNIX-based environment to accommodate the technical
requirements for software product installation and upgrade.
Developed automated deployment scripts.
Troubleshot bug reports for production alerts.
Sustain Technologies, Los Angeles, CA
12/2004 - 09/2005
Software Engineer, Java/J2EE (contract)
Designed and developed configurable applications for Case Management system
using Java. This software product allows legal assistants to initiate and modify
the case, as well as view it in a desirable way.
Worked heavily with the following technologies: Swing, XML, EJB, Apache Axis Web
Services, Applets, Java Web Start, Hibernate 3.0, and Spring framework.
Developed web based Administration interface for creating and updating super
codes for the Case Management system. The pages for this interface were built
using JSP and Struts technologies.
Designed and developed applications for storing and updating core metadata
entities in the system, including the relationship among entities.
Process Claims, Manhattan Beach, CA
10/2002 - 12/2004
Software Engineer
Developed business solutions for insurance companies which enabled web based
claim processing.
Implemented solutions using Microsoft .Net platform and C# programming language
along with ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, and MS SQL 2000 database.
UCLA Financial Aid Office, Los Angeles, CA
6/2001- 9/2002
Web Developer
Designed and developed the web application for electronic delivery of the
Financial Aid Notification Letters.
Designed and developed the summer financial aid application for students.
Developed and maintained the Work Study Job Website for UCLA students and staff
members.
Developed and implemented online resume builder.
Wrote all applications in ASP utilizing VBScript, Windows NT Server and MS
Access 2000 database on the server-side, and HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript on the
client-side.
Netvolution.com, Los Angeles, CA
1/2000 - 2/2001
Web Programmer
Created commercial web sites using shopping cart technology. Used Perl/CGI, PHP
on the server side, JavaScript and Java applets on the client-side.
Designed and developed chat program for commercial web sites utilizing Java
language. Multithreading, Sockets, I/O streams and AWT were utilized in the
development.
Academic Data Mining Experience
"Using machine learning techniques to play Connect Four game." In this project,
investigated various learning algorithms for computer to find the perfect moves
in many different board configurations, and compared the results with the optimal
solution.
Using Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing to translate from Chinese
to English text." In this project, applied the Expectation-Maximization algorithm
to find the correspondence between the sequence of characters in Chinese and
English. The final step was to generate a probabilistic transducer for
translating the larger amount of text. |
