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910 Fair Oaks Avenue
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Home: (708) 386-4150
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Oak Park, IL 60302
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Cell: (708) 704-9690
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Email: pete@prokopowicz.org
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Pete
Prokopowicz is a leading software engineer and entrepreneur. He has made major technical contributions at
renowned R&D organizations and universities over the last 20 years. He co-founded the internet software company
Perceptual Robotics, Inc., and sold it after six years of growth. He is currently a senior developer in the
High Frequency Equity trading group with Citadel Investment Group.
Experience
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Senior Developer, Citadel
Investment Group
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2004-current
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- Member
of small, talented high-frequency equity trading team.
- Implemented
proprietary high-frequency trading strategies.
- Developed
and maintained market-data feed software.
- Maintained and enhanced
market and client gateway software.
- Developed compiler
enhancements and system-level libraries to enhance performance.
- Ported trading platform to
64-bit environment.
- FIX,
Market Data Feeds, Cameron, C, C++, ACE, perl, ksh, IA32 assembler, SQL, Sybase, Oracle TimesTen, Tibco, Solaris,
Linux, Windows.
- Graduate-level course work in
Financial Engineering with University of Chicago
faculty.
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Consultant, PNP Video Software
Associates
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2003-2004
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- Developed
custom internet video software
- Consulted
on server farm design and deployment
- Customers
include Silk Road Technologies and Hard Rock Hotel.
- Java,
JSP, C/C++, JPEG/M-JPEG/MPEG, XML, J2EE, J2ME.
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Chief Technology Officer, Perceptual Robotics, Inc.
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1996-2003
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Corporate leadership:
- Principal
Investigator for National Science Foundation SBIR start-up grant.
- Established
technical credibility to raise $20 million in venture capital.
- Recruited
and managed technical staff of 23, with outstanding Ph.D. and MS/CS team.
- Oversaw
internal and external technical operations ($3 million per year).
- Assisted
in recruiting all senior management in sales, marketing, consulting, and
finance.
- Finalist
for CTO of the year award, Chicago Software Association, 2001.
- Numerous
local and national presentations and significant press exposure.
Software technology leadership:
- Invented
user-controlled web camera in 1994.
- Seven
years as chief architect for world’s leading web camera software maker.
- Designed
and implemented first two versions of TrueLook
client, server, video, and robotics code.
- Led
design and development of TrueLook rewrites
using Microsoft ISAPI and Java/JSP.
- Led product re-design to support software delivery as a
shared, hosted service.
- Negotiated
access to engineering prototypes and support from Sony, Canon, JVC, Axis, Ultrak, Matrox, and others.
Operations and consulting leadership:
- Designed and led deployment
of scalable web server farm, using high-density Sun servers, Network
Appliance, Oracle 8i, and Linux, at Exodus facilities.
- Managed 24x7 rapid response
support team.
- Led consulting and on-site
operations effort for many high-profile, deadline-driven client events,
including Detroit, New York, and Chicago Auto Shows; professional and
college stadiums; major league championship webcasts;
large auto dealers, military, construction, and manufacturing sites.
Technical and commercial highlights:
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1996
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World’s first commercial
Internet camera: the Oshkosh Air Show with partner MSN.
Intercam 1.0, one of earliest software products
with server-side java technology.
First
Grand Slam Tennis webcasts, with partner IBM.
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1997
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All java, adaptive bandwidth
streaming video.
Early commercial servlet, later featured at Sun’s JavaOne
conference.
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1998
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Official NBA Finals and All-Star
game webcasts.
First
retail e-commerce site to employ live images: galleryfurniture.com.
First live showroom with
e-commerce partner IBM: danier.com.
First live video content management system (web camera portal).
Nagano Olympic
webcast
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1999
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Major League Baseball All-Star
Game and World Series.
Main stage presenter at DEMO conference (also 2000, 2002).
NASA
cameras at Antarctica, Cape
Kennedy, Hubble Laboratory.
TrueLook version 4, using Java/JSP 1.0.
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2000
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Development of wireless robotic
web camera appliance.
Sydney Olympics webcast.
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2001
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PGA Tour, Masters Tournament webcasts.
First phone-based control and display of Internet camera.
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2002
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Development of linux-based camera management appliance.
Salt Lake City Olympics webcast
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Patents:
- Method and System for Preserving and Communicating Live
Views of a Remote Physical Location over a Computer Network, US Patent 6625812
- Visual Navigation History, US
Patent App US53601, filed 03/01
- Camera
Network Management System, US Patent App US53504, filed 09/00
- Method
and Apparatus for Remote Location Shopping over a Computer Network, US
Patent App US53448, filed 07/99.
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President, Co-founder, NetHomes, Inc.
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1996-1997
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- Conceived,
developed, and deployed one of the earliest automated web hosting
services.
- Designed
a browser-based web site publisher; implemented in perl
CGI
- Small
business and consumer clients generating revenue from 1995 to 1997.
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Research Scientist, University of Chicago,
Department of Computer Science
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1994-1997
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- Participated
in DARPA and NASA funded research in robot vision, manipulation, and
navigation.
- Created
LabCam, the first live Internet camera.
- Developed
Gargoyle, a Java/C real-time distributed image-processing environment for
research.
- Invented
high-accuracy recognition, tracking, and grasping algorithms for robots.
- Participated
annually in international robotics competitions and exhibitions.
- Supervised
research projects of four Ph.D. students.
- Prepared
and taught original graduate course in autonomous robotics.
- Published
and presented research on robotic navigation, visual tracking, task
planning, etc.
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Research Assistant,
Northwestern University
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1989-1994
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- Equipped and operated the Intelligent Perception
and Action Lab, a vision and robotics research laboratory, under Dr. Paul
Cooper.
- Created Vislab, an
object-oriented vision, robotics, and machine learning software
environment.
- Published and presented research on biological
contrast and motion detection, Markov Random Fields for pattern
recognition, perceptual integration across eye movements, high-level
reasoning in computer vision, etc.
- Published an invited book review in Artificial
Intelligence.
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Member Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs, Network Technology Dept.
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1985-1989
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- Responsible
for development and testing of network software across all Bell Labs
locations.
- Led
testing and deployment of Portable Distributed UNIX (PDU), an early
distributed UNIX.
- Designed
and implemented DIPSTC, a UNIX kernel module for routing IP over virtual
circuits.
- Three
time recipient of Exceptional Contribution Award.
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Systems Programming Intern, Merit
Network, Inc., Ann
Arbor, MI
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1984-1985
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- Implemented
ICMP support for first Internet gateway deployed in Michigan,
connecting three
universities to ARPANET. Developed
in PDP-11 assembly language.
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Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
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1983-1985
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- Taught
undergraduate Computer Science courses in programming. Responsibilities included
lecturing, designing software assignments, and supervising course graders.
Education
1989-1994 Northwestern University, Ph.D. Computer Science
Thesis: Perceptual Integration Across
Eye Movements in Visual Robots
Royal E. Cabell Fellowship, Graham Fellowship. ACM Doctoral Dissertation
Award Nominee.
GPA 4.0/4.0
1983-1985 University of Michigan, M.S.
Computer Science
GPA: 7.9/8.0.
1979-1983 University of Michigan, B.S.
with Honors, Mathematics and Computer Science
Class Honors, 1980-1983, William J. Branstrom
Freshman Prize, National Merit Semi-Finalist.
Personal
Married, with one child. Interests include
digital photography, chess, astronomy, gardening, running, and cooking.