September 1 , 2003

Roy Feldman, Chief Software Architect, Software Quality Assurance Manager, and Business Development Executive, Mustang Technologies.

Roy Feldman has twenty years of experience as a software engineer, software architect, entrepreneur and computer scientist. As a technical manager and architect, he has helped both large corporations and startups develop complex applications. As a software engineer, he has developed several commercial software products. As a computer scientist, he has published papers in major conferences and has consulted with government and commercial research institutions.

His experience with Object Oriented techniques and technologies goes back to 1984, when he joined a pioneering software tools company called IntelliCorp. Ten years later, IntelliCorp became one of the founding contributors to UML 1.0 and UML 1.1.

EXPERIENCE

Before moving to Thailand in 2001, he held the position of Lead Technologist for Viant, a leading multinational web services firm with headquarters in Boston, Ma, USA. He was recruited by a former colleague who was one of the co-Founders of Viant in 1997, soon after it was created. 3 years later, Viant was listed on Business Week's "Info Tech 100" and Forbes top 20 “best-managed, fastest-growing tech companies.”

Throughout his tenure at Viant, he was a major contributor to the definition of Viant's consulting process and methodology for all of its technical consultants. In particular, he worked to integrate elements of the Rational Unified Process into Viant's overall consulting service delivery model.

He was also a principal contributor in several major client projects, including Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Informix, and Ralph Lauren. In addition, he contributed to the successful development of two Internet startups within Viant.

The last project he lead at Viant was for a startup company called Ecast . As the technical architect, he led a team of developers to create the Ecast network of digital music and game devices that are being deployed in bars and restaurants the USA and Japan. The Ecast network, similar in some respects to a network of ATM’s or interactive kiosks, continuously services its devices by delivering customized content and applications, collecting transaction and usage data, and monitoring system performance. Ecast devices utilize the latest software technologies to present users with a wide selection of music, games, and web browsing. Integrated in each device are capabilities for reading credit cards, accepting bills and coins, touch sensitive screens, and infrared controls. The Ecast network has been operating commercially since January 2000.

The first startup company he worked for at Viant was Sputnik7 , one of the first interactive streaming music video stations. His role was to design and develop the Sputnk7 content management and content programming system. Sputnik7 won an 1999 NewMedia Invision Award of Excellence in Entertainment, took the Gold Medal as top Streaming Media site, and was nominated for a Webby in Entertainment

Prior to Viant, he worked for three years, 1994-1997, as an independent software consultant specializing in object-oriented (OO) software analysis & design. His clients were large corporations, which he trained software development groups to improve their software productivity. His clients included companies such as Nippon Life Insurance , Banco Serfin (a major Mexican-based bank), and CNA Insurance.

From 1984 to 1994, he held several senior positions at one of the leading Object Oriented software product companies , IntelliCorp. IntelliCorp was one of founding contributors to UML 1.0 specification. At IntelliCorp, his primary roles were technical lead architect/senior engineer, senior scientist, and application consultant.

As a technical architect/engineer, he led a team of engineers to develop one of the first interactive OO development environments, Knowledge Engineering Environment ("KEE"). Later, he contributed to the development of IntelliCorp's second generation OO development tool Kappa and its companion OO case tool, Object Management Workbench (OMW).

As an application consultant, he developed custom OO applications in a variety of domains. The clients included companies such as GM Technology Center, Navistar, Cincinnati Bell, Intel, NTT (Nippon Telephone & Telegraph), Nomura Securities, and Arthur Andersen Advanced Technology Group.

As a research scientist, he participated in research projects in collaboration with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration).

Before joining IntelliCorp, he worked from 1983-1984 for a small software company called The Soft Warehouse, which was under contract to develop products for Microsoft Corp. He was a major contributor to the development of the muLISP which was then distributed as Microsoft LISP..

PUBLICATIONS

Admissible Criteria for Loop Control in Planning
Feldman, R., and Morris, P.

Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence
Boston, 1990.

Using the Transformational Paradigm: A Case Study
Feldman, R. Filman, R., and Bock, C.

Workshop on Industrial Experience using Formal Methods
IEEE Twelfth Conference on Software Engineering
Nice, France, 1990.

Compiling Knowledge-Based Systems specified in KEE to ADA.
Filman, R., Bock, C., and Feldman, R.

Fifth National Conference on AI for Space Applications
Huntsville Alabama, 1990.

Automatically Derived Heuristics for Planning Search.
Morris, P. and Feldman, R.

Springer Verlag - British Computer Society Workshop Series
Dublin, Ireland, 1989.

Design of a Dependency Directed Compiler for Constraint Propagation
Feldman, R.
First International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of AI & Expert Systems, June 1-3, 1988
Tullahoma, TN, USA, Volume 1. ACM

EDUCATION
He studied Math and Computer Science at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.