Larry Severin	

severin@surfside.net	

C / C++  Visual Basic  Java  XML / J2EE  SQL 
Windows  Unix  Embedded Firmware  AI / Expert Systems  GUIs  Law

Experience
1997–2002	Odetics, Inc. / Silent Witness Enterprises, Ltd.	Anaheim, CA
Senior Software Engineer
•	Maintained remote access software written in MFC Visual C++ for Windows, bundled for sale with our GYYR digital video recorders sold around the world. Enhanced this communications & display application to use low-level data from our non-Windows-format hard drives, CDs, and tapes to display video by directly accessing PC SCSI and IDE hardware. Received bonus for my exceptional on-schedule performance.
•	Programmed embedded C near-real-time firmware for Unix/Posix using QNX Neutrino.
•	Sole software developer for Tango, an economical Internet video server and device controller. Performed requirements analysis, design, planning, and complete ISO-9000 implementation of all software. Built the embedded servlets and web pages to display live video, plus additional applets, ActiveX controls, and Windows applications using Java, Visual C++, Visual Basic and HTML/JavaScript.
•	Sole developer for Installpro-TLC, bundled for commercial sale with our timelapse video cassette recorders to configure, edit, and control VCRs from the PC serial port using Visual C++ and Visual Basic.
•	Built Enterprise Java Beans to serve map data for San Diego Corridor project. This application used J2EE to provide an XML/SOAP fault-tolerant web service for displaying maps and routes to in-vehicle motorists.
•	Built database applications that use Oracle, SQL Server, Access, and Ingres to track road conditions.

1988–1997	Rockwell International	Anaheim, CA
Member of Technical Staff					Clearance: DOD Secret
•	Lead software engineer at Transportation Systems to develop new programs for Windows to capture and display sensor data from the TraffiCam aboveground vehicle detection system. 
•	Software team leader; analyzed and wrote requirements, design, and all PC-based software, communications, databases, maps, manuals and on-line help; selected and procured software development tools; and assisted with customer proposals, installation, support and training.  My small team won the 1995 Rockwell Chairman's Team Award.
•	Researched and developed vision algorithms for an embedded, in-vehicle rear-facing baby seat detector to disable the air bag and to warn drowsy drivers about lane deviation (Lane Tracker).
•	Built Windows and embedded applications that use GPS, cell phones, wireless modems, relational databases and commercial maps to track vehicles and provide in-vehicle route guidance for a fleet of airport shuttles (Fleetmaster).  
•	Knowledge engineer for Strategic Systems. Implemented and delivered several expert systems to U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and Royal Australian Navy. 
•	Performed research into circuitry diagnosis, path planning, mine detection and sonar classification using artificial intelligence and neural net algorithms. Project manager leading three other programmers; selected and purchased all development hardware and software; wrote requirements, design, and user's guide documents; managed team members and developed multi-platform software emphasizing graphical user interfaces, knowledge representation, and databases; acquired knowledge from multi-discipline domain experts; Rockwell Mentor for Systems Engineering Mentor Program; and gave formal briefings to military customers across the country.
•	Member of special task force to assess expert systems for NASA Mission Control.
•	Rockwell Defense Electronics Engineering Innovator-of-the-Month, 12/92 (built an expert systems shell).
Larry Severin

1987–1988	University of Southern California	Marina Del Rey, CA
Computer Scientist
•	Member of team lead by Professor Bob Balzar at the Information Sciences Institute to perform basic research into automatic software development and object-oriented databases.

1983–1987	TRW	Redondo Beach, CA
Member of Technical Staff					Clearance: DOD Secret, CIA WNINTEL
•	Member of team to propose, design, and implement a Lisp-based system to intelligently plan dailly resources used in U.S. Air Force tactical strategy (TEMPLAR). Performed research into data fusion methods for assessing incomplete or unreliable tactical intelligence reports for U.S. Army (DACORR). 
•	Co-authored paper entitled Knowledge-Based System for Tactical Intelligence Data Reduction and Exploitation, presented to the 1985 AFCEA AI Conferences in New Jersey and Belgium.

1981–1983	Hughes Aircraft Co.	Fullerton, CA
Member of Technical Staff					Clearance: DOD Secret
•	Hired as part-time Engineering Student; promoted to MTS. Programmed and documented compilers and simulators using Fortran and Pascal on VAX/VMS for an embedded signal processor.

Education
2002	Pacific Coast University	Long Beach, CA
Juris Doctor
•	Graduated with Distinction, salutatorian (second in class). Member of CA Bar.
1987	UCLA	Los Angeles, CA
Master of Science in Computer Science
•	Thesis entitled Parallel Execution of Prolog Programs.
•	Listed as a computer science expert by TASA technical referral service.
1982	Cal. State U. Long Beach	Long Beach, CA
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
•	Major in Computer Science and Engineering. Minor in Mathematics.
•	Member of honor societies Tau Beta Pi (engineering) and Eta Kappa Nu (electrical engineering).
•	Attended courses on project management and software development at TRW, Rockwell and Odetics.