XIBO EXCARNATE
OBJECTIVE:
I want to be the technical, outside member of the Board of Directors
of several New York City startups.
EXPERIENCE:
- 1998-now President, Coates
Computer Consulting Company
- Formed a small business to help wall street firms
with large problems.
Work includes infrastructure management, disaster recovery, UNIX
systems administration, web development, database administration,
network architecture, and porting/improving java, perl, and C
code... all for a better tomorrow.
No Windows crap-- we'll leave that for children.
- 1997-1998 Manager of UNIX Systems Administration and Web
Development at
Gruntal & Co. LLC
- Introduced advanced technologies and leveraged them to make a
competitive advantage in an industry full of laggards. Built an
intranet application to view graphs of systems performance time series
data generated in real time using perl/CGI and gnuplot. Designed and
developed a web-enabled helpdesk problem tracking database
using Sybase, perl, CGI, and Apache. Oh, and there was a couple
of PeopleSoft Financials projects in there, too.
- 1994-1997 Corporate Vice President at PaineWebber, Inc.
- Coordinated the activities of over 1000 UNIX servers. Kept them in good health.
Performed hundreds of interviews with computer professionals and built a collection
of some of the best on Wall Street. Watched enough CPU cycles go to waste to make
any researcher go ill. Fought many political battles and threatened to quit and leave to
take a job at a firm where people care about technology. Made Microsoft worshipers
extremely upset by winning a major UNIX vs. NT battle.
- 1993 Consultant
- Managed the computers and the growth of an exciting R&D department in a large
computer firm. Helped the department grow from 100 computer systems and 70
people to 200 computer systems and 115 people. Built computers out of pieces
because the firm would not properly fund the project. This project collapsed and
folded several months after my departure due to lack of funding.
- 1990-1993 Senior Systems Analyst at The University of Arizona
- Worked with the founding father of Experimental Economics to create several
different kinds of trading market simulations
(including Preference Reversal experiments). Wrote client/server applications and
internet-based services years before anyone had even heard of the World Wide Web.
Co-developed TeenyMud, an internet-based user-extensible text adventure game and
virtual reality environment. Created CyberMarket, a prototype internet-based
double-auction trading market.
- 1987-1989 Programmer/Analyst at New Mexico Tech
- Optimized existing source code and wrote new programs for the senior scientist at the
Terminal Effects Research and Analysis group, a DoD sub-contractor and part of the
school (they have since changed their name to
EMRTC --as seen on CNN). Did
research with
mathematical models in 2D and 3D fluid dynamics, smoothed particle hydrodynamics,
and multi-material eulerian hydrodynamics. Used smarter programming methods and
mathematical techniques to speed up the calculations. Studied time series analysis.
Realized no one is doing this level of calculations in the financial world.
EDUCATION:
- 1990 M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona.
- 1989 B.S. in Mathematics, New Mexico Tech.
- Various other studies, including Series 7 courses, over a decade of reading the financial papers,
watching financial TV, reading dozens of books on investments, trading, markets, and so on.
- Special interests include computational finance, time series analysis, derivatives, and
quantitative analysis.
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