Rocky Nevin, Ph.D.
CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Address: 1414 Campus Drive, Berkeley, California 94708-2006 USA
Email: RNevin@DataSea.com http://www.DataSea.com
Phone: 510-981-1084
JOB FOCUS
Finding original solutions to hard problems, emphasizing information technology.
Prefer small groups looking for
new options and solutions.
Analysis and execution of the client's
problems from executive-level strategies, to system-integration, to
the coding-level and packet analysis; getting things to work with
attention to usability and the big picture while minimizing
disruption and expense.
QUALIFICATIONS
Strong technical, scientific, security and systems-integration background.
Successes in large projects taken on at IBM, UC Berkeley, MicroUnity, DataSea, involving designing, building and supporting:
a neural-like information fusion and inferencing engine with natural-language, spoken interface (DataSea, Inc.);
"The most sophisticated CIM system I've ever seen" -- John Malone, then-CEO of TCI, referring to the Virtual Reality CIM system (Computer Integrated Manufacturing), which ran MicroUnity's Sunnyvale wafer-fab;
the most accurate neural-mapping system of its time (UC Berkeley, Miller lab);
a disk-drive transfer-function-analysis data acquisition and analysis system for IBM's then-premier mainframe storage system.
Hands-on at all levels:
analysis, design, team-building, implementation, security, support.
Congenial and good listener: Enjoy
reading and understanding personalities as well as spec'ing/building
high-performance servers.
Comfortable under pressure. Love to
design and execute truly new projects, give them life and keep them
vigorous.
Broad background: Biophysicist, international
award-winning pianist, photographer & artist.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-2011(present) Co-founder, President & CEO of DataSea Inc.
DataSea is an information system modeled on real neural networks. It solves the two problems of joining disparate data into one whole, and extracting long chains of relationships in one step, with natural language syntax.
1997-2010 Consulting, Development, Security
Consulting for custom development shops and private clients.
1991-1996 Senior Technical Staff, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Sunnyvale CA
Reporting to the Director of Technology: Designed, implemented and managed the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM-3D) software for a $100M wafer fabrication facility at MicroUnity Systems Engineering. A 3D pseudo virtual reality front-end, SQL back-end controlling the fab. Wrote all the C/GL code, administered Sybase SQL Server and Unix systems initially. Ref: www.Tallis.com/Fab.Brochure.html
1989 - 1991 Staff Scientist, IBM, Palo Alto Scientific Center
Supported and extended the use of my Ph.D. thesis software (neural modeling) in universities. In addition, analyzed and developed distributed computing applications resulting in an IBM publication and prototype software.
1980 - 1989 IBM San Jose Product Measurement and Analysis Lab, part-time
Designer and writer of special test projects in the Product Measurement and Analysis lab.
1979 - 1980 IBM San Jose, Failure Analysis Engineer
Failure analysis of the main-frame disk storage device, the "3380".
TECHNOLOGIES
Linux, Cloud computing, SQL, Virtual Reality, Juniper ScreenOS, Java[-Script], HTML, C, Perl, PHP, Python, Apache, IDS/IPS (Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems), threat assessment and forensics, systems and hardware integration, network management
HIGHER EDUCATION
1979 – 1989 UC Berkeley. Ph.D. BioPhysics
Ph.D. dissertation "Morphological Analysis of Neurons in the Cricket Cercal System" used computer assisted data acquisition and analysis to correlate form (morphology) and function in the wind-sensing neural network of the cricket.
1972 - 1978 Stanford, UC Berkeley. B.A. Physics
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INTERESTS
Classical Pianist: Winner of Best Baroque and Romantic Performance awards at international piano amateur competitions at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, in Washington DC and Colorado
Portrait Photography
Painting
Updated April 6, 2011
