Douglas B. Shore

N Space Algorithmic, Brooklyn, NY
(formerly Minehardt-Shore Algorithmic LLC, Austin, TX)(2010 - present)

Co-founded with Dr. Todd J. Minehardt, former quantitative analyst for RGM Advisors, LLC, Austin, TX.

A proprietary trading firm implementing automated strategies using machine learning and other signal processing techniques in a custom software environment.

Founder/Quantitative Analyst

Responsible for the architecture and coding of an automated trading and analysis platform primarily using Python/MySQL. The platform utilizes Interactive Brokers' API for trade execution and high resolution historical data collection. The database management and signal preprocessing modules implement a variety of asset classes including automated support for futures contract rolling. Analysis support relies on NumPy/SciPy and matplotlib for N-dimensional array manipulation and linear algebra. (Python, NumPy/SciPy, Java, MySQL)

N Space Labs Inc., Brooklyn, NY(2001 - present)

Provides professional services and develops software on specification related to information management and data visualization.

Founder/CEO

Currently sole employee responsible for all development and business operations. Advise clients on user-centered design practices and process automation. Design custom interactive tools, develop algorithms, and perform analytics for informed decision making.

Client Projects:

TTG Incorporated, Bedford, MA (client: 2006 - present)

Leading developer and provider of business mapping software.

Solely developed AlignStar Online, a web companion product to TTG Incorporated's AlignStar desktop business mapping software used for sales and marketing analysis and territory optimization. Specified and developed a heavily threaded thick client application employing web services to integrate a tiled national street level mapping interface with a remote central database. N Space Labs co-owns the technology behind this application. (Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl, MapServer, SOAP)
Waste Management, Houston, TX (client: 2001 - present)

Leading North American provider of waste collection and disposal.

Specified, developed and licensed a Software as a Service (SaaS) web deployment for facility level probabilistic risk assessment utilizing a weighted linear classification model and spatially joined corporate databases. Implemented a data mining and analysis process for evaluating and reporting on thousands of WM facilities determining which are the most valued and at the highest risk. Designed a digital dashboard implementing an interactive Treemap (hierarchical information visualization). (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), Java, DHTML, Ajax)
Bankers Life and Casualty, Chicago, IL (client: 2003 - present)

A Conseco subsidiary and national insurance provider focused on retirement age individuals.

Specified, developed and licensed a SaaS web deployment for the Department of Distribution Planning and Analysis employing market segmentation analysis to estimate loss in policy sales due to sales force distribution. Developed processes for national level acquisition and disposition performance studies. Implemented reporting of monthly sales analysis with interactive mapping tools. Designed and implemented process for corporate wide sales goal setting and reporting. (LAMP, Java, GIS)
InfoVoter Technologies, Bala Cynwyd, PA (client: 2004 - present)

Leading developer of election technologies for non-profit organizations, foundations, and news media clients.

Specified, developed and licensed a SaaS web deployment for real-time processing of voter hotline audio files, providing results to legal advocates and news media. Designed process for distributing and geographically prioritizing heavy call volume to hotline operators. On election day 2008, provided televised data feeds and graphics to CNN and CNN.com. (LAMP)
League of Women Voters, Washington D.C. (client: 2006 - present)

National nonpartisan political organization influencing policy through advocacy.

Specified and designed a national online election tool allowing users to determine their polling place from an address. Performance tuned MySQL databases with Yahoo deployment engineers to support heavy peak election day traffic. (PHP/Perl, MySQL)

Innovation:

Dynamic labeling of densely populated interactive maps using a label count constrained adaptive cursor without disrupting the area of interest.

Citations:

Information Visualization and the Challenge of Universal Usability
Plaisant, C., in Dykes,J., MacEachren A.M., and Kraak, M. J. (Eds), Exploring Geovisualization, Elsevier, Amsterdam
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)
Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

OWP/P | Cannon Design, Chicago, IL(1999 - 2001)

Research and Development Manager, Facilities Consulting Group

Specified and designed an automated Geographic Information System (GIS) reporting environment for location based analysis of client's facilities holdings. Developed algorithms for automating facilities management processes. (Windows, C)

Invited Presentation:

Function to Form: A genetic algorithm for rapid prototyping of conceptual designs that meet complex programmatic constraints. Architects Technology Summit, San Diego, CA. December 8, 2000

Ross Technology, Austin, TX(1991 - 1998)

Lead Architect, Memory Subsystem, Microprocessor Architecture and Simulation Group

Designed microarchitecture and block level components of the memory subsystem of a next generation superscalar, out-of-order execution SPARC microprocessor. Led coding and maintenance of gate level architectural simulator for performance tuning and verification. (UNIX/C)

Awards:

Allowed patent application pertaining to using store dependency prediction for memory disambiguation performance enhancements.
Allowed patent application pertaining to memory address prediction and prefetching performance enhancements.

Alpha Site Manager, Microprocessor Design Group

Managed product integration of hyperSPARC and its related dual core CPU daughter card with alpha site customers. Debugged Sun Solaris kernel with Sun Microsystems engineers to validate hyperSPARC use in the existing SPARCStation20.

Awards:

First recipient of the Ross Technology Presidential Award for Excellence.

Senior Integrated Circuit (IC) Designer, Microprocessor Design Group

Designed functional and physical IC layout of the instruction data paths and execution dependency control logic blocks of the two-wide hyperSPARC CPU core. Redesigned the hyperSPARC multiprocessor cache controller translation look-aside-buffer (TLB) allowing for asynchronous CPU and system clocks. (HDL, schematic, layout and timing IC CAD tools)

Systems Engineer, Systems Group

Designed multiprocessor test modules as part of a Power On Self Test (POST) application used for the first Sun Microsystems multiprocessor servers and workstations. (UNIX/C)

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX(1987 - 1991)

Design Engineer, Digital Processing Group, Defense Systems & Electronics Group

Managed and coded a system level hardware and mechanical simulator of an automated target tracking and missile guidance system. Designed real-time image processing algorithms for a custom array processor. (Microcode, VMS/Pascal)