HIGHLIGHTS:

• Excellent oral, and written communication skills
  • Wrote 5 popular tutorial books
  • Demonstrated experience in Web publishing and forms generation
• Over 12 years experience in computer instruction
  • Taught for 8 years in the Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  • Gave workshops in Mathematica, Perl, Shell, PostScript, TeX
• Over 20 years experience with Unix
  • Proficient in scripting languages including Perl, Shell, Awk, and Sed
  • Programmed with C, CGI, HTML, Perl/Tk, TeX
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• M.S. in Computer Science and Operations Research
• An expert in Mathematica
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and well-organized with the ability to work cooperatively, as part of a team, as well as independently
• Superior marketing, organization, and management skills

EDUCATION:

EXPERIENCE:

1989 - Present, Variable Symbols, Mountain View, CA

President and Founder

• Design and develop Google Guide, an online tutorial making searching even easier.
• Co-author How to Do Everything with Google (Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2004)
• Design and developp Introduction to Perl
• Design and develop high quality training materials and courses in the use and programming of mathematical software
• Write user-friendly guides and tutorial books for Mathematica users after analyzing the existing documentation and online help
• Write Perl and Shell scripts to format reports, produce training materials, and perform Unix administration
• Develop CGI/Perl scripts for Web-based forms
• Work in multi-platform environment, including Linux, Windows, and Macintosh
• Deliver informative technical workshops and seminars to companies and universities including Ford, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Polaroid, Shell, Xerox, UC Berkeley Extension, and MIT, as well as some financial institutions on Wall Street and the Chicago Board of Trade
• Develop analytical engineering and financial software programs
• Develop business, research market needs, negotiate contracts, manage projects
• Founded Variable Symbols to address need for consulting and training with mathematical software

9/01 -10/01, Barnes and Noble University

Contractor through Powered, Inc.

• Write online Introduction to Perl tutorial

5/01 - 9/01, Hewlett Packard, Cupertino, CA

Contractor through OnCourse Learning Products, Inc.

• Develop and produce curriculum and online content on Linux and Open Source Software for sales engineers

10/99 - 12/00, VA Linux Systems, Sunnyvale and Fremont, CA

Technical Training Manager

• Assess technical training needs of employees
• Develop, manage, evaluate, and teach curriculum including
  • Introduction to the VA Linux Desktop
    www.variablesymbols.com/desktop.pdf
    www.variablesymbols.com/desktop.ps
    
  • How to Develop Web Pages and Put them on the Web www.variablesymbols.com/html
  • Technical Sales Training
  • Technical Support Training (primarily focused on hardware)
  • Outside lecture series for the engineering staff (included speakers from Google, Akamai, TiVo, Palm, Handspring, VMware)

12/98 - 4/99, Fuji Securities, New York City, NY through Larson Consulting

Perl/Shell/C Consultant

• Designed and developed risk analysis programs in Perl and Perl/Tk on Solaris

1990 - 1997, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

Instructor: Problem Solving with Mathematica (CS50).

• Proposed this course, which was mainly taken by seniors and graduate students in engineering
• Designed and wrote the text book Mathematica: A Practical Approach, a popular tutorial book
• Designed, developed, and supported course web site and class newsgroup and mailing list

1988 - 1989, Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, IL

Technical Marketing Manager and Trainer

• Presented lively and entertaining talks and seminars on Mathematica
• Developed and implemented marketing strategies
• Established the third-party developers program
• Informed the public and the press about Mathematica and its capabilities
• Wrote Shell and Awk scripts to maintain press and developer list and automate mailings and producting a calendar of events

Summer 1987 Chorus Systemes, Paris, France

Summer Intern

• Developed models using SQL
• Wrote benchmarks in C for the Chorus distributed operating system

1985 - 1987 Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS),

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Systems Programmer and System Administrator

• Designed and developed software for parallel and distributed systems in C
• Answered questions from the research staff on computer-related matters
• Handled maintenance and administration of several Unix systems
• Developed Shell scripts to handle system administration

1984 - 1985 Resonex, Sunnyvale, CA

Software Engineer and System Manager

• Designed and developed image-processing software for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and system software in C
• Maintained and administered several Unix systems
• Developed Shell scripts to handle system administration

1979 - 1984 Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ

Member of Technical Staff

• Debugged X.25 communications software written in C
• Developed a database-management system
• Provided technical information to AT&T marketing (one of two technical liaisons selected from a division of over 500 people)

BOOKS AND TUTORIALS:

Google Guide: An Interactive Tutorial on Searching with Google

www.googleguide.com
(printable version is approximately 150 pages)

How to Do Everything with Google

Co-authors: Fritz Schneider and Eric Fredricksen
(Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2004, 384 pages)

Introduction to HTML: How to Develop Web Pages

www.variablesymbols.com/html

Mathematica: A Practical Approach, Second Edition

(Prentice-Hall,1999, 631 pp.)

CalcLabs with Mathematica for Stewart's Calculus Concepts and Contexts

(Brooks/Cole, 1997/1998, 228 pp.)

Mathematica Graphics Guidebook

Co-author: Cameron Smith
(Addison-Wesley, 1995, 340 pp.)

Mathematica Quick Reference

(Addison-Wesley and Variable Symbols, 1992, 304 pp.)

CalcLabs with Mathematica

Co-authors: Colin P. Williams, Albert Boggess, David Barrow, Authur Belmonte, Samia Mossoud, Jeffrey Morgan, Maurice Rahe, Michael Stecher, Philip Yasskin
(Brooks/Cole, 1995, 245 pp.)

Maple V Quick Reference

Co-author: Michael J. Mossinghoff

(Brooks/Cole, 1994, 522 pp.), translated into German

Mathematica: A Practical Approach

(Prentice-Hall, 1992, 386 pp.),

in 7th printing and translated into four different languages

LANGUAGES:

ORGANIZATIONS:

WORKSHOPS:

Programming in Mathematica (over 200 seminars, workshops, and talks)

Introduction to Perl, Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society Chapter

Spring 1999 Professional Development Seminar

Nancy Blachman / Nancy(atsign)VariableSymbols.com (atsign -> @) / www.VariableSymbols.com
November 25, 2005