“AL” ALFRED I. BERNSTEIN
10 Edgardo Place
San Francisco, CA 94133
703-994-5654
alb@signalscience.net
url:www.signalscience.net
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
A Dedicated Engineer/Research Scientist who has made revenue and improved product quality in various
corporate environments. Especially skilled at producing creative computational solutions to achieve high
performance/cost systems. Passionate about finding the best solution for a given project – customized or
standard approaches.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Platforms: Sun, Silicon Graphics, VAX and PC computers
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Languages: C/C++, C#.Net, XML, MySQL, SQL Server, Lisp, Fortran, Assembly Language
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Tools: Visual Studio, NEdit, Macsyma, MatLab, Derive, Excel, Rational Rose
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Operating Systems: Windows NT, XP and 2008, VMS, UNIX and LINUX
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER,
2003 – Present
Signal Science, LLC, San Francisco, California
 Orchestrated a broad variety of scientific research projects focused especially on mathematical
modeling and implementation in software.
 Facilitated client in obtaining $2 million dollars of government grant money to manufacture the
largest number of hydrogen fuel cells in history through modeling and simulation proof of concept
work.
 Developed math specifications and implemented physical modeling in C++ for an inertially activated
hydrogen fuel cell including gas dynamics, mechanisms, and diffusion of gas through metals.
 Accomplished more accurate and definitive solutions for processing financial option data than the
client’s previous software and added value pushing the quality of their system to a new level.
 Restructured Black Scholes implied volatility calculations to use a hybrid bisection-Newton Raphson
method to assure convergence (or determine no solution).
 Generated math specs and C++ code to perform Options Greek calculations.
 Automated a system to parse huge amounts stock option data, perform daily end of the day
calculations and output the results to SQL insert or update files using unix scripts and C++ code.
 Analyzed and adjusted algorithms to compute the (VIX) volatility index.
 Achieved a tremendous savings to the client by designing a parsing system to identify equipment that
needed to be upgraded to avoid large fines,
 Designed, implemented and white box tested parsers in C#.Net to retrieve information from
telecommunications equipment log files.
SENIOR ENGINEER,
1999 – 2003
Avtec Systems Inc., Fairfax, Virginia
 Devised Full Life Cycle Engineering including developing math specifications and algorithms using
Derive and Matlab for various geo-location error collection types resulting in a successful delivery of
a geo-location error analysis system and a maintenance contract of $5 million dollars.
 Built AOA Interferometer, AOA Monopulse, TDOA, and FDOA geo-location covariance error
analysis (optimal and suboptimal) using Visual C++.
 Exceeded previous geo-location error performance and was told by the chief scientist that the system
worked better than any other system he had previously worked with.
 Innovated C++ subsystems for various applications including:
 Linearized least squares.
 Matrix and vector math classes
 Template singleton storage and interpolation class for vectors and arbitrarily dimensioned matrices.
CONSULTING PROGRAMMER ANALYST,
1998 – 1999
Booz-Alleṇ̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣ ̣̣̣̣̣̣ & Hamilton, Arlington, Virginia
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 Re-engineered C/C++ programs in a distributed computing environment (Unix and VMS) to process
data for U.S. army war games including TCP/IP and Ethernet programming resulting in the
continuation of the project contract.
 Formulated a data language (compiler and virtual machine) using C/C++ to process reports.
 Provided more capability than the client ever had previously in parsing any report generated by the
war game.
 Produced object oriented design and analysis.
 Theorized and implemented coordinate systems using an elliptic integral formulation providing
extremely efficient and accurate calculations.
ANALYST
1996 – 1998
ECG, Vienna, Virginia
 Synthesized Bierman matrix factorized Kalman navigation and error filters (optimal and suboptimal)
for satellite autonomous navigation using C++ and Derive (math package) on a Sun Solaris platform.
 Documented and fully derived all math formulations providing a better understanding of the Bierman
Kalman filter than many navigation specialists at NASA have.
 Spearheaded SBIR for sonobuoy acoustic array processing for fish tracking using GPS.
 Evaluated smoothing algorithm techniques for matrix factorized filters.
EDUCATION
POST GRADUATE STUDY – Major: Physics – Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
M.S. DEGREE – Major: Electrical Engineering – University of Miami, Miami, Florida
B.S. DEGREE – Major: Computer Engineering – University of Miami, Miami, Florida