SEEKING INTERESTING WORK/VOLUNTEERING FREE LABOR (for appropriate academic and research institutions) - Remote/on-site/etc.

** Location: Live in Boston, NYC (own apartments in both places and split about 40/40/20 between those regions and various other places, i.e. I'm often in Chicago for CME work.

** On-site available + international to any US friendly reason (I hold DoD TS clearance, and don't want to lose it, so Yemen isn't quite possible).

** Email: See my profile.

Specialties - Came from a math background formally, though I was messing around with Sun machines on VT220's since I was 8 or 9 'borrowing' my fathers shell accounts which wasn't too kosher, admittedly but I did no harm and didn't load down any machines to the point where his grad students' protein folding models' render times suffered on those old SGIs ;). My first co-op was in my mid-teens at IBM Cambridge (what up, Lotus building!). Professionally, I started with Q/KDB+ in finance, moved to enterprise J2EE (WebSphere ND and WebLogic setups for re-insurance companies), then to enterprise ASP.NET (WebForms to MVC) and SiteCore. That pivoted into Dynamics NAV/AX and CRM work for a bit, before moving into SAP ECC (FI/CO) and other ERP implementations. Some legacy maintenance of iOS/Ruby projects (feature and bug enhancement).

More recently, RTOS hardware (QNX, VXworks, Pulsar & Rocket, eCos) and design engineering to get through FCC (EMI pretesting) and FDA MDR certification. Did the standard enterprise technical pre-sales/project lead for projects from 2009-11, as well as pivotal in getting SBA federal contracts through for the SEC, DoD and DHS (yielding ~230MM USD/yr in just under 3 years in a company that staffed less than 80 engineers and was averaging less than 100MM gross per annum). During that era, I gained security clearance and spent some time on-site learning the politics of the armed forces. (TS/SCI/Poly security for the DoD, TS for the SEC, I'll get rubber stamped through anything just due to my history of previous SF86 approvals), healthcare (was a primary consultant on a few projects with Blue Cross/Blue Shield), and finance (proprietary trading of specialty instruments at institutional funds).

Rate - _A function of the project._ The market has been kind enough to me that I can go from free (if you're doing anything academic and need to get something done but are low on NSF/NIH grant money, I'd be happy to help especially for places like the Broad Inst., Max Planck, etc.) ranging to market rates for the more enterprise solutions. Will also work for free as the engineer grunt for any pure mathematicians working on algebraic topology, combinatorics, or lattice theory (though I can't imagine the need for that), thought I'd throw it out there. I like things where industry and art cross[0] and love the aesthetic beauty of fine engineering components[1] and art. If you're working on mm-wave technologies, also I'm really interested[2]. I'd happily do any of this for free/graduate school credit (I still have ~13 years to win a Fields medal!) if the work is interesting and/or contributing to a human 'good' (e.g. solving the "why Johnny can't have crypto" issue).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11508797

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471526 and it's corallary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471181