Name: Avi Sharabi
Phone: 408 465 1025
Email: avie@shortcuts.com

OBJECTIVE
Consulting Position as an Application Developer

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QUALIFICATIONS

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EMPLOYMENT

Nov. 1995 - Present
SELF EMPLOYED, Santa Cruz, CA

Computer Consultant

September 1996 - Present
Unisys Corp. San Jose, CA

Senior Application Developer
Designed and developed a "PC Ordering on the Web" application with one other individual. The application was written in VB 5.0 under NT4.0 platform. Other Languages/tools used inteh application: Java, JavaScript, VBScript,APS, Active X Dlls. The application required design,construction, constant update and maintenance of MS SQL Server,ORACLE, and Sybase Databases.

August 1996 - October 1996
Alliance Labs San Mateo, CA

Web Consultant
Developed entier Alliance Labs Web site. added scripts to view statistic regarding the site.

May 1996 - July 1996
DHL Systems, San Francisco, CA

Web Consultant
Developed several script to dynamicaly create web pages. Installed and administered a Web Server (Netscape FastTrack 2.0,and 1.1)

November 1995 - June 1996
Phadreus Company San Francisco, CA

Web Consultant
Developed Perl scripts to integrate with large online trainer registration system.

July 1995 - June 1996
KEANE INC. , San Jose, CA

Software Engineer
Developed and implemented programs using the FORTRAN and C programming languages. Created a database using Microsoft Access.
Developed an Expert System application to solve logic based problems. Completed a training
course on Nexpert - a widely used Expert System (Neuron Data Corp.).
Completed an Open Interface/Data Access course (a GUI/database tool). Developed a 2D graph representation for a real time data flow.
The application was developed in Visual Basic and linked to both internal data source (DDE) and external data source (NetDDE).

Sept. 1994 - June 1995
ARTWORK CONVERSION SOFTWARE, Santa Cruz, CA

Sales Engineer
Provided customers with technical support and customized application usage. Exclusive
sales representative. Interacted with software developers and distributors.

EDUCATION

Sept. 1993 - June 1995
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

BA-Computer & Information Science, June 1995

Sept. 1991 - Aug. 1993
Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

Computer & Math major

Distinctions:
Graduated with:
Phi Beta Kappa,
Highest Honors in the major,
College honor.
University Of California Regents Scholarship, Awarded for the duration of studies at the
University of California in Santa Cruz
Honor Distinctions in Cybernetics, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Statistics courses,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dean's Honor Role, Cabrillo College 1991-1993
Joseph Alcantra Scholarship, Cabrillo College May 1993

Areas of Specialty:
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics

Projects/Research:
Winter 1995 Research Assistant for Professor Alan Kawamoto.
Developed and wrote a program to run psychological experiments with human
subjects. Written in Psyscope Software Package.

Fall 1994 A graduate level course project in Artificial Intelligence. Designed and
wrote a "Blind Learner" program which enables a computer to learn to play games
without pre-knowledge of the rules or the relationships between the active pieces. The project involved implementation of Breadth First Search and reinforcement learning algorithms. Tested on one and two agent games. The project contains 3000 lines of code.
Developed in conjunction with one other student.

Spring 1994 An Undergraduate Artificial Intelligence class project: "Iris Recognizer".
Involved implementation of Neural Network methods such as Back Propagation and Soft Max. Applied programming knowledge of MathLab software package. Program
goal was to distinguish between three brands of Iris Flowers. Program achieved a 97.6%.

Spring 1994 Research Asst. to Prof. A. Kawamoto - a leading scientist in the field of Neural Networks.
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MILITARY Israeli Army - 1984 to 1987
Sergeant /Commander, Israel.

LANGUAGES English, Hebrew, Spanish

ACTIVITIES AIPAC (America-Israel Public Relation Committee)
Conference Delegate, Washington DC May 1995.

Hillel (National Student Organization)
Board member, Sept. 1993 - Sept. 1994

Cabrillo College Jewish Student Union
Founder and President, Sept. 1991 - June 1993

REFERENCES Available upon request.