OSCAR NAIM(425) 691-0091 Linkedin.com/in/oscarnaim oscar_naim@yahoo.com

SUMMARYSeasoned technologist with long software industry experience working with data scientists and leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics services in order to enable smarter applications.Passionate about helping remove friction between technology and customer scenarios that are enabled by it. Areas of expertise:

• Advanced Analytics • Systems Integration • Machine Learning • Context Aware Computing• Internet of Things (IOT) • Analytical Problem Solving• Smart Buildings • Spanish (fluent), US Citizen

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCEMicrosoft Corporation 04/2014 - 09/2016Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning Group. 06/2016 - 09/2016Cortana Intelligence Applications team.Responsible for creation and development of scenario oriented solution templates that leverage relevant services from the Cortana Intelligence Suite (CIS) with the goal of enabling customers to realize value with minimum friction as well as to significantly reduce the time to reach fully operational solutions.

Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning Group 04/2014 – 05/2016Responsible for the integration of Cortana Intelligence Suite (CIS) and Dynamics AX (Microsoft’s ERP solution). Working with Dynamics AX ISVs, partners and customers in order to help them enable advanced analytics scenarios leveraging CIS and Azure technologies.

Intel Corporation 05/2011 - 04/2014Senior Program Manager 06/2012 – 04/2014Cloud Services Platform (CSP) team, Software and Services Group. Responsible for building key components of the CSP Context Services and Databank application. Responsible for overall sample applications strategy (including developer experience, open source, and community outreach) and liaison between CSP customers and engineering (customer onboarding).

SW Development Manager 11/2011 - 06/2012Innovation and Application Development team, Software and Services Group. Responsible for building the Digital Mementos context aware, cross-platform, device agnostic, showcase application for Windows 8 Metro Ultrabooks/Tablets and Android based phones. Digital Mementos was presented during Renee James keynote presentation at IDF 2012.

Lead Software Architect 05/2011 – 11/2011Compute Continuum Software team, Software and Services Group.Lead architect for the context aware computing software platform.

Microsoft Corporation 01/2006 - 05/2011Senior Research Program Manager. Microsoft Research. 07/2009 - 05/2011As a member of the Advanced Research Tools and Services team within Microsoft External Research, I was responsible for providing engineering support to the Education and Scholarly Communications theme, including: overall project definition and execution, offshore team management, customer

outreach, technical seminars, code competitions and everything related to the release of these projects as open source products. One of the key goals of External Research is to bridge the gap between existing Microsoft Products and the needs of academia, creating solutions that integrate the latest technologies from Microsoft Research and existing Microsoft products, in order to illustrate and showcase to best use the overall Microsoft software stack. Products delivered so far: Research Information Centre Framework (RIC), Chemistry Add-in for Word, Article Authoring Add-in, Creative Commons Add-in, Ontology Add-in, and Zentity.

Lead Technical Program Manager. Health Solutions Group 11/2007 - 07/2009Amalga Life Sciences (code named “Pharos”), eResearch Platform Team. Project highlights: computational framework for accelerating the research pipeline, getting us a step closer to making the dream of translational medicine possible. Some of the key aspects of this project include: semantic store, analysis through visualization, social networking for data, service oriented architecture, electronic knowledge representation and mechanical inference. As the Lead Technical Program Manager for Amalga Life Sciences, I am in charge of coordinating the overall execution of the project. I am also deeply involved in the technical aspects of the project, working closely with architects, developer leads, subject matter experts and researchers in order to bridge the gap between customer needs and actual product features.

Senior Software Development Engineer. Health Solutions Group. 07/ 2007 - 11/2007Pharos incubation team, eResearch Platform Team. Designed and implemented parsing engine framework. Put in place development infrastructure for newly created group.

Senior Program Manager, SQL Server Manageability Platform Unit. 01/2006 to 07/2007 Application Abstraction for Database Applications: Application Fragment project (part of the Declarative Management Framework project). Main goal: define an abstract representation of a database application that would include all the objects that are related to a particular database but that are not part of it. “Copy Database Wizard”: re-engineering work, including development (C#) and program management activities. This tool is part of the SQL Server Management Studio suite of tools that is part of SQL Server 2005. Performance Studio Project: Program Management. The main goal of the project is to provide an infrastructure for an on demand and on the fly performance data collection, monitoring and troubleshooting of SQL Server installations.

Oracle Corporation 06/1998 - 01/2006Principal Member of Technical Staff 09/1999 - 01/2006Portland Development Center, Application Server Division. Projects highlights: Performance instrumentation of Oracle Containers for J2EE Applications (OC4J) using Oracle’s Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS), OC4J Upgrade Assistant, OC4J Remote Deployment Utility, JMS Based JMX Connector for OC4J MBean Server, Framework for Automatic Transformation of DMS Statistics into JSR-77 Statistics, OC4J Management Logging MBean, OC4J Management via JMX.

Senior Member of Technical Staff 06/1998 to 09/1999Portland Development Center, Application Server Division. Design and implementation of the Policy Manager algorithm for scheduling resources using a priority based strategy for the Oracle Application Server middle ware software. Software Platform: C, Java.

University of Wisconsin-Madison 09/1995 – 06/1998

Assistant Scientist 07/1997 – 06/1998Staff member of the PARADYN Project. Principal investigator: Prof. Barton Miller.

Associate Researcher 09/1995 – 07/1997Staff member of the PARADYN Project. Principal investigator: Prof. Barton Miller. As a member of the Paradyn staff, I was involved in the design, development and testing of state of the art technology for dynamically instrument and analyze the performance of large parallel and distributed applications, working together with a team of professionals and students. Software Platform: C, C++.

MARAVEN S.A. SW Developer. 10/1990 – 04/1992SIMPAR Project. Development of a parallel version of the Simplex Method for the Venezuelan Oil Industry (MARAVEN S.A.). In conjunction with Universidad Simón Bolívar. Hardware Platform: T800 Transputer Network. Software Platform: INMOS Parallel C, Occam.

Universidad Simón Bolívar. Lecturer and Teaching Assistant. 12/1990 – 04/1992

Olivetti de Venezuela, Software Analyst. 01/1989 – 02/1990Software support for ATM’s (Automatic Teller Machines).

IMG Consultores, System Analyst (Parallel Processing). 10/1988 – 12/1988

EDUCATIONPh.D. in Computer Sciences, University of Southampton, EnglandThesis: "Performance Visualization of Parallel Programs".

MSc in Computer Sciences.Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela Thesis: "ANDES: A Performance Analyzer for Parallel Programs". Honors received.

Bachelor in Computing Science Engineering Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, VenezuelaThesis: "A Graphical Data Base Schema Mapper". Honors received. (Cum Laude).

PUBLICATIONSJ Lynn Fink, Pablo Fernicola, Rahul Chandran, Savas Parastatidis, Alex Wade, Oscar Naim, Gregory B Quinn and Philip E Bourne. “Word add-in for ontology recognition: semantic enrichment of scientific literature”. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:103.

Zhichen Xu, Barton P. Miller and Oscar Naím. “Dynamic Instrumentation of Threaded Applications”. ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPoP’99. Atlanta, USA.

Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Barton P. Miller, Marcelo J. R. Goncalves, Oscar Naim, Zhichen Xu and Ling Zheng. "MDL: A Language and Compiler for Dynamic Program Instrumentation". PACT'97, 1997, San Francisco, USA.

Oscar Naím, Tony Hey. "Visualization of Do-Loop Performance using AVS". Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, March, 1998, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 75-88, Nova Science Publishers.

Oscar Naím, Tony Hey. "Visualization of Do-Loop Performance". HPCN Europe'97, April 1997, Vienna, Austria. Springer-Verlag Publishers.

Oscar Naím, Tony Hey, Ed Zaluzka. "Do-loop-surface - An abstract representation of Parallel Program Performance". Concurrency-Practice and Experience, 1996, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 205-234.

A. Dunlop, E. Hernandez, Oscar Naím, T. Hey, D. Nicole. "A Toolkit for Optimizing Parallel Performance". Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1995, Vol. 919, pp. 548-553.

Oscar Naím, Tony Hey. "Invasiveness of Performance Instrumentation Measurements on Multiprocessors". IFIP Transactions A-Computer Science and Technology, 1994, Vol. 44, pp. 319-328.

Oscar Naím, Tony Hey. "Do-Loop-Surface: An Abstract Performance Data Visualization". HPCN Europe'94, April 1994, Munich, Germany. Vol. 797, pp. 367-372, Springer-Verlag Publishers.

A.Dunlop, S. Hellberg, T. Hey, O. Naim, D. Pritchard. "Environments, Performance Analysis, and Data Visualisation". Proceedings of the second workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing, Tennessee, USA, 1994. Edited by Jack Dongarra and B. Tourancheau.

Oscar Naím, Alejandro Teruel. "ANDES: A Performance Analyzer for Parallel Programs". Transputer and Occam Research: New Directions. 16th Technical Meeting of the World Occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG-16). Sheffield, UK. Vol. 33, pp. 91-99, 1993.