Responsible for everything involved in creating mobile and web app word games: design, development, deployments, operations, budgeting, marketing and advertising. Managed part-time workers and consultants. Games created: Words Across America™ and Plates Across America®.
Responsible for all areas of RVshare's engineering, technology, security, technical strategy and management. This includes software development, quality assurance, system/development operations, marketplace trust, information security and information technology.
Built and led the team responsible for the design, development and operation of the main distributed search and document storage systems in support of legal e-discovery processes. Helped to grow the team size and company revenue by 4X in 3 years. Personally involved in all activities, and at all levels of engineering, planning and management.
Co-founder of business providing practice management software for nutritionists and other wellness practices. Primary responsibilities included business development, requirements definition and designing/building the company's first SaaS product.
I was the creator, architect, product owner and development manager of the Universal Product Catalog Program. This was the system that would normalize retail product data to help organize the company's massive database of consumer generated content.
I was part of the founding team at Pronto, serving in the role of Senior Scientist and working on data mining and data analysis projects for a comparison shopping engine. As the company grew, I took on more responsibilities and broader roles in technical leadership and management, eventually becoming the Chief Technology Officer. The company became profitable within 3 years of its creation.
As Chief Technology Officer, I was responsible for an engineering team of over 35 people across 6 different departments spanning our technology stack. I over-saw the design, development and launch of two new profitable web sites as well as being principally responsible for creating an entirely new product line.
I assisted with a research program in the Department of Psychology exploring computational models of decision making as a means to assist people with low-vision in navigation tasks. These models were related to my doctoral thesis work, so I was able to provide the lab with some expertise in the models and their computational challenges.
"A Low-Vision Navigation Aid Using Ideal Observer Analysis". Brian Stankiewicz, Matt McCabe and Anthony Cassandra. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 895a. August 2004.
"Development and Evaluation of a Bayesian Low-Vision Navigation Aid". Brian Stankiewicz, Anthony Cassandra, Matt McCabe and William Weathers. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. November 2007.
This was a software development subcontracting job to support a research grant from a European environmental agency. This involved creating a graphical visualization of the dynamic interactions of an underlying distributed agent messaging system.
I was brought into a research project as a consultant which was at the intersection of the mathematical models I used in my thesis work and the distributed agent architectures that I was involved with at MCC. My role included research collaborations and software development in the context of a DARPA project involving military logistics and resulted in some published research.
"Using POMDP-Based State Estimation to Enhance Agent System Survivability". Anthony Cassandra, Marian Nodine, Shilpa Bondale, Steve Ford and David Wells. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Symposium on Multi-agent Security and Scalability (MAS&S). August 2005.
"Adaptive Defense Coordinator for Multi-agent Systems". David Wells, Paul Pazandak, Mariane Nodine and Anthony Cassandra. Proceedings of the First IEEE Symposium on Multi-agent Security and Scalability (MAS&S). August 2004.
In addition to the typical responsibilities of teaching college level Computer Science courses, I was also responsible for the planning, coordination and building of a new undergraduate computer lab.
I worked on a team responsible for a Java compiler and virtual machine. I led the efforts in testing process and infrastructure.
Taught an evening class for two semesters of the course titled "Analysis of Algorithms". This was a required, third year undergraduate course for the Computer Science degree.
I was a co-founder on this start-up building software infrastructure. We built an API and run-time component that allowed software to be dynamically upgraded with zero down-time.
I joined as the Chief Scientist helping to refine the architecture and be hands-on with the software development team. Soon after, I led the team, assisted with the development of the business plan and participated in the VC meetings in search of our second round of funding.
I joined a research team working on a distributed agent architecture. I helped conceive, design and implement a number of components of this system as well as participating in related research contracts for DARPA.
"Scalable Semantic Brokering over Dynamic Heterogeneous Data Sources in InfoSleuth". Mariane Nodine, Anne Hee Hiong Ngu, Anthony Cassandra and William G. Bohrer. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. September/October 2003.
"Capability-based Agent Matchmaking". Anthony Cassandra, Damith Chandrasekara and Marian Nodine. Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 2000). June 2000.
"Providing Customized Process and Situation Awareness in the Collaboration Management Infrastructure". Donald Baker, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Hans Schuster, Anthony Cassandra and Andrzej Cichocki. Proceedings of the Fourth IECIS International Conference on Cooperative Information (COOPIS). 1999.