Marc Fielding

mfielding@dataclysm.com
Professional experience
	April 2004 – Present                                                            Northrop Grumman    Project: Future Combat Systems
	December 2002 – June 2004                                                Zybernetix Technical Product Development Lead    Led the technical product development team of this new game controller technology startup, resulting in increased exposure to potential investors and customers.     Designed and implemented the research protocol and software test suite used to establish the technology’s capabilities and marketability
	July 1999 – July 2002                                               Blue Falcon Networks, Inc. Lead Technology Architect    Designed, built, and deployed several core components of the company’s Internet-based, peer-to-peer media streaming solution, resulting in substantial investment from Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson and the Sprout Group    A distributed, fault-tolerant, back-end network architecture    Multiple cross-platform, client/server systems     Designed, built, and deployed multiple components for the videogame Aliens vs. Predator Gold    Game server browser, instant messaging, and chat architectures     Conducted critical scalability analyses of core technology, resulting in dramatic system optimizations     Performed numerous competitive analyses in support of product planning efforts     Motivated and negotiated the purchase of outsourced technology for secondary systems, reducing development costs by $150,000     Successfully managed small groups of developers for short-term projects
	September 1995 – February 1997                                  Treyarch Invention, Inc. Programmer     User interface development for the hit computer game Die By the Sword
Academic experience
	September 1995 – June 1999                       UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept. Research Associate AWAIRS Project    Designed, built, and deployed a complete network simulation testbed for this $4M DARPA-sponsored research into adaptive wireless sensor networks    Successfully coordinated with a multidisciplinary team to ensure that this central resource met the functional needs of all participants Wireless Integrated Network Sensors (WINS) Project    Implemented a data collection/visualization software suite which was instrumental in proving the validity of our research and helping to secure funding for AWAIRS (see above).
Education
	December 2006                                      University of California at Los Angeles Master of Science in Computer Science     Specialization in Distributed Systems     Research:  “A Load-Balancing Scheme for Distributed Virtual Worlds”     Cum Laude (expected)
	March 1997                                            University of California at Los Angeles Bachelor of Science in Cybernetics Specialization in Computing Cum Laude
Patents and RECENT publications
	“Live Streaming Distributed Internet Broadcast System” (2002)    A patent pending, peer-to-peer, media streaming algorithm     “A Distributed Wireless MEMS Technology for Condition-Based Maintenance”   Proceedings of the 1996 Integrated Monitoring, Diagnostics and Failure Prevention Conference, 24 April 1996, pp. 373-380
Development skills
	Languages: C, C++, Java, SQL, HTML, XML, PHP     Software: MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, Rational Rose, MS Visual SourceSafe, MySQL,SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, ClearQuest, CVS, MS Office,OpenOffice.org     Development Platforms: Windows, Linux     Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP/IP, SOAP
Awards received
	2003 Student Scholarship – International Game Developer Association Phi Beta Kappa – Honor Society     Comins Family Scholarship – UCLA Undergraduate Award
Professional associations
	IEEE Computer Society