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What is Reverse Geocoding Anyway?
What is Reverse Geocoding Anyway?
Happy 2017! In the last 2 posts, I've discussed geocoding basics - turning an address, neighborhood, city, etc. into a…
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Geocoding Accuracy - How much accuracy do you need?
Geocoding Accuracy - How much accuracy do you need?
In my last blog, I described the basics of geocoding (also called geoenabling data). In this Holiday blog, I take a…
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Spatial Enablement of Enterprise Data - Geocoding
Spatial Enablement of Enterprise Data - Geocoding
In this and the next few blog posts, I will provide an overview of geocoding – leveraging the location component in…
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Just in case useful -- ChatGPT just took a giant leap forward with professional headshots. I took three shots (front, left, right), and asked it to…
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🎓 Congratulations to Saeed Sharifi! 🎉 The ECET Department here at RIT is proud to announce that Saeed has been selected as our Department…
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This was one of those great professional weeks: A fantastic Rochester Institute of Technology event in NYC with President William H. Sanders, a…
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Volunteer Experience
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Community Service
Rochester Institute of Technology
- 10 months
Social Services
Led efforts to save the Community Service Club House in the RIT dorms. Rewrote House Constitution and Charter. Served as President. This house worked with different neighborhood organizations in the Rochester area including cleaning and repainting playgrounds and hosting inner city children at sleep overs at the house in the RIT dorms. Received recognition from the RIT administration for house efforts.
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Student Faculty Council Senior Rep
Iona Preparatory School
- 1 month
Social Services
Led blood drive efforts. Ran Toys-for-Tots which far exceeded expectations. This was in addition to regular responsibilities of the council.
Publications
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BusinessObjects on BW Performance Tuning
SAP Community Network
This paper shows how to maximize performance of BusinessObjects 3.1 against BW including tuning and query optimization
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Patents
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Deer Repellent System
Issued US 5,602,523
An animal repelling system, especially for deer which generates a square wave signal output in the ultrasonic frequency range, and which has a piezo-electric driver utilizing a horn type device that produces harmonic distortion so that at any given time the fundamental frequency and harmonic distortion is present in the audio output, and the system is capable of frequency switching to at least 10 different frequencies.
Company which productized the invention was successfully sold to…An animal repelling system, especially for deer which generates a square wave signal output in the ultrasonic frequency range, and which has a piezo-electric driver utilizing a horn type device that produces harmonic distortion so that at any given time the fundamental frequency and harmonic distortion is present in the audio output, and the system is capable of frequency switching to at least 10 different frequencies.
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Honors & Awards
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CY 2006 Americas Sales Consultant of the Year
Business Objects
For conducting benchmarks in support of presales efforts and for product deployments - including multicore benchmarks conducted in concert with AMD. Creation of Xcelsius based graphical sizing estimator. Support of sales efforts including deals in excess of $5M.
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CY 2006 Technical Specialist Award
Business Objects
For conducting benchmarks in support of presales efforts and for product deployments - including multicore benchmarks conducted in concert with AMD. Creation of Xcelsius based graphical sizing estimator. Support of sales efforts including deals in excess of $5M.
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CY 2006 World Wide Impact Award
Business Objects
For conducting benchmarks in support of presales efforts and for product deployments - including multicore benchmarks conducted in concert with AMD. Creation of Xcelsius based graphical sizing estimator. Planning and conducting the Field Advisory Board in Paris, France.
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Q3 2006 MVP Award
Business Objects
Business Objects Americas presales MVP Award for Q3 2006. This was for efforts in organizing and conducting the Field Advisory Board with 50+ people from 12 countries and 5 different organizations within the company.
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Q1 2004 PGCM Obélix Award
Business Objects, S.A.
For onsite support of addressing critical performance, scalability and reliability issues at key customers and factoring lessons learned back into product features and testing.
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1992 Presidents Award
Ingres, the ASK Group
For the sales impact and customer satisfaction resulting from the creation of the Ingres Interactive Performance Monitor, for mentoring and leadership within the Consulting Group. It was the highest individual award at Ingres.
Languages
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French
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Organizations
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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