Richard Basch

+1 201 524 5049 voice +1 201 524 2111 fax Email: basch@mit.edu

Business Summary

·          Recruitment, supervision and optimization of development teams.

·          Corporate expense analysis and reduction.

·          Familiarity with debt and equity capital markets; developed analytic and trading models for equity markets.

Technical Summary

Extensive experience with application tools development and infrastructure design.

·          Languages: C, Visual C++, Perl, shell, Assembly, SQL, Lisp, BASIC and others.

·          Databases: Sybase, Oracle, Informix, CA-Ingres, MS-Access, PostgreSQL and others.

·          Internet:  HTML, CGI, Java, NetDynamics, Apache Web server, Netscape server, Firewall-1 and others.

·          Platforms: Windows (3.x/95/98/NT), Unix (SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, AIX, Linux), MVS and others.

·          Protocols: HTTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, IIOP, SNMP, NIS, DNS, CIFS, NFS, AFS and others.

Employment History

·          Bright Prospects LLC, (1999-present)

·          Lehman Brothers Inc, (1995-present)

·          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1986-1989p/t;1990-1995)

·          Computer Visuals Inc, (1983-1986)

Work Experience

Bright Prospects LLC, Piscataway, NJ

Founder, May 1999 – Present

·          Developed financial trading model for equity markets to provide 30% annualized returns (1968-1990) and 80% annualized (1991-1999). Investigating retail distribution outlets for capitalizing on the model.

·          Provide occasional technical consulting services to other firms.

Lehman Brothers Inc, Jersey City, NJ

AVP/Manager, Domain and Distributed OS Engineering, Feb 1999 – Present

·          Identified strategies for integrating Windows 2000 into the existing infrastructure.

·          Enhanced the in-house systems management tools to streamline support functions.

·          Improved Year 2000 readiness by identifying and building inventory management tools.

·          Conducted an evaluation of alternate IP management tools to realize additional savings.

·          Reduced operational costs through the deployment of Network Appliance storage systems.

AVP/Project Coordinator, Technology Project Office, Oct 1997 – Jan 1999

·          Assisted in developing a plan to reduce firm-wide hardware and software technology expenditures by 7%.

·          Identified deficiencies in the firm’s technology inventory control processes and recommended various changes to improve financial controls of hardware and software procurement and management.

·          Extensive involvement with various contract negotiations and management of various vendor relationships, including Computer Associates, MEMCO and IBM/Transarc.

·          Led task force to centralize security administration functions; revised the business model and oversaw the implementation of supporting technology tools.

·          Project manager for the consolidation and deployment of a centralized backup/archival system for the NT/Unix distributed environment.

·          Identified and distributed pertinent market trend research to various IT groups. Worked closely with GartnerGroup, GIGA Information Group, and Forrester Research.

Manager/Sr. Systems Architect, Unix Engineering, May 1995 – Sep 1997

·          Hiring manager and supervisor of a team of six engineers; improved group relationships with other platform engineering and support groups.

·          Re-designed the workflow processes of the Unix Engineering group to increase development productivity 300% while also increasing the support levels provided to other groups.

·          Developed initial security practices for application development and standardized the company’s perimeter security.

·          Participated in the firm’s early evaluations of middleware tools, including NetDynamics, WebObjects and Orbix for the early Internet Web applications.

·          Designed and implemented the firm’s global paging system.

·          Designed and built the infrastructures for the firm’s Year 2000 labs (NY, London, Tokyo).

·          Re-designed and simplified the in-house SunOS/Solaris network installation system.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Sr. Software Architect, Information Systems/Project Athena, Oct 1986 – Mar 1995

·          Designed the Release Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Bug Tracking processes.

·          Member of the technical review board, reviewing the software development directions and the market alternatives to in-house solutions.

·          Conducted numerous presentations to corporations and educational institutions interested in “distributed computing” and the tools Project Athena created to manage its heterogeneous workstation environment.

·          Provided security advice to various IETF working groups, on behalf of the IETF’s Security Area Advisory Group. Performed security audits and fixes for MIT’s computing environment. Member of the MIT Kerberos development team.

·          Project manager for the development and deployment of distributed file system technologies: developed migration strategy and tools to move all data from NFS to AFS, developed numerous fixes for AFS, original integrator of Kerberos support into NFS and AFS.

·          Development manager for the campus-wide “instantaneous” messaging and notification service (Zephyr).

·          Relational database design, programming, tuning and support (CA-Ingres) for the central namespace/account manager (Moira). Added support for managing AFS within Moira.

Teaching Assistant, Structured Programming Languages, Jan 1987 – Jun 1987

·          Assisted students with the concepts of structured programming (Lisp).

·          Identified deficiencies and addressed problems with the student project lab.

Honeywell Inc, Lexington, MA

Electrical Engineer, Electro-Optics Division (May-Sep 1988; May-Sep 1989)

·          Designed and built test circuitry for infrared focal plane arrays (government classified).

Computer Visuals Inc, Wilton, CT

Principal Software Engineer, 1983 – Feb 1986

·          Designed software to produce statistical presentations and image them on photographic media.

American Red Cross

·          First Aid and CPR instructor (1993-present)

·          Member of the Central NJ Health & Safety committee (1995-1996)

·          Training officer for Massachusetts Disaster Services; developed the training curriculum for all Boston area disaster response teams (1994-1995)

·          Team leader and staffing coordinator of a Boston disaster response team (1993-1995).

Additional Information

·          Emergency Medical Technician

·          Book reviewer for Addison-Wesley, NFS Illustrated, (May 1999).

·          Ambulance crew chief, North Stelton Volunteer Fire & Rescue, (Jan 1996 – Jan 1998).

·          Mechanic, Silvermine Country Club, (May 1982 – Sep 1986)

Education

·          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. S.B. (Electrical Engineering) – Jan 1990.