Daniel F. Ancona, IV 3488 17th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 415.806.9773 cell/voicemail 415.543.8765x265 work dan@ultrablue.com http://www.ultrablue.com/dan/ Experience________________________________________________________________ INTERVISTA SOFTWARE, INC. San Francisco Supported pre- and post-sales efforts for family of 3D toolkits and products. Created demos, communicated with customers, and evangelized at tradeshows, BOFs and SIGs. Currently engineering an XML application in Visual Basic. Also handled email tech support, managed a beta program, wrote a whitepaper, and entered a design contest. (full time, July 1997-present) INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES, University of Virginia http://www.iath.virginia.edu/stories Designed 3D interfaces using VRML for IATH projects. Initiated work on many concurrent projects in VRML and rendered 3D technologies. Purchased equipment, set up project architectures and goals, created web site, began attracting sponsors, and managed budget. (full time, June 1996-July 1997) Created HTML form modifiable VRML room for Rossetti Archive. Developed protoype representational information space, installed and modified a perl based web spider, and wrote and maintained perl scripts. (part time, Summer 1995-May 1996). http://www.iath.virginia.edu/stern/polytrim.html Created three dimensional model of large site using beta test version of landscape visualization software (PolyTRIM). Assisted ENSP482: The Theory and Practice of Hypertext in developing experimental hypertext projects. (part time, Fall 1994-Spring 1995) SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, University of Virginia http://www.virginia.edu/~arch Assisted in creation of the School of Architecture's web site. Started and maintained HTTP server, including perl cgi scripts for simple database management. (part time, spring/summer 1995) NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY, Golden, Colorado Evaluated current lighting system of federal buildings and used expert system software to propose energy efficient alternatives. $300,000 project was approved for funding in March 1995. Also used beta test version of ray-tracing program (Radiance) to visualize lighting systems and published results on web. (Summer 1994) DAVID TAYLOR RESEARCH CENTER, Carderock, Maryland Participated in testing of Olympic class bobsleds in full-scale wind- tunnel tests. Developed 3-D model of bobsled using 3D coordinate tracking device. (June 1990- January 1991, and June 1991-August 1991) Assisted in study of prediction of fatigue rates using neural networks. Also, MS- Windows fine-tuning, system integration, basic Novell Network operations and general consulting. (June 1992- August 1992) Education_________________________________________________________________ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, Virginia B.S. Electrical Engineering, concentration in Applied Electrophysics. Thesis title "Invisible City: Mapping the World Wide Web in Three Dimensions." May 1996. Final year GPA 3.6. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY, Blacksburg, Virginia Preliminary work in Engineering, Science and Mechanics, August 1991 to June 1993. THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Alexandria, Virginia Class of 1991. Skills______________________________________________________________________ SYSTEMS: Wintel, SGI, various UNIXes. APPLICATIONS: 3D information space design. Extensive WWW and VRML authoring (perl/cgi scripts, HTML, XML). PolyTRIM, some Microstation, Radiance, Form-Z, AVS, Alias/Wavefront. Berkeley VLSI/ASIC design tools (Magic, ATHENA), SPICE, Maple V, Mathematica. Others. LANGUAGES: Visual Basic, Perl, some Java and C++. Honors______________________________________________________________________ Volunteer chair for VRML 97. Worldmovers VRML Excellence Award Finalist, Westinghouse National Science Talent Search, Marshall Hahn Engineering Scholarship Activities__________________________________________________________________ Sailing, hiking, teaching skiing, mountain biking, church youth group