Henry Minsky					Home 617 965 8289
67 Clyde Street					hqm@alum.mit.edu
Newton MA, 02460                             



Education:      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma. 
                MS, BSc. in Electrical Engineering, June, 1991, 1984. 


Professional Interests: WWW Technology (hardware and software), Development of
                Network Services, Machine Intelligence, Electronic Publishing, 
                Databases, Electronic Commerce, Online Communities. 


Experience:     Nest Labs
		2011-present
		Software Architect
		Developing and maintaining server connectivity for the growing fleet of Nest devices.
		Design and implementation of service architecture, data analytics services,
		using scalable cloud services.
		Implementation mostly with Scala, Java, Ruby, Javascript, SQL.

		Laszlo Systems Inc
		2002-2010
		Software Architect
		Design, implementation of compiler/runtime platform
                for Rich Internet Applications. Technologies include Java, Javascript,
                Python, XML, TCP/IP, Macromedia Flash virtual machine.

		Keio University SFC Campus, Kanagawa, JAPAN
                2000-2001 

                Design and implementation of architecture for
                distributed location-based services and advanced
                wearable/mobile technology for NTT DoCoMo sponsored
                project. Architected internet protocols and API for
                system to coordinate gathering of distributed imaging
                and telemetry data and access via relational database.

                Used i-mode mobile phones, Linux, and Postgres
                database technology.  Programming in Java, C, Tcl,
                SQL, embedded Linux Kernel.

                ArsDigita Corporation
                1999-2001
                Implemented database-backed web application server and 
                toolkit. Worked on customer applications, database interface,
                web server internals, internationalization and Unicode support.

                Industrial Nanotechnology Inc
                1998-1999 
                Worked on database-backed knowledge-based system to 
		       automatically generate prospectus and SEC compliance documents 
		       		     for mutual fund industry (Fidelity, Scudder)

                Chief Technology Officer, Method Software
                1997-1998
                Design and implementation of a Java-based interactive
                network role-playing game engine. Experience with software 
                project management and product development.

                Co-founder, Universal Access Inc, Santa Barbara CA
                1994-1997
                Startup company to produce tools for World Wide Web
                database publishing and e-commerce. Designed generic
                database interface for Meta-HTML web scripting and
                application server.  Designed and implemented XACT
                server, the first certified TCP/IP based online credit
                card transaction processing system.  http://www.ua.com

                Research Assistant at MIT AI Lab
                1989-1993 for Prof. Tom Knight, MIT Transit
                parallel processor project. Working on high-speed
                fault-tolerant network architecture, high-performance
                packaging, and parallel-systems design. Designed
                working self-routing 50 MHz CMOS VLSI crossbar switch
                for a multi-processor.

                Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
                Summer 1989, 1991
                Worked on document imaging and intelligent image
                processing. Digital error-correction coding for
                printed data, paper user-interfaces, object-oriented
                Postscript programming.

                Symbolics Inc, Cambridge, MA., 
                June, 1984
                Member of Technical Staff, involved in research and
                development of state-of-the-art VLSI design systems and
                tools. Worked on production of the Ivory lisp-machine
                processor chip.

                Reliable Water Inc., Boston, MA.
                Sep. 86 - May 87 
                Implemented a prototype real-time expert-system for
                controlling automated water desalination plant.

                C.S.K. Inc., Tokyo, Japan               
                Summer, 1984 
                Co-taught a Lisp course based on the Structure and
                Interpretation of Computer Programs.  Course was geared
                towards Japanese engineers interested in Artificial
                Intelligence.


Languages: English and some spoken and written Japanese (2 years of
study at MIT).


Publications:


        NS: An Integrated Symbolic Design System, IFIP International VLSI
        Conference 1985.


        Fault-Tolerant Design for Multistage Routing Networks,
        International Symposium on Shared Memory Multiprocessing, April 1991


        RN1: Low-Latency, Dilated, Crossbar Router, 
        Hot Chips Symposium III, 1991