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Ian Morris Nieves
imnieves AT gmail DOT com
San Francisco, California

Hello! My interests include designing interactive software, user interfaces, and graphics in situations where they are critical... letting simplicity through to the user.

Patents and Awards

• United States Patent (US-2008-001 0606-A 1)
  (Click to read patent as an Adobe PDF)
  Titled: “Graphic User Interface Device and Method for Security Application Rack”
  
  
• Winner, 2007 LinuxWorld “Best Security Solution”
  Voted on by a panel of independent judges and industry experts in recognition of product innovation and solutions in open computing.
  
  
• 2007 AlwaysOpen Top 100 Companies
  “This year’s AO 100 list of the hottest private companies includes a big batch of young innovators paving the way in emerging markets.”
  
  

Professional Experience

• Untangle Inc., California
  (January 2004 – September 2007)
  As an early partner of Untangle, Inc. (Original Founders: Dirk Morris and John Irwin), I helped revolutionize and simplify network security by inventing the award winning, patented virtual rack user interface. Untangle is now solidly the leading open source network security gateway.
  
  
• Lego Systems A/S, Lego.com, Denmark
  (September 2003 - November 2003)
  Assisted an internationally distributed team of web architects in implementing an asset caching scheme to reduce the download time of web pages from Lego.com. Leveraged ASP and a distributed delivery provider such as Akamai.
  
  
• Lego Systems A/S, Lego Virtual And Interactive Play Division, Denmark
  (January 2003 – September 2003)
  Assist producer in dealing with third party software development company. Design, develop and implement experimental user interfaces for interactive 3D children’s Lego construction software. Work on advanced construction algorithms and ease of use.
  
  
• Blue Pumpkin Software Inc., California
  (September 2002 - March 2003)
  Designed, developed, and implemented an advanced look and feel for the leading call center analysis tool.
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Center for Innovation in Learning, Pittsburgh
  (Spring 2002 - Summer 2002)
  Designed, developed, and implemented an experimental programming environment for children, intended to be both fun and useful to Psychology research.
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Advanced Telepresence Lab/EventScope, Pittsburgh
  (Fall 2001 - Spring 2002)
  Designed, developed, and implemented utilities to optimize performance of, and improve user experience of an interactive 3D planetary exploration system, targeted towards elementary school science education.
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon ICES Composable Simulation Group, Pittsburgh
  (Summer 2001)
  Developed my “Virtual Building Blocks” thesis further as a platform to demonstrate kinematics using Legos.
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Pittsburgh
  (Summer 2000)
  Designed, developed, and implemented “Virtual Building Blocks”, an advanced Java based interactive 3D construction tool for building complex Lego models.
  
  
• Apple Computer, California
  (Summer 1999)
  Assisted in developing cross platform mass storage libraries for both MacOS 9 and MacOS X.

Academic Experience

• Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
  M.S. Software Engineering (2005)
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science (SCS)
  B.S. Double Major in Computer Science (with College Honors) and Economics (2001)
  
  
• Notable Coursework
  Software Architectures, Software Process Definition, Software Process Management, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, System Level Programming, Machine Learning, Theory of Formal Computation, Computer Algorithms, Engineering Statistics, Internet Economics, Econometrics, Antitrust Theory
  
  
• Honors
  CMU Student College (StuCo) Founding President (http://www.cmu.edu/stuco)
  CMU Computer Science Department Honors
  CMU Mobile Robotics Competition: 2nd place, 2001
  CMU Mobile Robotics Competition: 3rd place, 2000
  CMU Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2000
  3 x CMU Research Grant Recipient
  CMU Jose Marti Academics Award
  
  

Technologies

• Software Development
  Java, Java Swing, Java3D, SQL, SVN, CVS, Ant, Make
  
  
• Graphics Design
  Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
  
  
• Web Development
  HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, JSP, Apache