Frank L. Jania 124 Washington Place New York NY 10014 +1.917.402.0501 fjania@gmail.com I find my greatest professional joy when I am designing, developing and inventing new technologies that are meant to enrich the lives of the people that use them. The subject areas I am most fond of are: collaboration and social software, novel and transparent user interfaces, and information visualization. I am a compassionate manager and leader, a sincere teammate who thrives in an environment of smart and creative people that regularly challenge each other, and a prolific inventor with over 70 patents pending. In addition to my day to day work I am an active member, leader or mentor of several GLBT organizations. For the last 4 years, in an effort to encourage students to pursue careers in technology, I have organized and managed an engineering fair for the Museum of Life and Science that has been attended by over 4,000 local students. IBM Software Group - Lotus Connections Development 06/2008 03/2009 Senior Software Engineer; UI Warlord; Problem Solver Research Triangle Park, NC UI lead for the Lotus Connections development team, serving as the UI development subject matter expert across all eight of the Lotus Connections applications. Choreographed the efforts of 13 UI engineers, in 3 countries, working on a family of 8 applications, to insure that the product's design points are consistently applied and implemented. Developed, refined and maintained the UI Java / JSP code that is common to all services. Regularly harmonized with the user experience and visual design teams to assess which features were possible in the release cycle, and to come up with creative ways to implement their designs. Lead the product-wide effort to improve the performance of all of 8 applications. Crafted a performance improvement strategy which uses open source and originally developed libraries along with current best practices. Delivered an implementation of the strategy which has lead to a nearly four-fold performance increase in the reference application. IBM Software Group - Lotus Business Partner Enablement 06/2006 06/2008 Technical Evangelist; Business Partner Liaison; Social Software Consultant Research Triangle Park, NC Supported the Lotus brand as a technical evangelist, business partner liaison and consultant for the portfolio of collaboration and social software. Developed reusable collateral in the form of documentation, articles, interactive learning labs and code samples in support business partner efforts to integrate with Lotus products. Delivered over 70 presentations on collaboration and social software technologies to a variety of customer, business partner and internal IBM audiences. Lead a series of brainstorming sessions to help business partners discover news ways to integrate with Lotus software. Called on as a subject matter expert by several internal groups to consult on plans to implement social technologies inside and outside of the company. Supported over 80 business partners in delivering solutions in time for the annual Lotus trade show. Represented the business parter enablement department on the Lotus Connections product offering team to insure that the needs of our business partners were addressed in product plans. IBM Systems and Technology Group 07/2004 06/2006 Software Engineering Manager Research Triangle Park, NC Managed a distributed team of UI software engineers located in New York and North Carolina. Performed every aspect of personnel management including hiring, separating, developing, promoting, mentoring and coaching, for a department of 18 employees. Delivered a balanced budget for employee, contractor and capital expenses in our cost recovery subdivision every year. Mentored a team of engineers developing web-based prototypes for the next generation of mainframe system administration tools. Lead a team of peer managers in creating a set of expectations and standards which were applied universally across a previously disjoint team. Designed and developed a set of tooling for managers to be able to allocate bonus budgets according to HR policy. Designed and developed a set of tooling for creating distribution lists, team rosters and organization charts with faceted browsing capability which still serves over 40,000 users per month. IBM Research 11/2003 07/2004 Visiting Software Engineer San Jose, CA and Hawthorne, NY Hand selected for a six month rotational assignment as a visiting software engineer with IBM Research. Consulted for the WebFountain text analytics team to identify a rich client technology platform to use for custom end user applications. Delivered a reference implementation of the platform, based on Eclipse, which accommodated plugging-in various text analysis and visualization tools. Presented assignment's findings at an internal technology fair attended by 4,000 people. IBM Systems Group, WebAhead 11/2000 11/2003 Rich Client UI Software Engineer, Team Lead and Product Manager Southbury, CT and New York City, NY Worked as a team lead, product manager, UI designer and rich desktop client engineer for IBM's most successful advanced technology prototype team. Lead a team of 4 engineer/designers in developing an enterprise scale messaging client platform deployed to over 50,000 people. Personally designed and developed the user interface and framework for a suite of broadcast messaging applications. Iteratively gathered and acted on user feedback from a 1,000+ person community through newsgroups, surveys and direct conversation. Facilitated hand-off of the successful prototype platform to the IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 commercial product development team. Designed and developed the UI for a photo resizing tool in the online employee directory which has been used by over 300,000 employees. Designed and developed a variety of rapid prototypes to demonstrate the value and practical application of new technologies. IBM Global Services 05/1999 11/2000 Front-end Web Development Engineer and Problem Solver Hawthorne, NY and Sydney, NSW, Australia Worked as a front-end engineer, team co-lead and design liaison for the team that produced the official web site of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Co-led a team of 6 engineers in producing the site that served 230 million page views to 8.7 million people in 17 days. Developed a CGI page filter which resulted in a ten-fold improvement in page performance by identifying and working around a bug in one of the supported browsers. Developed an interactive visualization applet that allowed visitors to see what time it was in various parts of the world. Developed and maintained the HTML/Javascript templates for all sport and athlete results pages on the site. Developed a Perl based content production system for the Paralympic Games site. Developed web based tooling to automate the creation of common web content based on templates. Developed portions of the front end of the Sydney Olympic online store. The Cooper Union 09/1997 05/1999 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering New York City, NY Applying Visual Analysis to Ground Force Reaction Data in the Study of Gait Pathology Completed a master's thesis project based on a request by researchers at Lenox Hill Hospital. The researches had purchased a "force plate" which measures the force applied as a patient walks on it in order to analyze gait pathology and athletic performance. Using the Win32 API and OpenGL I wrote software which read the stream of data from the force plate and a video feed. The software displayed a synchronized side by side view of the force plate's data (displayed as a 3-D visualization of the direction and magnitude of the force applied to the plate) and video of the human subject being measured. The Cooper Union 09/1993 05/1997 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering New York City, NY Reduction of Low Frequency Loudspeaker Distortion Using an Adaptive, Driver Independent, Digital Signal Processing System Completed a senior thesis project with the goal of reducing distortion in low frequency loudspeakers by performing a real time analysis of it's moving parts. This hybrid digital/analog project involved implementing an adaptive filter algorithm in assembly language on a Spectrum PC/C5x DSP board. The filter's response characteristic was controlled by analyzing the output of an accelerometer mounted on the speaker's cone.

Author and inventor on 65 patent filings

Lead and co-inventor on a variety of inventions in the area of user interface technologies, publish/subscribe messaging, voice enabled applications, social software, collaboration software, accessibility technologies, pervasive device applications, and virtual worlds.

System, Method and Apparatus for Proximity-Based Authentication For Managing Personal Data Automated Viewable Selectable Chance History Manipulation Email Address Verification System Protective Personal Video Recorder Operation User Configured Alternative Email Rendering Automated Dynamic Differential Data Processing Scrollbar User Interface for Multitouch Devices Dynamic Point and Extend User Interface Sorting Records Based on Free Text Field Content Voice Response Unit Harvesting Voice Response Unit Mapping Voice Response Unit Shortcutting Activity Pattern Based Battery Charging Alerts for Mobile Devices Using Excitement and other Factors in Digital Video Recording Defining Sectional Boundaries of a Webpage Recipient Side Grouping of Addresses Method for Providing Enhanced Audio Conferencing Services in a Telephony System Client Side Reconciliation of Typographical Errors in Messages from Input Limited Devices System and Method for Interface-Based Spam Management Method and System for Federation of Alert Information Across Multiple Electronic Devices to Manage Alert Life-cycle Interlacing Responses within an Instant Messaging System Signaling Correspondence Between a Meeting Agenda and a Meeting Discussion Sharing Syndicated Feed Bookmarks Among Members of a Social Network Seamless Drag and Drop Operation with Multiple Event Handlers Enhancing Data in a Screenshot Ambient Project Management Method, System, and User Interface for Providing Inline Spelling Assistance System for Effective Meeting Invitee Response Status Preventative Traffic Congestion Social Networking Improvement System Within a Community System and Method to Handle Vandalism in a Virtual World Method for Managing Transient Contacts Location Independent Communication in a Virtual World Method and Apparatus for Aggregating and Presenting User Playback Data Indicating Manipulation of Media Clips by a Plurality of Users Protecting Context Sensitive Information from Being Transmitted From an Instant Message Client Method and User Interface for Creating an Audio Recording Using a Document Paradigm Socially Based Station Navigation Enabling Remote Locale Specific Operations in Multiple Locale and User Environments Endorsing E-mail Messages Using Social Network Verification Templates and Style Sheets for Audio Broadcasts System and Method for Providing Relevant Assets in Collaboration Mediums Apparatus, System and Method for an Inline Display of Related Blog Postings Indexing Digitized Speech with Words Represented in the Digitized Speech Automatic Speech Recognition with Dynamic Grammar Rules Presenting Supplemental Content for Digital Media Using a Multimodal Application Effecting Functions on a Multimodal Telephony Device Oral Modification of an ASR Lexicon of an ASR Engine Dynamically merging columns within a table Collaborative, Event Driven System Management An Apparatus for Managing Outputs of Applications Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Controlling a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Communication Session Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Managing Content Received From Multiple Content Feeds Context Based Grammars for Automated Speech Recognition Method, Computer Program Product and Portable Electronic Device For Providing Pricing Information to Assist a User in Comparative Shopping Audio Accessibility Enhancement for Computer Audio Events Priority Based Scheduling System System and Method for Browser Context Based Search Disambiguation Using Existing Category Taxonomy System and Method for Browser Context Based Search Disambiguation Using a Viewed Content History Method and Apparatus for Implementing Version Based Electronic Mail Method and Apparatus for Implementing Real-time Collective Moderation of Collaborative Environments A System for Communicating Status Data Collaborative Contact Management Method, System and Storage Medium for Filtering Content Presented on a Computer System Creating Dynamic Interactive Alert Messages Based on Extensible Document Definitions A Pub/Sub Message Invoking a Subscribers Client Application Program Performing an Operation on a Message Received from a Publish/Subscribe Service GUI Interface for Subscribers to Subscribe to Topics of Messages Published by a Pub/Sub Service Authorizing Message Publication to a Group of Subscribing Clients Via A Publish/Subscription Service Interactive Filtering Electronic Messages Received from a Publication/Subscription Service Cooperative Non-Repudiated Message Exchange in a Network Environment Method and apparatus for scalable peer-to-peer inquiries in a network of untrusted parties Context Enhanced Messaging and Collaboration System System and Method to Deflect Email Threads to a Blogging System

Topics include product APIs, social software, Java programming, broadcast messaging and innovations in social software and user interface.

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Awards and Recognition

Master Inventor, IBM Corporation First place - Outstanding presentation award, IBM Academy of Technology Top 10% performer stock grant award, IBM Corporation Outstanding technical achievement award, IBM Corporation Top 10% performer stock option award, IBM Corporation Gold medal achievement award, IBM Corporation Team award - Sydney Olympic Online Store, IBM Corporation First place - Student paper / presentation competition - Northeast Region, IEEE