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Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D.

124 Arbor Lane
Marlton, NJ  08053-4102
Mobile phone:  (631) 463-5416
U.S. Citizen
Secret Clearance (Expired)
Josh-Levin@ieee.org

    PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY    

Over 50 years of scientific and engineering experience with emphasis in advanced information technology, developing software, and systems design and integration.  Wide range of professional contributions from STEM teaching to quality assurance on Defense contracts, from coding to database design and analyses.  Over 15 years of engineering and operational contributions to advanced surface transportation solutions.

    AREAS OF EXPERTISE    

• Magnetic Levitation
• Green Transportation
• Web Pages / Web Sites
• Web-generated E-Mail
• Credit-Card Capture / Validation
• Algebraic Geometric Modeling
• Computer Graphics
• Mathematical Modeling for Engineering & Science
• Signal Processing
• MPEG-2 and Digital Television Systems
• Relational Databases
• Web-based Publication
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Languages
• All facets of Science

    KNOWLEDGE BASE    

COMPUTER LANGUAGES 
HTML, ASP, PHP, some CSS and XML, VBScript, JavaScript, some Java, SQL, C, [Visual] C++, [Visual] BASIC, HP BASIC+, FORTRAN, Pascal/Delphi, various Assemblers;
Some knowledge of PL/I, COBOL, and Ada
  PACKAGES  
Word, OpenOffice, Crimson Editor, Word Perfect, Excel, Access, Mathematica, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, InderDev, SourceSafe, Enterprise Manager.
 
       HARDWARE
Intel 8086/7/8 up to  
Pentium/CORE-i7

Hewlett-Packard
Sun Workstation
DEC VAX 11/780
DEC PDP
CDC CYBER
SYSTEMS             
Windows 3.1 up to 7,
   MS-DOS, MP/M, CP/M,
   Cygwin, Linux (light)
HP-UX
UNIX
VMS, UNIX
RMX
NOS
DATABASE:  MySQL, SQL-Server (up to 2000), T-SQL, ADO


EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Computer and Systems Eng. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute      Troy, N.Y. May, 1980
M.S. Electrical Engineering New York University    School of Engineering October, 1974
B.A. Physics Queens College  City University of New York June, 1971

EXPERIENCE:
Company and Address Capacity and Dates; Duties and Activities
LEVICAR UNLIMITED
124 Arbor Lane
Marlton, NJ 08053-4102
Founder and Chief Creative Officer August, 2003  to  date

Working on developing and publicizing a new transportation system, utilizing modular automobiles whose bodies can travel long distances at high speeds on magnetic-levitation (MagLev) rails, thus reducing the need for air travel.  The same MagLev-rail network can be used for freight, decreasing unit costs for both passengers and freight.


PRINCETON LAWCAST
Pennington, NJ
Independent Consultant 2006  to  2007

• Developed a .PHP website for an audio journal for lawyers.  It entices new subscribers, allows them to register in the database and to purchase subscriptions.
• Developed MySQL customer-information databases for billing, and managing publications and subscriptions.
• Developed utility web pages to query the database and manage fulfillment of subscriptions, management of renewal notices, and acceptance of promotional codes.
• Integration APIs for authorization and capture of charges from subscriber credit cards.


ARTAM RESEARCH
Cherry Hill, NJ
Independent Consultant 2006  to  2007

• Developed SQL customer-information databases for billing and managing an email system with automating communications with customers.
• Integration APIs of other subcontractors/partners and developing procedures for automated authorization of customer credit cards, and later capture of charges from the cards.
• Making modifications to the .php website.


TheTrainingAssociates
HQ:  289 Turnpike Road
Westborough, MA  01581
Per-Diem Computer Trainer 2003

Teaching Word, Excel, and other software to municipal employees and the general public.


SCHOOL DISTRICT
OF PHILADELPHIA

440 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA  19103
Per-Diem Substitute Teacher 2002  to  2003

Teaching mostly Chemistry, but also Mathematics, Physics, and a variety of other subjects in High Schools and Middle Schools.


INTERNATIONAL PARTS LOCATORS
11554 Davis Creek Court
Jacksonville, FL  32256
Long-Term Contractor 2000 to 2001

• Developed a series of pricing models for determining the optimum price for used automobile parts, such that profit may be maximized while maintaining “good will”, using interactive Excel spreadsheets.
• Mined old and new databases for statistics to drive these models.
• Also, developed models for ranking available auto parts by quality.


ANSWERTHINK, INC.
100 West Elm Street
Conshohocken, PA  19428
Consultant within a “Solutions Provider”; 
 Full-Time Employee
1998 to 2000

• As a consultant at the U.S. Tennis Association, wrote dynamically-linked modules, in both Visual Basic and Visual C++, to verify tennis scores.
• Also built an Active-Server Web Page (.ASP) to perform manual editing and automatic rescheduling of League Tennis Matches.
• For other clients, wrote tools for web authoring and web pages for display of purchasing databases. My .ASPs were written Visual InterDev, using HTML, IIS, Java-Script/JScript, VBScript, and SQL for the SQL Server (or MTS) backend, with SQL Stored Procedures maintained by Microsoft Enterprise Manager.
• Used ADO to connect the database data with the web pages.


GENERAL INSTRUMENT
(now Motorola Broadband)
Digital Network Systems 101 Tournament Drive, Horsham, PA  19044
Quality-Assurance Contractor 1995 to 1998

• Performed hands-on tests.
• Analyzed Product and Systems Specifications and wrote Test Specifications, Plans, Procedures, Scenarios and Cases, for system and product tests of the Next Level of Digital Cable service.
• Generated daily reports using VBA to transform Access records into Word documents.
• Wrote “Concept Paper” documents.
• Coordinated testing activities and tracked test executions, including management support.
• Suggested designs for redundant system architectures.
• Gained familiarity with MPEG-2 and many aspects of G.I.'s products.


CENTRE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
345 Wexley Drive
Newtown, PA  18940
Independent Contractor 1995

• Consulted on a Small-Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase-I project for the Army Missile Command in Huntsville, Alabama.
• Developed concepts, wrote documents, and developed pictorial constructs for a graphical-programming language.


EPOCH ENGINEERING
Suite 210
321 Norristown Road
Lower Gwynedd, PA  19002
Full-Time Employee working on Military Contracts 1988 to 1994

• Worked on several personal-computer-based simulation projects in the “C” language, including:
  • a Theatre Anti-Submarine Warfare game (long used at the Naval War College in Newport, RI),
  • a Torpedo Defense system using artificial intelligence,
  • an underwater acoustic simulation program,
  • a multi-sensor tracking program,
  • a tableau system for inputting and editing complicated sets of engineering data,  and
  • a C-language array-handling utility.
• Designed a wireless infrared audio communications system for submarines under a Small-Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase-I contract.
• Wrote a C++ signal-processing class library that had to work for Microsoft C++, Borland C++, and G++.
• Surveyed common off-the-shelf relational databases (RDBs), SQL, and Object-Oriented databases for applicability to an engineering application.
• Performed some IV&V work on a fixed-sonar system.



PROFESSIONAL and HONOR SOCIETIES:
AAASAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery (lapsed)
AEEAssociation of Energy Engineers
IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
SAESociety of Automotive Engineers
SIAMSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (lapsed)
ΦBKPhi Beta Kappa


EXTERNAL PUBLICATIONS:

“A Parametric Algorithm for Drawing Pictures of Solid Bodies Bounded by Quadric Surfaces.”  Comm. ACM 19:10 (October, 1976).

“Mathematical Models for Determining the Intersections of Quadric Surfaces.”  The Journal of Computer Graphics and Image Processing. Vol. 11 (1979) pp. 73-87.

QUISP: A Computer Processor for the Design and Display of Quadric-Surface Bodies. (Doctoral Dissertation) Technical Report IPL TR-80-003, May, 1980, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. 12181.   Link to ResearchGate

“QUADRIL: A Computer Language for the Description of Quadric-Surface Bodies.”  Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '80, Seattle, WA., July, 1980, pp. 86-92.

“A Boustrophedonic Method for Compressing Defense-Mapping-Agency Data.”  Proceedings of the 1986 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON '86) pp. 268-272.

“Rational Parametric Approach to Latitude and Longitude.”  NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation 35:2 Summer, 1988, pp. 150-172.

“The Perfect Synthesis.” EV World, September 13, 2004.  http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=744 .

“LeviCar — A Comprehensive System for Inter-City Transport” 2009 World Energy-Engineering Congress (WEEC), Washington, DC, 2009 November 5.   http://www.LeviCar.com/LeviCar-Poster.pdf.

“LeviCar — the New Future of Personal Transportation”, submitted for Scientific American's WCI (World-Changing Ideas) Contest, 2010 September 14.   http://www.scivee.tv/node/23530.

“A Common-Plinth Approach to Relativity and Quantum” entry to FQXi Essay Contest – Is Reality Digital or Analog? 2011 February 17.
    Discussion:   http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/943.
    Essay:   http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/essay-download/943/__details/Levin_CommonPlinth_FQXi.pdf.

In addition, Dr. Levin has written numerous internal documents, reports to customers, test procedures, etc.


MAGLEV PAPERS and WEBSITES

“Top Ten Reasons why Elon Musk should use MagLev instead of, or as part of, Hyperloop”  2016 February 16  http://www.LeviCar.com/Hyperloop/.

“The Future of MagLev:  How the Magnetic-Levitation SuperTurnpike will Revolutionize Ground Transportation”  2020 August 25  http://www.LeviCar.com/SuperTurnpike/SuperTurnpike-14.doc.

Website for General Public:   http://www.LeviCar.com.

Website for Innovative Transportation Professionals:   http://www.PROACCTIVE.info.


Last updated:  2022 January 30