Joshua Zev Levin, Ph.D. 124 Arbor Lane Marlton, NJ 08053-4102 Mobile phone: (631) 463-5416 Josh-Levin@ieee.org http://www.Josh-Levin.US U.S. Citizen -- Secret Clearance (Expired) 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 · Relational Databases · Web-based Publication · Algebraic Geometric Modeling · Computer Graphics · Mathematical Modeling for Engineering & Science · Signal Processing · MPEG-2 and Digital Television Systems · 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. DATABASES: MySQL, SQL-Server (up to 2000), T-SQL, ADO HARDWARE and SYSTEMS Intel 8086/7/8 under Windows, MS-DOS, MP/M, CP/M, up to Pentium/CORE-i7 plus Cygwin, Linux (light) Hewlett-Packard systems under HP-UX Sun Workstation under UNIX DEC VAX 11/780 under VMS and UNIX DEC PDP under RMX CDC CYBER under NOS EDUCATION: Ph.D. Computer and Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY May, 1980 M.S. Electrical Engineering New York University, School of Engineering Bronx, NY October, 1974 B.A. Physics Queens College City University of New York Flushing, NY June, 1971 EXPERIENCE: Company and Address Capacity and Dates; Duties and Activities ------------------- ----------------------------------------- LeviCar Unlimited 124 Arbor Lane Marlton, NJ 08053-4102 866-538-4227 Founder and Chief Creative Officer 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 Consultant / Webmaster 2010 to 2011 · 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 289 Turnpike Road Westborough, MA 01581 800-241-8868 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 I have taught 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. · Developed methods for ranking available auto parts by quality. ____________________________________________________________________________ ANSWERTHINK, INC. 225 Washington 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 Digital Network Systems (now Motorola Broadband) 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 and Proposals 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: AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science ACM Association for Computing Machinery (lapsed) AEE Association of Energy Engineers IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers SAE Society of Automotive Engineers SIAM Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (lapsed) Phi 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, must remove whitespace: https://www.researchgate.net/publication /325331648_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_NY_12181) “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, Sept. 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 Nov. 5. http://www.LeviCar.com/LeviCar-Poster.pdf “LeviCar -- the New Future of Personal Transportation”, submitted for Sci- entific American's WCI (World-Changing Ideas) Contest, 2010 Sept. 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 Feb 17. Discussion: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/943 Essay: (Link, must remove whitespace: 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