Ariel Dolan - Professional Resume |
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General Data |
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Name |
Ariel Dolan |
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Profession |
Software Application Development, Web Development and Programming |
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Education |
Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
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Languages |
C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, VB.NET, VB, VBA, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, ASP, HTML, DHTML, SQL, XML,VML,WML, VXML |
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Address |
1 Asaf St., Ramat-Gan 52531, Israel |
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Phones |
Phone: 972-3-7526264, Fax: 972-3-5752173, Cellular: 972-54-222396 |
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Home |
9 Barkan St., Kfar-Saba 44288, Israel |
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Home Phones |
Phone: 972-9-7449621, Fax: 972-9-7405951 |
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Web Site |
http://www.aridolan.com (and http://www.arieldolan.com) |
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Current Projects (2004) |
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Customer |
Hazera Genetics |
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General Field |
Bioinformatics |
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Project |
Bioinformatics Analysis |
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Project description |
Trait directed gene discovery |
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Project Technology |
Bioinformatics analysis aided by programming in C# and Ado.Net. |
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Customer |
Volcani Institute |
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General Field |
Bioinformatics |
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Project |
Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) Extraction Program |
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Project description |
Extraction of SSR’s from DNA sequences |
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Project Technology |
An intranet Asp.Net application, written in C# and Ado.Net. |
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Projects (2003) |
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Customer |
Modan Publishing |
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General Field |
Business Software |
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Project |
Book Production Management Program |
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Project description |
A program for managing all the processes involved in the production of books, including pre-print activities, printing, binding etc. |
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Project Technology |
A desktop .Net Winforms application, written in C# and Ado.Net. |
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Customer |
Volcani Institute |
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General Field |
Bioinformatics |
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Project |
Data analyzing program for Bioinformatics projects |
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Project description |
An interactive program for running Bioinformatics tasks |
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Project Technology |
A desktop .Net Winforms application, written in C# and Ado.Net. |
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Projects (2000 - 2002) |
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Customer |
Webtrac |
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General Field |
Location Based Services |
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Project |
TracFleet - Internet Based Fleet Management System |
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Project description |
A mobile workforce and assets management application, enabling managers to view and interact with their entire mobile personnel. Mobile users' locations and movements are displayed on a Web-based mapping application, showing movements over map in real time and supporting queries and reports. |
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Project Technology |
A client-server application where server and middle-tier components are written in Java, communication is XML based, and client side is purely browser based, not requiring Java or any other end user software installation. The client side (my part of the project) is an interactive, graphic, advanced web application written in VML, DHTML, XML and Javascript. Locations are received either from the wireless carrier (for mobile phones) or from special hardware (for vehicles) |
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Project |
TracInfo - Mobile Phone Location Based Service (Pelephone’s Next2U) |
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Project description |
Provides mobile users with information based on their location. For example, a user requests the "nearest Chinese restaurant", and the application replies (via the mobile phone) with a list of the closest restaurants matching the requested criteria. This application is implemented as the Next2U (*11) service of Pelephone. |
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Project Technology |
A general purpose application platform connected to wireless carrier services and modules and provides location based content to mobile users. My part in this project was content management, aggregation and integration. Content format and handling are all XML-based. |
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Project |
BeyondGuide - Tourist Information on Cellular Network |
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Project description |
This BeyondGuide application provides location based tourist information over the cellular phone. The customer-tourist dials a number and receives historical and other information about the touristic site he is currently located at. |
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Project Technology |
The basic infrastructure uses Webtrac Location Based Services system. Messages are transferred using VoiceXML (Vxml) markup language. |
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Other Recent Works (1998 - 2000) |
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Customer |
Aurec Group |
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Project title |
Enterprise-Wide Reporting System |
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Environment |
VB, VBA, Excel, Access |
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Project description |
A reporting management system that gathers periodical financial and activities reports from all daughter companies and organizes the data in a central enterprise database located at Aurec headquarters. A flexible, user-maintained system, implemented transparently in MS Excel. |
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Customer description |
The Aurec Group is a leading provider of communications, media information and financial services. Morris Kahn and the U.S. Telecommunications Company, SBC Communication, Inc jointly own it. The company's activities include software for communications companies, cables TV, international calls, computer networking, classified telephone directories, financial enterprises (e.g. VisaAlpha credit card) and AIG Direct Insurance. |
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Customer |
Indigo |
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Project title |
Sales-Aid Programs |
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Environment |
VB, VBA, Excel |
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Project description |
A series of several marketing aid programs (one for each of Indigo's main products). Each is based on a different business model, with interactive, user-friendly interface, enabling the prospective customer to query the ROI options and compare the product against competitors. |
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Customer description |
INDIGO LTD. is a developer and leading innovator of digital color electronic printing systems. The company is engaged in the research, development, production, marketing, distribution and service of Digital Offset Color (TM) printing product, which includes the E-Print(R) 1000+(TM) sheetfed press for short-run color commercial printing, the industry's most widely used digital color press; the Omnius(TM) One-Shot Color(TM) webfed press for label, packaging and decorative printing; and peripherals such as the E-RIP(TM) group of high-speed off-line image processors. |
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Online Work Examples |
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General |
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My Home Site |
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URL |
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Description |
The site can represent my Html, Dhtml, Java, Javascript, Vbscript, ASP, XML, C#, .NET and graphical capabilities for web development and programming. |
Java |
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Title |
Floys - Artificial Life Experiment |
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URL |
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Description |
Experiments in Artificial Life (Alife) bottom-up programming. Floys are flocking Alife creatures having a territorial awareness (they defend their territory against any stranger). Floys are implemented in Java applets and offer free source code. The advanced version, eFloys, implements evolution by genetic algorithms. |
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GA Playground - Genetic Algorithm Toolkit |
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URL |
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Description |
A general purpose GA toolkit implemented in Java, designed for experimenting with genetic algorithms and handling optimization problems. The program can be used as an applet (in a browser) or as an application (in any Java supporting environment). Sample problems include TSP, Knapsack, Binpack and many MultiModal functions. |
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Title |
Annotated Picture Browser |
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http://aridolan.com/ofiles/PictureBrowser/Demo/PictureBrowser.html |
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Description |
A user friendly Java applet for displaying pictures along with their corresponding annotations, descriptions, titles and comments |
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Title |
JcaToi |
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URL |
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Description |
JcaToi (Text Oriented Interactive Java Cellular Automaton) is a Game of Life java implementation which is interactively contolled by the normal html text. This Cellular Automata applet uses the classic Conway's Game of Life rules, where the CA world (implemented here as an arbitrary background picture) is shared by two parallel, independent, overlapping CA's. It is an interactive applet, where control is achieved through clicking on textual links rather then by the orthodox use of buttons and menus. |
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Bioinformatics in .Net |
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Title |
Interactive Blast Query |
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URL |
http://www.aridolan.com/biq/Query.aspx |
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Description |
The Interactive Blast Query is a web utility for online
manipulation of |
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ASP |
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Alife Database |
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URL |
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Description |
A Searchable Database for Artificial Life and Alife related sites on the Net. The data is automatically gathered by an intelligent search bot that scans the world wide web for Alife related pages. This is a full web application, allowing authors to add and update their entries online. |
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Title |
Mailing lists archives interactive searchable database |
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URL |
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Description |
This online database application enables searching, filtering and sorting of archived digests of mailing lists (three are currently supported, but the tool is general). The interactive utility provides a flexible, user friendly access to stored mailing lists postings. |
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XML |
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Title |
Xml to Interactive Table |
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http://www.aridolan.com/xml2table/x2t.aspx |
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Description |
The Xml2Table web application can take any data-oriented,
well-formed XML file, located either on the local disk or on the Internet,
and organize it |
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Title |
XML/XSL Site Navigation Version 1 |
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URL |
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Description |
This site navigation map is generated by combining an XML file (defining site structure) with an XSL file and some Javascript code. The menu is static multi-level (supports all levels defined in the XML) and displays short description alongside each item. |
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XML/XSL Site Navigation Version 2 |
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Description |
This site navigation page uses the same XML file as above combined with a different XSL file. The menu in this case is compact, two-level and dynamic, updating itself for each selection of a main subject. The descriptions in this version are displayed in the status bar. |
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.NET / C# |
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Title |
Alife Database Web Service |
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URL |
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Description |
This is a web service for retrieving data programmatically from the Alife database. Written in C#. |
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The Online Dolls Gallery Store (based on IBuySpy store template) |
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URL |
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Description |
A fictitious online store, selling doll pictures, built on the IBuySpy store template. Converted to use MS Access. Written in C#. |
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The Gallery of Free Web Services (based on IBuySpy portal template) |
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URL |
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Description |
The Gallery of Free Web Services. Web services consumer application based on the IBuySpy portal template. Converted to use MS Access. Written in C#. |
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Past Work |
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Freelance Work |
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Miscellaneous - Projects more than two years old |
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Description |
Various projects developed for various customers in DOS and Windows environments: - Self contained Cad/Cam
system for automatic package design. |
Employed Work |
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Title |
CAD department management and development |
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Company |
ElOp - Israel Electro-Optics Industries |
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Description |
Managing and developing the Cad/Cam department of the company. In this period I developed many CAD applications for the Euclid 3D Cad system, several of which were presented and published in international conferences of electro-optical engineering (listed below). |
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Title |
R&D Engineer |
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Company |
IAI - Israel Aircraft Industries |
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Description |
Development and design of sophisticated mechanical systems and mechanisms. |
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Publications |
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CAD |
- Dolan A.: "Traz - an
interactive ray-tracing computer program integrated with a solid modeling Cad
system", Proc. SPIE - The International Society of Optical Engineering,
554, (June 1985). |
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Artificial Life |
- Luigi Pagliarini, Ariel Dolan, Filippo Menczer, Henrik Hautop Lund: "ALife Meets Web: Lessons Learned", J.-C. Heudin (Ed.): Virtual Worlds 98, LNAI 1434, 1998. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998 - An article about
my Artificial Life work in Scientific
American: |
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Ariel Dolan
aridolan@netvision.net.il