Matthew T. Beitler

Home Address:
   5200 Hilltop Drive, DD17
   Brookhaven, PA 19015-1262
   beitler@acm.org
   215-868-3727 (cell)

Education (completed)

M.S.
1997 

University of Delaware

Computer Science

Master's Thesis: Language Organized Geometric Models and Behavior Control

B.S.
1992

Millersville University

Computer Science

Education (incomplete)

Ph.D.
degree program

University of Pennsylvania
Computer Science

25 credit units completed (a 1 credit per class system), 3.81 GPA

Work Experience (brief summary)

Consultant
August 1998
to present

Multiple Companies 

·          Harley-Davidson Motor Company

·          soVoz, inc.

·          Rutgers University’s Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging & Modeling

·          Active BreakTime, inc.

·          Whoola, inc.

·          EAI/Transom Technologies (now UGS, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of EDS)

·          Applied Resources

Founder
December 2004
to Present

Maven Sim, LLC 

Director
July 2000
to July 2005

Web3D Consortium, Board of Directors 

Research Assistant
September 2003
to January 2005

Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

University of Pennsylvania 

Research Staff
September 2001
to August 2003

Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

University of Pennsylvania 

Papers Chair
February 2002
to February 2003

Web3D 2003 Symposium, an ACM SIGGRAPH Symposia
8th International Conference on 3D Web Technology  - Saint-Malo; FRANCE

Papers Chair
February 2001
to February 2002

Web3D 2002 Symposium, an ACM SIGGRAPH Symposia
7th International Conference on 3D Web Technology  - Tempe, AZ; USA

Research Assistant
September 1998
to August 2001

Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

University of Pennsylvania 

Consultant
1996 to 2000

DRaW Computing Associates, Inc.

Research Assistant
June 1993
to August 1998

duPont Hospital for Children Research Laboratories
(formerly the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories of the A.I. duPont Institute)

Intern
June 1992
to December 1992

Shared Medical Systems, Inc. (now Siemens Health Services)

CO-OP
May 1991
to December 1991

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

CO-OP
May 1990
to August 1990

Shared Medical Systems, Inc. (now Siemens Health Services)

Skills & Experience  

Programming

Languages

C++, C, Java, Perl, Python, K, LISP, OCAML, Prolog, Assembly, COBOL.

Technologies

H-Anim, JBoss, Matlab, MySQL, OpenGL, RPC, STL, TCL/TK, VRML, X3D, XML

Hardware

PCs, Unix boxes (SGI & Sun), MAC, network switches/routers, firewalls, VPN boxes, various motion capture systems (including the design/development of the LiveActor motion capture and video feedback system)

Operating Systems

Unix (Linux, IRIX, Solaris), Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, VMS

Other

Development Cycle Management, Human simulation, visualization plus anthropometric measurement, support of department wide antivirus solutions, setup plus GHOST deployment of standardized PC configurations for laboratories, configuration of various PC/SGI backup solutions, and support of laboratory of linux workstations and laptops.