Curriculum Vitae(CV) - JOHN STERNI

 

As a graduate from the University of Southern California (USC), John received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998. Before finishing his degree, this, Mr. Sterni was already beginning to focus his energy into the Information Technology and saw great potential into this emerging area.

Mr. Sterni held the position as Webmaster for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Technology Transfer Center (ETTC) for more than 4 years. Before that held the position of Project Specialist and Intern for another 4 years and has been a part of the USC community for more than 10 years. As this research project has now drawn to a close, Mr. Sterni is looking for new opportunities to utilize his talents.

Mr. Sterni's current duties include being the web developer and acting web manager at the University of the Pacific. Before moving back to Stockton in 2006, Mr Sterni was webmaster and IT administrator of the National Network of Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization project at USC, where he was instrumental in the development of the IT architecture that the research center now uses as a nation-wide online entrepreneural collaboration tool. He is also the webmaster for the Los Angeles Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, which is the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH). The worlds first and largest computing society, Mr. Sterni has been a member since 1999 and is a regular attendee to the annual SIGGRAPH conference. Mr. Sterni just started volunteering in the executive council of the Los Angeles chapter just a year ago, but has already created an online RSVP and online election system for its 700+ members and maintains its current news and events calendar.

Mr. Sterni has been working in the Information Technology (IT) and web development community for over 10 years. Developing or co-developing such tools for USC such as a Technology Catalog, Commercial Assessment Tools, and intranet system. Mr. Sterni has taken several courses in web publishing and information organization when the internet and world wide web was in its infancy. He has consulted on several web site designs and has provided technical assistant to many others. Mr. Sterni has also designed and developed interactive web site, setting up blogs and collaborative and web portals. His work includes database integration using SQL Server and MySQL database and HTML, ASP and PHP web development languages.

Mr. Sterni's IT administrative knowledge includes administration of user accounts and permissions in the windows NT and 2000/2003 server environment and unix systems. Creation of routine backup systems and troubleshooting hardware and software problems. Mr. Sterni has created and have implemented specifications for hardware, software and networking systems for servers and workstations in a production environment. Other duties included serving as liaison to the University of Southern California's Information Services Division (ISD) who maintains the overall university computing and telecommunication systems.

Another notable area of specialization is Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Using the ArcView GIS software, Mr. Sterni has generated maps for several projects for NASA, USC and UCLA .

In his spare time Mr. Sterni is involved in the Andronicus Alumni Association. As treasurer for over 5 years , his responsibilities include the management and operations of the Chapter house for the Alpha Rho Chi Architecture Fraternity, near the USC campus. He is also actively involved in the restoration and preservation of this historical landmark in Los Angeles.

Job History

  • University of the Pacific - Stockton, CA
    Web developer, Enrollment and Acting University Web Manager (Jan 2007 - current)
  • San Joaquin County Mental Health Services - Stockton, CA
    System Alansy II (Oct 2006 - Dec 2006)
  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering Western Research Application Center -Los Angeles, CA
    Webmaster (May 2006 - December 2006)
  • National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (N2TEC) - Los Angeles, CA
    Webmaster (Jan 2002 - Feb 2006)
  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering - Technology Transfer Center - Los Angeles, CA
    Webmaster (Jun 2001 - Feb 2006)
  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering - NASA Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center - Los Angeles, CA
    Project Specialist (Dec 1999 - Jun 2001)
  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering - NASA Far West Regional Technology Transfer Center - Los Angeles, CA
    Intern (Oct 1996 - Dec 1999)
  • Conex Cable Inc. - Dublin, CA
    Machine Operator (Jun 1992 - Dec 1993)
  • Taco Bell - Stockton, CA
    Logistics Assistant (Mar 1991 - Jun 1992)
  • Pac Pop Inc. - Lodi, CA
    Machine Operator (Mar 1990 - Mar 1991)
  • Yosemite Launderette - Stockton, CA
    Family owned-business - (Apr 1990 - Aug 1995)

Projects and Achievements

USC School of Business - N2TEC
Created and maintained web site for National Science Foundation (NSF) project for National Commercialization Network. Supported online real time collaboration tool using Microsoft Sharepoint Technologies. This allowed researchers and student around the country or the world to share documents and communicate in real time with other member. Work with Groxis Inc. to develop data visualization tools to allows user to group information in a variety of ways completely different than traditional search engines. Built custom login and registration application to integrate and streamline creation of user accounts in the Microsoft Sharepoint environment.

Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology
At the request of NASA Ames Research center, I developed both a public web site and a collaboration portal for the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (BRTFN). This 40 member panel was organized by Congressman Mike Honda and California State Controller Steve Westly to promote California and Silicon Valley a National and worldwide center in nanotechnology.Also included a web log (blog) for board member to post current about the area of nanotechnology and the work that they were doing.

Boeing Intellectual Property Business (IPB)
Developed, designed, built web site and technology catalog database for the Boeing IPB group. Designed online web-based application that allowed patent information from Boeing to be extracted from the US Patent and Trademark's office and stored and indexed for searching on their web site. Developed search engine applications for Licensing Manager at Boeing to find technology based on a variety of parameters. Also included the ability to allow administrators to update the site on a regular basis as new patents are issued. Provided a dashboard for administrator to see the most popular patent being viewed and allows user to saved search results.

NASA Ames Office of Technology Partnership
Developed and maintain web site for this NASA office at Ames Research Center. Developed technology catalog as a central point where research and the general public can find out more information about technologies that are available for licensing from NASA Ames. Also created a intranet portal for information for researchers and Partnership Mangers. Other Requirements included Section 508 ADA compliance for disabled user accessibility and guidelines from NASA of consistent style and content management.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
GIS involves the ability to take geographic information and generating visual representation of that information for analysis. Using the ArcView GIS software, Mr Sterni generated maps for several projects for NASA including one project, mapping of Technology Incubators in the 8 Western states under a NASA Minority/ Women owned-business grant. The goal of the project was to locate incubators in Federal and State empowerment and enterprise zones and to target these businesses to educate them in technology transfer.

Skills

Video and Digital Film
Technical expertise, knowledge and production of video content for both web site distribution and large scale theater venues. Primary focus is to highlight the Windows video compression technology and how it can replace other digital HD playback system. The system has been exhibited at the Maui Film Festival 2003 & 2004. Portland Film Festival 2003, Sundance Film Festival 2004 , Santa Barbara Film Festival 2002. Kapolei Conference 2002. Produced, edited introduction and seminar videos for N2TEC and The Commercial Technology Alliance.

Web site development
Designed and developed web sites that included dynamic page generation from database information, ascetically and user-friendly, search engines, contact forms, collaboration, file storage and integration with other application such as remote email access and file access to corporate servers. Mr. Sterni's portfolio of web sites include the NASA Ames Technology Partnerships web site, The NASA JPL Commercial Technology Site, National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (N2TEC), Boeing intellectual Property, Technology Transfer Center, Medsolve Technologies Inc., ABSea Photo, A Scape Artist Landscaping, NASA Geospatial Conference web site just to name a few.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Developed and analyzed incubator location maps for NASA sponsored Minority and women owned business project. Developed maps identifying industry cluster areas in the United States, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 grant for NASA, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, identifying areas with in the where multimedia industries are located using National Association of Broadcasters Industry data, and generating a map of attendee's locations from a NASA sponsored Conference on Geospatial Applications, and generated maps for data at the Neuro-psychiatric Institute NPI at UCLA.

Computer Aided Modeling/Drafting/Animation
Mr. Sterni's computer modeling skill have been used to create drawing for network layout systems for Building renovation and development, logo animation, building program layout, and in the past mechanical design. Mr Sterni. has used a variety of software packages such as: AutoCAD, 3D studio, Softimage, Working Model, SolidWorks and I-Deas. Designed various 3D models for banner ads, animation for film and architectural visualization.