Look what's behind

Raymond Raud, Ph.D.

Measured by results

Brief Bio:
I started my professional life as an Electrical Engineer programming computers. Different from Dilbert I was born with a Climber attitude. Thoughts and ideas were running much faster than my fingers on the keyboard, so I evolved into a leader/manager of a constantly growing team of researchers and software engineers. After a while this group was not only self-sustaining but contributed significant portion of the scientific organization’s revenue I was part of at that time. Life turned hectic after I was elected to chair the microcomputer technology workshop that served as a voluntary body of experts for the government of the Soviet Union. Visibility of this multifunctional group in strategic technology programs, educating, publishing and advising the government on funding created an aura of a universal technology guru and loss of privacy.

Defection for the west late eighties closed that chapter and started with new challenges. Getting the members of US Congress to support re-unification of my family took some “out-of-box” thinking and creativity. Being a hands-on engineer helped to re-start my career despite approaching recession. Independent interests outside of AT&T Bell Laboratories business (my employer at that time) and sufficient energy to spare, I eased into being an entrepreneur. My “can-do” style fits well with start-up and despite cut-wrenching business dynamics it is great to be pushing the capabilities of software technology for market research, financial and telecom industries in Chief Technology Officer kind of roles. Highlights of selected few projects from the past are here.

Last years have been busy with discoveries of proprietary trading algorithms to beat the “big guys” on commodity and currency markets. Days full of hands on trading, financial market modeling and private consulting for world largest financial services firms. Summary of few recent projects is here.

For an engineer, scientist and businessman it has been maddening to see the growing dependence of our country from backward regimes and dictators. A dependence that has been created by shortsighted power hungry politicians. Sitting on the world largest reserves of energy and paying exorbitant money for terrorists to kill us is dumb. Even dumber is their “solution” to the problem they created. None of them have ever run even a candy store. Too much to expect to have even a tiny bit of common sense. What could be a rational solution to some 270 million or more cars on the roads of the United States of America. Here's one.

Here's a full list of companies I have had luck to work for -- resume. I am always looking for new challenges. Drop me a line, if you have one.