Nick Avlonitis, B.S. Comp Sci, Cal State Univ Sacramento

Nick received his B.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Sacramento. He has been doing software development for ten years, initially in collaborative applications (real time audio/video, whiteboard sharing, file sharing) for General Dynamics in Mountain View, California. Soon after, he joined a startup company called Privada, developing a privacy engine for e-mail, instant messaging and web browsing in San Jose, California. He moved to Phoenix in 2002 and worked on a contact management application for the Apollo Group for three years before leaving to work on Radio Frequency Identification software for automated tollbooths for Transcore, Inc. He joined the ASU LROC team in April of 2007 and since then has written targeting constraint software for LROC's NAC & WAC cameras, data exchange servers used for marshalling files between Goddard MOC and LROC SOC, and is beginning work on sensor modeling for the Chandrayaan spacecraft's Mini-SAR instrument.