Base One management - Executive team

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Management - Executive Team

Steven Asherman
President and Chief Technology Officer

Steven has over 30 years of software architecture and development experience, heavily concentrated in database application, distributed computing, and cyber security consulting, especially for financial institutions and marketing and media organizations. He holds U.S. patents for high precision database arithmetic, for secure, high performance, data access across the Internet, and for scalable, fault tolerant, grid computing. He has patents pending in database queuing and distributed computing, and digital commerce.

Steven founded Base One in 1993 to create a new breed of commercial database applications and the programming tools to build them. He is system architect and lead programmer of Base One’s database and distributed computing product line, which was released in 1996. His work with large customers led to innovative approaches for doing secure distributed processing. Since 1999, he has been designing and coding web applications and helping implement extensions to Base One’s framework for supporting SaaS (Software as a Service) web sites.

Steven's specialties are designing, programming and leading the development of large-scale, financial and marketing, database applications. Clients have included: Aetna, Citibank, Cigna, Columbia Pictures, Datran Media, Deutsche Bank, eLearners, Fidelity National Information Services, Honeywell, IBM, Manufacturers Hanover, Marsh & McLennan, MCI, Morgan Guaranty, Nielsen, Taylor Nelson Sofres, and The New York Times. He also has assisted ManTech-Gray Hawk, a military contractor, in its counter terrorism security reviews of Niagara Mohawk Power and National Grid USA, and in the Critical Infrastructure Initiative of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Steven has a Computer Science degree from Columbia University (honorary member - American Statistical Association) and is on the board of directors of the New York Software Industry Association.

Andrew Pugliese
Vice President, Services

Andrew has over 20 years of software development and project management experience. He specializes in the design and delivery of secure, large scale, database applications with distributed computing capabilities and multi-user transaction processing requirements. As lead database developer for Base One’s team at Edison Media Research, Andrew helped build the exit polling system for Election Day 2004, which was used by major news organizations to project election winners for 120 races and to understand voter motivations and behavior. At Thomson Reuters, he’s responsible for the database and application design and implementation of the new system for managing all information about organizations, financial instruments, and quotations.

Prior to joining Base One, Andrew was Director of Ameritrade, where he led the development of business-to-business systems to support data aggregation and strategic partnerships. Before that, he worked for 10 years at Deutsche Bank North America, starting as a senior programmer, then systems architect and project manager. As vice president for U.S. and Latin America Custody Technology, he designed and led the development of a high-reliability data warehouse system built with Base One’s software that supports their global securities custody business.

Andrew has a degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University. He has patents pending in database queuing and distributed computing, and digital commerce

Joseph Barbaro
Senior Vice President, Services

Joseph has over 25 years of software development, documentation, and project management experience, including implementing web, Windows, and mainframe business applications for Citibank, Computer Associates, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Deutsche Bank, IBM, NYNEX and TIAA-CREF. He began his career designing and coding financial systems for Central Hudson Gas & Electric and Equitable Life Assurance. As a consultant at IBM for over 6 years, he programmed financial, manufacturing, and communication software.

Joseph’s work at Base One started with programming key modules of the data dictionary, security, and distributed processing software underlying Deutsche Bank’s securities custody system. As technical architect and lead consultant on Base One’s team at TIAA-CREF (Teacher’s Insurance), he designed and developed key components of their browser-based document retrieval system and led their common software component initiative. At CSFB, he was Base One's lead consultant in the project to move their fixed income commercial loan application to .NET technologies. Currently, Joseph is Base One’s lead at Aetna’s ActiveHealth Management, developing software that is designed to improve care, prevent medical errors, and reduce costs.

Joseph has Masters Degree in Computer Science from Union College. He has a patent pending in database queuing and distributed computing.

Michael Asherman
Vice President, Research

Michael has over 30 years of experience in software development and specializes in building web sites and Windows database applications. Clients have included: American Express, The Boston Stock Exchange, Banker and Tradesman, FundQuest, Iron Mountain, Keurig, the Massachusetts Division of Banks, and The Thomson Corporation.

Michael began his career as an operating systems programmer for Data General and Honeywell, where he was responsible for developing the Multics indexed filing system. From there, he wrote commercial database software for Artificial Intelligence Corporation and Computer Corporation of America.

Since 1997, Michael has been responsible for Base One's research activities, marketing and technical writing, editorial work, and web authoring. He also programmed key modules of Base One’s automated documentation system, which generates programmer manuals and on-line help.

Michael has a degree in Physics from M.I.T. He has patents pending in database queuing and distributed computing, and digital commerce.

Arun Kumar
Managing Director
Base One Software (Prv.) Ltd. (Base One International's subsidiary in Bangalore, India)

Arun has over 20 years of software development experience, specializing in Windows and web programming. Prior to joining Base One in 1994, he was a senior software engineer at Coromandel, where he created some of their most successful products. These were commercial tools for programmers, successfully marketed by Microsoft and Borland, for the rapid development of Windows database applications.

Arun was lead consultant on Base One’s team at Marsh & McLennan. For Deutsche Bank and Competitive Media Reporting, he developed database, screen management, security, and web reporting components.

Arun has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mysore, India and has a U.S. patent for high precision database arithmetic, and patents pending in database queuing and distributed computing.

Narayan Singhal
Vice President, Services

Narayan has over 10 years of software development experience and specializes in designing and programming Windows and web applications. He began his career writing programs for reactor simulators and industrial process controllers and went on to do architectural design and development of database and web applications for TIAA-CREF (Teacher’s Insurance). As a senior .NET and database developer for Base One’s team at Edison Media Research, Narayan implemented key components of the exit polling system for Election Day 2004, which was used by major news organizations to project election winners for 120 races.

In 1999 and 2000, Narayan was Base One's lead programmer on Competitive Media Reporting’s commercial web site for tracking ad occurrence and expense data. He returned to TIAA-CREF for Base One and led the development of an enterprise-wide reporting system for tracking all scanned customer correspondence plus intranet web sites for sharing corporate documents.

Narayan has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Rajsthan University, India. He has a patent pending in digital commerce.

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