Timothy Pfafman, PhD, Software and Server Development Consultant

Timothy graduated from MIT with a double major in Physics and Mathematics and diid his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley where he received a MS and  PhD in Physics.   His graduate research was in developing cryogenic detectors for X-Ray Astrophysics.  Timothy  did a postdoc at the Los Alamos National Lab where he conducted research into developing superconducting tunnel junctions for possible use in color night vision. He also worked on the ALEXIS extreme ultraviolet all sky survey satellite.  While at Los Alamos he was responsible for developing one of the first realtime web displays for satellite data.  From LANL Timothy went to work as a Staff Scientist at Stanford University, where he was the lead researcher developing a micro-machined (MEMS) surface contamination sensor which flew on the NASA Deep Space One spacecraft.  While at Stanford Timothy also did work as a software consultant, for Sigpro, developing a number of software solutions for Sigpro clients.    These included a Labview/C program for NASA Ames that collected high rate accelerometer data from helicopter turbines for use in predicting time to next failure as well as various other software projects centering around VOIP.

In 2000 Timothy left Stanford to join the startup Sportbug.  At Sportbug Timothy was the lead software architect/developer responsible for all server side software design, implementation and support.   He developed one of the first GPS tracking websites for sporting applications. This  allowed users to upload their Garmin GPS tracks to a website for viewing and sharing.    Sportbug evolved into Traxsis which developed one of the first high sensitivity GPS cell phone add on’s.  Timothy  was responsible for the backend system which reported the location of the mobile cell phones in realtime.  This system was key in Axiom Navigations decision to acquire Traxsis to augment their fleet management business.

After leaving Axiom, Timothy along with the rest of the Traxsis/SportBug development team, started Geotrax which developed a GPS tracking product used to recover stolen currency from bank robbers.  At Geotrax Timothy was the lead software architect/developer responsible for all server side and client software design, implementation and support.  He developed a system to alert clients and law enforcement when an item was stolen and allow them to track the current location from a website.  As a direct result of Timothy’s server system, Geotrax was able to deploy the product and had its first arrest with in 12 months.  It subsequently  deployed over 10,000 tracker units  resulting in 100s of arrests before being acquired by its biggest customer 3SI Security.

At 3SI Security Timothy was the lead software architect/developer for server side and client software for tracking applications. He trained 3SI personal on how to operate and develop on the Geotrax Tracking System.

Since leaving 3SI Security Timothy has developed a number of software application including an iOS app for teachers to look up the reading level of books by scanning the bar codes with their iPhone and a web based cycling route mapping tool for designing rides and exporting them to an iPhone (http://createcycleroutes.appspot.com).