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Rob Viglione

Rob Viglione

Formal First Name
Robert (Rob)
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Rob Viglione is the Co-Founder of Horizen, a cryptocurrency and sidechain platform. He is formally a trained physicist, mathematician, and military officer. With a remarkable career that spans various disciplines, Viglione utilizes his experience working on satellite radar, space launch vehicles, and combat support intelligence in understanding how blockchain technology could change the course of global societies. He is also a passionate crypto researcher and blockchain tech speaker and educator.

CAREER

Operation Research Systems Analyst, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Lead, Lanmark Technology

  • Deployed to Afghanistan to support Marine Corps, Army cavalry, and Special Operations Task Force intelligence efforts.
  • Duties included large dataset mining and statistical techniques for a variety of operational assessments.


Cost Estimator, Tecolote Research

  • Performed statistical analysis, cost modeling, and contract evaluations.
  • Duties included business case analysis, cost management oversight, and financial analysis support to the budgetary process.
  • Led the financial component of a program-wide evaluation of the nation's industrial base capability in producing space launch vehicles.


Physicist and Project Manager, United States Air Force

  • Managed 3 engineering R&D projects for the Air Force’s Space Radar program with a $450,000 budget and an 8-person matrix team.
  • Duties included military utility analyses, and engineering trade studies (satellite orbit, radar coverage, and power trades). 


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Cryptofinance
  • Peer-to-Peer Financial Technologies
  • Emerging Markets
  • Frontier Markets


CERTIFICATION AND TOOLS

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst (CCEA)
  • Certified Parametric Practitioner (CPP)


COMPUTER SKILLS

  • SAS
  • STATA
  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • PERL
  • Excel with VBA
  • ArcGIS
  • Palantir
  • Google Earth
  • WebTAS
  • MS Office
  • MS Project 


MEDIA