Ara was born in Armenia and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in Moscow, Russia.
He developed software in various fields, including expert system projects in Artificial Intelligence, hardware drivers for laser distance measurer, controlling software for networking switches and high-performance bioanalytical measurement systems, digital photo editor, porting Java Virtual Machine and AWT to TV set top boxes.
After being impressed with an amazing demo of a huge exploding starship in Maya at a Game Developers’ Conference, he joined Alias in 2003. He has been working on several projects since, including PortfolioWall, SketchViewport, Maya and the AutoCam library.
Ara likes researching different programming technologies. His recent experience includes working with C#, XAML, WPF, Microsoft Surface, Silverlight, OpenGL, DirectX, XNA, RDF, ASP.Net, SQL Server, MySQL, Apache, PHP, SharePoint, WebDAV, and Adobe Flash.
Besides developing software, he enjoys hiking in mountains, playing tennis, swimming, and practicing aikido.
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