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Interests |
Computer Scientist, Software Engineer, Music Composer |
Education |
University of Delaware
· Newark, DE |
PhD in Computer
Science |
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Attending |
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Kansas
State University · Manhattan, KS |
Masters in Computer
Science |
(3.75 gpa) |
May 2003 |
Bachelor of
Science in Computer Science |
(3.2 gpa) |
May 2002 |
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Manhattan
Christian College · Manhattan, KS |
Bachelor of
Science in Music |
(3.6 gpa) |
May 2002 |
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Experience |
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Cisco Systems |
Boxborough, MA |
Software Engineer (2007 -
2009) |
- Served as technical lead in data mining.
- Researched, implemented, and enhanced cluster algorithms using C++, Java, and MySQL with Front-end development in PHP.
- Created inference technology used to drive recommendation engines.
- Engineered cross-media recommendation engine solution.
- Authored significant portions of an enterprise scale Request For Information
- Supervised direct reports that helped to create Bayesian network software sampling and inference algorithms
- Coauthored patents and papers
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Quantum
Leap Innovations |
Newark,
DE |
Senior Software Scientist (2003 -
2007) |
- Project Lead
in Multiagent Systems effort
- Researched and
applied Multiagent Systems, Probabilistic Reasoning, Data
mining, Artificial Intelligence
- Authored and presented research papers at
major conferences
- Submitted several patents on original inventions relating to
probabilistic reasoning
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Kansas
State University |
Computing
and Information Science, KSU |
Teaching
Assistant (2002 -
2003) |
- Taught undergraduates important concepts in software engineering
- Developed tutorials on valuable software tools like Rational Rose
- Received excellent student evaluations
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Knowledge
Discovery in Data |
Computing
and Information Science, KSU |
Research
Programmer (2000 -
2003) |
- Developed and
thereafter used Java research tools with other researchers
- Released a
GPL Java programming toolkit for researching Bayesian networks,
which is publicly available at
bndev.sourceforge.net
- Toolkit provided
means to publish research papers and give oral and poster
presentations at major artificial intelligence conferences
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Kansas
4H Youth Development |
Kansas
State Extension, KSU |
Web Applications Developer
(2000 - 2004) |
- Developed various types of
web sites and applications in various languages
- Programmed State Fair Suite,
a set of applications used by a few hundred people throughout
Kansas to manipulate thousands of State Fair entries
- Improved data
clerks' entry time from 30 seconds per entry to one second
through system improvements and original idea to use barcodes
for data entry
- Responsible for every aspect
of development - graphics, user interfaces, back-ends, etc. www.oznet.ksu.edu/ksfair
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Computer
skills |
Languages: |
C++, C, Java, C#,
Visual Basic |
Scripts: |
ASP, Javascript,
Perl, PHP, SQL |
API's: |
MFC, AWT,
Swing |
Platforms: |
Windows, Linux |
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