Expertise

Computer software programming and application

• Artificial intelligence software development and use.
• Data mining.
• Genetic algorithms.
• Data modeling.
• Neural networking.
• Machine learning.
• Agent based simulation.
• Advanced computation software.
• Business intelligence software and consumer modeling

Experience

Independent Consultant 2007 to Present

Quantum Leap Innovations, Director 2006 - 2007

• Planning and Optimization Research Center of Excellence and Technology Transfer Center of Excellence. Commercialization and professional services activities.
• Negotiation of OEM and Partner agreements, Partner relationship management, technical sales support, technology transfer management, and identification of new business.
• Novel and applied research in the areas of optimization, agent-based modeling, data mining, and development of Software Maturity Level processes.

NuTech Solutions, Inc., VP, Chief Consulting Scientist, Managing Director 2002 - 2006

• All customer facing activities including sales support, project management, contract execution, proposal preparation, sales prospecting, customer relations, education and training, and solution architecture development.

Natural Selection, Inc., VP and Senior Staff Scientist 1997 - 2002

• Securing and executing contracts dealing with the application of advanced computational intelligence techniques to industrial and military problems.
• Contracts include the optimization of neural networks for handwritten character recognition for Lockheed Martin, development and optimization of computer security models for the Federal Aviation Administration, evolutionary algorithms for optimizing the routing and scheduling of buses for Greyhound Lines, design and implementation of DNA coding sequence prediction algorithms, optimizing the configuration of evolutionary algorithms for evolvable hardware circuits for NASA, and developing evolutionary algorithms and other tools for improving consumer-to-consumer applications on the Internet.

Lockheed Martin, Advisory Software Engineer 1993 -1997

• Responsible for technology transfer of advanced computational problem-solving techniques into Lockheed Martin to support existing and future contracts.
• Performed research on advanced problem-solving techniques applied to LMFS business and contracts.
• Served as site expert on evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy systems.

Technical Expertise

• Languages: C#, C/C , Java, Python, SQL, Lisp, Scheme, Pascal, TK, TCL, Fortran, SmallTalk, APL.
• Mathematical Tools: Matlab, R, Maple, Mathematica, Self-Created Software.
• Data Mining Tools: WEKA, R, Self-Created Software.
• GUI Development: MS Visual Basic, Eclipse, PowerBuilder, MS Windows, X-Windows, Motif.
• Database: Firebird (Interbase), MySQL, Oracle 9i, Sybase, ODBC.
• Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, SunOS, UNIX, DEC.

Honors & Publications

Author and editor of more than 45 scientific publications, books, and conference proceedings.

Co-author of a U.S. Patent for more efficient and effective data-mining in large data sources.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, The Ohio State University

M.S., Computer Science, The Ohio State University

B.S., Applied Mathematics, Carnegie-Mellon University