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Chief Scientist Vast.com, Austin TX
  • Data mining and data analysis for market insights, descriptive models, and predictive models for consumer considered purchases (automotive, real estate, travel).
  • Lead the data science team.
  
Member Technical Staff Google, Mountain View CA
  • Search Quality, Eval, Research Team
    • Managed engineering team that supported click-based evaluation of search experiments.
    • Research on user tasks and user intent in search queries.
  
Associate Professor St. Edward's University, Austin TX
  • Taught undergraduate CS courses in New College.
  • Taught graduate MCIS courses in School of Management and Business.
  
Distinguished Technical Fellow Trilogy Software Inc., Austin TX
  • Manage intellectual property: evaluate internally developed technology for patent potential, coordinate interaction with patent attorneys in developing patent disclosures.
  • Initial investigation and implementation of text mining for Trilogy's automotive demand intelligence network.
  • Optimization modeling (linear programming) and prototype development for price optimization tool.
  • Implementation of data mining (association rule mining) for Trilogy's Sales Optimizer tool.
  • Product research and development, technical lead.
  • Principle architect and implementer on Trilogy's flagship product SalesBUILDER, a product configuration tool.
  • Technology evaluation of potential acquisitions.
 
Senior Member, Technical Staff Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin TX
  • Developed research proposal and "selling" materials for Hardware/Software CoDesign project. Pitched the project to potential funding companies, conducted initial project research.
  • Managed team that developed a VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) compiler and simulation environment. The resulting product had greater language coverage and better performance than any commercial tool available at the time.
  • Promoted use of GNU tools and supported same in transition from LISP to C/C++ environments.
  • Research on design knowledge representation for digital system designers.
 
Senior Member, Technical Staff Texas Instruments, Inc., Austin TX
  • Research and development of decision support tools (quantitative decision analysis, expert systems). Principle researcher, team lead, project manager for quantitative decision analysis tool.
  • PC software product development - disk storage management, speech recognition products. Team lead, project manager.
  • Computer architecture research and design (memory system architecture).
  • Operating system design and implementation for a proprietary 16-bit minicomputer. Team lead.
  

 

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