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Austin, Tx, Us

Advising on Intellectual Property research, evaluation and invention, expert witness analysis, source code review, patent appraisal, non-infringement and invalidity reporting, inter partes reviews (IPRs), covered business method (CBM) reviews, Markman presentations, in-court tutorials, depositions and court testimony. Areas of expertise include Data Science, Machine Learning (classification, text analysis), Artificial Intelligence (expert systems and reinforcement learning), eCommerce, Internet and Web technologies (servers, Web browsers and protocols), application interaction design, mobile platforms (e.g. Android, iOS and prior art mobile systems), information retrieval, search tools, recommender systems, collaborative filtering, data collection and user behavioral analysis and analytics.Designing and researching Web and mobile payment, banking and commerce applications including infrastructure, user interface and technology stacks for privacy, security and scalability.Building personalization into information systems using prior art (including my own) and new data science focused technology to make applications more personalized be it for recommendations, filtering or information discovery.Applying extensive experience in Information Retrieval (search) system design, analysis (logs, SEO, analytics) for custom data sciences services. Designed new information architectures, taxonomies, classification methods & interaction designs for Web and mobile applications.Investigated and analyzed knowledge work practices and cultures to build or customize collaborative work systems including design, deployment and analysis for intranet, commerce and mobile systems.Designed a social media analysis system including text categorization, sentiment analysis and behavior prediction to recognize trends, identify actionable business intelligence and make recommendations.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Advising and mentoring companies with disruptive IP for emerging and high-growth markets. Applying specialized domain experience in areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to evaluate and direct technology innovation.

Langley, Bc, Ca

Directing research efforts on large-scale machine learning platform for collecting, measuring and predicting user behavior across networked devices including geo-locational activity traces. Advised on strategic use and extension for a social media analysis framework for user behavior prediction. Advising on the startup process, general technology and inventing as well as authoring patents with the team.

Serving as a board member for Speedette and advising on interaction design, behavioral modeling, analytics, data science, intellectual property, general technology and business aspects.

Austin, Tx, Us

Mentor and Advisor with the University of Texas at Austin to engage local technology companies (primarily software startups) in advancing research, providing strategic expertise and assisting in designing products for market.

Austin, Tx, Us

Explored significant research in search engine technologies (multimedia, personalization, interaction), search engine optimization (natural organic search, sponsored advertising search), information seeking models as well as the creation and empirical analysis of behavioral model of search user experience towards improving the search process. Created and taught courses in Information Architecture, Web Analytics, Web Information Retrieval Evaluation & Design, the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management systems. Investigated very large-scale data mining systems and algorithms (including Web use data for personalization), interface designs for multimedia access and Web search engines. Co-Principal Investigator for Web content classification and collaborative filtering system (the OpenChoice Project) including system architecture, algorithm evaluation, interface design and user coordination. Conducted and collaborated on Information Retrieval system development for blog analysis and topic distillation tasks including spam detection and initial sentiment analysis.Advised graduate students and coordinate research efforts for information technology research and development including Semantic Web applications, mobile device interfaces and server architectures, Web browser software analysis, Web accessibility evaluation, Web link mining and analysis, information architecture design methodologies, and Web advertising analytics and system designs.

Researched and developed intellectual property in the mobile game and app discovery domains. Wrote and coordinated research-oriented grants and other funding programs.Worked with technical team to lead data science work including algorithm design, building and deriving data sets and analytics. Investigated and created methods to understand game interaction, mobile user experience via behavioral models to provide the foundation for a gameplay activity recommender system. Architected an empirical business intelligence analytics platform for understanding and predicting user acquisition, monetization strategy, app distribution, gameplay telemetry, operation costs and social interaction in the mobile gaming space.

Austin, Tx, Us

At Moodfish, our goal is to help you find the best things to do and places to go based on the vibe that you're looking for.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Advising Microsoft as a domain expert in data-centric scientific computing (that some might call Data Science) to review early designs/prototypes, help identify problems and solutions, and communicate directly with members of the Technical Computing team about challenges that are critical to advance research and to fuel innovation in the sciences.World events clearly demonstrated our inability to process vast amounts of information and variables that would have helped to more accurately predict the behavior of global financial markets or the occurrence and impact of a volcano eruption in Iceland. To make sense of issues like these, researchers, engineers and analysts need increasingly more sophisticated computer models to better understand how the world behaves and to make fact-based predictions about the future. Our goal is to unleash the power of pervasive, accurate, real-time modeling to help people and organizations achieve their objectives and realize their potential. Please see www.modelingtheworld.com for more information.

Austin, Texas, Us

Advised co-founders on applying and developing new technologies to accomplish the product goals. Researched data collection, data analysis and interaction methods for a variety of special projects. Acted as a resource for the design of Web search and information storage application (the Pluck toolbar), a tagging and social media Web site (shadows.com) and a user-generated content organization and distribution system (Pluck for publishers and BlogBurst). Reviewed and analyzed the related patent landscape towards collaborating to author several patents to illustrate the innovative design and development work at Pluck.

Created and integrated intellectual property assets including applications and licensed patents from Xerox PARC as well as original work developed at Outride. Authored patents and trade secreted technology relating to personal relevance models, information privacy and e-commerce systems in networked environments. Worked with attorneys to manage, track, develop and revise patent portfolio.Initiated and managed Competitive Intelligence efforts to scan for emerging technologies including research reviews, attending conferences and analyzing competitor technologies. Organized intelligence resources for engineering and legal purposes to protect and augment existing intellectual property. Maintained the Competitive Intelligence database as a Knowledge Management activity and served as the technical strategic analyst.Acted as research advisor for all corporate data mining, interface designs and usability studies activities. Worked closely with User Interface design team to prototype product specifications for an application to search the Web, manage bookmarks, view and search Web use history as well as interact with a directory of Web-based resources. Designed technical architecture and interface for a Web browsing privacy application to enable users to control and edit data collected about their Web use activities.Managed Metrics project with vendors to provide a value proposition for Outride technology for business development. Selected an external testing agency, designed the initial tests, determined evaluation criteria, selected competing technologies, designed data collection method, analyzed test data and edited reports. This extremely successful project served as a key asset in demonstrating Outride technology to investors, business partners and industry analysts and was used extensively in press releases and corporate product literature.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Planned and implemented a 16-month study to develop a comprehensive understanding of corporate Internet use utilizing a synthesis of data collection and analysis methods including an initial survey questionnaire; software to collect use data gathered with a custom-developed Web tracking application; and interviews with study participants.Analyzed data using qualitative and quantitative methods to test hypotheses of new models of Information Seeking and Information Retrieval behavior. Used study results to make recommendations on improving organizational Knowledge Management and individual Web use techniques, as well as to design new software tools to coordinate and leverage organizations* intranet and Internet use.Designed and prototyped WebTracker: a client-side data collection instrument for transparently logging Web browser use. Researched data collection methods, instruments for Internet protocols and network-enabled client applications. Automated the data mining of WebTracker logs with customized analysis tools to build both individual and aggregate models of Web use. Initiated consortium with other research institutes to expand WebTracker use.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Researched a variety of quantitative information systems problems including telecommunications data (and metadata), business intelligence applications, information transmission tracking and logging systems for behavioral analysis as well as general database features for IBM's DB2 relational database management system.Experimented with early Web server log analysis applications, including building original tools for analytics (including statistical inference, user interaction and Web server eCommerce data collection).

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Designed and authored specifications for hybrid (CD-ROM and Internet) World Book-IBM Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia involving data formats, user interface, indexing structures and versioning controls. Researched and co-developed patented the TRUE/IP protocol for registering, updating and exchanging client-server information via the Internet. Prototyped large-scale collection and analysis of client application and Internet use data.Managed technical staff in multiple vendors and locations including interviewing, hiring, training and planning state-of-the-art development labs. Developed technical architecture for e-Business services using database technology for user profiling to enable content personalization. Directed in-house usability efforts and commercial opportunities for existing technologies. Prototyped Web site building service included with all IBM Small Business System sales.

Designed interfaces including metaphor creation, dialog layout and icon design for UnInstaller for Windows. (In 1994, the best-selling utility in the United States- 4 million copies sold.) Conducted Usability studies including designing test scenarios; user modeling; monitoring and recording test data; and analyzing resulting data. Wrote programs to automatically generate hypertext documentation from print documentation. Designed and programmed interactive multimedia applications to demonstrate software products.

Maple Ridge, Bc, Ca

Managed project team through development cycle of CASE tools including finalizing requirements, organizing development team, running status meetings, reviewing documentation, testing, prioritizing development issues and designing future enhancements. Used industry standard software engineering methodologies and frameworks (including Information Engineering and Rapid Application Development) for large-scale software projects.Researched software engineering methodologies to build methods and technologies into next generation CASE tools. Implemented designs included Object-based GUI builder software; and very large scale hypertext information authoring and management applications using graphical objects, WYSIWYG editing and link management. Designed and reviewed graphical user interface applications for functional compliance. Composed Usability and Interface Design standards as well as initiated Task Analysis methods to improve products.

Faculty, Information

Phd, Information Systems

M.S, Information, Design And Technology

B.A, General Studies (Knowledge Engineering)