Geoff Knauth Email & Phone Number

State College, Pa

State College, Pa

Living the life! Seriously, this is a great company doing cool things to track and analyze the weather, giving people timely notice of weather events. I'm in Internal R&D. Glad to be here.

Django, Python scripting, AWS.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

AI R&D in natural language understanding.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Game development, sports, search & rescue planning. Helped friends with startups.

Implemented back-end C# parallel scalability performance optimizations working with SQLServer. Coded jQuery front-end enhancements.

I taught the following courses: Introduction to Computer Science, Principles of Advanced Programming, Programming Language Design, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Introduction to Web-based Programming, Web-based Programming, Computer Organization / Machine Language, Introduction to Robotics. 2009-2010 was the final year the CS major was offered. Lycoming College still has a CS minor.

Optimization of Octave for parallel computation. Octave is a FOSS MATLAB-workalike.

Helped SFA understand legacy military logistics application code I'd written or known, and associated business rules, to help SFA reshape the project using only Java and Oracle.

Continuing support and development of web-based military logistics system originally built at BBN. Reworked architecture to comply with latest DoD security requirements.

Developed web-based military logistics system that saved U.S. Government $70 million and reduced processing time from 3-4 months to 5-10 minutes, using C, Perl, Java, C++, Scheme and Oracle. Adapted DARPA Cougaar intelligent agents to simulate fine-grained Bulk Fuels logistics problems. Helped launch successful advertising technology spinoff, Unicast Communications.

Developed globally distributed Wall Street emerging markets trading system.Wrote ParcPlace and Digitalk Smalltalk applications for two Fortune 100 clients.Converted financial aid mainframe system to client/server technology and Sybase.Made database-building compiler enhancements to speed understanding of large software projects.Developed API for DecisionBuilder(tm), a Bayesian analysis tool with superior graphics and algorithms.Made kernel module enhancements for Teleconnect(tm) SLIP connectivity software.

Source code "owner" of Sun-based flagship Breeze product, a display ad graphic workstation used to assemble pages for large metropolitan newspapers. Supervised work of 15 developers. Internationalized the Breeze product, which held 75% international market share.

Developed pioneering salesforce automation applications for Fortune 500 clients, distributing sales and inventory information from Oracle databases on corporate minicomputers to the first laptops.

WX Ltd., Jericho, VT. Wrote satellite weather data acquisition and analysis applications on IBM PC-ATs running DOS and Xenix.Garland Corp., Brockton, MA. Provided external code review. AT&T 3B2, Vax.Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA. Put Swedish language database on IBM PC-AT.Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA. Administrative work on IBM PCs.

Coordinated technical efforts of educational software company. Maintained a CompuStar network, Macintosh and Apple II computers, wrote C interfaces to Varityper, supported courseware developers.

A.B., Economics, Slavic Languages And Literatures

Activities and Societies: Heavyweight Crew (coxswain)I studied the basics of Economics, took all the Russian language courses Harvard had.

High School, Physics, Russian, English, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Crew Captain. President Computer Club and Chess Club.I studied a lot of Russian and Physics, was captain.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Crew CaptainI learned the value of hard work, and keeping it fun. Rumsey's #1 value is effort, and the Effort.

Education record

All my classes were in French, and the curriculum was French and more difficult than in most American schools [I attended many American.