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Berlin Area, Germany

Motologic was acquired by AAP, after which I continued working with them in AI/machine learning/semantic web-related research and applications, and in automated web-scraping.

Greater New York City Area

Designed and built a Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning system to extract and categorize meaning from large document collections using a mixture of statistical and Semantic Web techniques, plus a cluster computing environment to run that system in parallel.Created numerous document analysis and translation tools for formats like PDF, SVG and.

Greater New York City Area

Designed and prototyped the primary product of the company, a streaming analytics system particularly well suited to handling high volumes of data with optional persistence. As part of that project I designed and built a custom log-structured database that presently outperforms all rival offerings.Wrote and delivered a paper on the logstore at VLDB 2007.

Greater New York City Area

Built a high performance triple store for the Radar Networks Semantic Web platform. Delivered a paper on same at the 2003 W3 SWAD-Europe Workshop on Semantic Web Storage and Retrieval.Radar was purchased by Evri.

Greater New York City Area

Member of the GigaScope research team, which created a streaming database designed to handle very large volumes of network data. GigaScope won Project of the Year honors at the Labs, and is currently used to monitor all iPhone data traffic on AT&T's wireless network.

Paris Area, France

Alternis, a Paris-based telco software firm, hired me to re-design a clustered Location-Based Services infrastructure for mobile telephones, which included re-working internal development practices at the company (revision control, test-driven development, and so on).Alternis was acquired by France Telecom.

San Francisco Bay Area

One third of a team that designed and prototyped a high-performance cluster filesystem implemented as a network of commodity machines, each running a custom FreeBSD kernel with an in-house log-structured store. Consistent hashing (and a few other tricks) were used to allow a collection of nodes to operate as a self-healing, self-balancing storage.

CEO/CTO of an ISP/ISV that used a cluster of commodity machines running an in-house BSD kernel that allowed very low operating costs. Built the company into a profitable enterprise from scratch.Sold the company to another regional telco.

Developed a bespoke distributed database system in which to store catalog information for a very large collection of zoological samples.

I worked as part of a team maintaining the computing infrastructure for the University of Florida's Computer Science Department. This started off as a Gould PowerNode 9000 with a collection of ADM 3A terminals, eventually growing to include Sun (BSD/SunOS) and HP (HPUX) workstations running X. This position involved a mix of system administration, software.