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Consulting, primarily to the US Government, in the use of data and text analytics for diverse applications including analysis of social media and financial data, either to develop new analytical capabilities or to solve existing problems "faster, better and more cheaply".Developed 5 custom patented algorithms using information theory, linear algebra, and information retrieval to solve data-matching problems in (1) financial account reconciliation, (2) detection of anomalies and patterns in financial data, and (3) sensemaking of open-source data for national security applications. Personally implemented some of these algorithms for customers in Microsoft SQL Server and ASP.NET on various projects, saving customers several hundred thousand dollars in manual and semi-automated labor costs. Provided analytic expertise to support fraud investigations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led teams on multiple contracts for a Federal agency (including one multi-year, multi-million dollar contract). Re-engineered the information technology system used for account research, saving thousands of projected man-hours by developing and implementing an algorithm to automate account rounding based on an approach better known in statistics for construction of contingency tables from fixed marginals.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Provided leadership as Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) PrincipalInvestigator (PI) in research projects with national security applications; worked with otherPIs on internally-funded projects and projects for external customers. Projects have broadlyinvolved novel methods for unsupervised text analysis, especially multilingual text analysisapplied to blogs.* Involved in all phases of projects including: Successful grant-proposal writing Execution of research including teamwork with colleagues Designing software systems to prototype and test research ideas Publishing results in peer-reviewed conferences and journals Working to identify opportunities for technology transfer* Led collaboration between individuals from multiple disciplines at Sandia and outside* Interacted with and presented to a broad variety of colleagues including Russian visitors to Sandia* Worked with enterprise database management systems to support data-intensive R&D projects* Received funding from Sandia's New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program to transfer text analysis technology to New Mexico small businesses

Participated in audits of a variety of large and/or multinational companies in diverse sectors including finance, commodities, technology, and engineering.

D.Phil., Computational Linguistics

M.St., Slavonic Studies

Bachelor Of Arts, Russian And Polish Language And Literature

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