Rich Goldman Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Md

LegIT Systems creates professional tools for professional advocates.We are the provider of the government relations workflow system AdvoKit™, which offers a suite of automation and streamlining capabilities to remove the time drains and headaches of managing legislative information.We work with state-level associations, government relations firms, law firms, corporations, and issue advocacy groups to: • save time through the automation of report generation and schedule compilation • streamline the identification of relevant legislation to track • prevent tasks, information, and meetings from "falling through the cracks" during the hectic legislative session • organize legislative data, from positions to vote counts to hearing points to documents, for quick and easy access and entry • provide new/better capabilities to clients/members such as legislator scorecards and clearer, richer reports • re-focus staff time from data management to legislative advocacyA preview of AdvoKit™ can be seen at legit-systems.com/screenshots.html

Annapolis, Md

Produced a J2EE application using the Vaadin framework and running on a cloud-hosted Tomcat server that supports tracking legislation, generating custom reports, and managing relationships between, and information about, lobbyists, clients, and legislation.Created an algorithm to parse unstructured text from a dynamic 3rd party website into a custom ontology.Utilized an iterative, rapid development approach to progress from non-technical, client-provided specifications to deployment in three months.

Baltimore, Md

Received Provisional Patent, Application #61523545, for dissertation artifacts useful in improving the submission and retrieval of information for deliberative decision-making.Designed and conducted experiments and developed research applications for Human-Computer Interaction studies.Taught undergraduate computer programming, and master’s level system analysis and design, thesis writing, and management information systems.

Mclean, Va And Nashua, Nh

Developed a sensor fusion framework for an intelligent meeting room, an operant conditioning learning algorithm, a SharePoint interface for setting up the room, and a system for securely interacting with IP-enabled devices via algorithmically generated speech, graphical, and text interfaces.Produced the PLATO Syntax Editor used internally at MITRE for editing and logging corrections made to machine language translation text.Delivered technical presentations, and worked both independently and collaboratively with experienced researchers and developers.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Management Information Systems, General, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association

Master Of Science (Ms), Management Information Systems, General, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Organization of Information Systems, Graduate Student Association

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters, Triangle Fraternity, College Libertarians

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Studies: Materialism, Magna Cum Laude