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Pennsylvania, United States

Obtained and processed large data repositories used in support of Bell Laboratories Artificial Intelligence (AI) research projects.Created automated Tables of Contents services for over 10,000 journal titles which aided 20,000+ employees to keep abreast of topics in their industries.Extracted SharePoint mounted business analysis reports for reuse, which doubled use throughout the company.Produced robust systems for handling external market report vendors, to make the purchased content immediately available for dissemination and use by employees.Worked with various IEEE APIs, giving real time access to journal articles, proceedings, and standards content.

Acquired various open resources (Twitter, arXiv, press releases) by diverse APIs and scraping, which allowed adding their integration into various topic access methods.Set up complete Publication Clearance system for company, supporting compliance with both internal and external requirements.Worked with archives and dealt with both scanned and other resources of historical publications and artifacts dating back to the 1800s. Increased awareness, use, and accessibility of these materials.Designed interactive graphic data displays, specially to present internally authored content, which allowed users to better understand and use the information.Continued to enhance and evolve the database / search tool SLIMMER written in C. This allowed SLIMMER to easily ingest diverse content and meet requirements.Programmed, developed and maintained complete e-book and e-journal union catalogs obtained in diverse formats (JSON, XML, CSV, USMARC) from 30+ vendors and unified into common database. This brought access for 500M+ items to the desktop of employees to increase their productivity by 20%.Established major system scripts to harvest and make available journal article data utilizing API interface of applicable vendors. This affected the generation of over 400 automated topic focused web pages and alerts for employee access and alerting and saved librarians 20% in redundant research time.

Worked with editors to design and build complete newsletter authoring environment. Allowed editors to create around 30 newsletters per day, including content selection, filtering, editing, and publishing aspects. Conceived and implemented complete Content Management System (CMS) for maintaining and increasing access to library web environment. This allowed staff to maintain a site with thousands of pages fully integrated and accessible to all employees.Enhanced and supported Apache server, integrating (via C and perl) with resources directly, as well as adding HTTPS access. This resulted in faster, corporate compliant, and more integrated web services.

Ph.D, Information Science

Doctoral dissertation: The Role of Noun Phrases as Content Indicators

Masters Of Library Science (Mls)

M.S., Computer Science

Master's dissertation: Weighting Methodologies for queries and documents (advisor was Professor Salton)

B.S, Mathematics (Before Compsci Existed!)