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Chief Architect for a company producing artificially intelligent agents.

My curriculum focused on the application of Machine Learning techniques. As a member of small groups, I participated in several projects, including: an individual user rating prediction system for the Netflix database, using a neural network implemented in ruby; a recommendation system for local dining using clustering and k-nearest neighbor algorithms; a ruby on rails based gaming community website; a set of Mozilla Firefox extensions to provide cognitive assists for web browsing....

Created and managed a web site and the computer infrastructure for a small business. Everything from wiring a barn with CAT-5, to making Power Point presentations. The Linux web server I was administrating was compromised due to an exploit in wuFTP. After quickly discovering the intruder, I managed to obtain the attackers IP address and notify the authorities....

I worked with a small team to provide technical support for a staff of more that 500 employees on 4 separate campuses. In my free time I developed a new corporate web site with easily updatable and customizable content for our non technical marketing department. I also optimized large database records and searches while the company was in the process of transitioning from paper to digital records....

I single handedly developed an advanced point of sale and management system for restaurants, including accounting, scheduling and forecasting features, from the ground up. The software was designed as multiple, extensible front ends to a postgreSQL database, including a javascript/php and a QT based c++ implementation. After deploying the software in a test restaurant, I realized that I was much more interested in algorithms for solving complex problems like scheduling and forecasting, than I was in providing support for a piece of software, or managing a small business....