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WORK EXPERIENCE:
Miniature-GIANT, Chief
Executive Officer, Damascus, Virginia (2006+)
(On-line
retail company, marketing over 3000 products to the miniature gaming community)
- Responsible for all facets of
company operation and management, incl.:
customer and supplier relations; reseller's agreements; inventory
control, procurement, and order fulfillment processes; legal/tax filings;
financials and budgets; employee assignments and relations; projects'
coordination and oversight; sales and marketing; etc.
- Established exclusive contract
with the community's top manufacturer (Reaper Miniatures, Inc.) as their sole
distributor to the Origins International Gaming Expo, 2007 - the second largest
annual trade show in the industry, with an estimated 12,000+ unique prospective
clients.
- Established cooperative
relationship with Reaper Miniatures, Inc. to market their special order
merchandise at GenCon 2007 - the largest annual trade show in the industry with
an estimated 33,000+ unique attendees.
- Created and organically grew to
over 3 million web hits/month (increasing 15%/month), to control over 24%
market share, and to record 6 uninterrupted quarters of double/triple-digit
growth in its first 19 months of operation.
Next Knowledge, LLC, Senior
Partner, Chief Technical Officer, Chattanooga, Tennessee (2000-06)
(on-line eLearning
company providing enterprise products and services to Fortune 100 and smaller
companies)
Successfully
grew company from initial concept to multi-million dollar evaluation and
profitable sale.
Business Responsibilities
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Participated in strategic planning by providing technical guidance and
advice to CEO, President, and
investors.
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Developed, coordinated and financially managed technological solutions
to achieve corporate goals/missions.
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Interacted with client executives and IT staff during all relationship
phases - from prospect to support.
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Hired, directed, and supervised technical staff, projects, teams, help
desk activities, and server farm personnel.
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Ensured reliable, efficient, secure, robust, and failure-safe server and
staff computing environments.
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Responsible for technology & training
to support each division's objectives and employee's responsibilities.
Program Management
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Research and
Development -- oversaw all
facets of R&D program, including providing visionary guidance, strategic
plans, presentations to the board, budgets & projections, employee
assignments, and projects' oversight.
- Server
Systems -- oversaw Server Administration Personnel and oversaw server-related
projects and budgets, for both externally hosted systems and privately
co-located systems.
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Technology Infrastructure -- oversaw IT Personnel and projects responsible for the
establishment/maintenance of custom computing environments for each division,
including: Administration, IT, Sales,
and Client Support.
- Technology Support -- oversaw Corporate,
Client, and e-Commerce Help Desk and Technical Support Personnel.
- Technology Liaison
-- Presented
proprietary technology products and customization capabilities to existing and
prospective clients.
-- Facilitated
IT communication between departments, to the board, and to existing and
prospective investors.
-- Championed integrated product solutions to
both company and client executives.
Project Management
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Lead the design,
implementation, integration, testing, and maintenance tasks from prototype to
production.
- NKFrameWorkâ
(web-based Course Delivery System)
-- Designed and managed both internal
prototype and commercial development efforts.
-- Managed development of custom upgrades
for client contract acquisition and support.
- AuthorSphereâ (MSWord-to-
JSP course page Parser)
-- Managed development, quality assurance,
and production teams.
- Designerâ (MSWord-based
Authoring System)
-- Managed development teams, both
internal personnel and contract employees.
-- Managed software testing teams,
coordinated development responses and provided executive presentations.
- Learning
Management System (LMS)
-- Designed and managed both internal
prototype and commercial development efforts.
-- Managed development of custom upgrades
for client contract acquisition and support.
Engineering / Architecture
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Designed, coded, &
maintained NKFrameWorkâ, an enterprise-wide
web-based course delivery system.
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Designed and coded an
enterprise-wide, customizable Learning Management System.
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Co-designed fully redundant/transaction recoverable server system,
capacity of 600K dynamic (JSP) pages/hour
- Co-designed fail-safe server system, operated
without unscheduled interruption for entire tenure
BAKCOM, LLC, Chief Executive
Officer, Damascus, Virginia
(1998+)
- Computer services consulting
firm which provides various services, including: personalized software training;
custom programming; purchase guidance; hardware and software installation and
maintenance; local backups; crash recovery; network design and installation;
graphics development; and web design/maintenance.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1990-98)
Lockheed Martin Energy Research
Corporation
Project Development for DOE, DOD
(Army, Air Force and Navy), DOT, and various internal funding sources.
Student Apprenticing – directly supervised and
coordinated research activities for numerous student interns.
Robotics and
Process Systems Division, Remote Systems Development Section (1995-98)
Led Hyper-Spectral Imaging Program Development
(FY96-FY98) – internal funding,
competitive competition
Led Perception Task for Kelly Air Force Base’s
Automated Aircraft Coating Removal Project (FY95-FY96)
Led Hardware Development Task for Automated Aircraft
Coating Removal Project (FY95-FY96)
Lead Scientist of Metrology
Kinematics for Intl. Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project
(FY95-96)
Intelligent
Systems Section, Autonomous Robotic Systems Group (1990-95)
Led Multi-Sensor Integration (MSI) Research in Site Characterization for
Autonomous Navigation (FY94-FY95)
Lead Scientist in the Naval Air
Systems Command (NAVAIR) Project (FY93-FY94)
Acting Project Administrative
Manager for NAVAIR Project (1993-94)
Lead Scientist for NAVAIR Sensor
Development Task (FY93-FY94)
Lead Scientist for DOE’s ORNL Environmental
Restoration & Waste Management
(ER&WM)/MSI Task (FY92)
Lead
Scientist for DOE’s ER&WM/Surface Following Task at ORNL (FY90-FY91)
Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Member of Technical
Staff/Software Engineer, Whippany, New Jersey (1987-90)
Knowledge Based
Systems Design Group
Lead Scientist for Fuzzy Logic-Based Signal
Classification Project
Led Signal Integration and Recognition Task of Signal
Classification Project
Lead Scientist for Graphical Man-Machine
Interface Task of Target Recognition Project
Led Multi-Signal Interpretation
Task of Target Recognition Project
Vanderbilt University, Computer Science
Department, Nashville, Tennessee (1983-87)
Associate Director
of Introductory Computer Science (1986-87)
- Supervised 8 teaching assistants and
coordinated 21 classes, including materials and examinations development.
- Managed Computer Science department’s Student
Graders and Question Desk personnel.
- Oversight responsibility for over 500
students.
Teaching Assistant - Responsible for teaching 16
computer programming, design, and architecture courses
EDUCATION:
1989
Ph.D. in Computer Science (1989)
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee (1986-87)
Minor in
Electrical Engineering: CS/EE GPA:
3.94/4.0
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Effects of Selection in
Genetic Algorithms
1986
M.S. in Computer Science
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tennessee (1983-86)
Thesis:
Adaptive Selection Methods for Controlling Convergence in Genetic
Algorithms
1982 B.S. in Mathematics, in Physics, and in
Chemistry
King College,
Bristol, Tennessee
(1978-82)
Magna cum
Laude, Honors in Research
Research Project: A Study of Varying Variable Star Systems
of the Type RS Canum Venaticorum
LANGUAGES / SYSTEMS:
Courses: Programming Design,
Programming Languages, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Architecture,
Program-Proving, Operating Sys, DB Sys, Discrete Structures, Image Processing,
Numeric/Combinatorial Algorithms, etc.
Fluency: Java, JSP, JavaBeans,
JavaScript, HTML, SQL, C, C++,
Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Fortran66&77, LISP, Basic.
Familiarity: Ada, ALGOL, APL,
Cobol, Fortran4, PHP, PL/1, Prolog, Prolog1, Python, Snobal4, VB, assy/machine.
Systems: Unix, Linux,
Windows, Symbolics, Macintosh, DOS, SGI,
VxWorks, DataCube, LISP Machines, N-cube.
HONORS & ACTIVITIES
(selected):
- Outstanding Achievement Award, Enterprise Learning
Management System, Next Knowledge, LLC
- Invited Book Chapter for: Event-Based Sensing, Planning and Control of
a Robotic System: An Integrated Approach,
published by Academic Press, AP
- Invited Publication for Special Issue of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
- Invited to Program Committee and Session
Chairmanship for SPIE’s SFDC97/ISAM97 Conf.
- Special Session Organizer/Chairman, Intl
Symposia on Robotics & Mfg/World Automation Congress
- Special Achievement Award – ORNL’s
Engineering, Physics & Mathematics Division
- Session
Chairman, 3rd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
- Harold
Sterling Vanderbilt Scholarship Winner, IBM Fellowship Award, Science
Scholarship Recipient (4 years)
- Outstanding
Senior in Mathematics and Science Division Award, King College
- Research
Fellowship: Kitt Peak
National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
& Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Graduate, Governor’s School for the Gifted, Virginia
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON
REQUEST
ApPendix A: ProGRAM & PROject Managment
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I
have listed only those programs/projects for which I was sole program or
project manager.
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All
software was designed, implemented, tested, demonstrated and integrated for
operation within the target environment/host system, in accordance with program
requirements.
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All
software was designed and implemented using standard Computer Science software
design practices to ensure 3rd party usability, reliability,
extensibility, and maintainability.
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Before
any of the projects and tasks was awarded, detailed cost projections, time-line
with critical path analysis, and internal/external resource requirements were
developed and submitted for consideration within the program budget and
mission. I was intimately involved in,
and in most cases responsible for, that development.
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All
client projects were delivered and demonstrated on time and within budget.
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I
worked on numerous and varied client projects, but cannot list many of them due
to their proprietary nature.
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Cost
estimates are included to convey the approximate scale of the individual
projects.
Enterprise Infrastructure:
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Server
System Deployment/Management
- Linux/FreeBSD OSs,
Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL.
-- External Host, 4 servers, Rackspace, San Antonio, TX
(2001-04) $50K + $80K/yr
-- Private Host, 14 servers, co-located at MCI, Atlanta, GA
(2004+) $100K + $50K/yr
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Information
Technology Systems
(2001+) $80K + $50K/yr
-- Custom environments for each division,
including: Administration, Technology,
Sales, and Client Support.
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Systems include: VOIP, CVS, Ticket Tracking, corporate email, server and
PC security, shared file repositories, auto backups, auto recovery,
sales-laptop server/database(DB) configurations, printer pools, PC maintenance,
etc.
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Customer
Help Desk / Technical Support
(2001+) $50K + $50K/yr
-- Handle corporate and e-commerce web-delivery
questions and develop online help desk support tools.
Enterprise
Solutions/Products:
· NKFrameWorkâ (Course Delivery System)
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Offline - JSP, navigation, table of contents, external frame links, help
system, etc. (2000-01) $50K
-- Database - added database support for
dynamic creation of assessments and psychometrics, results-based auto generated
emails, book marking/tracking, system-maintained user notes, etc.
(2002-04) $100K
-- Advanced - added database-specified
layouts/themes, Unicode-based multi-language support for 2-byte character sets
(Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), AICC & SCORM protocol delivery, etc.
(2004-06) $75K
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AuthorSphereâ (MSWord-to-JSP Parser)
-- Batch translation of MSWord files into
proprietary JSP course pages for NKFrameWork delivery. (2001-02) $250K
· Designerâ (MSWord-based Authoring System)
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Initial - MSWord-based template interface to simplify subject matter
expert authorship of courses, including: assessment wizards, 9 interaction
types (rollovers, clicks, etc), legacy content conversion, etc. (2001-02)
$150K
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Advanced - added "bullet-proofing"; off-line previewing;
auto-publication to confirmed authorized LMS
portal; auto DB integration; handling of update notifications, archiving, and
psychometrics, etc. (2004-06) $300K
· Learning Management System (LMS)
-- Initial - self-registration, tracking, book
marking, login security, e-commerce functionality, etc. (2001) $100K
-- Full-Featured, including: (multi-project
effort, 2002-06) $1100K
- Students: multi-company cumulative
registration, dynamic diploma generation, simultaneous multi-course access,
multi-registration handling, account info management, progress report emailing,
assignment retrieval, etc.
- Managers: assignment to students or
groups, manager-to-manager transfers, transfer to corporate sales/resellers,
auto or manual assignment retrieval, auto email notification, progress
tracking, assignment/transfer editing, etc.
- Administrators:
registration/performance reporting, psychometrics, downloadable spreadsheets,
real-time assessment tracking, account management, group creation/population,
configurable option specification, etc.
Client Programs/Projects and Work for Others:
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Hyper-Spectral
Imaging Program Development (1996-98) $200K
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Perception
Task -- Automated Aircraft Coating Removal Project (1995-96) $100K
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Hardware
Development Task – Automated Aircraft Coating Removal Project (1995-96) $100K
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Metrology
Kinematics Task for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Project
(1995-96) $50K
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Multi-Sensor
Integration Research in Site Characterization for Autonomous Navigation
(1994-95) $200K
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Acting
Program Administrative Manager for NAVAIR Program (1993-94) $400K
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Sensor
Task Development Project for NAVAIR Program (1993-94) $200K
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Multi-Sensor
Integration Project for DOE’s ER&WM Program (1992) $100K
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Surface
Following Project for DOE’s ER&WM Program (1990-91) $250K
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Multi-Signal
Interpretation and Recognition Project, Bell
Labs (1988-90) $400K
ApPendix B: MY PUBLICATIONS
“Automated
Integration of Multiple Sensors”, invited chapter for Control in Robotics
and Automation: Sensor-Based Integration,
Academic Press, New York,
pp. 313-345 (1999).
“Providing
Accurate Yet Maximally Consistent Stochastic Sampling for Genetic Algorithms”,
invited paper for special issue of Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing, 5(1),
pp. 43-56 (1999).
“Adaptive
Multi-Sensor Integration for Mine Detection”, Proc. of Detection and
Remediation Technologies for Mines and Mine-Like Targets, SPIE Proc. 3079, pp.
452-466 (April 1997).
“Conceptual Design
of an Aircraft Automated Coating Removal System”, Proc. 6th International Symposium on Robotics and
Manufacturing, pp. 43-49 (May 1996), (with J. V. Draper, F. G. Pin, A H.
Primm, and S. Shekhar).
“Adaptive Learning
of Multi-Sensor Integration Techniques with Genetic Algorithms”, Evolutionary
Algorithms in Robotics II, Proc. 5th
International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, pp. 383-390 (August
1994).
“Automatic
Calibration of Laser
Range Cameras Using
Arbitrary Planar Surfaces”, Proc. Automatic Object Recognition IV, SPIE Proc. 2234, pp. 38-48 (April 1994).
“Experimental
Investigations of Sensor-Based Surface Following Tasks by a Mobile
Manipulator”, Proc. 3rd
International Symp. on Experimental Robotics, Kyoto, Japan,
pp. 110-114 (October 1993), (with D B. Reister, M. A. Unseren, and F. G. Pin).
“Empirical
Characterization of a High Intensity LED Proximity Sensor”, Sensors, 10(7), pp. 29-32 (July 1993).
“Terrain Following
and Mapping of Arbitrary Surfaces using High Precision Proximity Data”, Optical Engineering, 32(5), pp. 1117-1124 (May 1993).
“Image Accuracy
and Representational Enhancement Through Low-Level, Multi-Sensor Integration
Techniques”, Proc. Sensor Fusion and Aerospace Applications, SPIE Proc. 1956, pp. 170-186 (April 1993).
“Image Accuracy
and Representational Enhancement Through Low-Level, Multi-Sensor Integration
Techniques”, ORNL/TM-12218, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (April 1993).
“Terrain Following
of Arbitrary Surfaces using a High Intensity LED Proximity Sensor”,
ORNL/TM-11991, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (January 1992).
“Empirical
Characterization of a High Intensity LED Proximity Sensor”, ORNL/TM-11972,
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (November 1991).
“How Genetic
Algorithms Work: A Critical Look at
Implicit Parallelism”, Proc. 3rd
International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms, George Mason Univ., Arlington,
VA, pp. 20-27 (July 1989), (with J. J. Grefenstette).
“An Analysis of
the Effects of Selection in Genetic Algorithms”, Ph.D. thesis, Computer Science
Dept., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville,
TN (May 1989).
PUBLICATIONS WHILE IN COLLEGE:
“Reducing Bias and
Inefficiency in the Selection Algorithm”, Proc.
2nd International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms, MIT, Cambridge, MA,
pp. 14-21 (July 1987).
“The Two Phases of
Genetic Search”, Tech. Report CS-87-08, Computer Science Dept., Vanderbilt Univ.,
Nashville, TN (April 1987), (with H. Y. Zhou).
“Adaptive
Selection Methods for Controlling convergence in Genetic Algorithms”, M.S.
thesis, Computer Science Dept., Vanderbilt
Univ., Nashville, TN
(May 1986).
“Adaptive
Selection Methods for Genetic Algorithms”, Proc.
1st International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms, Carnagie Mellon
Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 101-111 (July1985).
“A Study of Varying Variable Star Systems of the Type
RS Canum Venaticorum”, B.S. research thesis, Physics Dept., King College,
Bristol, TN (May 1982).
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