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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
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Senior Research Scientist
1987 to present
OCLC
Dublin, OH |
Identities: Provided database &
interface expertise as well as designed & developed sophisticated new
name searching technology.
Parallel search engine: Designed & developed
a federated searching architecture using SRU on a Beowulf cluster for high
speed text searching.
SRU Database Interfaces: Designed & developed
interfaces to allow SRU access to Pears, Lucene and
JDBC databases and for the DSpace content repository.
DSpace Committer: Part of a small team responsible for the design
& implementation of DSpace components.
SRU: Designed & developed
open source client and servlet software that
implemented the SRU standard.
Pears: Designed & developed
the Pears open source text retrieval system used in several OCLC systems and
for all OCLC Research projects.
CORC / Connexion: Provided the database expertise for all facets of
an on-line cataloging system (Received OCLC President's Award for this work).
SiteSearch: Designed and led the development team that produced the SiteSearch
product. This integrated a local text
archive with Z39.50 and Web interfaces, providing customers the ability to
store and expose their text documents.
Z39.50: Developed open source client and server
software implementing the ANSI Z39.50 standard, allowing libraries to share
their catalogs. Worked with the museum
community (CIMI) and E-Learning community (IMS-Global) to investigate similar
capabilities.
Newton: Designed
& developed the Newton retrieval system for OCLC's FirstSearch Service
(Received OCLC President’s Award for this work)
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Senior Programmer Analyst
1976-1983, 1985-1987
System Development Corp/Burroughs/Unisys
Santa Monica, CA
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Worked on all facets of the ORBIT retrieval
system, the heart of SDC's Search Service and the
National Library of Medicine's Medlars II system.
Designed indexing software.
User interface development.
Created Data conversion routines.
On-site software installation and customer support.
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Senior Computer Scientist
1983-1985
Logicon
Woodland Hills, CA
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Team leader for the PC-based user interface components of the Medlars
III system for the National Library of Medicine.
Supervised a team of six programmers.
Designed & developed user interface design.
Designed & developed software architecture.
Worked with customer in developing project requirements.
Active in maintaining & continuing customer relations & support.
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