Technologies: Project Management & Code Development Developed top-down "Mission-Based Coding" paradigm, incorporating Agile Spiral approach Managed up to 20 professionals in 1 or 2 tiers for four years, creating embedded cell phone games for Kyocera hardware Contract PM for JPL NASA humanoid robot software development project Contract PM for NASA Ames informatics project Robotics Created collision-free path-planning system for multiple robot arms holding parts Created robot simulator system Wrote IK routines for both arms and legs Created entire architecture of a humanoid robot that used binocular model-based computer vision and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Built action planning / scheduling system for SRI International Created ATMS (Assumption-Based Truth Maintenance System) Natural Language Understanding Created a domain-action-based conversation-understanding system for ATR Interpreting Telephone, as part of a speech-to-speech Japanese-to-English automatic translation basic research effort. Worked for five years in Kyoto, Japan. Created a Dialogue Management system for financial conversations. Knowledge Engineering & Expert Systems Created real-time inference engine in C++. Used it to drive a humanoid robot for space research. Created FLAIL expert-system language in Lisp. Used it to recognize and understand conversations. Created an embedded expert system for a communications crossbox-verification-tool prototype for a subcontractor to Harris. Interviewed leaders of Sprint departments and created business-object models of operations Machine Learning Created a k-means system to recommend advertising Created a k-NN system to predict tastes and recommend products Ran sentiment analysis on English NL blog postings Cognitive Systems Designed conversing, intentional autonomous agent architectures Created a NL-based small business advisor Created a responsive multi-agent system that guessed the intentions of other non-communicating agents System Design Designed 32-submodule system for NASA JPL Designed informatics website for NASA Ames Designed speech disambiguation and understanding system for ATR Interpreting Telephone Virtual Humans Designed conversing 3D human museum presentation system for interfaith initiative Computer Vision Created model-based color stereo object location/identification system for JPL Programmed usage of ceiling-based and hand-based cameras for a distributed robot station Probability Created 2nd-order probability mathematics for solving uncertainty problems having to do with meta-decisions (e.g. multi-arm bandit problems) Bayesian reasoning Parallel Systems Dispatching & Scheduling Created multi-agent heterogeneous parallel-system dispatching system for tasks with uncertain values, rather similar to MAP / REDUCE Speech Recognition & Generation Produced efforts to capture voice phonemes. Created system for disambiguation of spoken language parses. Integrated speech recognition and speech generation into a robot. 3D Graphics Produced various 3D graphics initiatives, from conceptual design, through modeling, textures, to animation Computer Game Development Created arcade games Created games for cell phones Telephony Sprint circuit planning, load balancing Verizon BREW games Cell Phone Application Development Created embedded cell phone games for Kyocera, the world's #8 largest maker of handsets. Contracts ran over five years. Financial Systems, Financial Structuring Created expert system to evaluate fundamentals and value stocks Created machine-learning system to recognize when the market is out of balance. Bioinformatics Helped maintain the BioCyc.com Lisp-based biology encyclopedia for SRI International. Created a prototype genome browser. Created a quadratic-time large-molecule "atom matcher" that sped up the previous factorial-time design. Created Ajax-driven front end for BioBike general-purpose Lisp bioinformatics computation tool Building annotation tool for Phantome bioinformatics database Linguistics & Semantics Analyzed Speech Acts in Japanese dialogues for ATR Interpreting Telephone. Created semantic understanding system for a conference-registration domain. Marketing, Branding, and Viral P.R. Directed design of branding for a startup ring-tone company. Directed marketing roll-out efforts. Directed magazine ad campaign for startup's travel information product. Directed post-card direct-mailing campaign for accountant's practice launch. Industrial Flow Optimization Analyzed an entire 400-person computer-assisted film production company, American Film Technologies. Provided improvements that led to 55% drop in network traffic, and a 70% drop in disk usage, thereby significantly improving the throughput and efficiency of the company as a whole. Small Business Strategy Designed $2M strategy for a startup company. Computer Language Design Created expert system language FLAIL. Created Knowledge/Action Representation Language K/ARL. Helped design & create, and implemented, nested-boxes visual programming language for front end for BIOBIKE. Wrote parsers for various languages. Philosophy, Logic, Ontologies Created five-valued logic (Actual, Possible, Hypothetical, Inconsistent, Unknown) for multi-agent interaction knowledge representation. Published paper in COLING. Corrected fallacies in BDI theory. Created ontologies for business, stock conversations. Emotional Communication Trained in transformational short course design. Copy writing for long-form and short-form ads. MySQL / PHP / Ajax Web Production Created (directed/produced) deeply-nested JS database / web site for NASA Ames informatics project. Created deeply-nested 3-tier Ajax website front end (visual programming language) for a general-purpose Lisp-driven bioinformatics computational tool for a Virginia Commonwealth University project. Books, Media, Sound Production Created hardback and paperback books. Created multimedia CD-ROM. Created music, speech soundtracks. Teaching, Mentoring Taught short course in 3D kinematics and computer graphics at Westwood College Mentored employees and grad students in various technologies. One mentee doubled her salary after one year. Another legally blind mentee sought help for PTSD and was able to lead a functional life after my mentoring.