Experience

Altair RapidMiner

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and General Manager

  • Dec 2006 - Present

  RapidMiner provides predictive analytics for business analysts. It requires no programming - users build analytics processes with a drag and drop interface. RapidMiner integrates easily with existing IT infrastructures and can access unstructured and structured data from almost any source.RapidMiner, formerly Rapid-I, was founded in 2007 in Dortmund, Germany. It has about 500 enterprise customers and 200,000 active users.For more details on RapidMiner see http://www.RapidMiner.com/

• Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO)

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2013

  Rapid-I provides the world-leading open source data mining software RapidMiner and all kinds of services related to data mining, text mining, web mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning including but not limited to consulting, training, software development, RapidMiner adaptations and extensions, professional support, complete data analysis services and projects.RapidMiner is used in data mining applications of more than 200,000 users in more than 40 countries world-wide. In the last three years, RapidMiner was downloaded more than 500,000 times. In 2008, Rapid-I was awarded the European Open Source Business Award 2008.For more details on Rapid-I and RapidMiner see:http://www.rapid-i.com/http://www.RapidMiner.com/Selected customers of Rapid-I and users of RapidMiner: http://rapid-i.com/content/view/8/56/



Rapid-I

• Co-Founder and CEO

  • Dec 2006 - Aug 2009

  Rapid-I provides the world-leading open source data mining software RapidMiner and all kinds of services related to data mining, text mining, web mining, predictive analytics, and machine learning including but not limited to consulting, training, software development, RapidMiner adaptations and extensions, professional support, complete data analysis services and projects.RapidMiner is used in data mining applications of more than 200,000 users in more than 40 countries world-wide. In the last three years, RapidMiner was downloaded more than 500,000 times. In 2008, Rapid-I was awarded the European Open Source Business Award 2008.For more details on Rapid-I and RapidMiner see:http://www.rapid-i.com/http://www.RapidMiner.com/Selected customers of Rapid-I and users of RapidMiner: http://rapid-i.com/content/view/8/56/



Ralf Klinkenberg

• Data Mining Consultant

  • Apr 2003 - Nov 2006

  Freelance work as data mining consultant.



University of Dortmund

• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Jan 1998 - Mar 2003

  Research in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Text Mining, Web Mining, Predictive Analytics, Data Stream Mining, Concept Drift, Machine Learning of Drifting Target Concepts from Time-Varying Data Streams.



Missouri University of Science and Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 1996 - Oct 1996

  Comparison of different machine learning algorithms on a socio-economic data set.