Experience

Perfect Search Corporation

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cofounder, Sr. Software Engineer, Team and Technical Lead

  • Jul 2005 - Present

  Lead deployment on Kubernetes Lead containerization of our search engine and core platform technologies Spearheaded Kafka integration Directed investigation into integration with Cassandra Assisted in the design and development of the fastest and most scalable full text search engine Built an integrated search application on Windows Mobile Implemented consistency and performance enhancements to cTAKES open source project Inventor of U.S. patent Lead deployment on Kubernetes Lead containerization of our search engine and core platform technologies Spearheaded Kafka integration Directed investigation into integration with Cassandra Assisted in the design and development of the fastest and most scalable full text search engine Built an integrated search application on Windows Mobile Implemented consistency and performance enhancements to cTAKES open source project Inventor of U.S. patent



Cogito, Inc.

• Provo, Utah Area

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • 2000 - 2005

  Designed and developed algorithms for automated generation of schematic diagrams Automated placement and orientation on a page to: - Minimize space - Maximize connection crossings - Maximize clarity For use in such complex system as: - Airplanes - Ships - Nuclear Plants Designed and developed algorithms for automated generation of schematic diagrams Automated placement and orientation on a page to: - Minimize space - Maximize connection crossings - Maximize clarity For use in such complex system as: - Airplanes - Ships - Nuclear Plants



Novell

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • 1996 - 2000

  Co-inventor on 4 U.S. patents Assembled and led a virtual team to design, develop and ship the Novell Web Search Server - Integrated Web Service in NetWare - Ability to crawl and index Intranet and Internet sites - Could index local and network files - Used as the search engine for all of Novell.com - With few changes, the product is still shipped by Novell, now renamed back to QuickFinder - Shipped by Novell and Micro Focus until at least 2015 Co-inventor on 4 U.S. patents Assembled and led a virtual team to design, develop and ship the Novell Web Search Server - Integrated Web Service in NetWare - Ability to crawl and index Intranet and Internet sites - Could index local and network files - Used as the search engine for all of Novell.com - With few changes, the product is still shipped by Novell, now renamed back to QuickFinder - Shipped by Novell and Micro Focus until at least 2015



WordPerfect

• Orem, Utah

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • 1987 - 1996

  Worked on the QuickFinder full text search engine which shipped with and was integrated into the WordPerfect word processing package. Designed and Developed: - Engine code - Windows Graphical User Interface Did Contextual Inquiry customer visits for a full redesign of product features and User Interface Contributed in OOA/D for the QuickFinder Object model which: - Facilitated more efficient coding and refactoring - Allowed reducing code size while increasing functionality - Enabled adding features with minimal changes Show less



Intron Corp.

• Software Engineer

  • May 1983 - Dec 1983

  Designed and developed a Hotel/Motel Management system that tracked: - Room charges - Restaurant and Bar Tabs - Local Telephone charges - Long Distance calls - Local, State and Federal Taxes The system: - Captured phone call information directly from the PBX - Automatically calculated phone tolls and local, state and federal taxes - Ran on the IBM PC Comparable systems were around $250,000 at the time Designed and developed a Hotel/Motel Management system that tracked: - Room charges - Restaurant and Bar Tabs - Local Telephone charges - Long Distance calls - Local, State and Federal Taxes The system: - Captured phone call information directly from the PBX - Automatically calculated phone tolls and local, state and federal taxes - Ran on the IBM PC Comparable systems were around $250,000 at the time



Intron Corp.

• Software Engineer

  • May 1982 - Sep 1982



Intron Corp.

• Software Engineer

  • May 1981 - Sep 1981