John Pitrelli
Faculty, Departments of Science, Business & Technology, and Math at Immaculate High School- Claim this Profile
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Eugene Ratzlaff
John joined our ongoing R&D Pen Technologies group after working in Speech. He came up to speed quickly and made strong contributions on both the research and development sides in a number of areas. I worked closely with John on publications, patents, and product deliverables. He is self-motivated and reliable, and has a tremendous background and excellent skills in Natural Language Processing. You may notice that John has a large number of LinkedIn contacts. I'm utterly certain that this is a very tangible reflection of his outstanding people skills. He's a team player, always steady and a pleasure to work with, quick to offer assistance, and ready and able to mentor or lead when needed. I can't imagine any setting where John would not be a valued asset.
Eugene Ratzlaff
John joined our ongoing R&D Pen Technologies group after working in Speech. He came up to speed quickly and made strong contributions on both the research and development sides in a number of areas. I worked closely with John on publications, patents, and product deliverables. He is self-motivated and reliable, and has a tremendous background and excellent skills in Natural Language Processing. You may notice that John has a large number of LinkedIn contacts. I'm utterly certain that this is a very tangible reflection of his outstanding people skills. He's a team player, always steady and a pleasure to work with, quick to offer assistance, and ready and able to mentor or lead when needed. I can't imagine any setting where John would not be a valued asset.
Eugene Ratzlaff
John joined our ongoing R&D Pen Technologies group after working in Speech. He came up to speed quickly and made strong contributions on both the research and development sides in a number of areas. I worked closely with John on publications, patents, and product deliverables. He is self-motivated and reliable, and has a tremendous background and excellent skills in Natural Language Processing. You may notice that John has a large number of LinkedIn contacts. I'm utterly certain that this is a very tangible reflection of his outstanding people skills. He's a team player, always steady and a pleasure to work with, quick to offer assistance, and ready and able to mentor or lead when needed. I can't imagine any setting where John would not be a valued asset.
Eugene Ratzlaff
John joined our ongoing R&D Pen Technologies group after working in Speech. He came up to speed quickly and made strong contributions on both the research and development sides in a number of areas. I worked closely with John on publications, patents, and product deliverables. He is self-motivated and reliable, and has a tremendous background and excellent skills in Natural Language Processing. You may notice that John has a large number of LinkedIn contacts. I'm utterly certain that this is a very tangible reflection of his outstanding people skills. He's a team player, always steady and a pleasure to work with, quick to offer assistance, and ready and able to mentor or lead when needed. I can't imagine any setting where John would not be a valued asset.
Credentials
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IT Essentials
CiscoAug, 2021- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Immaculate High School
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Faculty, Departments of Science, Business & Technology, and Math
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Aug 2021 - Present
College-preparatory Catholic high school. College-preparatory Catholic high school.
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St. Theresa School
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Faculty (Math)
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Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
School in transition to a Catholic Classical curriculum. School in transition to a Catholic Classical curriculum.
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Multilingual Natural Language Processing R&D
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Jan 2006 - Feb 2021
Development manager for IBM Watson Language Translator and Relationship Extraction. Work on information extraction, mention/coreference/relation detection, medical-document information extraction, mention-detection robustness, unstructured information management (UIMA), and interoperation of information extraction technologies with speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis. Development manager for IBM Watson Language Translator and Relationship Extraction. Work on information extraction, mention/coreference/relation detection, medical-document information extraction, mention-detection robustness, unstructured information management (UIMA), and interoperation of information extraction technologies with speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis.
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I.B.M.
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India
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Consumer Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Speech Synthesis R&D
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Jan 2003 - Jan 2006
Expressive concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. See Scientific American, June 2005, pp. 64-69, or attached link. Expressive concatenative text-to-speech synthesis. See Scientific American, June 2005, pp. 64-69, or attached link.
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Handwriting Recognition R&D
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Jul 1997 - Dec 2002
Unconstrained-style writer-independent and -dependent dynamic handwriting recognition for products including CrossPad personal digital notepad and ThinkPad TransNote portfolio PC. Unconstrained-style writer-independent and -dependent dynamic handwriting recognition for products including CrossPad personal digital notepad and ThinkPad TransNote portfolio PC.
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Verizon
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Speech Technology R&D
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Sep 1990 - Jul 1997
Automatic speech recognition (ASR a.k.a. speech-to-text/STT), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), speech time-compression, development of ToBI prosodic phonology, creation of PhoneBook speech corpus in conjunction with Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). NYNEX subsequently became part of Bell Atlantic, then Verizon Communications. Automatic speech recognition (ASR a.k.a. speech-to-text/STT), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), speech time-compression, development of ToBI prosodic phonology, creation of PhoneBook speech corpus in conjunction with Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). NYNEX subsequently became part of Bell Atlantic, then Verizon Communications.
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MIT
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Teaching Assistant
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Jul 1985 - Jun 1989
Teaching assistant for course in speech acoustics as viewed through spectrogram reading, including acoustic theory of speech production. One-week course offered five consecutive years, domestically and in Japan and Scotland.
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Teaching Assistant
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Feb 1986 - May 1986
Entry-level graduate course in digital signal processing.
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Teaching Assistant
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Sep 1983 - May 1984
Undergraduate applied probability course for engineers. Undergraduate applied probability course for engineers.
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Accounting Staff
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Jun 1981 - Aug 1981
Summer job in accounting department. Responsibilities included fed funds trades, reconciliation of official checks, and production of daily balance sheets. Summer job in accounting department. Responsibilities included fed funds trades, reconciliation of official checks, and production of daily balance sheets.
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Marketing Staff
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Jun 1980 - Aug 1980
Summer job in marketing department, providing monetary and merchandise gifts promoting certificates of deposit. Summer job in marketing department, providing monetary and merchandise gifts promoting certificates of deposit.
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Kings Park Psychiatric Center
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Program Evaluation Assistant
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Jul 1979 - Aug 1979
Summer job in Program Evaluation Department of 3100-bed hospital. Level-of-care surveys. Summer job in Program Evaluation Department of 3100-bed hospital. Level-of-care surveys.
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Pharmacy Aide
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Jul 1978 - Aug 1978
Summer job in Pharmacy Department of 3200-bed state hospital. Fulfilled drug orders for wards; repackaged manufacturer's shipments into vials, and assisted inspections of wards' drug storage safety. Summer job in Pharmacy Department of 3200-bed state hospital. Fulfilled drug orders for wards; repackaged manufacturer's shipments into vials, and assisted inspections of wards' drug storage safety.
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Education
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1979 - 1990
MIT
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1979 - 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., S.M., S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -
1975 - 1979
Kings Park High School
H.S., honors / college-prep.
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