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Technical Qualifications
Sun Microsystems certified Java Instructor for introductory and advanced Java.
Sun Certified Java Programmer.
Presenter to Central Ohio Java Days 2000 Conference, Columbus, Ohio
Presenter to Cleveland Area Java SIG March 1999 and July 2000
Current Employment
Web Developer, Jones, Day. Javascript, Java, JSP, Tomcat, Servlet, HTML, DHTML, XML, .Net, AJAX, C#, IIS, SQL Server, Oracle.
Past Employment
Instructor in Java, Cleveland State University, summer 1999-2004, using courses in Java that I write and teach. Course has been delivered to NASA, CarTemps, Nordson Corporation, and CSU students. Topics from introductory subjects through Applets, JDBC, JavaBeans, RMI, Servlets, frameworks, and CORBA.
Lead Software Engineer, NetGenics, Inc, 1997-2001. Design and development of CORBA/Java framework software for honing the genetic-based drug discovery techniques of large pharmaceutical companies. Using Java, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, FrontPage, DreamWeaver, IFC/AWT/JFC, Swing, Codewarrior, JBuilder, JPadPro, Visual Cafe, UML, Rational Rose, patterns.
Sun Microsystems-certified Java Instructor, IS Strategic Consulting Group, 1996-1999. Teach introductory and advanced Java courses at Sun Microsystems educational facilities and affiliates country-wide.
Principal Consultant, Analysts International Incorporated (AiC), Cleveland, Ohio, July, 1996-May 1997. Worked on Cleveland Branch's Intranet/Internet Center of Expertise using tools such a Microsoft's FrontPage. Provided six-months consulting to Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company as specialist in Object-Oriented design and C++, aiding in the redesign and implementation of a parametric, GUI-based, object-oriented tire design application on the AIX platform, including Neuron Data tools, ObjectStore database, and the translation of relational databases to object-oriented databases. Developed pilot ObjectStore object-oriented database application for NT platform using Visual C++.
Senior Computer Systems Analyst, Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Water Resources Division, Austin, Texas, July, 1990-July 1996.
- Principal designer and sole developer of client/server PowerBuilder 4.0 (w/ Informix host) application to provide networked access to hydro-meteorological data.
- Designed and wrote help system for this product using RoboHelp.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained over several years a major embedded C++ object-oriented generic SCADA communications and data acquisition system to monitor river and weather conditions, and to report conditions to LCRA. Wrote all code, including drivers to interface to radio, telephone, serial/UART, SDI, A/D, digital IO; perform data logging, checksums.
- Provided training to LCRA staff in object-oriented C++.
- Used Borland OWL for Windows 3.1 to build simple SDI/MDI communications and database programs.
- Designed and coded a VAX-based C DecTalk voice synthesis program to offer menu-driven access to stored database via telephone.
- Designed and wrote operations manuals and documented own code using Microsoft Word 6, Aldus Intellidraw.
- Presented LCRA technology achievements at "Government and Technology Conference," Austin, Texas, 1994.
Grant Writer, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Texas at Austin, 1992. Assisted the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin to prepare grant proposals seeking 1.5 million to plan and develop Centers for Professional Development and Technology.
Software Engineer/Technical Writer, PIDEAC, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1986-1989. Designed and implemented Pascal and C code for pattern recognition algorithms and user-defined video control functions in field of biometric research, involving image processing and statistical analyses. Used software package RS/1 to model & test statistical analyses of pattern recognition schemes. Composed and edited technical documentation, military contract documentation (monthly, semiannual, annual, MIL specs), draft contracts. Designed layouts of deliverable documentation using WordPerfect and First Publisher software programs. Designed and wrote user manual for PIDEAC'S biometric-related identification system. Patent for biometric identification invention awarded 1991.
Adjunct Research Investigator, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1989. Pascal and C languages programming for biometric identification research and development project involving pattern recognition, image processing, and statistical analyses. Also aided in the coding of a specialized in-house database related to biometric study
Previous to these jobs I worked as a Technical Specialist in Community Relations for the City of Cleveland, Technical Abstractor for the Materials Research Laboratory of Gould, Inc. in Cleveland, and Owner/Employer of my own painting company in Cleveland Heights.
Education
Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Texas, 1994.
M.A., English, 1988, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Thesis: Linguistic Analysis of Science Writing.
B.A., Microbiology, 1977, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Academic Instruction
Instructor, Introductory and Advanced Java, Cleveland State University, 1999-present.
Instructor, Introductory and Advanced Java, Sun Microsystems, October 1996–1999.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1992–Spring 1994.
Colloquium Natural Language Processing in C++ presented to Computer Science Department, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1992.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, 1990–1992.
Instructor, English, Business Communications, Department of English, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio, 1987–1989.
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1984–1985.
Laboratory Assistantships, Botany and Cytology, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1976.
Honors & Award
University Fellowship, highest graduate honor, 1993-1994, University of Texas at Austin.
Featured Writer in Literary Criticism, Analecta, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1990.
Creative Writing Prize, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1989.
Andrews Foundation Award, Cleveland State University, joint awardee, 1987.
Fine Arts Tuition Scholarships, Cleveland State University for creative writing, awarded two quarters, 1986.
Grant Work
M. Kameen, J.A. Sweeney, David K. Perelman-Hall, Proposal for The Development of A Center for Professional Development And Technology, Phase I, The Texas Education Agency, for August, 1991, $30,000.
David K. Perelman-Hall. HighTech Flashcards for Language Learning, SBIR Program of The National Institutes for Health, for November 1990–May 1991, $44,500.
C. Colbert, David K. Perelman-Hall. Human Remains Identification Study, Air Forces Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall AFB, Florida, for 1989, $250,000.
Selected Publications
Academic
Dissertation: Flexible Computer Assisted Language Learning: Object-Oriented Unification-Based Natural Language Parsing and Error Correction. The University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
"The Romantic Tradition—Coleridge and Wolfe, part II," The Thomas Wolfe Review, Vol 16, No. 2, Fall 1992.
"The Romantic Tradition—Coleridge and Wolfe, part I," The Thomas Wolfe Review, Vol 16, No. 1, Spring 1992.
"Blake And Determinism," Analecta, Spring 1990.
"Blake Creates from Science," The Journal for Anthroposophy, Spring 1989.
"Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman," The Thomas Wolfe Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 1989.
"Magnificent Dithyrambs in Thomas Wolfe," The Thomas Wolfe Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 1987.
"Contrast as Device in Wolfe's 'The Child by Tiger,'" The Thomas Wolfe Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1983.
Scientific
"AJAX & Record Locking” in Dr. Dobb's Journal, October 2006.
"Sorting in Java and C#” in Dr. Dobb's Journal, November 2005.
"Java Q&A" (Implementing Find functionality in Java applications) in Dr. Dobb's Journal, July 2000.
"Java and Lightweight Components" in Dr. Dobb's Journal, February 1999.
"Lighten Up Your Component Set," in the News & Features/Tech Workshop section at www.developer.com, April, 1998.
"Object-Oriented Natural Language Processing," under review.
"Object-Oriented SDI-12" in The C/C++ Users Journal, January, 1996.
"Directed Acyclic Graph Unification" in Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1995.
"A Natural Solution: A C++ Implementation of a Chart Parser for Natural Language," BYTE, February, 1992.
Final Report, "Human Remains Identification Study," June, 1989 (Contract No. FO8635-88-0223), to Air Forces Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall AFB, Florida.
Final Report, "Personnel Identification Entry Access Control Device," February, 1988, (SBIR Phase II Contract No. FO4704-86-C-0051), to Ballistic Missile Office. BMO Number: BMO-TR-88-09.
Patents
"Finger Profile Identification System," 1991. Joint patent holder: United States, Asia, Australia.
“Method and Apparatus for Face Recognition,” 2003. Joint patent holder: United States.
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