Manager Software

Mohamed Salem Phone: 512-***-**** E-Mail: *********@*****.***

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Austin Texas USA

Skills

Computational linguistics and natural language processing seminars &

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workshop at ACL Madrid Spain.

Attending a Stanford University class on natural language processing.

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Handheld and portable devices development at Chesen Taiwan.

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Web and internet technologies at Netscape communication Dublin Ireland.

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Translation memory techniques and software at star group through online

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classes from star group Switzerland.

Linguistic parser written in objective c for iOS.

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Programming Languages: C, Objective C, C++ and Java.

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Good understanding of design patterns, OOP, OOD.

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Good Knowledge about frameworks like, NLTK, UIMA, GATE and WEKA.

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Knowledge about ontology and ontology tools like Neon and Protégé.

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Knowledge about open source search engines like SOLR, KIM and ES.

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Fair Knowledge about Python

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Experience

2012- April 2013 Technical Lead at CISCO www.cisco.com

Working on NLP and enterprise search related project.

2010 - Present Manager and Lead Developer Text Scope www.text-scope.com (USA)

Developing iPad applications: all available on iTunes Store

Lightning News, a news search engine application with plenty of features

iTunes Store

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Key Text Browser 2.0, a text visualization application with plenty of features

iTunes Store

Key Text Browser, a statistical natural language processing based application for the

iPad

iTunes Store

Active Parser, a linguistic NLP parser

School capabilities demo for iPhone and iPad

Battle Ships, a simple game with sound and graphic

iTunes Store

2011-2012 Research Assistant at Texas A&M University http://www.tamuk.edu(USA)

The role was a research assistant with responsibility of designing and developing a

program using the code warrior development environment to be used on the dragon

board. This program is designed to analyze the performance of coupled motors that

work together as motor-generator pair.

Designing and developing an iPad app that utilize the Arduino board to capture

different sensor data

Developing several small applications in Java using eclipse development environment.

2007 - 2009 Star Group Switzerland http://www.star-ts.com/ (Egypt)

Responsibilities included:

- Design of the X10 based software “Ghost”.

- Managing the implementation of the software.

- Travelling to different client location to tailor the software for their

needs.

- Doing research on the X10 Technology and learn about CM11 serial

device.

2002 - 2007 Software Development Manager (Egypt)

Star Group Switzerland http://www.star-ts.com/

Responsibilities Included:

- Studding and analyzing the star group translation memory software

“Transit”.

- Managing a team of translators and software engineers to localize banking

software.

- Build tools to assist (Transit) product of star group International, The task

was to make Transit work with the Arabic language. Enhance some of the

features related to following: sentence segmentation, dictionary mapping,

idioms and collocations.

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2000 - 2002 Senior Software engineer (Ireland)

Netscape Communication (AOL America Online in Ireland)

Responsibilities included:

- Building and managing projects in C++.

- Working in projects related to web rating using XSLT.

1998 - 2000 Software Development Manager (Egypt,Taiwan)

Computer & Engineering World CEW Egypt – Chesen Taiwan

Responsibilities included:

- Development Manager responsible for managing the development of the

company strategic handheld products.

- Managing the both the Egyptian and Taiwanese development team whom

are responsible for the coding of handheld software.

- Design the software and participate in development.

- Travelling and living in Taiwan for more than a year to follow up on the

production and testing of the handheld product.

1993 - 1998 Development Manager (Egypt)

Sakhr Software http://www.sakhr.com (one of the world leaders

in NLP based technology)

Responsibilities included:

- Managing the development of several Natural

language processing applications like: Automatic Text

Indexer, Multi-lingual Dictionaries, Multi-Search and

live topics.

- Computational linguistics research work to all the application developed

above.

1992 – 1993 Software Developer (Egypt)

Apple Pie

- Developing several applications for the MAC OS.

Education:

Texas A&M University, College of engineering

. Master Degree in Computer Science Texas A&M University, Texas (4/4) 2011 – 2012

Cairo University

. Post Graduate Diploma In Computer Science 1991-1993

. Bachelor Degree of Engineering 1983-1989

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Hobbies

Listening to Classical music, Painting, Chess, Travelling, Politics and Art in general.

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