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Travis Rood

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Seeking Entry/Junior-level employment in Software Development - Switching

from academia; looking to finally launch my career as a Software Developer.

Interested in relocating.

Education:

PhD study in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2008 - May 2010

- with classes in Data Mining and Statistics

M.A. Linguistics with Human Language Certificate

University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2008

- with classes in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and

Information Retrieval

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Colorado at Boulder, Dec 2000

Skills:

Java, Python, Apache Tomcat, MySql, Eclipse IDE, Linux, Web App

Development, Agile Software Development, Natural Language/Text Processing

Relevant Experience:

Software Development Intern

Web Intelligence Division (aka 'Umbria'), JD Power and Associates, Jun 2008

- Now

- developed web applications, primarily using Java (with the Eclipse IDE),

MySql and Apache Tomcat

Temporary Aid

to Martha Palmer, Professor of Linuistics, University of Colorado, Oct 2010

- Now

- developing computational classification system to find expected arguments

of verbs in various types of text

Research Assistant

"EPIC" Crisis Communications Project, University of Colorado, Aug 2009 -

May 2010

- worked on ontology creation for data mining of 'tweets' sent in time of

crisis/disaster

Research Assistant

Blog and Message Board Text Processing, University of Colorado, Aug 2008 -

May 2009

- wrote Python scripts for grammar-based extraction of text snippets for

use by text classification systems

- provided computing support for fellow Linguistics students' annotation

and statistical analysis tasks

Software Development Intern

Avaya, Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

- developed an "intelligent agent" prototype system for IP Phone management

using JADE in Java

Technical Service Manager

Nutek Americas, Inc. Jan 03 - Jan 06

- provided Application Engineering support of printed circuit board

manufacturing conveyor equipment for Nutek's North American customers.

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