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.