Mark Watson

's Resume

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Professional Summary

Mr. Watson is a hands-on software architect and developer specializing in large scale

data and text mining, general server side development (Java and Rails), and artificial

intelligence (AI) development. His work involves information gathering and processing

using both custom software tools and open source projects like Lucene, Solr, and Hadoop.

Mr. Watson has worked on AI projects for DARPA, SAIC, Nintendo, Pacific Bell, Disney,

CompassLabs, and Webmind Corporation. Mr. Watson is the author of 16 published computer

science books.

Education

B.S. Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (1973)

All class work completed for M.S. in Computer Science with 3.9 GPA at San Diego State

University while working full time (1974-1976)

Continuing education (2012): Coursera/Berkeley Software Engineering for Software as a

Service, Coursera/Stanford Natural Language Processing, and Google Power Searching with

Google.

Partial Customer List

CompassLabs

Disney

Sitescout.com

SAIC

Pace AP

Embed.ly

Americast

PacBell

SAMBA

CastTV

Nintendo

Lutris Technology

University of Chicago

Webmind Corporation

References available on request

Publications

Details available at www.markwatson.com

Technical Expertise

Mr. Watson designs and develops software using Java, Ruby, Common Lisp, Python and C++

programming. He also has a working knowledge of the Smalltalk, Perl, and Objective-C

programming languages.

Work Experience

Java EE 6 work on a real time large scale licensing system at Pace AP

Data mining and large scale infrastructure - Developer for CompassLabs working on using

social media.

Artificial Intelligence Programming - AI developer for Global Health Care Systems

Phrophet Quest project. Principal architect and AI programmer for KnowledgeBooks.com, a

developer of natural language processing and knowledge management tools.

Linux Deployment Specialist - Lead developer for deployment and scalability for projects

for GHX and SAMBA.

Web application development (Java and Ruby) J2EE Architect for Samba. Worked on

distributed high-availability search for Rojo.

Corporate funded work on the open source Jaffa Java web application framework.

Software architect - SAMBA (architecture for data collection and integration).

IndependentJava consultant (2001 to present) - Many small jobs. Larger jobs include:

adding SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI (client and server) support to the Lutris Java application

server product; updating user guides for the latest version of the Xanalys LispWorks

commercial product.

Artificial Intelligence Programming (

2001) - Principal architect and AI programmer for

KnowledgeBooks.com

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Webmind Corporation (1999-2000) - General Java and artificial intelligence programming.

Server side Java and Internet data-spidering agents.

IndependentJava consultant (1998) - Java based set-top-box demo for Disney/Americast,

general application and network programming for other clients.

Angel Studios (1996-1997) - Artificial intelligence C++ software implementation for two

Nintendo video games, and the lead programmer for dinosaur/river ride VR experience for

Disney.

SAIC (1983-1995) - Scientific programming and artificial intelligence applications. Two

commercial products: ExperOPS5 for the Macintosh and the ANSim neural network simulator

for Microsoft Windows.

La Jolla Computing Services/Physical Dynamics (1978-1982) - Assistant Director and

systems programmer/applications programmer

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SAIC (1973-1977) - Scientific and applications programmer

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