Software Engineer Quality Assurance

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Robert L. Mugele

SUMMARY

Over twenty years software development experience, including text management systems, natural language processing (NLP), and operating systems. Extensive experience as field linguist studying various languages and cultures. Taught numerous graduate level linguistics courses in acoustic phonetics, phonology, and field methods. Directed graduate student thesis research in the areas of acoustic phonetics and phonology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Carreker Corporation - Dallas, Texas (2000-pres.)

Senior Software Engineer

Converted 12 report programs in the C language written for the OS/2 environment to work in the Windows environment.Rewrote in Visual Basic a C program for check processing.Maintained and made major modifications to a check float management system. This system utilized an Access database with a Visual Basic program overlaying it.

Wild Birds Unlimited - Dallas, Texas (1999-2000)

Manager of Information Systems

Responsible for the installation and maintenance of a PC based network and software to control retail point of sale transactions. Receiving, and shipping operations.Organized the entire product line and inventory for representation in the database.Trained the entire staff on the operation and maintenance of the software and the database.

Oracle Corporation - Redwood Shores, California (1992-1999)

Senior Computational Linguist

Responsible for the linguistic development of Oracle ConText, a text management system employing a sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine.Created rules/algorithms for automatic document classification for Oracle/CNN CustomNews. CustomNews is a news document classification system based on the ConText technology.Designed ConText’s knowledge representation system. This system currently contains approximately 800,000 terms/phrases and a conceptual ontology of more than 3000 categories. Designed and developed the speed-read function for ConText in C/UNIX. Speed-read reduces text as much as 60% by deleting all but the kernel of each sentence.Defined the linguistic requirements for the French, Spanish, and German language implementations of ConText.Designed and prototyped a proper noun detector for English text with no upper/lower case distinctionsDesigned and programmed a part of speech tagger for French.Designed and programmed a system to deal with German separable verb prefixes in free text.Created the windowing environment for PowerEdit as part of the team that converted PowerEdit from DOS to Windows.Supervised the ConText lexicography team.

Artificial Linguistics, Inc. - Dallas, Texas (1990-1992)

Computational Linguist

Led the linguistic development of PowerEdit, a grammar and style correcting software product. Programmed portions of PowerEdit’s full parser for English (Microsoft C). Responsible for quality assurance and documentation. PowerEdit received PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award in 1991.Designed and programmed a text speed read program (Microsoft C) based on the company's full language parser for English. This program forms the foundation for a family of advanced technical products that automatically summarize text, index text, outline text, and understand the English language.

Texas Instruments, Inc. - Dallas, Texas (1988)

Computational Linguistics Consultant

Developed programmatic methods of optimizing a computerized English dictionary by creating a morpheme based word generator. This work was successfully completed on time and later incorporated into a Texas Instruments product.

University of Texas at Arlington - Arlington, Texas (1984-1990)

Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

Director of the Linguistics Research Laboratory

Taught numerous graduate level linguistic courses in acoustic phonetics, phonology, and field methods and directed the thesis research of numerous linguistics graduate students.Designed and directed the development of The Linguist's Workbench, a software package that provides a set of object-oriented tools for linguistic researchers. These tools include interlinear text processing, automatic text glossing, and a generalized morphological parser. This system was being developed in Smalltalk on SUN computers and targeted for UNIX, DOS, OS/2, and Macintosh platforms. Programmed portions of a prototype in C/UNIX. Managed the technical personnel working on the Linguist's Workbench.Created and directed the operations of the Linguistics Research Laboratory. Directed research in acoustic phonetics employing data from many non Indo-European languages.

Instituto Ling stico de Verano - Mexico, D.F. (1969-1990)

Computational Linguist/Linguistic Investigator

Resided among the Chinantec people, learned their language, and published articles on the structure of Chinantec.Produced a translation of the New Testament into Chinantec.Trained indigenous literacy teachers and developed a self-sustaining vernacular literacy program for the Chinantec people.Conducted linguistic analysis workshops and literacy workshops for linguists working in various Meso-American languages.Programmed a text editor for the DEC PDP-8.Wrote a program to acquire, display, and edit acoustic speech wave data on DEC PDP-11.Created a bibliography data management system written in SNOBOL on a DEC-20.Wrote a text formatting program (C/UNIX) for printing and displaying Chinantec language materials. Chinantec uses many non-standard characters and a complex set of diacritic marks.Modified the EMACS editor to display Chinantec language fonts on an AT&T 3B1 (C/UNIX)

Speech Communications Research Laboratory - Santa Barbara, CA (1969-1971)

Computational Linguist

Wrote a lexicon maintenance program and programs to analyze digitized speech signals (Assembler for DEC PDP-8).

Statistical Tabulating Corp. - Chicago, Illinois (1965-1969)

Computer Programmer

Wrote a wide variety of programs for business applications such as sales reports and inventory control (Assembler).Produced a large data management system for tracking railroad rolling stock (Fortran).

Control Data Corp. - Palo Alto, California (1963-1965)

Systems Software Engineer

Responsible for the design and programming of the SIPP operating system for a networked I/O control computer.Responsible for the design and programming of the SASY operating system for a networked I/O control computer.

U.S. Army - White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (1961-1963)

Systems Programmer

Wrote numerous programs as part of a satellite and missile tracking system on the Philco Transac 2000 (Assembler).

Lockheed Missiles and Space Division - Sunnyvale, California (1961)

Systems Programmer

Wrote numerous programs and library functions for IBM 7090/94 in support of aerospace engineering staff (Assembler).

National Security Agency - Ft. Meade, Maryland (1960-1961)

Computer Programmer

Wrote computer programs employing statistical methods to analyze encrypted text materials (Assembler).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of Texas - Austin, TX M.Div. (Theology) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, ILB.A. (German) University of California - Berkeley, CA

GRANTS AND HONORS

Permanent University Fund grant ($250,000) for the creation of a linguistics research facility and acoustic phonetics laboratory (1986-1987).Hill award for the outstanding dissertation in linguistics (1982).National Science Foundation grant for the study of prosodic phenomena in the Chinantec language (1979-1981).Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Society (1980)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for Computational Linguistics

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English: Native languageGerman: Good reading skills, fair speaking skillsSpanish: Excellent speaking and reading skillsChinanteco: (an indigenous language of Mexico) fluent reading, speaking and writing skills

CONTACT INFORMATION

Address: 602 Madison Ct., Duncanville, Texas 75137Home Phone: 972-780-8844Email: *********@******.******: http://www.teuton.org/~bob

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