STEPHEN THORN

CONTACT

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EDUCATION

Associate of Arts, Incomplete, Sinclair Community College

High School Diploma, Vandalia-Butler, 1985

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Top Secret/SCI

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Over 28 years of experience in multimedia development, web programming, application development, graphics and 3D animation.

Software Engineer supporting the SCREAM Lab for 711 HPW/RHXS with extensive JQuery, JavaScript and PHP programming.

Installation, customization and management of Lucene/SOLR search engine.

Various tools utilizing Scientific Linux for CRON jobs, BASH scripts and GraphicsMagick scripting on dynamic images.

E-learning developer for consumer and government clients, developer of award-winning applications in Flash, ColdFusion and PHP.

Professional publication of iOS app: Puzzoodle puzzle game.

Created e-learning courses for Microsoft and Cisco certifications, and also Human Factors Engineering and Acquisition training for the Air Force. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Software Engineer, Sra, International 03/2009 - Present

Software Engineer supporting the SCREAM Lab for 711 HPW/RHXS.

Created and maintains the Haystack Multimedia Translation application frontend.

Installation, customization and management of Lucene/SOLR search engine.

Various tools utilizing Scientific Linux for CRON jobs, BASH scripts and GraphicsMagick scripting on dynamic images.

Development of metadata extraction for numerous file types to feed indexing resources of search engine for Haystack.

Customization and continuing evolution of Machine Translation Evaluation (MT Eval) site originally created by Carnegie-Mellon University.

Creation of Translation Web Services site for SOAP-enabled translation using the Systran translation engine. Perl-based bridge for Speech-to-Speech translation. Extensive JQuery, JavaScript and PHP programming.

Sr Web Developer, General Dynamics AIS/Veridian 10/2001 – 03/2009

Developer of 14 Flash-based courses for General Dynamics University.

Created 2 E-Training applications for AFRL Virtual Schoolhouse: Evolutionary Acquisition and Human Systems Engineering that included proprietary strategic simulation games with scoring, comprehension goals and recording of goals.

Portal Development of Virtual Distributed Laboratory (VDL) for Air Force, with over 300 users for Program/Group administration and collaboration. PHP implemented in VDL Portal for various automated monthly tasks.

MedATR: From Tanks to Tumors website for blind-study of infrared technology used in the battle against breast cancer.

Flash Communication Server development for a pre-existing website that allowed for video/audio e-Conferencing seminars for a global community workshop.

PHP/MySQL based run request scheduler for scientific group within WPAFB for testing of proprietary software and configurations running of algorithms. Flash-based Questionnaire/Survey application for AFRL.

Online conversion tool for taking GPS flight data and converting into 3D-Space coordinates for 3D software fly-thru.

Sr Web Developer, Rittal Corporation 03/2000 – 10/2001

Senior Web Developer in charge of and coordinating updates on 8 separate corporate websites.

Creation of Rittal ExtraNet, a website based on allowing collaborative efforts for each distributor to create their own website and maintain it.

In charge of transforming outdated static html pages into dynamic web pages that drew all of their information from various corporate databases.

Creation of numerous applications to lessen repetitive chores for various departments of Rittal -- Career Opportunities application for HR, numerous error-trapping techniques for the web sites, automated monthly password changes for 2000 users of secured site. Partner/Creative Director, Thorn Grafx 01/1992 – 01/2012

Designer and animator for 3D and web applied graphics. In charge of multimedia and web design and programming.

Partnered in developing, programming and publishing Puzzoodle iOS app puzzle game.

Partnered in modeling, texturing and animating of 3D graphics, including logo treatments and commercial advertisements.

Called-in for refinement of NCR CBT course by Media Consulting, Inc.

Design and Implementation of Web sites for Audio Visual Systems, Inc., Valdhere, Inc. and Thorn Grafx.

Built turnkey computer systems for Audio Visual Systems, Inc., in regards to high performance, processor intensive computers for customers in graphics and multimedia field.

SKILLS

Languages: ActionScript, Bash, C (C, Objective-C), CFML/ColdFusion, HTML/HTML5, javaScript, Lingo, Lscript, OpenScript, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Swift, XHMTL, XML

Operating Systems: Linux, Mac, Windows

Special Software: Adobe (Creative Suite, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Premier), Apple Final Cut Pro, Asymetrix ToolBook, Blender, Modo, NewTek Lightwave 3D, Pinnacle Studio, SketchUp

Services/Protocols: AJAX, JSON, REST, SOAP, WSDL, WSFL, XML-RPC

Frameworks: CakePHP, CMS (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), Flex, FuseBox, Ozone Widget Framework(OWF)

IDE: Adobe Dreamweaver, Aptana Studio, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, NuSphere PhpED.

RELEVANT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming with Python, 2015

Big Data:Lucene/Solr and Hadoop class, 2012

Programming Methodology, 2008

Fast Track to Allaire ColdFusion, 2001

PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS

Foreign Language Analysis and Recognition (FLARe) Initial Progress http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA577611

Foreign Language Analysis and Recognition (FLARE) Progress http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA616191

Speech and Language and Language Translation (SALT) http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA587920

Development and Utility of Automatic Language Processing Technologies. Vol. 2 http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA605498

Crosslingual Audio Information Retrieval Development http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA539725

Speech Processing and Recognition (SPaRe)

http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA540142Introduction to Computer Science and

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