Software Documentation

Resume

Name: Howard Kelly Shuldberg

Address: **** ********* ****, #***

Salt Lake City, Utah 84117

Telephone: 801-***-****

Education:

PhD, Linguistics, 1987, University of Texas, Austin

MA, English, 1981, Utah State University

BA, English, 1978, Utah State University

Skills and Work

* PhP, SQL, HTML, Javascript: Creation and maintenance of AssetWare, New Mexico Software’s web

based database management system. Tasks include general site programming, including site specific

activity reporting in real time, special customization for client requests with en emphasis on site

administration pages, and data mining in the form of real time reports on overall site activity.

* Technical writing for multiple disciplines including software documentation (hard copy and on-line),

reports, proposals, and methodologies.

* ICVerify, CashRegister, Verisign: Integration, activation and maintenance of e-commerce software

for live e-commerce sites. Tasks include download and installation of credit card processing software

as well as generation of custom code (C, Perl, PHP) to manage the interface between AssetWare and

each credit card processor.

* C, Perl, CGI: Early AssetWare version web site creation and maintenance plus custom reports on

web site activity, including installation and activation of Analog reports and code to enable customers

to generate reports in real time, on demand.

* GROFF, Latex, HTML, EMACS: Using existing ASCII text files as a starting point, formatting them

into SGML and providing C code and Perl scripts where necessary, the realization of a 1000 page

single source document set that easily generated on-line and hard copy versions from one set of

text files.

* Windows software for a variety of development purposes, including but not limited to MS Word,

MS Access, Powerpoint, various web development programs such as DreamWeaver to name a few

examples

* Extensive knowledge of computational linguistics including information retrieval, text generation,

morphological processing, syntax, and semantics.

* Previous level L DOE and SECRET DOD security clearance.

* UNIX, MSWindows, and Macintosh OS capability.

* Fluent knowledge of Spanish with some knowledge of German and Japanese.

Employment:

Access Innovations, Albuquerque, NM, July 2004 to October 2004.

* Development and data manipulation

Spanlink Communications, Los Gatos, CA. April 2004 to Lune 2004.

* Contract work involving software testing and documentation.

New Mexico Software, Albuquerque, NM. August 1999 to June 2003.

* PHP, Perl, HTML and C coding to facilitate AssetWare functionality, e-commerce, and data mining.

* PHP and SQL for web site administration, including users registration, user profile management, and

real time site access reporting.

* Initiation, installation, and maintenance, and support for 3rd party code from Cybercash (CashRegister

and ICVerify) and Verisign (PayFlo) for processing credit card transactions. Creation of code for an

interface that allows customers to settle transactions on-line through the browser.

Technically Write, Tijeras, NM. August 1998 to August 1999.

* In charge of writing a set of documentation tools (Perl, BOURNE Shell) to facilitate documentation

efforts for Sierra, a large software development effort at Sandia National Laboratories.

Khoral Research, Inc. Albuquerque, NM. April 1 1996 to March 31, 1999.

* Document management, Automatic migration to SGML and HTML from GROF, including all

required custom programming (C, Perl).

* Principal investigator on three DARPA proposals, one of which was accepted and funded for both

stages 1 and 2.

Tech Reps Inc. Albuquerque, NM. September 1994 to March 31, 1996

* Programming in WinAps and related software for ON-LINE Help systems for several Sandia Labs

and Phillips Labs software systems.

* General web-based documentation for TRI internal purposes.

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Research Group, Albuquerque, NM. March 1990 to April 1994.

* Extensive C/C++, Perl, and Prolog programming for natural language processing and database

support.

* Comprehensive English understanding automatic template filling program that reduced text input

to a relational database format.

* A program to reformat EU output for insertion into SQL.

* A text generation system that automatically creates short content summaries from templates (the

output of English Understanding).

* Extensive tool set to move the English Understanding from one domain to another.

* A program to provide a summary of longer text.

Major Publications

1996- 2003 Numerous technical documents, major proposals, and SBIRs for Novell, KRI, EDS, and NMxS.

1993 Distilling Information from Text: The EDS Template Filling System, with M. Macpherson, P. Humphrey, and Jamii Corley. Journal for the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) Oct,

Vol. 44, Number 9, pp. 493 – 507.

1991 The EDS Summarizer: Automatic Generation of Article Summaries, proceedings, ASIS Workshop on natural language processing and information retrieval, Oct. 27, Washington, DC.

1987 Grammatical and Ungrammatical Structures in User-Advisor Dialogs: Evidence for Sufficiency of Restricted Language in Natural Language Interfaces to Advisor Systems. With R. Guindon (principal author), and J. Conner, proceedings, ACL Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

1987 Syntactic and Semantic Issues in Second Language Learning, PhD dissertation, University of Texas.

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