Senior Data Scientist & Technical Leader

Dr. Daniel J. Clouse

Email: ********@*****.***

Phone: By request.

Education: PhD in Mathematics, Binghamton University, 2002 (Universal Algebra)

SUMMARY: I have been working in the field of R&D Data Science at the Department of Defense, DOD, for 14 years. That requires a broad spectrum of “hands on” analytical, ETL, communicative, collaborative, management and leadership skills. This includes engagement experience in learning the problem space as the customer understands it, enduring experience with the unique challenges of transferring research technology into operational use and project management as a COR. I also served as a Technical Director responsible for leading my entire directorate’s Compliance Posture forward via technology development and automation. Leadership and Agile Development is a high priority.

INTERESTS: Data Science; Big Data, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, ETL, Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling, Clustering, Metadata Analysis, Data Visualization, Natural language Processing, Compliance Modernization, Civil Liberties and Privacy, Mission Management and Cryptology General; Leading and Participating in Teams, Collaboration with Internal, Factions and Customers, Problem Solving, Family, Sports and Reading

TECHNOLOGY & LEADERSHIP: DOD (Applied Research Mathematician) Sep 2002 - Present

Data Science & Leadership: The Global Learning Center, GLC May 2016 – Present

The Technical Lead on the cross language and media type data transition and merging of multiple

Media Centers. This includes identifying, analyzing data and trends across multiple Media Centers', ETL, unifying data representation, predicting future data requirements, streamlining acquisition, sentiment analysis and technical support as the GLC transitions to a wireless, web-based learning environment. This will result in huge budgetary savings and vastly increased learning potential for DOD analysts, a vital resource to the DOD mission.

Data Science, Agile Development & Tech Transfer: The Research Directorate, RD Sept. 2005 - May 2016

Improved the efficiency and accuracy of the Agency’s Post-Query auditing processes by building a Query

Compliance Risk Assessment System that assesses millions of syntactically disparate data base queries into both cloud and traditional repositories through Machine Learning and multiple feedback mechanisms. Supervised and enabled numerous impactful technology transfers from RD to The Technology Directorate, TD, responsible for DOD’s 24/7 operational support. This resulted in huge human resource savings, allowing analysts to focus indeterminately more on analysis while remaining compliant to the internal and external oversight inherent to mission execution.

Improved the efficiency and accuracy of the DOD’s National Security Operations Center, NSOC, Mission

Management processes by building a Topic Matching system for textual “Hot Topics” through Machine Learning and metadata analysis/linking. Supervised and enabled the development of the visualization layer of the resulting application and the numerous RD technology transfers to TD, resulting in huge NSOC analyst resource savings.

Improved the efficiency and accuracy of the Agency’s End Product Reporting service to its customers by

building a text based Multi-class Classification System and a Topic Matching system through Machine Learning and statistical metadata co-occurrence analysis. Enabled development of the visualization layer of the resulting application and supervised numerous impactful technology transfers from RD to the Agency's Customer Relationships organization. This resulted in much higher coverage of customer requirements and significant streamlining of the overall customer requirements process.

Leadership: Technical Director of R&D’s Office of Compliance, RV, June 2014 - May 2016

While active in technology research and collaboration between RD and TD, provided technical leadership, subject matter expertise and mentoring on many DOD corporate level activities related to Compliance and Civil Liberties and Privacy, CL&P. These efforts include, but are not limited to;

●The Director's Charge #10.4 -Enable the current and future workforce to effectively communicate DOD missions both internally and publicly

●The Civil Liberties & Privacy Office, responsible for maintaining mission protections under Executive Order 12333, EO-12333, while satisfying new requirements of Presidential Policy Directive 28, PPD-28

●The Principles and Practice of Privacy Science, 3PS, Program Committee responsible for planning and executing the Agency's first two external 3PS workshops

●The Temporary Retention Extension Committee responsible for maintaining data retention protections under EO-12333 while satisfying the new requirements of PPD-28

●The Post-Query Review Modernization Concept of Operations, CONOP, development team

●The Purge Compliance Standards and Monitoring Committee

●The Dissemination Compliance Standards and Monitoring Committee

Data Science/Cryptology: The Cryptologic Mathematician Program, CMP, Sept. 2002 - Sept. 2005

The CMP is a 3 year program where mathematicians take classes in Cryptology, Diagnosis, Information Assurance, Network Protocols and Machine Learning while also working ~7 month tours in mission elements.

Tour 1 - Wireless Encryption Protocol, WEP, IEEE, Standard 802.11g

Tour 2 - Wireless Protected Access, WPA, IEEE Standard 802.11i

Tour 2 - Wireless Advanced Encryption Standard, AES, IEEE Standard 802.11i

Tour 3 - Push-to-Talk, PTT, Encryption, IEEE Standard 802.16.2-2004

Tour 4 - Matrix Singular Value Decomposition, SVD, Sliding Window Approximations

Tour 5 - Multiclass Text Classification and Machine Learning

RELEVANT SKILLS:

●Programming Languages, Data Processing and Software

C/C++, Perl, R, Python, VBScript, Jscript, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML/CSS, ETL

Applicant is familiar with both the Linux and Windows OS environments and related software

Applicant understands Apache Hadoop Mapreduce and Accumulo cloud concepts

Applicant reads and understands Java

●Teaching and Effectively Communicating Hard Problems

Contracting Officer Representative, COR (2009-2016)

Council of Graduate Schools Preparing Future Faculty, PFF, Fellow (2002)

Faculty, Broome Community College Mathematics Dept. (1997-2002)

Graduate Instructor Binghamton University Mathematics Dept. (1997-2002)

Mathematics Instructor Binghamton University Equal Opportunity Program, EOP, (1997-2002)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:

●DOD Invention Award, Team (April 2015)

●DOD Individual Cost Savings/Productivity Award (July 2014)

●DOD Technology Award (May 2014)

●DOD Joint Meritorious Unit Award (February 2007)

●DOD Special Achievement Awards (May 2009, June 2007, June 2004)

●DOD Annual Performance Bonuses (January 2015, January 2010, June 2008)

●DOD Time off Awards (October 2014, March 2012, June 2006, June 2005, September 2003)

●Binghamton University EOP Faculty/Staff Recognition Award (May 2002)

PUBLICATIONS:

Clouse, D.J., Guzmán, F.: The dual geometry of Boolean semirings. Algebra Univ. 64 (2010), 231-249.

Clouse, D.J.: A Dual Representation of Boolean Semirings in a Category of Structured Topological Spaces. Ph.D. dissertation, Binghamton University (2002)

Clouse, D.J.: Using Machine Learning and Metadata Co-occurrence for Automated Topic Matching. (DOD Internal)

Clouse, D.J.: Using Machine Learning to Automate Information Needs Selection. (DOD Internal)

Clouse, D.J.: An Investigation into the Computational Complexity of Streaming SVD Approximation. (DOD Internal)

Clouse, D.J.: A Comparison of a Commercial Machine Learning Application of Tensor Algebra to Standard Methods. (DOD Internal)

Clouse, D.J.: A Method for Aggregation of Inversely Proportional Positive Integer Scoring. (DOD Internal)

REFERENCES: References available upon request

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