VerticalNet, San Francisco, CA (August 2000 - September 2001)

• Product Manager, Ontology Management Infrastructure Suite
  Managed entire lifecycle (from MRD to release) of the Ontology Management Infrastructure Suite. Responsibilities included:
• Complete ownership of the product definition through development of product roadmaps, product features (including user interface and system requirements), functional specifications based on use cases, competitive analyses, messaging for marketing collateral, and directed input into QA, documentation and training materials. Main deliverables included: Product Requirements Document, Functional Specifications, Training Materials, Marketing Collateral.
• Negotiating and collaborating with executive, sales, marketing, professional services, and engineering, to ensure suitable creation and rollout of the product suite on time and within budget. Successfully balanced resource issues with feature needs and release schedules.
• Extended awareness and use of the Ontology Builder Suite to become the key differentiation and content integration component of the entire set of VerticalNet business applications.
• Senior Ontologist
• Technical lead in the development of electronic components and IT knowledge models for VerticalNet electronic-components exchange. Built up large ontologies from external standards (RosettaNet ECTD, WordNet, IAI measured units, etc.), web scraping and spreadsheets.
• Established leadership and direction in ontology building principles and best practices.

 Calico Commerce, San Jose, CA (July 1999 - July 2000)

• Ontology Engineer
• Team-developed requirements for new configuration product through interviews with key customers, professional service consultants, pre-sales and lead development engineers. Also accessed needs by analyzing supporting documents from professional service deployments in key verticals.
• Rapidly prototyped configuration applications in XML for potential Fortune 100 customers.
• Designed and implemented migration path of knowledge model for n-tier J2EE-architected configuration application with tiger team for Fortune 200 customer.

 CYCORP, Austin, TX (March 1995-June 1999)

• Project Manager
• Technical and organizational lead for prototype development for a DARPA-funded competition between knowledge integration software companies, culminating in a $3 million dollar contract.
• Responsibilities include: scoping of the project, developing client relationships, maintaining government project compliance (including billing), tracking resource use/reuse and development, and shipping deliverables in a timely fashion.
• Training Director
• Developed Mentor Program for new Knowledge Engineer employees. Knowledge Engineers are application-developers and end users of the CYC technology.
• Created new site architecture for all internal training documentation and reference materials. Created web-based technical reference and course materials.
• Ontologist/Computational Linguist
• Developed new knowledge domains, some consisting of thousands of axioms, for the CYC Knowledge Base.
• Expanded the lexical, syntactic, and semantic parsing abilities of the CYC natural language understanding system.
• Developed and tested novel noun-phrase lexical-extension rules. These rules coupled with a chart parser formed the foundation for the Cyc Noun Compound parser.
• Analyzed external standards (WordNet, UMLS,...) and mapped to corresponding concepts in the CYC Knowledge Base.
• Contributed to the implementation of a query disambiguation prototype for a Top 5 web search engine company using lexical information and common-sense knowledge.
• Implemented a heterogeneous database integration and data discovery scenario testing prototype.

University of Texas at Austin (Aug. 1994 - March 1995)

• NATURAL programmer, Administrative Computing/Purchasing Department
• Analyzed and developed changes for University electronic purchasing system.

La Academia de Espaņol - Sevilla , Antigua, Guatemala

• Intensive Spanish study (November 2001)

• M.S. in Technology Commercialization, U.T. Graduate School of Business/IC2 (Dec. 1998)
• Special focus on technology-based enterprises: business strategy, product development and marketing, organizational and strategic risk management, intra- and entrepreneurship, intellectual property protection, technology transfer and new venture financing
• Honors: The George Kozmetsky Award for Academic Excellence
• 4.0 GPA

• M.A. in Linguistics (Aug. 1995)
• Special focus: computational linguistics and the integration of semantics and syntax.
• Thesis: Principles of metonymic reinterpretation in English
• Honors: Phi Kappa Phi, UT-Austin chapter .

• Coursework (Sept. 1990 - Aug. 1991)
• Coursework in linear algebra, differential equations, and elementary physics

• B.A. in philosophy (May 1990)

• Intensive Mandarin Chinese study (July-December 1988)

• Development Environments:
• Unix, Linux, Genera (using LISP), Windows NT/2000, Mac OS
• Rational ToolSet (Rational Rose, Clear Case,etc)
• Training in UML and the Rational Unified Process
• Database Programming:
• SQL (SQL Server), NATURAL/ADABAS
• Web:
• XML, HTML, Javascript
• Programs:
• WebLogic, Emacs, Photoshop, MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite