Jason A. Nordwick

Contact         Jason Nordwick               (505)550-2716
                Albuquerque, NM              nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu
                Irvine, CA                   http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick

Skill
Expertise       Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Information
                Extraction and Retrieval, Strings and Sequences, Algorithms
                and Data Structures, Formal Languages, Databases, Data Mining,
                IP Networking, Multi-threading

Languages       Java, C/C++, K, APL, Scheme, Lisp, Perl, Python, SQL, XML XSLT

Platforms       Development: XML, UNICODE, Visual Studio, Emacs
                OSes: Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, HP-UX, Windows 2000, NT4
                Database: SQL Server, KDB, Oracle, MySQL, BerkeleyDB, JDBC
                Application Server: Apache, WebLogic Java J2EE: EJB, RMI,
                                                      JAXP, Servlets

Experience
3/2002-1/2004  Sports Equities                                   Self-Employed
               Took a long-time project off the shelf, an advanced sports bet-
               ting market, and developed it into a full service. I wrote the
               trading system in C, K, and KDB, while hiring others to assist
               in the development of the user interface elements. Market data
               and statistical analysis tools, including Sabermetrics, were
               implemented. I learned to understand patent and legal issues,
               as well as better comprehending the the business side of devel-
               opment.

4/2001-10/2001 Axial Financial                     Contract Software Developer
               Developed web-based financial portfolio tool analyzing perfor-
               mance, volatility, overhead, and possible future strategies.
               Predicted investor tendencies via dynamically trained belief
               networks and decision trees. Researched new techniques using
               clustering analysis. Written in Java, interfaced to Oracle with
               JDBC, and deployed as EJBs and servlets.
                
2/1999-2/2001  Ask Jeeves                            Senior Software Developer
               Developed language-general lexical analysis components of
               natural language system: optimal, cascaded finite state trans-
               ducers over a very large corpus. Built XML network protocol
               around libraries. Ported from NT to Solaris, Linux, and
               FreeBSD. Internationalized and localized for Asia and Europe.
               Worked in neural network research project to determine efficacy
               of unsupervised methods. Two project leads.

7/1998-11/1998 Confluent                                    Software Developer
               Worked in a small team on the design and implementation of a
               database backed, calendar and messaging server supporting net-
               work connectivity, caching, and disconnected use. Wrote trans-
               action server, lock manager, messenger, and scheduler in Java2
               JDBC. Assisted in GUI development with Swing.

8/1997-4/1998  Autonomy                            Contract Software Developer
               Co-authored feed-forward, supervised, heteroassociative neural
               network kernel for adaptive search and categorization. Added
               document conversion and normalization plug-in framework. Opti-
               mized speed critical code to use virtual memory and cache.
               Ported to FreeBSD. Led a small, multi-homed team creating a
               Java applet to efficiently manipulate large result sets.

Research
5/1996-2/1998  ETAGS Translation System                       Group Researcher
               Implemented the ETAGS system for document translation from
               multiple source to multiple target languages, using examples
               for feedback. Programmed in C, CLisp, and Scheme with
               collaboration from peers over the Net.

Education 
9/1994-12/1999 B.A., Mathematics
               University of California, Berkeley