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BRETT WALENZ
BWALENZ … [at] … GMAIL.COM
Experience
11/8/2009 to Present
21st Century Systems, Inc. Omaha, NE
ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST
- Research and development of information sharing and collaboration application. Led team in development of Flash-based decision making application for remote teams answering questions.
- Research and development of information extraction library. Utilized machine learning libraries for maximum entropy and support vector machines to provide support for named entity recognition, text classification, sentence parsing, and part of speech tagging.
- Development of probabilistic algorithms for deduction, abduction, and trust network management.
- Performed integration in web-based case management application and provided strategies for combining conflicting beliefs on open cases.
11/5/2005 TO 11/8/2009
21st Century Systems, Inc. Omaha, NE
TECHNICAL LEAD/SOFTWARE ENGINEER
- Technical Lead for information sharing and hypothesis management application. Managed team of developers and provided technical direction for project.
- Technical Lead for collaborative scientific application. Java-based proof of concept for distributed collaboration between scientists at different national laboratories.
- Technical Lead for sensor management application. Responsible for initial proof of concept and deployment.
- Developed software for remote camera control, a Java-C++ bridge application which interfaced with pan/tilt/zoom camera system.
EDUCATION
FALL 2010 (EXPECTED)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Specialization in Artificial Intelligence
Thesis: Temporal Tracking of Named Entities
Member:
- KEWI – Knowledge Engineering and Web Intelligence group
- CyWARN – Cyber Crime Warning System
2003 University of Nebraska at Omaha
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, MACHINE LEARNING, JAVA, WEB DEVELOPMENT
Strong experience with Java NLP tools: GATE, OpenNLP, LingPipe
Web development experience: Eclipse, J2EE, JQuery, jqPlot, Google Web Toolkit
Analytical thinker consistently tasked with extremely difficult R&D projects
