Degree:	B.S. in Mathematics / Computer Science with Minor in Music Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA. 1990
Objective:	Employment in cutting-edge software design & building
Languages:	Java/J2EE, C/C++, Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails, Tcl/Tk, Lisp
Programs:	Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Linux, AIX
Technologies:	JDBC, RMI, JSP, JWS, XML, XSLT, SAX, DOM, SQL, TCP/IP, HTML, CGI, UNIX

Current Employment

Senior Research Programmer
Language Technologies Institute
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon
May 1996 - current

KANTOO: English -> Spanish automated machine translation system:
- Designed, built, and maintained KANTOO.
- Uses C++ on AIX/Linux, with >300 classes, 25 modules. 30,000 LOC
- Supervised ~10 other programmers and 'knowledge developers'.
- KANTOO is in production use at Caterpillar Inc, with ~150 writers.
- Designed & built GUI (uses Java, 60 classes, 5 modules, 12,000 LOC)
- Can demonstrate GUI & system remotely, using Java Web Start(TM).
JAVELIN: automated question answering
- Built a CVS repository & testing framework for JAVELIN development.
- Managed ~10 code modules developed/maintained by graduate students.
- Designed & built GUI (uses Java, 8 classes, 1 module, 1500 LOC)

Previous Employment

Research Programmer
Professor Kathleen Carley
Social & Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon
June 1994 - April 1996

Orgsim & Orgahead: Organizational and social network simulator
- Designed, built & ran orgsim & orgahead.
- Uses C on AIX (5 files, ~4000 LOC)
Research Programmer
The Analog Group
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon
September 1993 - April 1996

ACACIA: analog circuit design / optimization / simulation
- Managed 5 code modules developed/maintained by graduate students
- Ported modules to AIX, Ultrix, SunOS, HP-UX, DEC Alpha.
MHDL: analog circuit specification language
- Extended several ACACIA modules to read & write MHDL.
Research Programmer
SEMATECH Center
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon
January 1991 - August 1993

HCDB: hierarchical digital chip specification storage & simulation
- Designed, built, and maintained HCDB,
- Uses C on Ultrix (6 files, 10,000 LOC)
- HCDB was part of a PhD thesis about hierarchical chip simulation.
LILY: a simple digital chip layout editor
- Designed & built LILY, uses TCL (5 files, 3000 LOC)

Mitamura, Baker, Nyberg, and Svoboda
"Diagnostics for Interactive Controlled Language Checking" Proceedings of EAMT/CLAW 2003
Mitamura, Nyberg, Torrejon, Svoboda, Brunner, and Baker
"Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in the KANTOO Multilingual Machine Translation System" Proceedings of TMI 2002
Many more KANT-related publications are available at:
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/
Carley and Svoboda
"Modeling Organizational Adaptation as a Simulated Annealing Process"
Sociological Methods and Research
August 1996, Vol. 25, No. 1: pp. 138-168
Walker, Kellen, Svoboda, and Strojwas (1993)
"The CDB/HCDB Semiconductor Wafer Representation Server" Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, February 1993, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 283-295