B.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (Valedict.)

Universidad Blas Pascal, Cordoba, Argentina

1995

M.S. IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2000

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

Knowledge Discovery Laboratory

2002 - 2007

Developer and Lead Architect (2006-) of Proximity, open-source platform for relational knowledge-discovery

Project funded and used by DARPA, NSF, Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory, NASD, and others

Co-designed and implemented high-performance data store layer using vertical databases (Java, Monet)

Led effort to port the Monet database to the previously unsupported OS X platform (C, Monet, OS X)

Implemented QGraph, a graphical query language for graph databases in Proximity (Java, SQL, Monet)

Implemented novel relational modeling algorithms for automatic data discovery (Java)

Designed and implemented high-level APIs to support general research on knowledge discovery algorithms

Coordinated (with others) the release of Proximity as open-source software

Managed infrastructure and coordinated developement in research laboratory with 6-8 graduate students

Guided doctoral students on issues of software design, architecture, and programming in general

Incorporated (with others) eXtreme Programming techniques to the development of Proximity

Built a hardware and software infrastructure for the efficient execution of research experiments

Served as technical contact for collaborations with third-parties interested in Proximity

Developed customized solutions based on Proximity for Comcast's Interactive Media Labs

See http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/proximity

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Hunt and Gather / McGraw-Hill

2006 - 2007

Co-developed media management and distribution web-site (Ruby on Rails, Ajax)

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Maestro Learning

2004 - 2005

Co-developed interactive educational applets to teach math to children grades 1-5 (Flash, Actionscript)

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

IGEN Corporation

2001 - 2002

Co-developed a web-based AI system for automatic generation of customized diets and meal plans (Tcl, Oracle)

Co-developed a web application for psychiatric patients and clinicians (Tcl, Oracle, C++)

Helped build a screen-saver to display images from customized RSS-like feeds (Tcl, Director, XML)

WEB DEVELOPER

Care2.com

1999 - 2000

Built an online polling system (PHP, MySQL)

Developed The Race for the Rainforest, an online quiz game (PHP, MySQL)

Developed an online collaborative calendar (PHP, MySQL)

WEB DEVELOPER

RIPPLES

1998 - 2001

Wrote database-backed port of an award-wining web-based multimedia course delivery system (PHP, MySQL)

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

1998 - 1999

Built an Internet search engine using collaborative filtering techniques (PHP, MySQL)

Wrote M.S. Thesis on Collaborative Internet Search Strategies

Developed and released open-source code for online, collaborative note keeping (PHP, MySQL)

Developed a neural-network system for the analysis of user search data (C++, Mathematica)

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Experimental Knowledge Systems Lab

1997 - 1998

Wrote low-level code to control Pioneer Robots for cognitive science experiments (LISP)

Awarded Isenberg Scholarship from UMass School of Management

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Perspectivas Sociales

1994 - 1997

Developed a decision-tree system for the analysis of trends in consumer behaviors (LISP)

Created a neural-network system for the analysis of socioeconomic data (C++)

Built a database and statistical system for the automatic analysis of survey data (C++, Visual Basic)

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Centro de Investigaci—n Mart’n Ferreyra           

1993 - 1995

Developed a computer vision system for the identification of brain cells in microscopy images (C++)

Won First Prize at nation-wide Conference on Computer Science

TEACHING ASSISTANT (UMASS)

Introduction to Data Structures

1998

TEACHING ASSISTANT (PASCAL)

Decentralized Systems, AI, Numerical Analysis

1994 - 1996