John B P Melesky

• Work in machine learning, including
  • textual analysis
  • statistical natural language processing
  • automated document classification
  • topic and keyword extraction
  • category discovery
• Work in rapid web application development, including
  • the Django framework, including advanced features
  • the Turbogears framework
  • the Rails framework
  • a variety of bespoke frameworks
• Cluster scheduling and management (specifically with Lava)
• Consultation for software architecture
• Consultation for development management
• Professional instruction in Perl, Javascript

• Lifted categorization accuracy from 70% to over 92%.
• Created a multiple-independent-model framework for category selection.
• Evaluation of different machine learning algorithms for problem fitness and effectiveness.
• Research and development towards improving prediction accuracy.
• Profiling and optimization towards improving prediction speed to operation in sub-web-request time.

• Successfully scoped and delivered two major releases.
• Created estimation and project status standards.
• Provided technology leadership towards both the department and the company as a whole.
• Built a new technology team.

• Reimplemented, from database to front-end, entire reporting infrastructure to deal with increased usage and expectations of usability. Performance rivaled that of our custom-built data warehouse.
• Created four-year development plan to align product scale with business expectations of growth.
• Coordinated software design among separate development groups to reduce or eliminate conflicting work, and to ensure design consistency across the greater application.

• Designed and implemented multi-tiered, multi-parent inheritance schemes.
• Designed and implemented frameworks for online and offline processing, and the tools to keep them in synch.
• Designed frameworks for complex fee agreement structures, per extensive interviews with accounting and account management.
• Single-handedly maintained legacy application during protracted rewrite period.

• Rewrote all site functions in two calendar weeks in order to prepare site for post-Thanksgiving rush.
• Implemented substantial internal applications to aid in customer service, order fulfillment, etc.
• Responsible for ongoing site maintenance, including security and scalability issues.
• Ensured application would remain viable for years after my departure. It was finally rewritten in late 2006.

• Furthered integration of member search with Lycos search tools.
• Designed and implemented new "associative" directory system.
• Built tools for taxonomists to manipulate categorizations of member sites.

• Designed and implemented several data-gathering web spiders for the purpose of determining abstract makeup of Tripod member pages.
• Creation of several tools to be used for site evaluation and maintenance.

• Designed and implemented interactive models of financial and quality-of-life simulations, for use by pharmaceuticals companies in external presentations.
• Created framework for generating further interactive models with minimal programmer involvement.

• Programmed data filters and conversion programs to prepare datapod files for entry into an Oracle database.

Rapid-development:

Perl, Python, Ruby, Visual Basic, Cold Fusion

Compiled:

C family (C, C++, Objective C, C#), Java, Pascal

Small or Esoteric:

Javascript, Assembler (680x0, x86, 6502), Scheme, Haskell, OCaml