JeffThomson.name   Resume JEFFREY J. THOMSON MS jeff@sygys.com OBJECTIVE Experienced Developer seeks opportunity to contribute to the long-term viability of a progressive organization through software & web design, development, implementation and integration. My Snowbird, Alta, Washington, Canada, etc. Photos are on old JeffThomson.name JeffThomson.net, JeffThomson.org If I can't Help Check out these Links PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Computer Consulting – 1982 to Present Sygys.com, LLC - Salt Lake City, Utah – 1982 to Present. President, Engineer/Architect, Published Computer Scientist, Programmer, Trainer/Instructor, former Assistant Computer Science Professor. Custom databases Integration of heterogeneous systems and data sources Project management Services Build high performance systems Custom training program for individuals and work teams Web designer Data integration, data warehousing, data mining Software development and design Database performance enhancement Application of artificial intelligence Project leadership Summary of Experience  Designed, developed and led a team of engineers in programming a heterogeneous multi-environment data collection and analysis system that was compliant with HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), Stimsoft Inc., Johns Hopkins Department of Neural Surgery (2001-2002).  Migrated data from Microsoft CE device using socket level calls that simulate ODBC into UNIX Postgres/Oracle distributed database using JDBC, PHP and C++. Designed and successfully implemented many first networks and software systems including Skywest Airlines and Mrs. Fields Cookies. Currently Technical Director 50 Node Pentium Xeon massively parallel Beowulf Super Computer Cluster (i implemented in Linux, GCC and MPI).  Linux, since inception Microsoft, since inception UNIX System III NCR Oracle with PHP, Apache and JDBC Sun/Solaris Systems, including Sparc’s, Ultra 80 and 450 NFS, Samba/NFT Networking Rational Rose JAVA, JDBC/ODBC, Sockets C++, g++/gcc Small to mid-sized service business tracking system running on Postgres or Oracle with PHP, Apache and JDBC Postgres, MySQL, PHP Translation Project: Oracle to UML and UML to Oracle (Rational Rose for Oracle) Intelligent Natural Language Translation Project with Expert System and Neural Net engines implemented in JAVA and C++ both with YACC (unpublished) 15+ years experience in Object Oriented Design, LISP, C++, CLOS, Prolog, Assembler, Database languages including: Xbase, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Teaching Experience — 1993 to 2004 University of Wyoming, Laramie , WY    2002 – 2004 Technical Director, Heorot Beowulf Supercomputer Cluster; Temporary Assistant Professor, Computer Science Weber State University, Ogden , UT    1993 – 2001 Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Math  Summary of Experience  Delivered the majority of classes in a standard computer science curriculum. Developed many classes including: Database, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Theory and Development, Discrete Math Using JAVA, Computer Theory, AI, Neural Nets, Databases, E-Commerce, Web and Software development.  Ensured that courses included a balance between theoretical concepts and real-world application. Have taught a diverse range of information and computational sciences courses over the last 25 years. Publications An Evolutionary System for Pedagogical Lexical Analysis. Jeffrey J. Thomson, Rex E. Gantenbein. IEEE, World Automation Congress, Seville, Spain. June 2004 Feature Mining through Distance Minimization Learning. Jeffrey J. Thomson, Rex E. Gantenbein, Trevor Nielsen. IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering, San Francisco, California. July 2003 Generalization and Computing. Jeffrey J. Thomson. Desert Language and Linguistics Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. July 1996  Formal Rules for Pedagogical Construction from Lexical, Grammatical and Pragmatic Paragraph Recognition. Jeffrey J. Thomson, Rex E. Gantenbein, University of Wyoming. In progress EDUCATION   Ph.D/abd, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada   2000 M. S., Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah  1998 B. S., Computer Science, Summa cum Laud, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah  1993 B. A., Business Management, University of Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Utah  1993 Recent Technical Courses Taken Sun Solaris System Admin I Sun Solaris System Admin II   Oracle Enterprise DBA 1b Backup and Recovery   Oracle Enterprise DBA 2 Performance and Tuning   Oracle Enterprise DBA Architecture and Administration   Interests Skiing, biking, and hiking with friends. Public Service: Organized distribution of donated computers to several hundred low-income students in Ogden, Utah, 1998-2001.

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