Summary

• Development Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer with over eleven years of solid software engineering experience.
• Skilled and experienced in transforming new ideas into viable, user-centered products.
• Focus on applying intelligent systems techniques to solve real-world problems.
• Entrapreneurial spirit - motivated to develop new lines of business and contribute to corporate infrastructure; start-up experience.
• Strong communication skills supported by multiple writing, presentation, and customer-facing activities. JavaOne Rockstar.
• Active recreational programmer and participant in software development industry.

Skills

Languages	Java, learning Ruby and Python, previous experience with C/C++, Perl, and Lisp/Scheme
Java Technologies	Swing / SwingX, JUnit, logging, JDBC, JDOM, Java MIDI, Java2D, Java3D, JavaFX, OSGi
Web Technologies	HTML / XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL / XSLT, SOAP, XMPP (chat protocol)
Programming Tools	Eclipse, Ant, Maven, Ivy, Hudson, JIRA, AccuRev, previous experience with mySQL, SQL Server
Applications	Confluence (wiki), Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Microsoft Office
Development Skills	User-Centered Design, Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), API Design
Disciplines	Reasoning about Social Networks, Social Network Analysis, Bayesian Belief Networks, System Dynamics, Intelligent Systems

Professional Experience

Charles River Analytics Inc.

Cambridge, MA

February 2005 - Present

Senior Software Engineer (promoted November 2006)

• Development team lead and senior software engineer for successful, high-visibility user-centered analysis tool incorporating Bayesian belief networks to enhance critical thinking. Delivered numerous demonstrations to high-ranking military officials. Supervised 6 other engineers; managed project schedules and risks.
• Coordinated development and staff across seven interconnected projects. Made hiring decisions (good ones!) and mentored interns.
• Created and led development of a Social Network Analysis library, now identified as a core software asset and used on over 20 projects across the company.
• Initiated novel research in Social Network Analysis, and developed techniques to reason about social networks to derive insight. Presented work in papers and conferences.
• Engaged in business development, helping bring in several new contracts. Participated in entrapreneurial activities to develop commercial ventures. Technical advisor to commercialization manager.
• Participated in user training, observation, and analysis sessions. Conducted knowledge elicitation sessions with subject matter experts.
• Co-authored SBIR, STTR, and SBIR Plus-Up grant proposals, scientific papers, status and final reports, and user manuals.
• Made significant contributions to corporate infrastructure:
  • Initiated wiki project to facilitate company-wide knowledge sharing. Directly resulted in more efficient commuincation across the company, and six new leadership opportunities for co-workers.
  • Recommended and implemented a Software Advisor role to facilitate software development process across division-wide projects.

Houghton Mifflin Company / Classwell Learning Group

Boston, MA

June 2004 - February 2005

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead engineer responsible for re-architecting production software and database; ensured compliance with W3C XML standards.

Independent Contractor

June 2003 - May 2004

	Epistemic Corporation Brookline, MA September 2003 - April 2004 GUI Developer Made fundamental contributions to the first release of the Epistemic Analytics Workbench, an innovative Business Intelligence (BI) application. Designed and developed GUI front-end for the product, as well as a concise and intuitive API to enable the creation of new applications using existing components.
	Time on Target, Inc. Nashua, NH July 2003 - September 2003 Developed 3-D visualization tool for analyzing output of GPS-based target tracking system, initially configured for television production of auto racing.

IBM / Tivoli Software

Westford, MA

April 1999 - June 2003

Senior Software Engineer, Network Management Applications (promoted September 2000)

• Designed and developed user interface components for IBM Tivoli NetView.
• Developed a dynamic grouping module for next-generation network operating system. Submitted two patents resulting from this work.

Raytheon Systems Company

Marlborough, MA

June 1997 - April 1999

Software Engineer, International Air Traffic Control

• Developed, modified, and tested multi-threaded Controller Displays for German air traffic control program.

U.S. Patent Applications

# 20030005358, "A Decentralized, Self-Regulating System for Automatically Discovering Optimal Configurations in a Failure-Rich Environment" - primary inventor

# 20030005098, "Method and Apparatus for Using Dynamic Grouping Data to Group Attributes Relating to Computer Systems" - co-inventor

Filed in 2007, "Methods and Systems for Creating Bayesian Belief Networks" - co-inventor

Filed in 2007, "Conditional Probability Tables for Bayesian Belief Networks" - co-inventor

Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Pfautz, J., Koelle, D., Roth, E. "User-Created and User-Adaptable Human Behavior Representation: Challenges, Tools, and Techniques," Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) 2008. Will present poster at the conference

Koelle, D., Pfautz, J., Farry, M., Cox, Z., Catto, G., & Campolongo, J. 2006. "Applications of Bayesian Belief Networks in Social Network Analysis," at the 4th Bayesian Applications Modeling Workshop. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2006, Cambridge, MA (July). Abstract. Presented this paper at the conference

Pfautz, J., Cox, Z., Catto, G., Koelle, D., Campolongo, J., Roth, E. 2007. "User-Centered Methods for Rapid Creation and Validation of Bayesian Belief Networks," at the 5th Bayesian Applications Modeling Workshop. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2007

Speaker at JavaOne 2008: "Jamming with Java Technology: Making Music with JFugue and JFrets", Technical Session TS-5263

Speaker at JavaOne 2008: "Java Technology, Music, and You", Bird-of-a-Feather Session BOF-5265

Speaker at CommunityOne 2008: "Open Sourcing Music: A Discussion of Applications for Creating and Managing Music"

Speaker at JavaOne 2007: "JFugue: Making Music with Java MIDI and Illustrating API Usability", Technical Session TS-1130. Received JavaOne Rockstar award for this presentation.

Author, "The Complete Guide to JFugue" (self-published), in progress.

Content Reviewer, "API Design" (Apress, Inc.), in progress.

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Minor, Management Information Systems.
Graduated with distinction, May 1997.
Major Project: "The Use of Agents in Newspaper Layout", nominated for Sigma Xi Research Award.
Independent Study Projects (self-initiated): "Models of Decentralized Organization", "Intelligent User Interfaces"

Additional Notes

• Author of JFugue, an open-source Java API for music programming - http://www.jfugue.org
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the New England Java Users’ Group (NEJUG)
• Participant in the annual MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle solving competition, since 2003
• Completed an intense lab-format offering of "The Dale Carnegie Course", January 2003
• Start-up experience includes Epistemic, Perigee Technologies (contact info mgmt), research for my own efforts, and participation in entrepreneurial events