Scientific Education

• December 1989 Ph.D. BioPhysics, University of California, Berkeley
• December 1978 B.A. Physics, University of California, Berkeley

Professional Employment History

2005-2009 Co-founder, President & CEO of DataSea Inc.

DataSea is an information assimilation system supporting queries, commands and declarations via spoken or written natural language. Bio-mimicry of biological neural networks form the backbone of its inferencing & assimilating engine, while voice I/O is supported with off-the-shelf PBX, voice-recognition and speech-synthesis technologies.

1997-2004 Consulting, Development

Consulting for individuals and businesses.
Early DataSea development of its inferencing engine, based on a highly connected network and simulated 'analog' processing.

1991-1996 Senior Technical Staff, MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Sunnyvale CA

Designed, implemented and managed the Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM-3D) software for a $100M wafer fabrication facility at MicroUnity Systems Engineering. "3D-Ops" is a 3D pseudo virtual reality interface to visualize fab operations and the underlying SQL database. This was ~the~ control software for the fab which was dependent on it.
Very hands on: wrote all the C/GL code used in CIM-3D (48 klocs), administered Sybase SQL Server and Unix systems during the first year.


Two Earlier Projects
CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing): www.Tallis.com/Fab.Brochure.html	Neurons, analyzing their connections: www.Tallis.com/MiscGif/Cana.three.gif




1989 - 1991 Staff Scientist, IBM, Palo Alto Scientific Center

Supported and extended the use of my Ph.D. thesis software (neural modeling) in universities. In addition, analyzed and developed distributed computing applications resulting in an IBM publication and prototype software.

1980 - 1989 Graduate student in BioPhysics, UC Berkeley (Ph.D.'89); IBM San Jose (approx. 25% time)

My Ph.D. dissertation "Morphological Analysis of Neurons in the Cricket Cercal System" used computer assisted data acquisition and analysis to correlate form (morphology) and function in the wind-sensing neural network of the common cricket.

For online references, related to Neurobiology, click here .

Work at IBM continued my role as the designer and writer of special test projects in the Product Measurement and Analysis lab. These programs acquired data in real time, loaded an SQL data base and performed analysis of the data (still in use last time I checked, c. 1993).

1979 - 1980 IBM San Jose, Failure Analysis Engineer

Failure analysis of the main-frame disk storage device, the "3380".

1972 - 1978 Undergraduate, UC Berkeley (B.A. Physics, Dec '78), Foothill Jr. College (Music)

Programming Languages and Operating Systems

Java, C, Unix, PERL, GL (SGI's graphics language) & X-lib, (HTML, miscellaneous others)

Personal Data

- US Citizen

- Some command of the German language

- Classical Pianist, Photographer

References

• Prof. John Miller, Director of Computational Biology, Montana State Univ. (406)586-4666;
  Member, President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) (www.ostp.gov/html/00911_2.html
  
• Mark Pezarro, Ph.D. ex-VP Tellus, founder Earthvoice Strategies, Inc. 604-987-6884
  
• Prof. Roger Glassey, UC Berkeley glassey@ieor.berkeley.edu Office:642-1403 Home:845-1483
  
• Dr. John Darby, M.D. darby.john@comcast.net 510-797-9667

  More on Request

Sample Publications

• A good starting point for neural modeling work is from the Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University
  Anatomical Relationships between Sensory Afferent Arborizations in the Cricket Cercal System Gwen A. Jacobs and Rocky Nevin
• IBM Scientific Center Transparent Computing Facility: Pro's and Con's Nevin, Karp; 1991 ...
• Ph.D. Dissertation, U.C. Berkeley, BioPhysics Group, Rocky Nevin, 1989 Morphological Analysis of the Cricket Cercal System

Music

Competitions
Winner of Best Baroque Performance award "1st International Piano Amateur Competition IPAC in Berlin" Sep 2006, in Berlin, Germany.
Finalist in the "Amateur Pianists International" piano competition August 13-18, 2002, in Colorado Springs, CO, winning the Best Baroque Performance and the Best Romantic Performance awards.
Winner of the Best Baroque Performance award and a Semi-Finalist in the "2nd Washington International Piano Amateur Competition" Jul 8-11, 2004, in Washington, D.C. (Review)
Contestant in the Van Cliburn Foundation's 3rd and 4th International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs (IPCOA) June 3-8, 2002 and May 30-June 5 in Fort Worth, Texas (Personal interview and review in the Dallas Morning News)
Contestant in the "14th & 15th International Competition for Outstanding Piano Amateurs" Jan 22-26, 2003, and Jan 28-Feb 1, 2004 in Paris, France.

Recitals
Recital March 1, 2000 St. Patrick's SF CA Noontime Concerts http://www.noontimeconcerts.org/
Recital February 3, 1999 Century Club, SF CA
1998 Self-produced, -engineered and -recorded CD entitled "Prelude" for private distribution.
Numerous house concerts.

Music Background

Private Study
• Began studying piano alone (for 9 months) at age 15 after discovering classical music. Studied privately with primary teacher Adolf Baller, for approximately 8 years following first teacher Jesse Parker for 9 months. More recent coaching with Dusi Mura, Yakov Kasman ( www.YakovKasman.com ), Tomas Ungar ( director of the Cliburn Institute, T.C.U.), Eric Himy (www.EricHimy.com), and Davitt Moroney ( www.concertartist.info/biog/moroney.html ).

Classes
• Took core music theory and history classes in college along with chamber and solo performance.

Visual Arts

Portrait photography, drawing & painting, (View a short Portfolio) several public shows given.

Principal photographer for action and portraiture in U.C. Berkeley's Recreational Sports Facility flyer, Fall/Winter 2003/2004.