John H. Brock [email protected] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jhbrock/ https://github.com/johnhbrock RESEARCH INTERESTS Applied machine learning; ubiquitous computing; data science for social good. EDUCATION University of California, Irvine Current third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science Advisors: Donald J. Patterson & Padhraic Smyth 09/2012 - Boston University B.A. in Computer Science GPA: 3.63, magna cum laude 09/2002 - 05/2006 EXPERIENCE Fellow 06/2013 - 08/2013 The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship Chicago, IL • Built a tool using data mining, NLP, and network analysis techniques to help nonprofits (a) find similar nonprofits for partnerships, and (b) find companies that could be potential donors. • Wrote pipeline in Python to collect, preprocess, and analyze text data from Twitter, news websites, GuideStar, and Charity Navigator. • Presented work at KDD 2013. Director of Software Development 03/2012 - 08/2012 Software Engineer 11/2010 - 03/2012 Adeptive Software Boulder, CO • Designed, architected, and wrote software for the real-estate title industry. • Managed the software development team. • Improved hiring practices and was responsible for recruiting; included revamping the interview process and creating an internship program. • Interacted with customers on a daily basis to troubleshoot technical issues. Volunteer Teacher 08/2009 - 07/2010 Guyana Ministry of Education Guyana • Via the WorldTeach program, I taught physics and integrated science at a secondary school in rural Guyana. • Under my guidance, the school's science fair team won the 2010 Guyana national championship. Software Developer 08/2006 - 05/2009 Eze Castle Software Boston, MA • Wrote and designed software for a leading global order management system provider, primarily serving the hedge fund industry. I was a member of the Compliance development team. • Wrote requirements, task lists, schedules, and test plans for enhancements. Software Developer 02/2007 - 12/2008 Trafelet Delta Funds New York, NY • As part of the operations development team at a hedge fund with $5 billion under management, I designed and wrote software for traders, analysts, the CFO, and back-office employees. • Wrote software for the storage and analysis of heterogeneous data from various banks, brokerage firms, and trading desks. • Reduced running time of software for modeling derivative securities by orders of magnitude. • Designed and wrote software to automate the collection and transmission of transaction data to the British Financial Services Authority (FSA). Assistant System Administrator 05/2005 - 06/2006 Boston University Biomedical Engineering Computational Simulation Facility Boston, MA • Evaluated potential software and hardware for construction of Whitaker Foundation-funded Computational Simulation Facility, and helped to bring facility online. • Assisted researchers, instructors, and staff with hardware and software problems. TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages (expert): C#, T-SQL Languages (proficient): Java, Python, MATLAB, JavaScript Tools/Libraries/APIs: Eclipse, Visual Studio, Git, SVN, TFS, Android, WCF, WPF, CruiseControl, IIS, NUnit, JUnit, TestComplete, MantisBT, MediaWiki, jQuery, Google App Engine, Weka, RESTful web services. PRESENTATIONS Network Analysis for Nonprofits Poster Session @ KDD 2013 08/12/2013 Social Good: Network Analysis for Nonprofits Talk @ KDD 2013 08/12/2013 GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits Talk @ Chicago Python meetup 08/01/2013 GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits Talk @ WBEZ to station staff 07/25/2013 GivingGraph: Mining the web for fun and nonprofits Talk @ Data Science Chicago meetup 07/24/2013 HONORS AND AWARDS • • • • • • • Dean’s Fellowship – School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine Butterworth Recruitment Award – School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine Graduated Magna Cum Laude – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University College Honors – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University Dean’s List – College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University University Scholarship – Boston University James P. O’Neil Scholarship – Bowne & Co., Inc. TEACHING Teaching Assistant, ICS 60: Computer Games and Society1 Fall 2014 Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical Writing1 Summer 2014 Teaching Assistant, CS 143A: Principles of Operating Systems1 Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical Writing1 Winter 2014 Teaching Assistant, ICS 139W: Critical Writing1 Teaching Assistant, INF 43: Introduction to Software Fall 2013 Engineering1 Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant, ICS 31: Introduction to Programming1 Winter 2013 Teaching Assistant, INF 133: User Interaction Software1 Fall 2012 Volunteer Teacher, various science classes for 1University of California, Irvine 2Anna 7th-11th grades2 08/2009 - 07/2010 Regina Multilateral School, Anna Regina, Guyana
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