From: makowski@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: MSCS, 7 yrs exp, BOSTON area
Date: 17 Aug 92 08:10:50 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

                                   GREG MAKOWSKI


IDENTIFYING INFORMATION:            Employer: Office of Institutional Research
   Home:1030 Richmond Ct, Apt 3A           Western Michigan University 
   Kalamazoo, MI 49009-1436                Kalamazoo, MI 49008  (616) 387-4424
   (616) 372-2630                          makowski@gw.wmich.edu, fax 387-0958

                                           
HIGHLIGHTS:  Presently available to relocate to the Boston area.
   * PhD STUDENT with a computer science background, publication and grant
       experience. 
   * 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE, 1 as Assistant Director, 6 as Systems Analyst.
   * CONSULTANT:  neural nets, knowledge engineering, database, microcomputer.
   * RESEARCH INTERESTS:    Pattern recognition, neural networks, speech recog-
                            nition, image processing, knowledge based systems,
                            digital signal processing, fuzzy systems. 


EDUCATION:
   DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Cognitive and Neural Systems, starting Fall 1992,
              Boston University. 
   MASTER OF SCIENCE in Computer Science, June, 1991, Western Michigan
              University, Kalamazoo, MI.
   THESIS:    "Time Delay Neural Networks and Speech Recognition:  Context
              Independence of Stops in Different Vowel Environments," available
              upon request.
   HONORS:    Member of WMU Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor
              Society, GPA 3.64/4.00,
              Computer Science Department Awards 1992:  Excellence in Research.
   BACHELOR OF SCIENCE   Majors: Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, August
              1986, WMU. 


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
   PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
   Computer Science Department Awards Ceremony 1991:  invited speaker,
   presented Thesis Project.
   "A More Flexible Method for Recognizing Signals Using Back-Propagation: 
       Piece-wise Linear Regression Vectors", 1989, First Great Lakes Computer
       Science Conference, also session chair and refereed papers.

   RESEARCH GRANTS:
   Hyperception Corporate Grant:  $1000 Digital Signal Processing software. 
   Western Michigan University Graduate College Grant:  $350.
   National Center for Supercomputing Applications:  $1,200 value, 2 hours of
       Cray time. 

   INSTRUCTOR/COURSE DEVELOPER:  WMU Instructional Development, Expert Systems
   seminar, 1989. 

   LANGUAGES:  C, C++, Prolog, dBase, Pascal, SAS, Lisp, Fortran, SQL, Accent
   R (a 4GL), DPL (a 4GL), Assembler, Basic, Cobol.

   SYSTEMS:  MS DOS, Windows, Vax, Unix, Sun, NeXT, Cray, Macintosh, TSO, TSX,
   Cyber 750, Dec-10.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
   ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, 1/91 - Present
   Office of Institutional Research, Western Michigan University.  Assisted the
   Director in the development of research design and statistical analysis
   techniques for long term forecasting models for enrollment planning. 
   Initiated and documented a streamlined system for electronically responding
   to complex annual state and federal surveys.  Interviewed, hired and trained
   programmers.  Used software engineering methods to produce requirements and
   specifications, supervised programming, testing and maintenance.

   SYSTEMS ANALYST, 9/85 - 1/91
   Office of Institutional Research, Western Michigan University.  Created
   relational database systems to support the management analysis needs of the
   Provost, Vice Presidents, and committees.  Migration, annual maintenance and
   technical administration of the time-critical Freshmen Orientation system as
   part of a multi-departmental team.  Based on complex faculty contracts,
   developed systems for annually incrementing all faculty salaries.  Self-
   directed education for office automation experience and network administra-
   tion of IBM-Macintosh LAN.
 
   IBM SYSTEMS ENGINEER/MARKETING SALES ASSISTANT, (Internship) 5/85 - 9/85
   International Business Machines, Kalamazoo.  Diagnosed computer equipment
   problems at customer location, prepared device drivers, answered technical
   questions, configured computer systems.  Demonstrated hardware/software,
   implemented new inventory system for demonstration hardware/software,
   calendar scheduling of training seminars, elicited customer interest in
   training seminars, and taught seminars. 


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
   INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT:
       Neural Networks:  Co-researched neural net and statistical methods for
       stock success prediction with Advanced Forecasting Technologies, 1992. 
       Published reviews of software for Sixth Generation Systems newsletter,
       April 91 and June 91.

       Knowledge Engineer:  Developed an asbestos unknown identification system
       based on polarized crystal-lography methods.  The expert system was
       developed using the microcomputer-based shell Exsys, and later refined
       on Copernicus, a Sun-based object oriented shell.  Analytical Testing,
       Kalamazoo, MI, Fall 1989. 

       Database:  Bar code inventory system for the Language and Computing
       Laboratory of WMU, Winter 1989. Developed a transaction processing
       relational system for inventory of software, audio and video tapes. 
       Bulletproofed for usage by student employees with high rate of turnover.

       Microcomputer:  Hardware and software installation, maintenance, trouble-
       shooting and training.

   CO-FOUNDER, VICE-PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT:  Spring 1988 - 5/91
   Local chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest
   Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGART).  Recruit speakers from both
   universities and industry, initiated discounts, attended national SIGART
   meeting, and contacted other SIGARTs.

   ADDITIONAL EDUCATION/CONFERENCES:
   American Association of Artificial Intelligence, July 1992, San Jose, CA.
   International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 1992, Baltimore,MD.
   Small Business Innovation Research, on federal grants, 1991, Dearborn, MI. 
   Neural Information Processing Society Conference, 1989, Denver, Colorado.
   First Great Lakes Computer Science Conference, 1989, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
   International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1989, Detroit,MI.
   American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1988, St. Paul, Minnesota.
   Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1986, 1987, Dallas, Texas.

   PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
   President of Southwest Michigan Special Interest Group on Artificial
       Intelligence (90/91).
   Treasurer WMU Chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor
       Society (90/91). 
   International Neural Network Society. 
   American Association of Artificial Intelligence. 
   Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and ACM SIGART.
   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 

                             GREG MAKOWSKI  (p2)
-- 
| Greg Makowski, Computer Sci | Institutional |  There is no such thing as
| Western Michigan University |   Research:   | spare time, only priorities;
|    makowski@gw.wmich.edu    | 616 387-4424  |  so work hard & play hard.
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