Curriculum Vitae
Brian O. Bush
14806 NW Fawnlily Dr.
Portland, OR 97229
professional profile: linkedin.com/in/bushbo
email: brianobush@gmail.com
Education
- M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, Ohio University, 1996. Member of Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society.
- B.A., Applied Mathematics, Hiram College, 1994.
- B.A., Computer Science, Hiram College, 1994.
Experience
June 2003 - Present
Rater Architect & Co-founder, RuleSpace, LLC, Beaverton, OR- Principal Investigator in research and development of technology.
- Developed maximum entropy classification training (offline) and runtime system.
- Design and implementation of a SMS/Chat filtering solution.
- Developed RSS Feed monitoring for site discovery.
- Developed innovative feature engineering strategies using genetic algorithms. Island models implemented utilizing multi-core processors.
- Research, design and implementation of an automated distributed HTTP crawling and rating service.
- Authored numerous patent reports; three patents pending.
- Numerous tools and libraries to support the aforementioned systems, e.g., URL canonization, math routines, lightweight XML parser, multi-pattern search routine, annotation tools, etc.
October 2002 - May 2003
Consultant, Portland, ORApril 2001 - August 2002
Senior Software Engineer, World Wide Packets, Beaverton, OR- Design and implementation of a probabilistic network topology discovery system utilizing incomplete layer-2 forwarding database information.
April 1998 - August 1999; Jan 2000 - April 2001
Senior Software Engineer, Gensym, Cambridge, MA- Developed Java-based data visualization and statistical analysis tools.
- Assisted customers in modeling their specific problems.
- Localized product to the Japanese market; implemented localization framework, managed translation.
August 1999 - Jan 2000
Senior Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston, MA- Developed corporate tax liability optimization algorithms.
May 1996 - April 1998
Research Engineer, Creative Optics, Bedford, NH- Design and implementation of an automatic target detection system to test and evaluate algorithms.
- Managed and jointly developed a prototype demonstration in cooperation with a leading aerospace corporation.
- Co-authored a patent report on integrating human attributed evidence in automatic target acquisition systems.
- Security level clearance held: Secret.
June 1995 - September 1995
Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD- Design, implementation and validation of my core thesis algorithms.
- Modeled and simulated realistic manufacturing system problems.
September 1994 - April 1996
Research Assistant to Dr. Luis Rabelo, Ohio University, Athens, OH- Developed software platform to test ideas and approaches in adaptive job-shop scheduling techniques.
- Authored and contributed to papers detailing our work, algorithms and innovations.
- Assisted in course development, instruction and grant writing.
Skills
- c, python, Unix and Java.
- Japanese (2000+ kanji, hiragana, katakana, basic-intermediate grammar, basic speaking); Current level: basic-intermediate.
Publications
- Martelli, A., Ravenscroft, A., Ascher, D., Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition, Contributed code that demonstrates Multitasking Cooperatively Without Threads using generators. pp.378-380, March 2005.
- Rabelo, L., Bush, B., Jones, A., Using Genetic Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling, Journal Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing, May 1998.
- Bush, B., Kharoufeh, J., Rabelo, L., Development of an Evolutionary Scheme for Adaptive Fuzzy Design, Proceedings of the Adaptive Distributive Parallel Computing Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, August 8-9, 1996.
- Bush, B. and Rabelo, L., Evolutionary Scheme for Adaptive Fuzzy Design, Mechatronics Proceedings of the NSF Mechatronics Workshop, San Francisco, California, June 13-15, 1996.
- Gilkinson, J., Rabelo, L., Bush, B., A Real World Scheduling Problem Using Genetic Algorithms, Computer & Industrial Engineering, An International Journal, Pergamon Press, Vol. 29, pp.177-182, 1995.
- Bush, B. Development of a Fuzzy System Design Strategy Using Evolutionary Computation, Master of Science Thesis, Ohio University, 1996.