Writer, Software Research and Development
Greater Denver Area
- Past
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- Member of Technical Staff at Collective Intellect
- Senior Developer at Pearson Knowledge Technologies
- Senior Member of Technical Staff at Emperative, Inc.
- Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at U S WEST Advanced Technologies
- Research Leader at MCC Human Interface Laboratory
- Senior Research Scientist at Honeywell Systems and Research Center
- Education
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- Warren Wilson College
- The University of Texas at Austin
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
David Wroblewski’s Summary
As a writer: debut novel "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle", published June 10, 2008. See www.edgarsawtelle.com for details.
As a software professional: over twenty-five years of experience designing and building distributed object-oriented systems in commercial and research settings. Pivotal technical leadership roles spanning five corporations, with a track record of integrating novel technologies into new products.
Deep Java experience applying J2EE and related technologies, including Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, Servlets, SQL, RMI, Jini, JUnit, Swing, and Prefuse.
Exceptional writing and presentation skills. Effective in client/partner communication. Adept at making complex technology understandable, accessible and useful.
Knowledgeable in diverse domains, including tiered information services, workflow management, human-computer interface design, telecom operations/workflow, natural language processing, latent semantic analysis, heuristic graph search, planning and resource reservation systems, autonomous vehicle control, and embedded control software for ring laser gyroscopes.
Language mastery includes Java, Perl, C++, C, Tcl, and Lisp.
OS mastery includes Windows, Linux, Macintosh.
David Wroblewski’s Specialties:
GUI design, heuristic graph search, planning and resource reservations algorithms, distributed systems architecture.
David Wroblewski’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Collective Intellect
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Research and algorithm development for new media content analysis, including statistical natural language processing and text classification.
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Senior Developer
Pearson Knowledge Technologies
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; PSO; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 8 months)
Software architect on combined $3.3M ARL/DARPA contracts for analyzing communication in task-oriented teams; co-designed (with Tim McCandless) PKT's first end-to-end conversational analysis platform. Key technologies: Spring, MULE, Hibernate/MySQL, WebWork, Prefuse visualization toolkit, and PKT's proprietary Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) software.
Senior developer on WriteToLearn™ and Summary Street, innovative web apps that instantly and automatically grade student essays or summaries for coverage, grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling. Model 1 web architecture, scaled for 100,000 users. Key technologies: Perl, MySQL, LSA. Codie Finalist 2006, Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English - Secondary. (See www.pearsonkt.com for an online Flash demo.) -
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Emperative, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — March 2003 (3 years 3 months)
Part of the original core engineering team (including Dave Gaulke and Bob Rose) on Emperative's optical network provisioning system, the company's flagship product. Design lead for the route-planning module, a hierarchical implementation of Djikstra's shortest path first algorithm, employing a sophisticated state-space search engine and a variety of heuristic constraint mechanisms. Key technologies: Java, BDB.
Member of the core architecture/development team for ProvEn, Emperative's high-performance provisioning workflow engine.
Rearchitected ProvEn's client network API which provides remote access to the workflow engine via RMI, TCP/UDP, CORBA, and secure communication using SSL and javax.crypto packages. -
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
U S WEST Advanced Technologies
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 1990 — December 2000 (10 years 7 months)
Member of a technical team prototyping next generation
IP voice/application infrastructures based on Java/Jini technologies.
Researched public key cryptographic approaches to Internet-based micropayment and other foundation technologies for e-commerce.
Co-designed, built, and deployed U S WEST's first Web site for automated sales of CLASS services.
Designed, built, and deployed legacy system access middleware to access BOSS account management system records.
Participated in RAD-style reengineering of company-wide service order processing systems; designed workflow processing engine. -
Research Leader
MCC Human Interface Laboratory
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1985 — June 1991 (6 years 1 month)
Research leader for Human Interface Tool Suite (HITS); designed and built the HITS Knowledge Editor, flagship application of HITS.
Co-designed and built the DÉTENTE task management system.
Co-designed and built the Luke lexical acquisition system, the LucyLab natural language analysis tools, and the Lucy Natural Language Analyzer syntax and semantics components.
Designed the graph unification module for the Lucy parser, resulting in a notable new algorithm for nondestructive graph unification. -
Senior Research Scientist
Honeywell Systems and Research Center
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HON; Computer Software industry)
June 1985 — June 1991 (6 years 1 month)
Designed and implemented the TRD Assistant, a knowledge-based software requirements design aid.
Co-designed the Honeywell Autonomous Vehicle Control System, including hardware selection and software integration for the prototype vehicle, with special emphasis on dynamic path planning.
Team member for software design, code, and test of Honeywell F5G Laser Inertial Navigation System, which flight tested better than any Honeywell LINS previously built.
Designed and coded 1553B bus I/O software in a proprietary 16-bit microprocessor assembly language.
LINS system software test from initial test and checkout of the software test station to final end-to-end system performance.
Additional Information
David Wroblewski’s Interests:
I'm an active large format black and white photographer and have studied with Tom Kumpf and John Sexton. My photographs have been selected for inclusion in juried shows at the Flash Gallery at BelMar, and nine of my photographs (Carmel Mission triptych and six images from the "industrial and agricultural forms" series) are on display in the lobby of Octogon Systems of Broomfield, Colorado. My debut novel "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" is represented by Eleanor Jackson of Elaine Markson Literary Agency, New York, published June 10, 2008 from Ecco/HarperCollins. Editor: Lee Boudreaux. See www.edgarsawtelle.com for more details.
David Wroblewski’s Honors:
Patent 5,339,391: "Computer Display Unit with Attribute-Enhanced Scroll Bar", co-authored with Will Hill and Tim McCandless.
