Donald Pellegrino

Current

• Information Studies Ph.D. Student / Research Assistant at Drexel University

Past

• Senior Systems Analyst at DuPont, Philadelphia, PA
• Contract Programmer at Pegasus Communications Corporation, Bala Cynwyd, PA
• Contract Programmer at Princeton Separations Inc., Adelphia, NJ

• Information Processing at Prism Consulting Services, Valley Forge, PA
• Database Manager at Hoogovens Technical Services, Pittsburgh, PA

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Education

• Drexel University
• Drexel University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Donald Pellegrino’s Summary

I am currently doing research in the areas of Visual Analytics, Knowledge Discovery and Artificial Intelligence at the College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University.

While at DuPont worked as Application Development Lead, focusing on applications with high performance, high reliability and complex technical requirements. Specialize in Scientifc Computing and the use of C++ on UNIX.

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Donald Pellegrino’s Specialties:

Computer Languages: C/C++, TeX/LaTeX, XML, Java, Omnis Classic, Omnis Studio

APIs: Embedded SQL, VTK, CGI, DOM, pthreads, GTK+, Solaris Packaging, Unicode

Databases: Oracle, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL

Applications: CLIPS, Xerces, Apache Web Server

Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux, Solaris), Windows

Donald Pellegrino’s Experience

• Information Studies Ph.D. Student / Research Assistant

  Drexel University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Student in the Doctoral Program of the College of Information Science and Technology. Research interests include Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery.

• Senior Systems Analyst

  DuPont, Philadelphia, PA

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DD; Chemicals industry)

  July 2001 — September 2007 (6 years 3 months)

• Contract Programmer

  Pegasus Communications Corporation, Bala Cynwyd, PA

  (Public Company; PGTV; Broadcast Media industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

• Contract Programmer

  Princeton Separations Inc., Adelphia, NJ

  (Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)

  1999 — 1999 (less than a year)

• Information Processing

  Prism Consulting Services, Valley Forge, PA

  (Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)

• Database Manager

  Hoogovens Technical Services, Pittsburgh, PA

  (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  June 1996 — September 1996 (4 months)

Donald Pellegrino’s Education

• Drexel University

  MS , Information Systems , 2002 — 2005

  Research work included Information Visualization research done under the direction of Dr. Chen and Natural Language Processing research done under the direction of Dr. Han.

• Drexel University

  BS , Information Systems , 1996 — 2001

  Minored in Computer Science. Received the A. J. Drexel Academic Scholarship during all years of study.

  Activities and Societies:

  Drexel Crew Team, Drexel Sailing Team

Additional Information

Donald Pellegrino’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Donald Pellegrino’s Interests:

Triathlon

Donald Pellegrino’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, http://www.acm.org), TeX User's Group (TUG, http://www.tug.org)

•    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
•    IEEE-USA
•    Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology

Donald Pellegrino’s Honors:

1st Place Award in the 2008 Department of Homeland Security University Network Summit Poster Competition - Press releases: http://www.donpellegrino.com/is/vac_weekly_highlight_080326.html and http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/home/about/press/article/?articleid=377.

Drexel University Research Day 2008: "College of Information Science & Technology Dean's Award." (http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/home/about/press/article/?articleid=405).

Drexel University Research Day 2008: "Graduate Award for Computation, Modeling & Simulation (other than Biological)." (http://www.drexel.edu/provost/communications/research/2008/04-23_research_day_awards.html).

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