Ontology Modeler and Information Integration Architect
Greenville, South Carolina Area
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- Ontology Modeler at TopQuadrant
- Past
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- Senior Product Manager at AWARE Software Inc.
- Ontologist at Cycorp, Inc.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Virginia
- Research Analyst at Office of Institutional Research -- Wake Forest University
- Education
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- University of Virginia
- Wake Forest University
- University of South Carolina-Columbia
- The University of Texas at Austin
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James Masters’s Summary
James "Chip" Masters holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia, with specialties in partial differential equations and applied functional analysis, and competence in real and complex analysis, probability, topology, and geometry. He worked for six and a half years as an Ontologist at Cycorp, Inc., the developers of the OpenCyc knowledge base.
At Cycorp, Chip was the lead ontologist in the development of the Semantic Knowledge Source technology, or SKSI. Chip designed the formal language used to model the logical and physical schemas for object-relational databases. He also used SKSI to integrate numerous databases with Cyc and apply them to support a variety of ongoing research projects.
Subsequently, Chip was a Senior Product Manager at AWARE Software, Inc. where he worked with a group of ontologists and requirements engineers to build formal models of software requirements in an ontology implemented in a relational database.
Currently, Chip is an ontologist with TopQuadrant, Inc.
James Masters’s Specialties:
RDF, RDFS, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, Ontology design; data modeling; data integration; mathematical modeling; database development; modeling algebraic, geometric, and analytic structures.
James Masters’s Experience
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Ontology Modeler
TopQuadrant
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
At TopQuadrant, Chip is responsible for building and extending portions of NASA's NExIOM ontology supporting the Constellation program.
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Senior Product Manager
AWARE Software Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 4 months)
As a Senior Product Manager, Chip lead the effort to build a formal model of the software requirements for an AWARE customer in an ontology implemented in a relational database system. Chip's primary responsibilities included modeling software requirements from source material and direct interaction with subject matter experts, and communicating with the stakeholders to ensure the fidelity and completeness of software requirements coverage.
Chip was also active in evaluating and testing AWARE software and contributed to the development of the software requirements ontology and the relational database schema in which it is implemented. -
Ontologist
Cycorp, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
April 2000 — September 2006 (6 years 6 months)
At Cycorp, Chip was the lead ontologist and project manager in the development of the Semantic Knowledge Source Integration technology, or SKSI. SKSI is a global-as-view data integration system that uses the Cyc ontology as a universal schema and provides a calculus for mapping source database schemas into the universal schema. SKSI enables Cyc to query and modify integrated databases using the the universal schema.
In addition, Chip created ontologies in various domains and developed fundamental extensions to the CycL knowledge representation language and its axiomatics, including constructs for representing:
- Geospatial and mereotopological objects and relations
- Relational database structures and multi-database integration rules
- Elements of mathematics, including geometry, topology, and statistics
- Elements of physics, including classical dynamics and electromagnetics. -
Graduate Teaching Assistant
The University of Virginia
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1995 — May 1999 (3 years 10 months)
Held recitation sessions for several introductory and advanced undergraduate mathematics classes, including Calculus I and II, Probability and Statistics, Complex Variables, and Ordinary Differential Equations.
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Research Analyst
Office of Institutional Research -- Wake Forest University
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)
December 1994 — August 1995 (9 months)
• Gathered and analyzed various statistics of campus life at the university.
• Submitted regular reports to federal and state agencies, university data sharing consortiums, and academic accreditation agencies.
• Designed and published the annual Wake Forest University Fact Book, which included statistics and graphical visualizations of facts of general interest about campus life.
James Masters’s Education
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University of Virginia
Ph.D. , Applied Mathematics , 1995 — 2000
Coursework:
Fall 1995:
- Introduction to Modern Partial Differential Equations I
- Real Analysis I
- Functional Analysis I
Spring 1996:
- Semigroups in Partial Differential Equations I
- Introduction to Modern Partial Differential Equations II
- Complex Analysis I
Fall 1996:
- Topics in Partial Differential Equations and Optimization I
- Control and Stability Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Spring 1997:
- Topics in Partial Differential Equations and Optimization II
- Semigroups in Partial Differential Equations II
- Nonlinear Control Systems
Fall 1998 - Fall 1999:
- Ph.D. Dissertation Research
- Research Topic: Exact Boundary Controllability and Uniform Stabilization of Electromagnetic Fields without Geometric Restrictions- Activities and Societies:
- Industrial Mathematical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students Participant -- Summer 1995, Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow -- 1996-1998
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Wake Forest University
M.A. , Mathematics , 1993 — 1994
Coursework:
Fall 1993:
- Advanced Calculus I
- Elementary Theory of Numbers I
- Abstract Algebra I
- General Topology I
Spring 1994:
- Differential Geometry
- Selected Topics in Differential Equations
- Real Analysis I
- Abstract Algebra II
Fall 1994:
- Introduction to Numerical Methods
- Individual Study in Lie Algebras
- Individual Study in Differential Topology
- Topics in Real Analysis -
University of South Carolina-Columbia
B.S. , Mathematics , 1989 — 1993
Graduated with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College
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The University of Texas at Austin
Software Engineering 2006
Coursework:
Fall 2006:
- Distributed Information System Security
- System Engineering: Project Management and Evaluation
Spring 2007:
- Data Mining
- Verification and Validation
Summer 2007:
- The Practise of Programming
Fall 2007:
- Introduction to Software Engineering
- Topics in SE: Data Engineering
Summer 2008:
- Tools of Programming
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James Masters’s Interests:
Semantic Web Knowledge Representation and Query Languages (RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL, XQuery), Spatio-temporal reasoning in AI, Methodologies for modeling and integrating heterogeneous data from autonomous sources, Applying ontologies to improve "classical" (i.e. statistical) data mining algorithms.
James Masters’s Groups:
American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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James Masters’s Honors:
Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students Participant, Summer 1995;
Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow, 1996-1999;
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