Kirk Martinez

Current

• Sr. Software Engineer, MTS at Altera

Past

• Systems Administration Supervisor at Altera
• Database Systems Group Leader at Altera

Education

• Golden Gate University
• Stanford University
• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

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Connections

35 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Family Website
• My Company

Kirk Martinez’s Summary

Application Developer, Database Architect, and Project Manager in a variety of business and technical applications. Particularly interested in applying artificial intelligence and data mining technologies to solve real-world problems. Excellent communication and organizational skills facilitate successful relationships with technical and non-technical team members.

Kirk Martinez’s Specialties:

Data life-cycle management: from architecting database schemas for efficient storage, to highly flexible and maintainable serialized (XML) data management, to cutting-edge data mining and analysis.

Kirk Martinez’s Experience

• Sr. Software Engineer, MTS

  Altera

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ALTR; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  August 1990 — Present (19 years 4 months)

  Extensive experience with database design, SQL, web technologies includes XML, XML Schema, and XSLT. Currently working on data mining applications on customer data for engineering support.

• Systems Administration Supervisor

  Altera

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ALTR; Semiconductors industry)

  August 1990 — February 2000 (9 years 7 months)

  After ten years, I moved into a new role at Altera in a different department.

• Database Systems Group Leader

  Altera

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ALTR; Semiconductors industry)

  June 1993 — June 1995 (2 years 1 month)

Kirk Martinez’s Education

• Golden Gate University

  BS.IT , 2006 — 2009

• Stanford University

  Certificate in AI , Artificial Intelligence , 1998 — 2003

  Classes included robotics, computer vision, pattern classification, and algorithms.

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  1988 — 1989

Additional Information

Kirk Martinez’s Websites:

• Family Website
• My Company

Kirk Martinez’s Interests:

playing the ukulele and mixing music, playing Go, crafting super-complex origami, sailing and sailboarding

Kirk Martinez’s Groups:

American Go Association, OrigamiUSA

•    Golden Gate University
•    Altera Employee & Alumni Group
•    American Go Association

Kirk Martinez’s Honors:

U.S. Patent #5,893,088: "Method for Database Query Performance Enhancement" - 1999

Kirk Martinez’s Contact Settings

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