Owner, Entelechy Corporation
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
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- Software Architect and Founder at Entelechy Corporation
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- Consultant at Lehman Brothers Bank
- Consultant at Washington Mutual
- Consultant at Morgan Stanley
- Manager of Authoring Systems at Lexi-Comp, Inc.
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School
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Kenneth Hughes’s Summary
Application of management skills and technical expertise in advanced technologies to lead companies to solve business or scientific problems.
Internet architecture and XML consulting, development, training, and mentoring opportunities are particularly sought.
Kenneth Hughes’s Specialties:
XML, machine-machine interfaces, AI, man-machine interfaces, decision making (man and machine, individual and organizational, routine and exceptional)
Kenneth Hughes’s Experience
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Software Architect and Founder
Entelechy Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
1991 — Present (18 years)
Entelechy Corporation provides coordinated business and technical services in all areas of XML.
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Consultant
Lehman Brothers Bank
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
May 2004 — July 2007 (3 years 3 months)
Led design and implementation of many aspects of automated underwriting (mortgage product finder, pricing, full underwriting, and credit retrieval) web services:
• Assisted client in discovery process, existing system analysis, requirements solicitation, requirements authoring, and system design to meet requirements.
• Designed HTTP+XML based and SOAP based interfaces to multiple web services.
• Defined XML messaging formats in XML Schema; defined service interfaces in WSDL.
• Recommended and implemented XML data binding solutions.
• Developed project build environment.
• Designed test harness for regression testing using XPath-based expected value tests.
• Developed interface to third party credit agency for retrieving credit reports.
• Designed and implemented inter-service calling mechanism supporting both local and remote service deployments.
• Applied MISMO loan and credit XML standards.
• Developed module to style Findings reports in HTML and PDF via XSLT and XSL-FO. -
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Washington Mutual
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WM; Banking industry)
March 2003 — December 2003 (10 months)
Designed and implemented mortgage underwriting Web Service:
• Participated in discovery process, requirements solicitation, requirements authoring, and system design that met requirements.
• Defined data formats and SOAP interface using XML Schema and WSDL.
• Implemented XML-Java data binding using J2EE JAXB.
• Implemented Web Service in J2EE using Web Logic 8.1.
• Implemented Web Service client in Microsoft .Net framework.
• Ensured interoperability between .Net and J2EE Web Service.
• Applied MISMO loan origination XML standards. -
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Morgan Stanley
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)
June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)
Guided application of XML standards and technologies throughout development of an automated financial planning system for 15,000 financial advisors with nationwide intranet access. System includes a web browser interface for the capture of client questionnaire data and the dynamic generation of personalized 200-page financial plans through a custom document production pipeline using XML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, XSL-FO, DocBook, DSSSL, HTML, RTF, and PDF in a J2EE architecture.
• Recommended XML technology and tool selections throughout system.
• Wrote XSLT transformations to DocBook XML from financial information in XML
• Customized HTML, RTF, and PDF stylistic presentations of financial plan.
• Wrote meta-level XSLT transformations to generate a readable English specification automatically from the base XSLT transformations.
• Designed and implemented a flexible J2EE framework for the presentation, editing, validating, and saving of financial information across 70 XHTML GUI pages. -
Manager of Authoring Systems
Lexi-Comp, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1993 — 2000 (7 years)
Managed development and deployment of all XML-based drug information authoring systems.
• Participated in corporate planning and operations as a member of the management team.
• Led design, development, and distribution of an XML-based drug information authoring system.
• Trained and supported drug information specialists at major hospitals across the country in the authoring and editing of dozens of medical publications regularly throughout the year.
• Negotiated the successful acquisition of domain name from third party.
• Designed and implemented a distributed XML document editing system using XML and J2EE technologies on the server side and AJAX on the client side.
• Wrote SGML to HTML conversion software for flat file as well as relational database targets. Also designed and implemented automatic SGML to XML conversion software.
• Developed complex conversion software that translated legacy table-based data into CALS SGML table format.
Kenneth Hughes’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1985 — 1988
Master's Thesis: Evaluation of expert system architecture performance
Designed and implemented a declarative, Object Oriented, language for the specification and construction of rule-based expert systems. The system, COAL, combined methods from Programming Systems, AI, and Numerical Optimization. Participated in Allen Newell and Charles Forgy's Production System Machine group efforts to analyze and improve the performance of symbolic pattern matching used in Soar, the realization of a problem solving architecture detailing Newell's candidate for a unified theory of cognition. -
Carnegie Mellon University
BS , Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics , 1981 — 1985
Undergraduate Project: Runtime concurrency detection & parallel processing
Designed logic to maintain the instruction execution records needed in a runtime concurrency detection scheme. Co-authored invention disclosure for instruction-level parallel processing architecture.
Undergraduate in-depth sequence: Cognitive Psychology- Activities and Societies:
- Eta Kappa Nu - Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi - Engineering Honor Society
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Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School
1978 — 1981
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XML, machine-machine interfaces, AI, man-machine interfaces, decision making (man and machine, individual and organizational, routine and exceptional)
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