Kurt Godden

Current

Interface Designer at Bank of America

Past

Technical Fellow at GM Operations Research
Technical Fellow at GM R&D
Principal Member of the Engineering Staff at Lockheed Martin Adv Tech Labs

Director of Linguistics at JustTalk
Manager and Principal Engineer at GM Service Operations
Staff Research Scientist at GM R&D
Visiting Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology

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Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Kansas
Iowa State University

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Industry

Banking

Kurt Godden’s Summary

Innovative manager of technology and analytically-based change initiatives. Broad-based understanding of knowledge representation, data analysis, business process modeling, speech recognition, computer programming, and project management. Excellent people skills, oral and written communication. Extensive international experience in both Europe and Asia. Good German skills and some French.

Sole inventor on two patents: “Location-Based Notifications,” U.S. Patent 7,394,405, issued July 1, 2008; and “Dynamic N-Best Algorithm to Reduce Recognition Errors,” U.S. Patent 7,421,387, issued September 2, 2008. Co-inventor on several additional pending patents. GM also awarded me 3 tool-method inventions (trade secrets).

Kurt Godden’s Specialties:

Recent work included business process modeling and marketing data analysis. Much experience in text mining, speech recognition, machine translation, controlled language, ontologies and knowledge representation.

Kurt Godden’s Experience

Interface Designer

Bank of America

(Staffing and Recruiting industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Contractor currently assigned to Bank of America in Simi Valley, CA.
Technical Fellow

GM Operations Research

(Automotive industry)

March 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 2 months)

Performed analysis and developed decision aids for senior corporate management. Developed (a) customer perceptual map of key product features for Cadillac marketing process model, (b) SWOT-based marketing analysis of gaps between perceptions and performance characteristics to guide marketing & advertising campaigns. Created VBA-based Excel tool to identify statistically-significant attribute values of large warranty datasets.
Technical Fellow

GM R&D

(Automotive industry)

March 2003 — 2007 (4 years )

Managed program on Business Interruption Risk for GM Global Security. Delivered text mining and ontology tools to detect (a) threats to business operations worldwide and (b) auto counterfeiters. Managed two development contracts with HRL Labs, Malibu, CA.
Principal Member of the Engineering Staff

Lockheed Martin Adv Tech Labs

(Public Company; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

December 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Directed technical development and managed DARPA budget for speech understanding systems, including ship health monitoring on US Navy IX-529 “Sea Shadow” and battlefield casualty reporting. Initiated new research area for pilot cockpit monitoring. Developed 700 text mining rules for intelligence gathering.
Director of Linguistics

JustTalk

(Computer Software industry)

August 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Designed user interface, created lexicon, prompts, and grammars for several commercial speech recognition systems including personal information management, customer relationship management, flight information, and expense reporting.
Manager and Principal Engineer

GM Service Operations

(Automotive industry)

January 1997 — July 2000 (3 years 7 months)

Managed multi-million dollar budget and contracts for translation of service information and owner manuals, resulting in order of magnitude cost reductions and all-new business processes. Managed translation software project for GM Canada resulting in cost reduction greater than 60% and time reduction of 40%. Managed $1M software development contract with Belgian company.
Staff Research Scientist

GM R&D

(Automotive industry)

June 1982 — December 1996 (14 years 7 months)

Created new math model to evaluate automotive engineering designs against a database of manufacturing constraints. Designed and developed several research software systems including natural language query system for relational databases, controlled language service authoring, text mining of service information, and machine translation.
Visiting Assistant Professor

Illinois Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 1980 — May 1982 (1 year 10 months)

Taught courses in Computer Science Department, including formal languages and automata, data structures, introductory programming, discrete math, and graduate seminar on natural language understanding.