JOHN BRANDON LOWE
                         PO Box 667 
                      Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
          (415) 309-5841   jblowe AT socrates.berkeley.edu
             http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jblowe

LANGUAGES, PLATFORMS, ENVIRONMENTS (in approximate order of competence)

 Hardware/OS

   Windows (95, NT, NT/Server), Unix (Solaris and
   Linux varieties), Apple, IBM mainframes (370, 309x; OS/MVT OS/MVS, VM).

 Programming languages

   PERL, SPITBOL (dialect of SNOBOL4), BAL, JCL, PL/I, APL, Java, 
   Visual Basic, C, C++, LISP, Pascal.

 Environments, architectures, standards, and other acronyms

   Unicode, TCP/IP, RDF, SGML, XML, W3C, CGI, TSO, CMS, JES2&3,
   member ISO/TC46/SC2/WG12 (Transliteration), 802.11

OTHER SKILLS

 Web site setup and administration: Windows, Mac, Unix.

 Teaching: linguistics, HTML, programming, judo, etc. 
 at UC Berkeley.

 Database design and development: ADABAS (6 years), Access (3 years),  
 FoxPro, FileMaker Pro, SQL servers (e.g.,. Microsoft) (2 years)

 Document design: information extraction from marked-up documents,
 multimedia applications using XML

 Project management: supervise three multilingual database-oriented
 research projects at UCB.

 Database administration: mainframe, network, standalone microcomputer.

CURRENT AND PAST EMPLOYMENT

 Researcher (UC Berkeley, since 1995).

 Postdoctoral researcher (International Computer Science
 Institute, Berkeley, since 1997).

 Chercheur and Membre AssociŽ (CNRS/Paris, since 1990).

 Past positions: Visiting Researcher (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden),
 Programmer, DBA, and manager (University of California
 Division of Library Automation), Scientific Programmer 
 (Yale University).

LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE (in approximate order of competency)

 Hindi-Urdu, French, Portuguese, Sanskrit, Burmese, 
 Classical Greek, Tibetan, Kannada, Old English

EDUCATION

 Ph.D. Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
 (May 1995).

 M.L.I.S., School of Library and Information Science,
 University of California at Berkeley (December 1987).

 A.B. in Linguistics, Yale College, New Haven. (May 1977).

 Woodstock High School, Mussoorie, U.P., India (1972).

REFERENCES FURNISHED ON REQUEST