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• Set strategic direction for technology development at Ask Jeeves, Inc.
• Initiated efforts to form an international division at Ask Jeeves, now Ask Jeeves International.
• Developed (in collaboration with other faculty at UC Berkeley) over 2.5 million dollars of research funding for more than half a dozen research projects over a ten year period.

• Design and implemented software components to support dictionary and other language functionality in the Ask Jeeves question-answering system.
• Architected and led development of several research databases and textbases (and associated software) in support of NSF-funded research projects.
• Designed and administered several Very Large Database Systems, including the University of California's MELVYL online catalog and the creation of the REMARC database for the Library of Congress.
• Wrote and maintained large (250,000+ lines) structured programs in PL/I.
• Wrote a variety of intelligent and adaptive applications in SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL.

• Managed the Ask Jeeves Core Engineering team in the development of the next generation of the Ask Jeeves question-answering system, a unique suite of both high-performance web-centric C++ components and database-centric GUI components written in C++ with MFC.
• Managed the work of graduate students, postdocs, developers, and others on several long term academic research projects.
• Team member (one of six principals) in the design and implementation of U.C.'s MELVYL online catalog.

• Numerous presentations at conferences (both academic and enterprise).
• Taught courses and seminars on Computational Linguistics, on Linguistics, and on programming at UC Berkeley and in commercial enterprises.
• At Ask Jeeves, I developed marketing and training materials, and successfully presented the message to customers and analysts, in formal presentations and impromptu one-on-ones.
• I am an experienced and successful grant writer.

• "Linguistic documents synchronizing sound and text," Speech Communication 33. (2001) pp. 79-96. (with Michel Jacobson and Boyd Michailovsky).
• "The reconstruction engine: a computer implementation of the comparative method," Association for Computational Linguistics Special Issue in Computational Phonology 20.3 (September 1994) pp. 381-417. (with Martine Mazaudon.)
• "Regularity and exceptions in sound change," Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of Belgium, Bruxelles, December 13-15 1993. (D. Demolin, ed.). (forthcoming) (with Martine Mazaudon).
• Bibliography of the International Conferences on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics I-XXV. 407pp. Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asian Studies. (1994) (with Randy J. LaPolla).
• "Du bon usage de l'informatique en linguistique historique," Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 86.1, pp. 49-87. (1991). (with Martine Mazaudon).
• "Gambling on CD-ROM: Speculations on the Economics of a New Technology," Library Journal (July 1988).

• I was born in 1954 in Champaign IL, USA and grew up in the Phillipines, Thailand, and India. US Citizen.