Gordon Fischer

Employment History

• Successfully created and released a customizable chat-based search technology
• Designed numerous protocols to interface with external search APIs and chat networks
• Constructed and implemented natural language, statistical and hybrid parsers for extraction of key sentences
• Developed distributed cluster management techniques for hundreds of nodes
• Architected and deployed a template extraction for wikipedia chat buddy - similar to wikiseek.com
• Managed a team of seven software engineers

• Led research and development for homeland security threat assessment tool
• Focused on semantic reasoning, graph matching and social network analysis

• Developed multi-threaded initialization and software update programs for router firmware
• Assembled and modified embedded operating systems for deployment on custom cable modems and switch routers
• Created and modified Linux device drivers for a variety of hardware and software devices
• Constructed communication and control programs and protocols across both internal and external interfaces of switch routers and modems
• Maintained and continued product development of three lifecycles of hardware
• Project lead of four software engineers

• Designed and implemented a distributed server architecture to control data flow between hundreds of thousands of remote clients

• Created a semantic web search engine using information from the CYC knowledge base
• Formulated and programmed methods of communication and computation for distributed knowledge bases
• Developed core CYC technology for use in ontological searching, inferencing and caching
• Participated in constructing an ontology used in augmenting answers for DARPA crisis scenarios

• Enhanced rejection and token handling of speech recognition software
• Optimized speech recognition algorithms and co-developed a test tool for firmware based continuous speech recognition

• Established object oriented class libraries for use by developers world wide
• Co-developed Windows based sales force automation program for North American deployment
• Constructed automated procedures for conversion, replication and integration of mission critical data
• Led standards development in object oriented programming and system analysis

• Participated in developing classes and debugging the real-time program for the Toronto Pearson Airport computerized taxi deployment system
• Developed internal accounts receivable application for international use
• Planned, constructed, tested and assisted in deploying the accounts receivable application

Education

• University of Waterloo
  Honors Bachelor of Mathematics - Computer Science with Cognitive Science Option