Amy Unruh

Career Overview

Experienced in deploying and teaching internet technologies, agent-based technologies, and AI techniques. Proficient in multiple programming languages and internet technologies. Experience includes design and deployment of web applications; distributed information gathering, integration, mining, and aggregation; social network APIs; cloud platforms and services; multi-agent, N-tiered architectures; database systems; event detection and planning.

Experience

	2010		Author: Google App Engine Java and GWT Application Development (Packt Publishing, 2010) Google App Engine, Java, GWT
	June 2007 - present		Inferdata Corp., Austin, TX Consultant - training and course development
			Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, AJAX/Javascript technologies and libraries, PHP
	Jan 2009 - present		Metadot Corp., Austin, TX Consultant - application design and development
			Google App Engine, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), Java
	2010 - present		Contributor, ThinkUp open-source project (a social media insights engine run by Gina Trapani/Expert Labs). Core Technologies: PHP, Python, Twitter Streaming and REST APIs, MySQL, Redis, Amazon AWS services (and Git)
	May 2009 - 2010		Development of Database of Volunteer Management Software for nonprofit agencies. Core Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript/AJAX, CSS
	Oct 2003 - April 2007		Dept. of CS & SE, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia Research Fellow (Transaction-Oriented Computational Models for Multi-agent Systems) Teaching: Web Technologies, Protocols and Applications
	Jun - Oct 2003		Inferdata Corp., Austin, TX Consultant - training and course development
			XML and related technologies, HTML/Javascript
	Aug. 2001- Jun 2003		Metadot Corp., Austin, TX Senior Member Technical Staff; Chief Architect
			Responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of web applications and portal technologies for collaborative content creation and management. Core Technologies: Perl, PHP, Java, HTML, Apache/mod_perl, MySQL, XML, Unix/Linux
	2001		Computer Science Department, UT Austin Adjunct Assistant Professor
			Teaching: Elements of Web Design
	July 2000- Mar 2001		Easytrieve, Inc. Director of Emerging Technologies
			Responsible for leading the integration and adaptation of information technologies for Easytrieve. Designed and implemented technologies to support Internet-based semantic matching functionality. Instrumental in the creation and deployment of both the "front-end" and middleware for two internet resume aggregation and matching e-commerce sites. Core Technologies: Perl, HTML, Apache/mod_perl, MySQL, XML.
	1995 - 2000		Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin, Texas Member Of Technical Staff
			Member of the InfoSleuth Distributed Agents Program, an applied R&D project investigating the use of Java-based distributed, cooperating software agents for information-gathering, discovery, and analysis, supported by distributed monitoring and integration of information at multiple levels of abstraction. Instrumental in the design of the InfoSleuth architecture. Technical lead for client applications, including healthcare data mining, bioinformatics, and business intelligence applications. Designed and implemented rule-based agents for distributed control and event-detection. Core Technologies: Java, JDBC, Oracle, Perl, Jess/CLIPS, XML, Glimpse
	1991- 1999		Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX 1995- 1999   Internet Technology, DSPS R&D Center Member Of Technical Staff     Member of Interactive Technology research group. Assignee to the MCC InfoSleuth project; InfoSleuth technology transfer 1991- 1995   Process Synthesis Lab., Semiconductor Process and Device Ctr. Member of Technical Staff     Member of Process Synthesis research group: research and development of tools, methodologies, and representations for semiconductor flow design and diagnosis.
	1984- 1991		Stanford University , Stanford, CA Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, and Programmer
			Member of Soar research group; Principal Advisor: Paul Rosenbloom. Degree work included implementation of large Soar and Lisp systems. Teaching Assistant and lecturer for courses in Medical Expert Systems, Introduction to AI, Logical Introduction to AI, and Machine Learning

Education

	Ph.D. in Computer Science 1993		Stanford University Stanford, CA Dissertation: Using Automatic Abstraction for Problem-Solving and Learning Advisor: Paul Rosenbloom Area: Artificial Intelligence
	B.S. in Computer Science, summa cum laude 1984		UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

Technical Background and Skills

Programming Languages include: Java, Ruby and JRuby, Python, PHP, Perl, C++, Lisp
Internet Technologies include: Javascript/AJAX, Ruby on Rails, Google App Engine/Java (and Rails on GAE/J), GWT, HTML/XML/CSS, MySQL, SVN and Git.
Experience with Amazon AWS S3, EC2 and RDS, Hadoop, Redis.
Some Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Operating Systems: Highly proficient on Linux/Unix, Mac OS X.
Some Windows.

Object-oriented design in multithreaded and n-tier environments.
Experience with agent communication languages and protocols (KQML, FIPA).

Professional Activities

Organizing Committee, SASEMAS (International Workshop on Safety and Security in Multi-Agent Systems), 2005 and 2006. In conjunction with AAMAS (International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems).

Chair, HICSS-32 Minitrack on Software Agents

Referee for several academic conferences.

Patent: "Process Flow Design at the Module Effects Level Through the use of Acceptability Regions" (TI).

Selected Publications