Objective

Obtain a management position in software development. Expand my knowledge of computer science and physics.

Professional Experience

1/2005 - present UT Dallas Visual Computing Lab Richardson, Texas
Research Assistant
Dissertation work (http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/people.php), programming, and publish papers (See "Publications" below).
° Designed VEGGIE - Visual Environment for Graph Grammars: Induction and Engineering. Work includes merging a Spatial Graph Grammar (SGG) system with a version of SubdueGL, a graph grammar induction system. Notable extensions and enhancements to both results in a reinforcement learning system for context free graph grammars. Future work includes extending into context sensitivity and adding data mining preprocessing via FACADE.
° Extended FAÇADE (Fast and Automatic Clustering Approach to Data Engineering) to handle N dimensional datasets (http://viscomp.utdallas.edu/FACADE).

12/2003 - 12/2004 Texas Schools Project Richardson, TX
Research Assistant
Network Administration: managed hardware and software in a multi OS environment for the Texas Schools Project. Primary issues related to maintaining network security and remote access within the contractual obligations to the Texas Education Agency.

12/2002 - 12/2003 High Energy Particle Physics Richardson, TX
Research Assistant
Led the Super BaBar calorimeter simulation based on the Geant4 and CLHEP physics libraries. The simulation allows researches to analyze the efficiency of various calorimeter materials used to collect the energy output of high-energy particle collisions. The simulations play a key role in selecting a calorimeter configuration for the Super BaBar particle detector. Elements include CAD based objects using CSGs, its BREPS based solids, and its NURBS based descriptions. Several custom objects were built that became useful to several other developers either directly or as a tutorial for building their own objects.

8/2000 - 12/2002 Texas Schools Project Richardson, TX
Research Assistant
Processed, normalized, and maintained large data files for statistical research for the Texas Schools Project (Dr. John Kain), an ongoing multi-directional research effort to enhance government policy on educational issues. Led effort to normalize data elements from various data sources in to a single coherent data source based on the submitted Texas Education Agency's data file standard for years 1989 to 2002. Primary effort focused on an ID key for cross-indexing disparate data sources using record linking processes.

8/1996 - 6/2004 Ates Computer Consultants Edenton, NC and Rowlett, TX
Owner / Consultant
Contract with customers on a variety of computer related issues including hardware and software acquisition, network design and installation, hardware and software maintenance, system administration, personnel training, software programming and database design. Worked with third party agencies on customer’s behalf for computer related issues including government mandates, electronic communication and security, and supplier relations.

11/1993 - 8/1996 Truss Engineering Company Edenton, NC
Software Development Manager
Developed software requirements, analysis, and design strategies to effectively communicate and direct software development. Directed and guided programmers in a variety of software development issues. Developed and maintained software systems using various development tools and languages including C and FORTRAN.
Technical Representative
Professionally represent the company on technical issues including customer relations, scheduling customer training, on-site and in-house client training, sales training and support, customer consulting on hardware and software, network installation and support, and in-house telephone support.

1988 - 11/1993 Shoffner Industries, Inc. Burlington, NC
Software Project Lead
Developed software requirements, analysis, and design to effectively communicate and direct software development. Directed programmers in a variety of software development issues. Develop and maintain software systems using various development tools and languages including C, Fortran, and AutoCAD ADS. Support HP 3000/70 and connected hardware at local and remote company sites.
Engineering Assistant / Drafter
Evaluate wood truss designs for proper plating, splicing, webbing redesign, cutting conditions, and drawing touch ups.

1985 - 1988 Round Rock Truss Company Round Rock, TX
Estimator / Computer Operator / Production Assistant
Customer relations, plan takeoffs, job costing and estimating, bid proposals, truss layouts, design, and engineering.

Education

May 2006 - Present Univ. of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX
Toward PhD Computer Science: Current GPA 3.8
Dissertation Work: Graph Grammar Induction processes for Visual Computing applications. See Research Assistant for UT Visual Computer Lab in "Professional Experience" above.
GAANN Fellowship. GetDoc Fellowship.
(http://www.utdallas.edu/~atescomp/UTD Transcript Grad.txt)

Jan 2005 - May 2006 Univ. of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX
MS Computer Science: GPA 3.778
GetDoc Fellowship.

Aug 2000 - Dec 2004 Univ. of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX
BS Computer Science: 3.84 GPA
Magna Cum Laude graduate. Green Center for Science and Society Scholarship Recipient. Golden Key member. Accepted into FastTrack Program for MS in Computer Science and Physics.
15 hrs from Bachelor of Science in Physics.
(http://www.utdallas.edu/~atescomp/UTD Transcript Undergrad.txt )

1997 - 1999 College Of The Albemarle Elizabeth City, NC
Associate Degree in Science: 3.955 GPA
Summa Cum Laude graduate. All American Scholar. President's List for superior academic achievement. Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society for Two Year Colleges: Vice President and President. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Nominee.
Mathematics through Calculus III, Physics, and Chemistry: 4.0 GPA

1980 - 1984 Temple High School Temple, TX
High School Graduate
Excelled in mathematics and computer science.
Honors Class: Calculus, Physics

Professional Development

Interpersonal:
° Communication, Leadership, Project Management
Programming:
° OOAD, UML
° C/C++, Java: J2SE, J2EE, ML, Prolog, FORTRAN, BASIC, PASCAL
° Thread, RPC, TCP/IP UDP Socket Programming
° XML, GraphML
° Geant4, CLHEP
° Assembly Language: 8086, MIPS
° PCL5 and HPGL/HPGL2
° Cross platform and language development
Database:
° SQL
° Oracle, Visual FoxPro, Borland PARADOX, HP TURBO IMAGE
Operating Systems:
° Linux (various distributions), HP-UX
° Windows NT 4 Server / 2000 Server / 2003 Server, Windows 95 / 98 / NT 4 / Me / 2000 Pro / XP Pro, Windows 3.11, MS-DOS
° HP MPE5 for HP 3000/70
° NOSs: Novell, Lantastic
Hardware:
° TCP/IP and NetBEUI using Thin Ethernet and CAT5/6 Twisted Pair Wiring.
° Network wiring schemes for 10/100/1000BaseTX.

Publications

(http://www.utdallas.edu/~atescomp/Keven.html)
K. Ates, K. Zhang, B. Prabhakaran, "Visual Querying on Human Motion for the Disabled", Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006, 4-8 Sept. 2006, 222-223.
K. Ates, J. Kukluk, L. Holder, D. Cook, K. Zhang, "Graph Grammar Inference on Structural Data", Proc. of 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2006, 13-15 Nov. 2006 (In Press).

Interests and Activities

Family, Church, Computer Science, Physics, Reading, Motorcycles, Martial Arts, Culinary Arts

References