Resume of
David Booth, Ph.D.
Senior Software Architect

153 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144
Phone: +1 617 629 8881
david@dbooth.org
This document: http://dbooth.org/resume/

Key interests

Semantic web architecture and applications
Electronic health records and biomedical research
Information integration
W3C standards

Experience

2009-present: Independent contractor

PanGenX, Senior software architect applying semantic web technology to bioinformatics and genomics in support of personalized medicine. (2011-2012)

Cleveland Clinic, Senior software architect for the SemanticDB project, which applies semantic web technology to clinical research. Managed development of applications that derive research data from patient medical records and measure the quality of patient treatment. (2009-2010)

Additional roles:

Contributing member of the W3C task force on Architecture of the World Wide Semantic Web, and frequent contributor to discussions on semantic web architecture.

Recent writings and presentations:

Resource Identity and Semantic Extensions: Making Sense of Ambiguity, Semantic Technology Conference 2010, San Francisco
http://dbooth.org/2010/ambiguity/
Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records through Semantic Technologies: The Cleveland Clinic Experience, Semantic Technology Conference 2010, San Francisco
http://dbooth.org/2010/stc-ehr/
Electronic Health Records with Cleveland Clinic and Oracle Semantic Technologies, Oracle Open World 2010, San Francisco
http://dbooth.org/2010/oow/
RDF as a Lingua Franca: Architectural Strategies, Semantic Technology Conference 2009, San Jose
http://dbooth.org/2009/stc/
Denotation as a Two-Step Mapping in Semantic Web Architecture, IJCAI-09 Workshop on Identity and Reference
http://dbooth.org/2009/denotation/
The URI Lifecycle in Semantic Web Architecture, IJCAI-09 Workshop on Identity and Reference
http://dbooth.org/2009/lifecycle/

2005-2009: HP Software
Senior Research Architect in the central software architecture team, which provides architectural governance and guidelines to the development teams for the 50+ products in HP Software. Main activities:

Responsible for defining modeling guidelines for a common data model across products, many of which were acquired through acquisition.
Raising awareness and understanding of semantic web technology, the trade-offs between information modeling in XML versus semantic web technology (RDF in particular), and the relevance of semantic web technology to data integration and service oriented architecture (SOA).
Tracking and participating in W3C standards and technologies.

Additional roles:

Contributing member of W3C task force on Architecture of the World Wide Semantic Web; monitoring member of the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences interest group.
Contributing member of the W3C GRDDL working group. GRDDL is a standard for specifying how XML documents should be transformed to RDF.
Responsible for creating and managing an internal software "Academy" for raising awareness on strategic and emerging technologies. Overall responsibility for technical curriculum and oversight of department chairs.

Writings and presentations:

URI Declaration and Semantic Web Architecture:
http://dbooth.org/2007/uri-decl/
Why URI Declarations? A comparison of architectural approaches. Fifth European Semantic Web Conference ESWC-08, workshop on Identity and Reference:
http://dbooth.org/2008/irsw/
Enterprise Information Integration: RDF as the Lingua Franca. Semantic Technology Conference 2008:
http://dbooth.org/2008/stc/slides.ppt
RDF and SOA, SOA Symposium, Amsterdam 2008:
http://dbooth.org/2008/soas/slides.ppt
RDF and SOA, 2007 W3C Web of Services workshop:
http://dbooth.org/2007/rdf-and-soa/rdf-and-soa-paper.htm
URIs and the Myth of Resource Identity, WWW 2006 Conference:
http://dbooth.org/2006/identity/
Converting New URI Schemes or URN Sub-Schemes to HTTP:
http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/
A URI 303-redirection service for naming non-information resources:
http://thing-described-by.org

2002-2005: HP Software / W3C Fellow, MIT
W3C Fellow from HP Software, working out of W3C's MIT offices. Alternate W3C team contact for the W3C Web Services Description working group, and alternate W3C team contact for the W3C Web Services Architecture working group. Some writings and presentations:

W3C WSDL 2.0 Primer:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer/
W3C Web Services Architecture:
http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/
From Web Services to the Semantic Web: Global Data Reuse
http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/1005-dbooth-semweb/slide1-0.html

1991-2002: Bluestone Software / HP Software (HP acquired Bluestone in 2000)
Responsible for technical course development and instructors. Developed and taught numerous courses on Java, C++, X & Motif GUI design, Perl, the Bluestone Web application server, and others. Led Bluestone's use of Web technologies for training purposes. Bluestone's Advisory Committee representative to W3C. Also invented and prototyped a system for collecting real-time traffic speed data by tracking cell phone locations, and for providing audible turn-by-turn driving guidance via cell phone based on traffic speed data.

1990-1991 Independent consultant
C++ programming, databases, X/Motif GUI programming. Invented a technique for efficient, lossless multitrack audio recording on bandwidth-limited hard drives. (Now obsolete as disk drives have become much faster.)

1986-1989 AT&T Bell Labs
Member of Technical Staff. Research on applying artificial intelligence to Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, UCLA. Programming language design.
M.S. in Computer Science, UCLA. Very Large Scale Integrated circuit (VLSI) design.
B.S. in Computer Science, University of New Hampshire.

Technologies

Perl, RESTful HTTP, RDF, SPARQL, Linux, Unix, MS Windows, Apache, MySQL, Oracle, Java, C++, C, X, Motif, SQL, and others.

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