John DeSanto 415-420-6742 (cell) 415-626-2289 (home) desanto@mac.com San Francisco, CA Qualifications -------------- - Over 15 years experience in information technology - Over 5 years in leadership roles - Product design, management, and implementation - Ontology and knowledge base development - Natural languages processing, information extraction - Private and public teaching experience - Graduate degrees in mathematics and philosophy Technology ---------- - Lisp, Python, C, Perl - Semantic web standards: OWL, RDFS, RDF, SWRL, SPARQL - CycL, Cyc, OpenCyc, SUMO - Jena, Allegrograph, TopBraid - Inventor or co-inventor on nine pending patents Employment History ------------------ Senior Semantic Architect July 2008 - October 2008 Searchme - San Francisco, CA - Responsible for improving the category structure underlying Searchme's vertical search - Developed methods for improving the vertical ontology, name recognition, and query analysis Senior Ontologist August 2007 - July 2008 NASA / Intrinsyx - Mountain View, California - Developed ontology models for semantic web applications within for NASA's data systems - Responsible for creating and improving ontologies for a broad range of NASA disciplines Search Project Manager (contract) May 2007 - July 2007 Deloitte - San Francisco, California - Managed and developed strategies for improving SharePoint search for consulting group - Provided expertise on search technology and metadata strategies Consultant December 2006 - July 2008 Jiles Inc. - San Francisco/Los Angeles, CA - Responsible for maintaining and improving the statistical parser, query templates, and query categorization - Devised methods for utilizing structured semantic data in the Jiles system, including connections to Freebase and Open Calais. Director of Research and Development August 2004 - October 2006 Kozoru - Overland Park, Kansas - Led Kozoru's research and development efforts - Successfully created and released a customizable chat-based search product, BYOMS (build your own mobile search) - Designed and implemented a natural language parser, answer ranking algorithms, source acquisition algorithms, and regression code - Designed and implemented distributed semantic question/answer technology - Managed junior developers - Contributed to the newLISP open source project Ontologist October 2002 - July 2004 Unicru - San Francisco, California - Led development of the SmartMatch ontology and knowledge base. - Developed ontology content and functional requirements for the knowledge base - Supervised knowledge base content editors Knowledge Architect December 2001 - July 2002 Kanisa - Cupertino, California - Developed and maintained taxonomies and logical rules for Kanisa's CRM platform - Analyzed query patterns and optimized retrieval results to improve search satisfaction - Technical liaison for the Apple Support project Ontologist, Project Manager September 1998 - March 2001 Cycorp - Austin, Texas - Created and tested new areas of the ontology for the Cyc knowledge base. - Designed the ontology framework for representing network and software vulnerabilities - Developed ontologies for CycSecure, DARPA High Performance Knowledge Base (HPKB) Year 2, Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF), Hotbot/Lycos. - Supervised four ontologists and programmers and managed project KB development - Oversaw all subject matter experts, reported to DARPA program manager, and presented at scheduled program meetings - Assisted in locating and applying for new sources of funding, primarily through DARPA, including Cycorp's DAML proposal (Spring 2001) Education --------- - The Johns Hopkins University M.A. Philosophy, 1995; Ph.D. candidate 1995-98 - The University of Colorado M.A. Mathematics, 1991 - The University of Michigan B.S. Mathematics and Philosophy, 1989 Publications ------------ - Dan Crow and John DeSanto, A Hybrid Approach to Concept Extraction and Recognition-based Matching in the Domain of Human Resources. 16th. IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-04), Boca Raton 2004. - Martin Quiroga, John DeSanto and John Flowers, -Natural language based search engine and methods of use therefore", U.S Patent #7,447,683.