People at Savannah: Don Pellegrino Resume & Skills
Follows Resume & Skills of Don Pellegrino <donpellegrino>.
Resume
Education
2002-2005
Master of Science in Information Systems
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
1996--2001
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Research
Spring/Summer, 2004
Information Visualization
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
While pursuing my graduate degree at Drexel University I had the opportunity to spend a term working with Dr. Chaomei Chen. Dr. Chen directed my independent study of Information Visualization techniques. Working with him I applied the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) C++ API to metadata describing the papers published at the IEEE InfoVis Conference over an eight year period. The aim of the research was to discover relationships between the publications and identify seminal articles. This was accomplished by loading the citations into a network data structure and providing an interactive visualization that showed the network growing over time.
Spring, 2005
Natural Language Processing
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology (IST) sponsors many projects focusing on processing medical information. Thanks to the partnership between IST and the Drexel College of Medicine I was able to work with Dr. Hyoil Han of IST on an independent study project across both departments. Dr. Han directed my work on analyzing the metadata and text of journal articles in Oncology. I used Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to help physicians identify articles describing treatments which were statistically significant and which improved conditions for the patients, while filtering articles describing inconclusive experimental results. The project was implemented using Java and the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) from the University of Sheffield.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
http://www.acm.org
Member of the TeX Users Group (TUG)
http://www.tug.org
Skills
| Skill | Level | Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Flex | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| Gtk+ | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| HTML | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| Java | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| PostgreSQL | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| UML | Good Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| XML | Good Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| C | Base Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |
| C++ | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| CGI | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| CVS | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| GNU/Linux | Base Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| LaTeX | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| SQL | Master | 5 yr - 10 yr |
| Shell | Good Knowledge | 5 yr - 10 yr |

