Cameo Wood
84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230, USA
United States Citizen
Objective & Summary
I am a Symbolic Systems researcher and engineer with varied interests and engineering skills to make my ideas a reality.
Fifth term toward a Bachelors in Symbolic Systems (SRC).
User interface design and implementation experience from Sprint, Lucent, GTE Labs, eDial, and Free World Dialup.
Practical and formal knowledge of Human Factors methods.
Experience
01/04-06/04 Vois Inc. Boca Raton, FL
COO
- Designed and implemented novel interfaces for a communications browser.
- Think-alouds, cognitive walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, etc.
12/03-01/04 Neurosciences Institute La Jolla, CA
Researcher
- Researched and developed a theory of swarm modelling for groups within groups.
- Designed a Java simulation to present model in a visual way to other researchers.
12/02-02/03 Neoteny Tokyo, Japan
Consultant
- Researched and presented Japanese VoIP solutions for a free VoIP network for the Nagano Prefecture
- Developed recommendations and wrote a publication for proposal to the government of Japan on Biometrics, e-voting and PKI systems
01/01-02/02 11/99-01/01 eDial, Inc. Newton, MA
Director of Operations
- Led user interface discussions on usability, organisational, and functional design.
- Investigated and solved security risks in both the UI, server, and network design.
- Managed the design of a network capable of supporting five million users with a 99.99% uptime.
01/99-11/99 Lucent Burlington, MA
Research Engineer
- Designed a network management system for a network operations center (CTC Communications).
- Developed automatic utilisation reports, trouble ticketing user interfaces, and dynamic network diagrams (CTC Communications).
- Researched and presented a protocol solution for a VoIP firewall (GTE Labs and Cisco Systems).
Education
08/04 - Present Simon's Rock College Great Barrington, MA
Bachelors of Linguistics and Symbolic Systems (Deans List, GPA 3.67)
- Linguistics, Native American Languages.
- Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Java Programming.
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and the Brain.
09/02 - 12/03 Bennington College Bennington, VT
- Semiotics, Philosophy, History.
- Complexity, Swarm Intelligence, Algorithms, Cryptography.
Continuous World Traveling Planet Earth
- Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Spitzbergen.
- Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia.
- Japan, China, Tibet, Russia.
Expertise
Human Factors:
- user-centered design process
- Cognitive walkthrough
- rapid prototyping
- think-aloud
- heuristic evaluation
- contextual inquiry
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Software Engineering:
- Java, Python, IC
- web service standards
- Learn quickly, creatively
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