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| | Short Resume of Robert Zembowicz
Please note that I am not looking for a new job
outside of Vanguard. Please do not
contact me regarding any work opportunities.
Education
| 1989: |
Copernicus Astronomical Center, |
Warsaw, Poland |
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Ph.D., Astronomy and Physics |
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| 1986: |
Department of Physics, Warsaw University, |
Warsaw, Poland |
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Master of Sciences, Physics and Astronomy |
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Summary of Expertise and Skills
 | Department and Employee Management: department, budget,
and resource planning, employee development and supervising, risk
analysis, business case development, daily supervision and
execution of departmental functions, business process improvements with Six
Sigma and other approaches. |
| Financial Industry and Securities Market: understanding of Fundamental
Security Analysis, in-depth expertise in Technical Analysis of stocks; familiarity with various calculations used in the Financial Industry
(like IRR, NPV, basic valuation models, ...); principles of financial
statement analysis. |
| Very strong background in advanced mathematics, physics, statistics,
graphics, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis, and symbolic
computations. |
| Data Mining based on statistical approaches: co-authored Forty-Niner and
Equation Finder data mining systems, and integrated the two together. Forty-Niner
is a data mining system that discovers regularities in various types of data
(including nominal, numeric, and mixed nominal and numeric), while Equation
Finder is a discovery system that attempts to formulate equations describing
numeric data. For details, please refer to multiple publications listed below. |
| Architecture of software systems: complex, multi-platform and distributed
systems, including systems based on recent architectures like J2EE, .NET, SOA,
WebServices, Portals. |
| Project Management and Planning. |
| Methodologies and
Processes for Traditional and Object-Oriented Analysis, Modeling, Design, and Software Development,
including new Unified Process and older approaches like Booch methodology, Jacobson methodology and
the Objectory Process (trained by the Objectory Company), Fusion, Rumbaugh (OMT), and
familiar with many other approaches; expert in Unified Modeling Language (UML). |
| Traditional and Object-Oriented programming languages, including Java, C#,
C/C++ (Visual C++ with MFC and COM, and g++ on UNIX platforms), Smalltalk, VB, CLOS,
many more). |
| Web development (HTML, Dynamic HTML, Active Server Pages, Java Server
Pages) |
| Logical and Physical Database Modeling. |
| Past experience with older technologies, languages, and approaches for
software development, like Smalltalk (VisualWorks, Digitalk,
VisualAge) , C, LISP (many flavors, including
Common LISP and CLOS), Pascal, Modula-2, Windows NT, Windows 95, UNIX (SunOS, Solaris 2.x,
HP/UX, SVR4, SVR3, Motorola V/88, DG/UX, BSD, Ultrix), Xwindow, Motif, Open Look, Xview,
Guide, OpenWindows, MS/PC-DOS, VMS, SQL, Sybase DB-Lib, GemStone, ASN.1, LaTeX, TeX,
Tcl/Tk, HP-GL, HP-GL/2, and PostScript, PROLOG, Ada. |
| Past extensive experience with computer hardware and electronics. |
Employment History
| 1998-present: |
Vanguard Group
Senior Architect, Line Manager |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1998-2001: |
Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Adjunct Professor |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1997-1998: |
Signature Consultants, Inc.
Senior Consultant |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1995-1997: |
Oxford & Associates
Senior Consultant |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1994-1997: |
Computer Science Department, Wichita State University
Adjunct Professor |
Wichita, KS |
| 1993-1995: |
Computer Science Services Group, LLC
Co-owner; Software Development |
Wichita, KS |
| 1990-1991: |
Computer Science Department, Wichita State University
Instructor |
Wichita, KS |
| 1989-1990: |
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Post-Doctorate Associate |
Stony Brook, NY |
| 1986-1989: |
Copernicus Astronomical Center
Research Assistant |
Warsaw, Poland |
| 1985-1993: |
self-employed
Software Development Consultant |
Warsaw, Poland |
Selected Contract Work History
| 1997-1998: |
Broadway & Seymour, |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1996-1997: |
WCSS, Inc, an IBM Company, |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1995-1997: |
Duke Power Company, |
Charlotte, NC |
| 1995: |
Pizza Hut, Inc., |
Wichita, KS |
| 1992-1994: |
City Blue Print, Inc., |
Wichita, KS |
| 1992-1995: |
One Call Concepts, Inc., |
Wichita, KS & Milwaukee, WI |
| 1986-1989: |
Cyfromat, |
Warsaw, Poland |
| 1985-1986: |
Physics Department, Warsaw University, |
Warsaw, Poland |
| 1985: |
Mother and Child Health Institute, |
Warsaw, Poland |
Recent Conference Presentations
| 2001 Rational User Conference, Denver, CO |
| 2000 Rational User Conference, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1999 SIGS Conference for Java Development, San Jose, CA |
| 1999 Rational User Conference, Seattle, WA |
| 1998 Microsoft Visual J++ Developer Conference, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1998 Rational User Conference, Orland, FL |
| 1997 Rational User Conference, San Francisco, CA |
Publications
Software Development
| Object Modeling with UML, Visual J++ Informant, September 1998 |
| Java and ASP: Developing Applications with VJ++, ASP, and IIS, Visual J++
Informant, July 1998 |
Data Mining and Machine Discovery
| Contingency Tables as the Foundation for Concepts, Concept Hierarchies and Rules,
(with J.M. Zytkow), in: Fundamenta Informatica, 1996. |
| Search for Patterns at Each Scale in Massive Data, (with J.M Zytkow), in: Ras
Z. (ed.) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1996. |
| Discovering Patterns at Different Scale in Massive Data, (with J.M. Zytkow), in
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Information Systems,
Augustow, Poland, June 1995. To be published in 1996. |
| From contingency tables to various forms of knowledge in databases (with J.M.
Zytkow), in: Fayyad U., Piatetsky-Shapiro G., Smyth P. & Uthurosamy (eds.) Advances in
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, AAAI Press, 1996. pp.329-349. |
| Geobotanical database exploration (with I.Moraczewski and J.M. Zytkow), AAAI-95
Spring Symposium on Systematic Methods of Scientific Discovery, 1995. |
| Theories that combine many equivalence and subset relations (with J.M. Zytkow),
in: T.Y. Lin (ed.) CSC'95 Workshop on Rough Sets and Database Mining, 1995. |
| Law-Like Knowledge as the Foundation for Concepts, Concept Hierarchies and Rules
(with J.M Zytkow) in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent
Information Systems, Wigry, Poland, June 1994. Published in 1995. |
| Concept Hierarchies: a Restricted Form of Knowledge Derived from Regularities
(with M. Troxell, K. Swarm, and J.M. Zytkow), in: M. Zemankowa and Z. Ras (eds.),
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1994. |
| From Law-Like Knowledge to Concept Hierarchies in Data (with M. Troxell, K.
Swarm, and J.M. Zytkow), in: Proceedings of AAAI-94 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in
Databases, Seattle, WA Jul/Aug 1994. |
| Testing the Existence of Functional Relationships in Data (with J.M. Zytkow),
in: G. Piatetsky-Shapiro (ed.) Proceedings of the AAAI-93 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery
in Databases, 1993, p.102-111. |
| Recognition of Functional Dependencies in Data (with J.M. Zytkow), in: Z. Ras
and J. Komorowski (eds.) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1993,
p.632-641. |
| Database Exploration in Search of Regularities (with J.M. Zytkow), Journal of
Intelligent Information Systems, Vol.2, 1993. p.39-81 |
| Discovery of Regularities in Databases (with J.M. Zytkow), in: Proceedings of
the ML-92 Workshop on Machine Discovery, July 1992, Aberdeen, U.K. p.18-27. |
| A Graph Representation of an Empirical Theory: Guiding a Machine Discovery Process
(with J.M. Zytkow and J. Zhu), in: Kishore S. (ed.), Proceedings of AAAI-92 Workshop on
Communicating Scientific and Technical Knowledge, July 1992, p.81-88. |
| Discovery of Equations: Experimental Evaluation of Convergence (with J.M.
Zytkow), in: Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-92), AAAI Press, 1992, p.70-75. |
| Operational Definition Refinement: A Discovery Process (with J.M. Zytkow and J.
Zhu), in: Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI-92), AAAI Press, 1992, p.76-81. |
| The First Phase of Real-World Discovery: Determining Repeatability and Error of
Experiments (with J.M. Zytkow, and J. Zhu), in: Machine Learning: Proceedings of the
Ninth International Conference(ML-92), Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Morgan Kaufmann, July
1992, p.480-485. |
| Automated Discovery of Empirical Equations from Data (with J.M. Zytkow), in:
Ras Zemankova (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems (ISMIS-91), Springer Verlag, 1991, p.429-440. |
Physics and Cosmology
| Formation of Primordial Black Holes by Cosmic Strings (with A. Polnarev),
submitted to Physical Review D |
| On Dynamics of the Minimal SU(5) Inflation (with M. Demianski), Acta Phys. Pol.
B20-2 |
| Screening of Current in Superconducting Cosmic Strings by Vacuum Polarization
Effects (with L. Mankiewicz), Phys. Lett. B202, 1988, p.493. |
| On Spontaneous Pair Creation (with P. Gornicki, and L. Mankiewicz), Journal of
Phys. A:Math. Gen. 20, 1987, p.6593. |
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