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+Title: Me, Professionally
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+I've been in the industry since before the dot-com boom of the late
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+nineties (I almost said "late twentieth century" there, but that makes
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+me sound much older than I'd like to be.
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+I have a long history of working with large, often unstructured data,
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+starting with the set of member pages at
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+[Tripod.com](http://tripod.lycos.com/). I have a background in machine
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+learning, mostly around document classification, though I'm a quite
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+behind the current state of the art at this point. I've written a
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+number of reporting systems, and am comfortable enough with databases
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+that I've been a DBA for the past few years.
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+Obviously, as a DBA, I'm operationally minded. As a developer, I tend
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+to be that way, as well -- I'm concerned with robustness of the
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+systems I work on, and think ahead to reduce possible failure modes in
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+production.
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+I'm comfortable in contributing leadership positions, and also have
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+some experience in management.
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+I am not actively seeking new employment, though I'm not averse to
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+hearing about new, interesting opportunities. Here is a [relatively
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+recent resume](/resume_jmelesky.pdf) (PDF format), and you may also be
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+interested in [talks I've given at conferences](/talks.html).
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