Winton H E Davies San Francisco, CA 94117 wdavies@cs.stanford.edu
	I am currently the founder & sole-proprietor of Contextics. Our mission is to provide tailored search and text-mining solutions aimed at the advertising space. I was previously a founding member of Overture and then Yahoo! Research Labs, applying information retrieval, natural language, and machine learning techniques to solve immediate and longer term business goals and problems of the company. I have programmed for over 25 years. I gained 7 years of experience in traditional software product development at Digital Equipment (now part of HP/Compaq) and now have 10 years in web-related technology development. In 2001, I received my Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. My thesis addressed communication between machine-learning agents. I completed it while working for Professor Mike Genesereth on the Infomaster project at Stanford University.
Employment	7/2007 - to date	Contextics		San Francisco, CA
	Sole Proprietor
	Contextics is a small consultancy providing applied research for advertising. Our expertise is in creating solutions (that typically require text-mining, search engine and machine learning technologies), to PPC and PPM advertising problems faced by businesses.
Employment	4/2001 - 6/2007	Yahoo! Research Labs		Sunnyvale, CA
	Senior Research Scientist
	Research and Development: Advertiser tools, Coverage projects and Contextual advertising. Primarily focussed on short term, profitable advanced development projects. My core skills are now in applying statistical natural language processing and machine learning techniques to Yahoo!'s advertising programs. Primary inventor of three Yahoo-owned patents, secondary inventor on a fourth patent, and original prototyper of Mindset, as well as some as yet un-published systems.
	12/1999 - 4/2001	GoTo Shopping (neé Cadabra)		San Mateo, CA
	Principal Software Engineer
	Responsible for development of the core Comparison Shopping search engine and architecting new business developments, such as the Books Music and Movies search engine.
	4/1996 - 12/1999	Dept of Computer Science		Stanford University, CA
	Staff Research Programmer
	Development of the Infomaster Heterogenous Data Integration Engine. Employed as a member of the Logic Group, headed by Professor Mike Genesereth. Position was half-time, while I was completing my PhD remotely supervised by the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
	9/1985 - 7/1992	Digital Equipment Corporation		Reading, UK
	Senior Software Engineer
	Employed as a developer of the ALL-IN-1 Office Automation Product. Roles included QA Tools Engineering (1 year), Build and Release Engineering (1 year), Installation Procedure Development (1 year), Word-Processing, Document Sharing and E-Mail (client and Server-side) development (3 years). I also spent 1 year on relocation to a DEC consultancy group based in Paris, France.
Education	1993-2001	University of Aberdeen		Scotland, UK
	Doctor of Philosophy	Computer Science
	1992-1993	University of Aberdeen		Scotland, UK
	Master of Science	Applied Artificial Intelligence
	1982-1985	University of Reading		Reading, UK
	Bachelor of Science	Computer Science and Cybernetics
Skills	Skill Name	Skill Level	Last Used	Experience
	Information Retrieval & Natural Language Processing	Expert	Currently used	4 years
	Machine Learning & Data Mining	Expert	Currently used	10 years
	Distributed Data Integration	Expert	5 years ago	5 years
	Workflow and Office Automation	Expert	+12 years ago	7 years
	Software Design and Development	Expert	Currently used	20 years
	Perl	Expert	Currently used	4 years
	Java	Intermediate	Currently used	7 years
	LISP	Expert	3 years ago	7 years
	C	Intermediate	Currently used	18 years
	Web Languages (XML, HTML) & Protocols (HTTP, SMTP etc)	Expert	Currently used	10 years
	Unix Environment (Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X)	Expert	Currently used	12 years
	SQL, Oracle DBA, & Middleware APIs	Expert	Currently used	10 years
Additional Info	US Greencard Holder, UK/EEC Citizen, fluent in French.
Other Interests	Softball, Hiking, Volunteer English Tutor, Literature, Music, & Film, B&W Photography.