George Brannon SMITH 

Current Address:
4911 Old Canton Rd
Apt 231
Jackson, MS 39211-5410
(601) 832-9844 

    e-mail: gbsmith@gmail.com
alt e-mail: brannonsmith@yahoo.com
       Web: http://gbsmith.freeshell.org/


EDUCATION: 
* Mississippi State University, College of Engineering,
  Starkville, MS
  Master of Science degree in Computer Science, GPA: 4.0/4.0 
  Thesis: MINING FUZZY SPATIAL ASSOCIATION RULES FROM IMAGE DATA

  Notable coursework include Software Engineering and
  Software Program Management emphasizing teamwork.

* Tulane University, Paul Tulane College of Arts & Sciences,
  New Orleans, LA
  Bachelor of Arts, Major in French, Minor in Economics, May 1994
  Overall GPA: 3.628/4.0 - cum laude 

* Université de Paris IV (La Sorbonne)
  Paris, France
  Tulane's Junior Year Abroad Program, 1992-1993

* Additional Notable Studies:
  High School Exchange Student to Momoyama Gakuin
  (St. Andrew's Boys' High School)
  Osaka, Japan
  Japanese school run by the Episcopal Diocese of Osaka, 1987-1988

* Other Studies include course work in:
  Basic Accounting Principles,
  Intermediate Accounting I,
  Intro Marketing,
  Basic Income Tax Preparation 


HONORS & ACTIVITIES: 
* Dean's Honor Scholarship (4 yrs. Merit) at Tulane
* Member Randall Lee Gibson Honor Society (for Arts & Sciences)
* The Alcée Fortier Memorial Prize for excellence in French, 1994
* Member Order of Omega Honor Society (for Greek society students)
* Member Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, Tau Upsilon Chap., 1991-


SKILLS:
* Linux hobbyist - familiar with install, administration, daily
  use of Linux OS, my platform of choice. Experienced with other
  flavors of UNIX as well - worked on SunOS at MSU Intelligent
  Systems lab. Have done some work with Mac, including
  internetworking with Linux. General work with Windows 9x.

* Experience programming C/C++, basic Java (including Swing), Perl,
  PHP, UNIX shells.

* See Java sample at http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~smithg/ResCafe/


PUBLICATIONS:
* Susan Bridges, Julia Hodges, Bruce Wooley,and Donald Karpovich,
  and George Brannon Smith. 1998. Knowledge Discovery in an
  Oceanographic Database. Applied Intelligence: The International
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and
  Complex Problem-Solving Technologies. 11:135-48
                                      
* Bruce A. Wooley and George B. Smith. 1998. Region-Growing
  Techniques based on Texture for Provincing the Ocean Floor.
  Proceedings of 36th Annual Southeast Conference. page 99-103.
  April 1998.
                                      
* Julia Hodges, Susan Bridges, Bruce Wooley, Donald Karpovich,and
  Brannon Smith. Knowledge Discovery in an Object-Oriented
  Oceanographic Database System. October 21, 1997.

         
EXPERIENCE: 
* Currently an IT consultant with C2 Technologies (formerly Xalt
  Technologies, and Linc-IT) doing Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP
  (commonly known as LAMP) apps and variants (FreeBSD OS,
  PostgreSQL DBMS) enhanced with CSS and Javascript.
  Work includes ground-up app development as well as porting
  existing apps such as those based in AccessDB. Also general
  computer (Windows) troubleshooting. 2003 - present.

* Software Developer and Researcher on the OKEANOS project,
  http://fantasia.cs.msstate.edu/kd/, a project at MSU sponsored
  by the Naval Oceanographic Office for investigating the use of
  Knowledge Discovery techniques on Oceanographic Data. Primarily
  developed applications in C++ but also some shell scripting and
  some Java GUI programs. Jun 1997 - Jan 2001.

* Computer Science Co-op Intern at Federal Express in Memphis.
  Jun 1996 - Aug 1996, Jan 1997 - May 1997, Sep 1997 - Dec 1997 
  Alternating semesters at school and at FedEx. Work
  included Risk Managment and Retail Systems. Wrote text based
  applications in Perl and Java. Also did some HTML web design
  including JavaScript.

* Tax Preparer/Office Supervisor with H&R Block New Orleans.
  Dec 1994 - April 1995
  Administered daily operations of small tax office
  (computer data transfer, correspondence with main office,
   receipts & deposits, etc.) 

* Office Internship with the French Cultural Services of the
  French Consulate in New Orleans, LA Consists of Clerical Work,
  Desktop Publishing (on Macs with ClarisWorks), Document
  Translations. Jan - May 1994 


KEYWORDS: Computer Science, CSS, Software Engineering, Knowledge
          Discovery, Data Mining, Linux, UNIX, FreeBSD, C++,
          Perl, PHP, SQL, PostgreSQL, Java, JavaScript, OKEANOS,
          Master's Degree, Mississippi State, France, French,
          Federal Express

Express REFERENCES: Available upon request