Bio

I was formerly CTO and co-founder at MyRoar Inc where I built the demo system and the search and infrastructure technology around the NLP core.

Prior to that I was Chief Scientist and co-founder at Feedster Inc, a weblog search engine, when I built the search engine, scaling it up to handle very large number of documents and searches. When I left the search engine was handling 1.5 million searches a day, was indexing 2-4 million posts a day, and had an index containing 2 billion posts. The search engine featured load-balancing, distributed searching, redundancy, automatic discovery, self-repair and self-administration. It was built around unicode from the outset, and included support for many european and asian languages. I also wrote the first crawler.

Prior to co-founding Feedster, I ran, for ten years, FS Consulting, Inc. a consulting firm focused on specialized information retrieval applications. Clients ran the gamut with companies such as Xerox, Orion Scientific, Elsevier Science and Endeavor Information Systems.

While consulting, I developed a search engine and a web-based electronic journal system called ScienceServer. This product was later sold to Elsevier Science.

Prior to creating FS Consulting, Inc, I worked for three years on the Human Genome Project at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

I have a Bachelors of Science in Systems and Management from the City University of London, and was later awarded a Fellowship at the Center for Interactive Systems Research at the City University of London.

I currently live in Salem, MA, just north of Boston.