Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth L. Bolton

BScientific, LLC

President/Founder

I enjoy writing and deploying software, designing databases, natural language processing, big data, machine learning, designing and consuming APIs, scrum, sprints, code reviews, milestones, tickets, and finishing projects.

Code

• Github
• Bitbucket

Experience

• Core Development Team Member
  
  • Mezzanine CMS & Cartridge
  • May 2015–Present, contributor since 2010
    
    • Support the Mezzanine developer community through the mailing list and the IRC channel.
    • Contribute source code changes to enhance Mezzanine's status as a first-class content management system.
• Lead Engineer
  
  • KYCSystems, LLC
  • August 2013–Present
    • Responsible for all product engineering, networking, planning, deployment, and maintenance.
    • Natural language processing, machine learning, and big data.
    • Web indexing and crawling.
• Independent Software Engineer
  • BScientific LLC, Founder, January 2010
  • January 2002–Present
    • Selected portfolio

• Educational Technologist II
  • Columbia University Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, New York, NY
  • February–December 2007
    • Supported the purposeful use of technology in education for the Columbia University Medical Center College of Physicians & Surgeons and School of Nursing.
    • Worked with design and development team to develop and enhance technologies to support teaching and learning.
    • Supported faculty use of in-house course management system, CourseWorks, and pilot use of Sakai.

• Media Cloisters Curator, Academic Computing Consultant
  • Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
  • June 2003–January 2007
    • Managed high-use public multimedia production lab and staff of 20 student workers
    • Provided software development and technology support for faculty.
    • Coordinated presentations and discussions on issues in technology, teaching, and media.
    • Managed pilot of course management systems Moodle and Sakai. Moodle was adopted.
    • Supported faculty and student use of BlackBoard course management system.

Publications & Presentations

• Meg E. Stewart, Mary Ann Cunningham, Kirsten Menking, and Ken Bolton, 2007, Sharing project data using Google Earth: Doing GIS without learning GIS (abstract), Association of American Geographers National Meeting Program, San Francisco, CA. p. 475.
• Kenneth Bolton, Eric Eberhardt, and Cristian Opazo, 2006, Scientists as Writers: Using a content management system to promote collaborative writing in the sciences (abstract), NERCOMP Annual Conference, Worcester, MA
• Kenneth Bolton, 2006, Effective Interviewing of Student Employees, NERCOMP SIG, Southbridge, MA

Education

• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
  • Artium Baccalaureus conferred May 1998. Program in Science, Technology, and Society

• Cusanus Gymnasium, Erkelenz, NRW, Federal Republic of Germany
  • Received Congress-Bundestag Scholarship

Key Skills

• Leading Software Development
• Knowledge: Machine learning, natural language processing, search, e-commerce, log shipping.
• Programming: Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Less
• Systems: GNU/Linux, BSD (Open, Free, Mac OSX), Windows
• PaaS/IaaS: AWS, Heroku, RackSpace Cloud, Joyent
• CMS: Mezzanine/Cartridge, Plone, Drupal, Wordpress
• Frameworks: Django, Meteor, node.js, JQuery, Zope
• Web Servers: Nginx, Apache, Lighttpd, Cherokee
• RDBMS: PostgreSQL, WebSQL, MySQL, SQLite
• NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL HStore
• Messaging: RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ
• Analytics: Google Analytics, AWStats, SiteCatalyst, raw log files
• Process: vim, git, Trac, Jira, svn, Eclipse, hg, UML