Employee Profiles
| Jeff Nauss (Application Specialist) |
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Jeff is an Application Specialist who joined Linguamatics in September 2008. As part of the US-based business development team, he has responsibilities for pre-sales activities, customer support, and customer training.
Prior to joining Linguamatics, Jeff served in the US Army, attaining the rank of major, in a variety of roles in Europe, West Point, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He then served as the Director of Molecular Modeling Services at the University of Cincinnati. Finally, before joining Linguamatics, Jeff was the Lead Training Scientist for Accelrys, responsible for organizing and conducting training on all of Accelrys' life science modeling products.
Jeff has a passion for conveying science and technical information to customers whether through webinars, presentations, or training. "I2E is an amazing tool to extract information and facts from text," he states, "and I enjoy opportunities to demonstrate the capabilities of our software."
Jeff has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology and a Master of Science degree in biochemistry, both from Texas A&M University. His PhD is from Rutgers University in physical chemistry. He is an avid reader of science fiction and history, an ardent traveler, and a fan of college football. He lives outside Boston with his wife.
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| Paul Milligan (Senior Application Specialist) |
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Paul joined Linguamatics in November 2005 as an Application Specialist, bringing his scientific knowledge to help improve Linguamatics' software and customer support. Paul's technical skills have enabled I2E to be integrated into other workflows, streamlining the use of the software, as well as setting up the customer wiki, I2Edia.
Consulting work has always been an important part of the relationship between Linguamatics and our customers, and Paul has worked on many of these projects. Over the past year or so, the number of these projects has greatly increased, with I2E being used to mine many different document sources, such as Twitter, blogs and electronic medical records. Along with this project work, Paul provides application support for many of our customers and develops demos, presentations and movies for the wiki, customer visits, webinars and conferences.
Paul obtained his first degree from the University of Cambridge and then continued in the Department of Pharmacology to earn his doctorate in the field of computational drug design. Here his work involved the development of algorithms to optimize focused combinatorial libraries for protein-ligand interactions. Paul continued work in the biotech sector for a couple of start-up companies, moving from the biophysical side to the informatics side with the development of a relational database product. This product included automatic tagging of proteins with Pubmed abstracts, but he realized the true capabilities of text mining when he saw his first demonstration of I2E!
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| Terry Stebbens (Senior Support Engineer) |
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Terry joined Linguamatics from Avaya Communications in May 2008 as a Quality Assurance (QA) and Support Engineer. In this role he provided technical support to Linguamatics’ customers, as well as working on continuously improving I2E product quality. He contributed to several of the key processes now being used by the QA team, including maintenance of software test suites and setting up a virtualization environment using Xen.
About 18 months ago Terry was tasked with designing and implementing the I2E OnDemand infrastructure. This challenge required a number of different skills including Linux system administration, Apache web server, LDAP, and Perl programming.
Terry now has responsibility for the day-to-day running and continued development of the I2E OnDemand platform. He does this in addition to providing technical support to I2E OnDemand customers and for the I2E Enterprise product. According to Terry, “the response to the launch of I2E OnDemand has been terrific. It’s great to work with a product that is making text mining accessible to more and more people.”
Terry is an honors graduate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of East Anglia. Previous experience includes working for various technology companies such as Autonomy Systems Limited and a Cambridge-based voice recognition technology company. This latter role gave him the opportunity to move to Mexico to set up a new Latin American office for the company, and he lived there for nearly two years.
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| Tony Sheaffer (Director of Sales, North America) |
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Tony joined Linguamatics in April as the latest addition to the US-based business development team. He brings extensive, relevant experience in the field of enterprise-wide informatics solutions, working within the pharmaceutical industry, academia and government institutions. His particular strengths are building strategic relationships and managing large-scale, complex projects.
Linguamatics attracted Tony for the opportunity to work with a successful product like I2E. In Tony’s words, “it’s great to get so much positive feedback from customers and prospects about the Linguamatics text mining platform. I’m looking forward to spreading the word about how powerful and flexible the product is”.
In his spare time, Tony keeps fit and often raises money for various charities by participating in sponsored athletic competitions. Tony has a degree in database technologies, an Associate’s degree in Bio-Medical Technology and received US Navy Electrical and Electronics training. Originally from Michigan, Tony now lives in North Carolina with his wife and family.
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| Ichiko Tanabe (Senior Software QA Engineer) |
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Ichiko joined Linguamatics in January 2009 as Software QA Engineer. As part of the UK-based QA team, she has responsibilities for testing new product features and bug fixes, maintaining regression test suites, and making sure that the final releases are as good quality as possible.
Ichiko was born and completed all her education in Japan. She has a Master of Economics degree from University of Tsukuba and was trained as a systems engineer at Daiichi Life Insurance Company in Tokyo.
Ichiko has lived in the UK since 1999. Prior to joining Linguamatics, she worked for Texthelp Systems in Northern Ireland, and then Global Graphics Software and i2 in Cambridge. Having learned English as a foreign language through many years of struggle, she finds the linguistic aspect of I2E particularly much more interesting than anything she has done in her previous jobs.
Outside of work, Ichiko loves sampling and cooking food from all around the world. In recent years, she started playing the violin as an adult learner and now plays the viola, hoping to be able to join a local orchestra one day.
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| Tracy Gregory (Application Specialist) |
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Tracy joined Linguamatics in January as Application Specialist based out of the Linguamatics Boston office.
Prior to joining Linguamatics, Tracy was most recently an Information Scientist at Pfizer. She has more than 19 years' experience working in large pharma with a diverse therapeutic area background, including the areas of Inflammation, Central Nervous System, Vaccines and Anti-Infectives. Her passion resides in the development of concise visualizations for complex information analysis, integrating proprietary and public data.
Her outside interests include raising her daughter, training, riding and competing with her horses, home renovations and spending quiet time with her husband.
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| Jason Trenouth (Head of Development) |
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Jason is the Head of Development at Linguamatics. His responsibilities include project and people management, software architecture, and pitching in on software development whenever there is an excuse.
Recently he has been helping coordinate work on the emerging I2E 4.0 release, including the new RESTful web service API. This will enable a whole new generation of custom text mining applications to be built with I2E.
Jason has a Computer Science PhD, and has been at Linguamatics for over four years. Previously he had many years experience of software development and management at Harlequin and then Global Graphics. Their customers included "blue chip" companies like American Express, AT&T, BT, Ford, HP, Microsoft, and NASA. In the process Jason has gained lots of diverse experience in artificial intelligence, data visualization, distributed systems, and document processing.
The NASA project involved a mission called "Deep Space One". It was an asteroid fly-by that used a novel spacecraft control system. The now slightly tatty mouse mat from this project is still somewhere on his desk.
Outside of work Jason is married with two young adult children. He is a soccer fanatic: both watching televised games and playing 5-a-side locally.
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| Mike Harbour (Solution Developer) |
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Mike joined Linguamatics in January as a Solution Developer in the Research and Resource Development team based at our Cambridge, UK, headquarters. His role is to help develop resources for I2E users and use his knowledge as a molecular cell biologist to help ensure I2E performs well with biological text.
Mike recently passed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has been studying the machinery that cells use to recycle (rather than re-synthesize) transmembrane protein resources such as growth factor receptors and ion channels (signalling components that are often targeted by pharmacological agents).
During his PhD, and in other life sciences-related roles, he found “literature overload” to be incredibly problematic. Mike found it impossible for a practising scientist to both keep up-to-date with the literature in his/her field, and simultaneously survey, assimilate, appreciate and exploit new knowledge and technologies generated and developed in related fields. His interest in using text mining as a platform, and the future developments in this field, along with wanting to increase his computational skills, led him to Linguamatics.
Mike's outside interests include spending time in his garden with his wife, son and cat and listening to obscure music.
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| Malcolm Parsons (Senior Software Developer) |
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In April 2012, Malcolm celebrated his 5 year anniversary at Linguamatics. Malcolm joined us in 2007 as a Software Developer and has since been made a Senior Software Developer. He is responsible for development of the I2E query engine, the output format generator from the query results and the highlighted document generator from the query results.
Malcolm studied Computer Science at Bristol University and previously worked for Zuken in Bristol, developing software for designing printed circuit boards.
Malcolm is married with one son and another child on the way! |
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