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  <header>
    <name>
      <firstname>Erik</firstname>
      <surname>Frey</surname>
    </name>
    <contact>
      <email>work@fawx.com</email>
      <url>http://fawx.com/</url>
    </contact>
  </header>
  <skillarea>
    <title>Core Skills</title>
    <skillset>
      <skill>Fuzzy neural networks</skill>
      <skill>recommendation systems</skill>
      <skill>audio processing/fingerprinting</skill>
      <skill>GIS</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <skill>C#</skill>
      <skill>C++</skill>
      <skill>Ruby</skill>
      <skill>Javascript</skill>
      <skill>Assembly</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <skill>XML</skill>
      <skill>HTTP</skill>
      <skill>SOAP</skill>
      <skill>HTML</skill>
      <skill>Flash</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <skill>Microsoft SQL Server</skill>
      <skill>MySQL</skill>
      <skill>SQLite</skill>
    </skillset>
    <skillset>
      <skill>Windows</skill>
      <skill>Linux</skill>
      <skill>cross-platform UI (primarily Gtk)</skill>
    </skillset>
  </skillarea>
  <history>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Lead Software Developer</jobtitle>
      <employer>Soundflavor</employer>
      <location>
        <city>San Francisco</city>
        <state>California</state>
        <country>USA</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2006</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>present</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para><link href="http://www.soundflavor.com/about/">Soundflavor, Inc.</link> is a Bay Area startup
        that provides music search and recommendation services to businesses and consumers.</para>
        <para>I'm one half of the two-developer team that built
        <link href="http://www.soundflavor.com/">Soundflavor DJ</link> (reviews:
        <link href="http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/download-of-the-day-soundflavor-dj-windows-211388.php">Lifehacker</link>,
        <link href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2701544">ABC News</link>,
        <link href="http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=7364">Pollstar</link>), a music player
        companion for Windows and Mac OS X.  I built Soundflavor DJ's song recommendation engine, its audio
        fingerprinting library, and accompanying web services to power its song identification and recommendations.</para>
        <para>While continuing to work on Soundflavor DJ, I'm now managing development of the upcoming soundflavor.com,
        an online music/playlist sharing platform, designed in conjunction with
        <link href="http://www.adaptivepath.com/">Adaptive Path</link>.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Software Architect/Developer</jobtitle>
      <employer>Energy, Minerals, and Resources Department</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Santa Fe</city>
        <state>New Mexico</state>
        <country>USA</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>2002</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>2005</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Designed and built a suite of Windows applications to manage all aspects of New Mexico's <link href="http://fawx.com/pictures/chino/chino3">massive</link> mining regulation program: earth science data
        collection and analysis, electronic permitting, geographic analysis, and geotechnical engineering.
        Managed its design, coding, testing, documentation, and marketing, resulting in the most powerful mining
        regulation system in the country, and saving the division $120,000 annually.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Web Developer</jobtitle>
      <employer>Los Alamos National Laboratory</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Los Alamos</city>
        <state>New Mexico</state>
        <country>USA</country>
      </location>
      <date>
        <year>Summers: 1998, 1999, 2001</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>Re-engineered the lab's industrial and radioactive waste tracking system for web capability. Produced
        public and secure websites; created web-based content management tools to ensure their upkeep. Helped eliminate
        thousands of gallons of lab waste water per year using systems dynamics models.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Developer/Network Installer</jobtitle>
      <employer>New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Socorro</city>
        <state>New Mexico</state>
        <country>USA</country>
      </location>
      <period>
        <from>
          <date>
            <year>1997</year>
          </date>
        </from>
        <to>
          <date>
            <year>1998</year>
          </date>
        </to>
      </period>
      <description>
        <para>Designed and built the university's first online invoice application.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
    <job>
      <jobtitle>Programmer/Courier</jobtitle>
      <employer>travel.com.au/Fare Finder, Inc.</employer>
      <location>
        <city>Sydney</city>
        <state>NSW</state>
        <country>Australia</country>
      </location>
      <date>
        <year>Summers: 1994, 1995, 1997</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>Hired as a courier but ultimately migrated to software developer.  Created a Windows application for
        tracking and reporting frequent flyer miles.  Became part of the team that created Australia's first internet
        airfare search engine: <link href="http://www.travel.com.au">travel.com.au</link>.</para>
      </description>
      <projects/>
    </job>
  </history>
  <activities>
    <activity>
      <title>Organic Farm Worker (Russia)</title>
      <date>
        <year>2005</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>Volunteer, Bolotovo Farm: Russia's only organic, biodynamic farm.  Taught local schoolchildren about
        biodynamic farming.  Shepherded cows, cared for calves and pigs, cleaned stables, milled and filtered grain,
        laid electric fence, picked apples, sorted potatoes, made cheese.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>pflog</title>
      <date>
        <year>2004</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>A <link href="http://fawx.com/software/pflog/">Flash world map</link> with controllable timeline to 
        display animated travel routes.  pflog is used by various web sites, including a <link href="http://www.mylifeoftravel.com/">travel blog service</link>.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>ljArchive</title>
      <date>
        <year>2004</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>Application for <link href="http://fawx.com/ljArchive/">downloading, browsing, and analyzing</link>
        online journals.  ljArchive has a user base of a few thousand people worldwide, and has been adopted as a
        SourceForge project since my <link href="http://fawx.com/travel/">departure</link>.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
    <activity>
      <title>SimpleMIDI</title>
      <date>
        <year>2003</year>
      </date>
      <description>
        <para>A .NET class library for <link href="http://fawx.com/software/simplemidi/">manipulating
        MIDI files</link>.</para>
      </description>
    </activity>
  </activities>
  <academics>
    <degrees>
      <degree>
        <level>BS</level>
        <major>Computer Science</major>
        <minor>Math</minor>
        <minor>Electrical Engineering</minor>
        <date>
          <month>December</month>
          <year>2001</year>
        </date>
        <institution>New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology</institution>
        <location>
          <city>Socorro</city>
          <province>New Mexico</province>
          <country>USA</country>
        </location>
        <annotation>
          Received the 4 year Silver Scholarship Award.  Graduated with honors.
        </annotation>
      </degree>
    </degrees>
  </academics>
  <interests>
    <interest>
      <title>World travel</title>
      <description>
        <para>Completed a year-long <link href="http://fawx.com/travel/">tour of the world</link> in early 2006.</para>
      </description>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>Electronic voting</title>
    </interest>
    <interest>
      <title>The outdoors</title>
    </interest>
  </interests>
  <misc>
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  </misc>
  <referees/>
  <lastModified>
    <date>
      <dayOfMonth>17</dayOfMonth>
      <month>December</month>
      <year>2006</year>
    </date>
  </lastModified>
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