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Education

The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania December, 1999

• Dean's Fellow Ph.D. in The Decision Sciences Department now called The Operations and Information Management Department
• Dissertation: Pattern-Oriented Access to Document Collections

Tufts University, Medford, MA 02144 May, 1987

• BS in Computer Science, College of Engineering, SUMMA CUM LAUDE
• BA in Philosophy Department, College of Liberal Arts, CUM LAUDE
• Concentration in Cognitive Sciences

Honors and Awards

Professional Experience

Knowledge Management Consultant – 1997 to Present

• Project: Blue Shield of California (San Francisco, CA), Online Sales Tool  integration (contracted with Liquid Agency, formerly Small Pond Studios)

  Aided the integration of Online Sales Tool into Blue Shield’s web site, MyLifePath.com, through the creation of an assessment and API overview of the tool.  Presented design recommendations based on findings.

• Project: Blue Shield of California (San Francisco, CA), eBusiness traffic flow analysis of MyLifePath.com (contracted with The Enosis Group)

  Created analysis of online traffic flow into  and through Blue Shield’s web site, MyLifePath.com, to help improve search engine performance, augment presence in the online healthcare marketplace, and increase site registration.

• Project: H5 Technologies, formerly Ejemoni, Inc. (San Francisco, CA), H5 profiler for unstructured text

  Translated Business Development requirements and customer specifications into product design for Engineering team; Advised Executive Team on product design and strategy; Helped define technological specifications and assisted authorship of white papers.

• Project: Wharton CIT (Philadelphia, PA), Course Registration Auction System

  Assessed user interaction of multiple-round, discretely traded, sealed-bid auctions. Co-designed UML models and database architecture. Advised implementation of Java and SQL web application.  1999 Computerworld-Smithsonian Innovation Award Laureate.

Senior Architect — Cytaq, Inc. San Jose, CA — 2001 to present

• Product — An open, heterogeneous, fully distributed, and single-runtime middleware solution for enterprise services integration and business activity monitoring.
• Project — The Vocabulary Translation System to enable peer-to-peer communications among heterogeneous enterprise resources.
• Responsibilities
• Designed the mathematical model behind core technology including fully integrated meta
• model and schema.
• Designed and implemented Java module to translate semantics, structure and format of information between local resources and a global system model.
• Designed global ontology platform for importing, exporting and editing vocabularies; managing of namespace domains; and creating local to global ontology mappings.
• Advised and wrote analyses for executive marketing team on product design and strategy.
• Led sales engineering effort that produced first beta
• customer.
• Wrote white papers on core technology.

Co-founder — Practical Reasoning, Philadelphia, PA — 1999 to 2000

• Invented core technology — pattern-oriented information access tool.
• Project — The Core of Discovery information access suite.
• Responsibilities — Managed product development team; Designed and developed systems; Led marketing and sales effort.

Consultant — Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterHouseCoopers), Boston, MA — 1989 to 1991

• Clients — Back office operations of an international Wall Street trading firm; Home banking system of a commercial bank; Claims renewal processing of a national insurance company; Sales decisions of international retail chain.
• Projects — SPARKS Dynamic process simulator for operations analysis/redesign and productivity improvement; Expert system with GUI interface for aiding retail sales decisions; Executive information system with user-based information model.
• Responsibilities — Interviewed clients to develop interface design and information models; Designed and developed systems; Wrote user documentation; Developed and led end-user tutorials; Developed and delivered demonstration environments.

Programmer — Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA — 1987 to 1988

• Projects — Genetic algorithm automatic scheduler; Fault analysis expert system; Geographical environmental impact system for designing air force training routes.
• Responsibilities — Implemented object-oriented database manager, real-time signal manipulation routines, data transfer routines, and interface to a geological database system.

Select Publications and Presentations

• Dworman, Garett, Steve O. Kimbrough and Charles Patch (2000), On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol 51 (1):14-24.
• K. Balachandran and J. Buzydlowski and G. Dworman and S.O. Kimbrough and T. Shafer and W. Vachula (1999), MOTC: An Interactive Aid for Multidimensional Hypothesis Generation, Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 16 (1):17-36.
• Dworman, Garett and Kati Geber (1999), "Innovations in Access," Presentation to The 1999 Museum Computer Network..
• Dworman, Garett (1998), "Pattern Discovery in Organizational Memory " 1999 Joint International Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST).
• Dworman, Garett (1998), "On Text-Oriented Technologies for Supporting Managerial Cognition," Presentation to The 1998 Symposium on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Stern School of Business, New York University.
• Dworman, Garett, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing (Winter 1996), On Automated Discovery of Models Using Genetic Programming: Bargaining in a Three-Agent Coalition Game. Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 12 (3):97-125.
• Dworman, Garett (April, 1996), Homer: A Pattern Discovery Support System. In Common Ground: Human Factors in Computing Systems 1996 Conference Proceedings Companion (Vancouver, Canada: ACM): 305.
• Dworman, Garett, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing(January 1995), On Automated Discovery of Models Using Genetic Programming in Game-Theoretic Contexts. In Proceedings of HICCS 1995 (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press): 428-438.
  Winner: BEST PAPER AWARD IN DECISION SCIENCES.

Activities

• Lecturer
  • Computer Mediated Communication, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997
  • Seminar in Advanced Decision Systems: Evolutionary Computation, Spring 1995 and Spring 1996. Created course with Prof. James Laing for upper
  • class honors students.
  • Introduction to the Computer as an Analysis Tool, Fall 1998.
  • Teacher's Assistant: Systems Analysis and Design, Database Systems, Introduction to Management Information Systems, Negotiations.
• Conference Committees
  • CHI 2004 Fun!Lab Co-Chair with Cecilia Kremer
  • CHI 2003 Reviewer's Liason Special Chair
  • CHI 2002 Co-Chair — Demonstrations program with G. Bowden Wise
  • CHI 2000 Co-Chair — Student Volunteer program with Tom Gross
  • CHI 1999 Co-Chair — Special Interest Groups with Susan Dray
  • GP 1996 Program Committee
• Hobbies and Recreations
  • Backpacking, Bridge, Cycling (Boston => NYC AIDS Ride, 1999 & 2000, Team In Training 2003), International Travel (Brazil, Europe, Israel, Sinai, SouthEast Asia), Literature, Piano, Pottery.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Languages
  • C/C++, Java (J2EE), Perl, Visual Basic, Lisp (including CLOS), Prolog
• Technologies
  • Object-Oriented Design: OMT, UML
  • Object-Oriented Programming: C++, Java, Lisp CLOS and Flavors
  • XML and Semantic Web technologies: SAX, DOM, RDF, RDF schema
  • Databases: RDBMS, SQL, JDBC