David de Hilster Home: (562) 508-4504
Cell: (310) 991-5744
1360 Redondo Ave. #105
Long Beach, CA 90804


Education
1985 MS, Linguistics, Ohio State University
1983 BS, Mathematics, Minor in Architecture, Ohio State University


Projects (click here for detailed project descriptions)

2004-2005

Owner, Director, Bootstrap Productions, Film production company

2001-2004

Senior Software Engineer at JetSetPoker, Santa Monica California

1998-2002 Senior Software Engineer at Text Analysis, California
1996-98 Senior Software Engineer at I-Search, Los Angeles, California
1993-96 Senior Engineer/Scientist for InfoWeb, TRW, Redondo Beach, California
1990-93 Senior Engineer/Scientist for TexUS (Text Understanding System), McDonnell Douglas, Huntington Beach / Santa Ana, California
1987-89 Head research scientist for VERBO (natural language interface to databases in Portuguese), TECSIS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985-87 Research scientist for NLQ (Natural Language Query): natural language interface to relational databases, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio
1984-85 Researcher for READ (program to read newswire articles), Battelle


General Information
Computer Languages C (11 years, Sun, Borland, Mircosoft), Lisp (5 years), Sunview (3 Years), Basic (3 years), FORTRAN (3 years), Assembly (2 years), SQL (2 years), Galaxay (2 year) Pascal (1 year), Motif, C++ and Object-Oriented languages (general knowledge), Prolog (general knowledge)
Internet HTML (2 years), perl, CGI, JavaScript, Java (1 year)
Websites www.autodynamics.org, www.sambala.org, www.worldsamba.org www.sambacollection.com, www.dehilster.com, www.carnaval.org, www.unidosdomundo.com, www.clubsamba.com, www.brazilvid.com, www.textanalysis.com, www.cateringbytonys.com
Graphic Interfaces Extensive graphic interface experience in MFC Microsoft Libraries, Galaxy, Sunview, and Motif on Sun Workstation. Windowing system and interface from scratch on PC in C and Lisp (VERBO, Brazil). Interface design for PC and Xerox 1108 workstation (NLQ).
Software
Attended classes and applied McDonnell Douglas' SEI (Software Engineering Engineering Institutes) level 3 documentation and processes to the TexUS project
Computer Hardware Sun workstation, PC, NeXT Machine, Xerox 1108, Dec, VAX
Operating Systems DOS, UNIX, NeXT Step, Windows 95
Teaching Graduate Natural Language Processing course & undergraduate linguistics course, Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Ohio State University
Writing Proposal writing, technical papers (10+), 15 articles for PC Mundo (PC World) on Artificial Intelligence (Brazil)
Misc. Extensive experience with Macintosh, PC, word processing, graphics, and demonstrations
Personal 45 years old, married, no children, fluent in Portuguese. Hobbies include art (works with the L.A. County Museum of Art's Art Rental and Sales Gallery), music, and rock climbing. Active in the Long Beach and Brazilian community including including being founder and president of SambaLá Samba School. Also president and founder of the Society for the Advancement of Autodynamics, a new theory of relativity proposed by Dr. Ricardo Carezani.