Name: Owen Emlen
Personal News Feeds:
- EmlenMud revival
project (Preview here)
- Articles, papers, and presentations
Currently Duties and Projects:
- Create and maintain the company website
and the RSS feed for BrainTech, LLC news
- Continue to write online tools for statistical
analysis, and generalize the tools to serve the
greater scientific community
- Enhance company awareness online
Education:
Work History:
- Consulting and programmer, Bellingham, 2000-present. Recent projects
include
http://www.MyEliteTutor.com (database design, dynamic content retrieval and storage, ASP.NET code, Skype, Google Analytics,
and Paypal integration, and everything else
except site
design and static HTML), .NET (C#) streaming audio,
video, audio and motion detection libraries and components (a demo will be available
for download here soon), a C# ICMP library for simultaneously monitoring a large
number of remote hosts and graphically tracking availability and response times,
and a .NET licensing library for enforcing design-time and runtime policies associated
with licensed .NET libraries and components.
- Teaching Assistant,
Statistics and Research Design courses,
WWU, 2003-2005
- Developer, Microsoft Travel Technologies / Expedia, 1997-2000
(Microsoft Travel Technologies became
Expedia.com in 1999. My immediate supervisors were Simon Tam (now
a group
manager), and
David Beitel (now the Chief Technology Officer for
Zillow.com)
- Assistant Instructor,
"Working the World-Wide Web", IU, 1996-1997
- Summer Intern, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, 1996
Presentations, Concerts, and Community:
- Presentation of Research:
- PsychFest
2005,
- Northwest Cognition and
Memory conference (NOWCAM),
2005
- Western Psychological Association (WPA)
Presentation in Vancouver, B.C.,
2003, and Portland, Oregon,
2005
- Cello Performances:
- Schumann Madness Festival,
WWU (2005)
- Stand-in Cellist for the Bellingham Chamber Players (Classical music, Tango, and
Jazz concerts, 2002-2005)
- AIDs Benefit concerts
(2002, 2004)
- Member of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra
(2001-2003, part of 2005, and likely in 2007)
- Other Volunteer Work:
- ASP.NET real-time race results page (volunteer),
Ski to Sea, Bellingham, 2002
- Peru Medical Mission (non-religious, volunteer work), Database design, maintenance,
and data entry in the hospital's pharmacy, 2001
Blasts from the Past:
Favorite Links:
Publications (some are related to BrainTech, LLC, others are not)
Publications (available online soon)
- The Role of Dopamine D1 Receptors in the Expression of Cocaine-Induced Conditioned
Place Preference
- Differential Involvement of D1 and D2 Dopamine Receptors in the Acquisition and
Expression of Pavlovian Conditioning with Water as a Reward
- Perception: Exploring the Mechanisms of Conscious Control in Bistable Perception
- Animal Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism
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Clear communication and thorough understanding of our clients' ever-changing needs
is critical to our business. It allows us to quickly and effectively answer analysis-intensive
business inquiries, produce reports that provide pertinent and useful information,
and update predictive models to reflect changes made by the company, or in the event
of sudden market shifts.
In order to establish clear communication and understand different operating environments
and company-specific needs, part of our job is to establish an open, collaborative
environment with each client. We have found that one-on-one, personal communication
is an essential component in establishing the necessary collaborative environment.
As we grow, we expect that it will become more challenging to establish and maintain
this essential collaborative environment with new and geographically-distant clients.
Therefore, we are additional resources in anticipation of this expected challenge.
As part of this effort, BrainTech, LLC has voted that each of its Members create
and maintain a semi-personal, semi-professional web page on the company web site
in an effort to foster open and personable communication with new and geographically-distant
clients.
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