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                       Benjamin K. Reaves

 Engineering Research Manager experienced with speech recognition and mobile 
applications, Japan/US management. Awards, patents, papers, prototype and 
product development experience in USA and in Japan. 

 Experience with cross-cultural management, statistical language modeling, 
Unix, Perl, Python, Java, Eclipse, Android

 I love to put research results to work!
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AWARDS

 US patents in speech detection and recognition, multiple sensors, interactive
systems (7 patents granted) 

 ATR Software Award for ATR-Matrix Speech Translation System.

 Japanese Language Proficiency (Level 2 of 4; 1 is best).
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PAPERS*

 An adaptation of Attribution Between In-vehicle Device and Driver, SAE-J, 2009

 Don't Blame me, I am only the Driver: Impact of Blame Attribution on
Attitudes and Attention to Driving, 2004

 ATR-Matrix: Implementation of a Speech Translation System,

 A Robust Algorithm for Word Boundary Detection in the Presence of Noise
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EMPLOYMENT

 Oracle Corporation (contract via Randstad MSP) Jan.2012 - present.
Consultant, on architectures for speech front end for some Oracle products.
Research on competitive products, and development of prototype using
Nuance Dragon SDK, Eclipse, JSON, and various cloud services.
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 Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA, Mountain View 2002-2011 (8y)
As Research Manager and leader of Driver-Vehicle Interaction group, reported 
directly to Executive Vice President, managed contracts and collaborations with
universities worldwide, and startup companies in California. Managed a multi-
disciplinary team of Engineers and Researchers, resulting in strategic 
relationships and prototype systems demonstrated all the way up to Akio Toyoda.
 
As Senior Researcher in the Advanced Research Group, reported directly to VP
(Japan) and Senior Advisor (USA), evaluating new business areas based on 
emerging technologies. Example: prediction of network availability to enable
an in-vehicle system operate reliably when network is not reliable.

Developed company’s first speech-based driver assistant system that combines
the driving context with speech, resulting in intelligent response.

Our small group was the company’s most productive as measured by patents
granted and papers accepted.
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 Stanford University & Dejima Inc., San Jose, 2001-2002.
 As Research Engineer, negotiated and won contracts with Oracle
and Toyota. Designed and built mobile Speech Accessor to database query system
for small businesses. Used SRI Language Modeling Toolkit, Dynaspeak, Agent 
Technology from Dejima.
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 Nuance Communications, Menlo Park, California, 1999-2001.
 Speech recognition software for telephone IVR. Worked with Mike Cohen's
Dialog Research group, in product management (QA and release) during IPO
very busy time. Performed analytics on data from large deployments
using Cygwin (unix), Perl, HTML, CGI, Java Beans, CVS.
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 Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Seika, Kyoto, Japan.
 Invited Engineer. 1995-1999. Managed multi-national team that designed, built
and deployed the ATR-MATRIX speech translation system that gained nationwide
news coverage, and was presented to the Japanese government at the Ministry
of Posts and Telecommunications. Resulted in 5 years renewed funding.
 Rapid Prototyping techniques and Tcl/Tk, C++, Python
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Earlier experience: 

 Panasonic: novel techniques to guarantee quick response using Unix, C, Perl.
 promoted to work at parent company Matsushita Central Research Lab in Japan. 

 Hughes Aircraft Co: Hardware design of spread spectrum robust modem. Secret
 Clearance.

 Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital: TTS/stenotype interface to enable
patients to speak naturally.
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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California 

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering. Stanford University.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; Silicon Valley Forum,
Program Committee for Automotive User Interface conferences.

Reside in Sunnyvale, California. Native speaker of American English. U.S. Citizen.
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Telephone +1 650 924 2367. fax 650 249 0102. email b@brss.us  Ben Reaves

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