About Rogue Wolves

Rogue Wolves is the personal website of Scott Langevin. This site serves as a professional space as well as a place for Scott to post links of interest, and provide technology discussion and tutorials.

Biography

Scott graduated in 2001 from the University of Victoria in British Columbia with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science. Since that time he has worked as a System Consultant and Software Engineer where his area of expertise was in architecting and developing web applications particularly using the Microsoft .NET framework.

In 2006 Scott decided to return to school and received his Masters of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina. He focussed his studies on service oriented computing and artificial intelligence. He is currently in the process of completing his PhD dissertation on "Knowledge representation, communication, and update in probability-based multiagent systems". His research interests are in artificial intelligence, data mining, and service oriented computing. While completing his PhD degree at the University of South Carolina, Scott has been a research member of the USC Center for Information Technology, where he has participated in several research projects.

The past two years Scott has been a research assistant with the SeniorSMART center that focuses on multidisciplinary research to foster independence for senior citizens. The research group he has been involved with is working toward the development of an automated human fall detection system using ambient sensors. See his resume for more details on his experience.

Scott has recently become a Pythonista and has been dabbling with the django web framework.

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This website is built using the excellent Drupal content management systems.

Contact Information

Phone

(843) 662-4452

Email

scott at roguewolves dot com

Instant Messaging

MSN: scott_b_langevin at hotmail dot com

ICQ: 1918398

Voice over IP 

Skype: slangevi

Resume

Scott Langevin

1885 Westmoreland Ave Florence SC 29505

Phone: (843) 662-4452

Email: scott@roguewolves.com

PROFILE

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina. My research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, specifically probabilistic reasoning and multi-agent systems. I am also interested in expert systems, data mining, and service oriented computing. My undergraduate and professional background is in Software Engineering where I have over six years of industry experience. I am focused on pursuing a career in Industrial Research and Development advancing the state of the art. I excel at software design and development, prototyping, and rapidly learning new concepts. I have a passion for the computing field.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2008-PRESENT: RESEARCH ASSISTANT, SMARTHOME PROJECT

SENIORSMART CENTER FOR ECONOMIC EXCELLENCE, COLUMBIA, SC

• Researched existing state of art of human fall detection
• Provided technical recommendations for project
• Constructed a pattern recognition system using vibration data from simulations for fall detection
• Prototyped several different fall detection systems and evaluated their performance

2009: RESEARCH ASSISTANT, SOA SCALABILITY STUDY

CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COLUMBIA, SC

• Developed a decision support system to aid a decision-maker in determining the feasibility and appropriate software architecture for a planned application

2006-2008: RESEARCH ASSISTANT, BALER PROJECT

CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, COLUMBIA, SC

• Lead the software development of BALER
• Created a Bayesian reasoning engine that supports soft evidence
• Responsible for integration using web services with other CASE research groups
• Assisted with the creation of a natural deduction proof to Bayesian network converter

2006: INSTRUCTOR - INTRO TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, SC

• Instructed freshmen on various entry level topics in information technology
• Responsible for lectures, lab instruction and grading

2006: RESEARCH ASSISTANT, ACTAR PROJECT

CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, COLUMBIA, SC

• Developed a mobile handheld system that provides tactical and cultural advice to warfighters
• Developed a reasoning engine for the system to provide situation assessments and recommended actions

2006: LAB INSTRUCTOR - WEB PROGRAMMING

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, SC

• Instruction of XHTML, CSS and javascript tutorials to freshmen
• Responsible for providing guidance completing lab assignments and grading

2004-2005: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC., CHARLOTTE, SC

(Impact Technologies is an industry leader in financial analysis and planning software.  Impact excels at incorporating cutting edge technology into their products and focuses strongly on increasing productivity and ease to use.)

While working at Impact Technologies I was an important member of the user interface team. My role was to research and incorporate latest technologies into Impacts financial planning suite PlanLab.  During this position I architected several software frameworks to ease development and maintenance.  Another focus was to re-architect PlanLab into an extensible modular system.  The highlight of this position was the development of a web-based dynamic data acquisition system designed to be a drop-in replacement for Microsoft InfoPath.

2001-2004: SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

WENCO SYSTEMS LTD., VICTORIA, BC

(Wenco is a systems development and consulting organization, providing innovative and cost effective solutions. Their particular expertise is in project management, workflow and systems design and integration.)

This position required me to work closely with project managers and IT departments to provide custom contract management software (PACT) to Wenco's clients.  The development cycle of these custom solutions involved analyzing requirements and devising detailed specifications and designs.  The development stage included creating database models, user interfaces, business logic and interfacing into existing third-party database applications. Installation required visits to the client's site and performing a database conversion routine from previous versions of PACT.  In addition I was required to provide support to clients IT departments. In addition I was involved with re-designing Wenco's workflow systems as an integrated .NET web application.  This new system centralized all the systems and can be easily customized with the added benefit of low deployment costs and increased usability.

Clients: 

SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD., Fort McMurray, AB

(The world's largest producer of crude oil from oil sands and the largest single source producer in Canada.)

• Design and Architect next version of PACT as a web application in .NET.
• Replace existing work request and release systems and fully integrate with PACT.
• Designed a distributed object oriented framework for ease of system development by junior developers.
• Develop Technical Specifications and Requirements.
• Develop System Scope Documentation.

OA SOLUTIONS, Victoria, BC

(An Information Management and Information Technology consulting company providing services to Federal, Provincial and Municipal government in Canada)

• Performed several training sessions in ASP.NET to get OA Solutions development team up to speed.
• Architected system design for the Health Cross Jurisdictional Database System (this system aids federal and provincial governments to project and track actual costs in the Health sector).
• Provided development of core system.
• Provided support to OA Solutions senior and junior developers.

CENTRE FOR EDUCATION INFORMATION STANDARDS AND SERVICES (CEISS), Victoria, BC

(A Government of British Columbia organization providing programs and services regarding to education.)

• Assisted development of the Student Outcomes Reporting System (SORS).
• Developed web pages in ASP utilizing JavaScript for client side functionality.
• Developed Objects in VB to aid in generating Excel reports.

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. (OIL SANDS), Fort McMurray, AB

(A growing integrated energy company strategically focused on developing one of the world's largest petroleum resource basins - Canada's Athabasca oil sands.)

• Re-Architected the Web Based Amendments and Releases workflow system.
• Worked closely with IT Department.
• Developed DB Conversion for old WBAR data.
• System Interfacing with Financial systems (ORACLE).
• Developed PACT Enhancements to meet clients needs.

BC BUILDINGS CORP. (BCBC), Victoria, BC

(BC Buildings Corporation is Government's primary strategic advisor for, and manager of, real estate and accommodation services in the province.)

• Developed a web based vendor performance entry system.
• Developed Oracle Procedures to email BCBC personnel to fill out a vendor performance when a contract end date has been reached.
• Developed PACT Enhancements to meet clients needs.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy: Computer Science, 2010 (expected), University of South Carolina

Masters of Engineering: Computer Science, 2008, University of South Carolina

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science - Software Engineering Option, 2001, University of Victoria

ORGANIZED WORKSHOPS (PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER)

• Workshop on Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health environments (PervaSense’10), 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010 (Pervasive Health 2010)
• The 22nd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2009), Tainan,Taiwan, June 2009
• Workshop on Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health environments (PervaSense’09), 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009 (Pervasive Health 2009), London, UK, April 2009

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS

• International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines (Upsilon Pi Epsilon)
• International Honor Society for Electrical and Computer Engineering (Eta Kappa Nu)
• IEEE Computer Society Student Member
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Member
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Student Member
• Research Member of Center for Information Technology - University of South Carolina

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

C#, C/C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, VB/VB.NET, XML

Software Engineering

Software Architecture, Distributed Computing, Object Oriented Design, Network Centric Computing, Service Oriented Computing

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Unix, Apple

Software

Access, CVS, Django, Git, IIS, MySQL, Oracle, SharePoint, Subversion, Visio, Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio

Technologies

.NET, ASP.NET, UML, REST, SOAP

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