Expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a strong focus on Open Source tools. Has successfully designed / implemented solutions for Information Retrieval, Text Analysis, Information Extraction, Opinion Mining, Text Classification and many others.
Involved or following OS projects such as GATE, Apache Lucene, UIMA, Tika or Nutch.
Project management with experience in both business and academic environments. Development skills in Java.
Currently Director of DigitalPebble Ltd, member of the Apache Software Foundation.