Charles Cook, Ph.D.

GreatVocab.com is a novel online vocabulary training program which utilizes some of my work in data analysis and control theory applied to learning of vocabulary with the help of a custom enterprise scale web application framework. The application is capable of finding published in-use examples of any word in the English dictionary on demand.

I designed and developed a Content Management System (CMS) that was successfully deployed in hundreds of commercial web applications. The CMS was one of the first to allow in-place editing, content versioning, full text search, and dynamic menu building in 2008.

I designed and developed a service which exposed a Twitter 1.1 API providing automatic, expiring, and rate limit observing caching of calls to Twitter. The cache was implemented through a custom cache paradigm I designed that allowed for bursting. The cache data store was asynchronous, dependency injected, and demonstrated in SQL CE and NoSQL databases, both with auto-migrations for self hosted deployment.

I designed and developed a search system which has a plugin interface to allow any other content provider to populate the search system. The search system provides full text catalog searching over any content source with a management system for custom weighting of content and associated keywords with their weighting (to control the position of content in results). The system also has reporting for metrics such as searched expressions, view to click ratios, view and click counts, searches that had no results, popular searches, and overall activity reports.

I developed an application which allows users to submit images and videos through a Facebook application that is then reviewed by a moderator before being posted to a Facebook gallery. The application supports a basic voting system and categorization.

I designed and prototyped a large scale web application tiered vertically and distributed horizontally using WCF with load balancing. An early version of the application was published as the Unifico Framework in 2008.

Dynamic registration system for organizers in the equestrian community with adaptive payments.

Inventors at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have developed a magnetically retained fast-response pressure relief valve that is designed to fully open at precise cracking pressures and that operates in a fully open/fully closed manner.

Utilizes heat from existing exhaust to recover cryogenically stored renewable energy, more than doubling fossil fuel efficiency