Craig Evans

Experience

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  BHP Information Technology

  Jan 1988 - Jan 2000

  Senior Analyst
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  BHP Coated Steel Corporation

  Oct 1997 - Sept 2000

  Systems Engineer

  Site manager for maintenance and enhancement of voice/data communications infrastructure. Systems administration of NT 3.51/4.0 servers and OpenVMS servers, as well as Nortel Meridian Option11 PBX hardware. Project management responsibilities for installation of DEC Alpha, and expansion of RF network barcode scanners.

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  AdaptiveInfo.com

  Jan 2001 - May 2002

  Software Engineer

  Software engineer for client server based personalisation software and mobile applications on PalmOS, BREW, and Microbrowser based devices.

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  E-Z Data, Inc (now Ebix)

  Aug 2002 - Oct 2009

  Corporate Sales Engineer

  Prepared and co-ordinated formal Request for Proposal responses. This involved taking client generated business requirements and mapping to internal software capabilities as part of a client due diligence process. Additional responsibility for liaison between business and technical staff internally, and management of technical resources and presentations to clients for the deployment of multitiered client/server solutions to the insurance and finance industry. This involved preparing scheduling of resources (people, vendor, hardware) to meet milestones, sales support and business analysis, preparation of supporting documentation for client sites, interaction with external clients in a pre-sales technology application capacity. Show less

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  Health Alliance Medical Plans

  Oct 2010 - Aug 2011

  Snr. Business Systems Analyst

  Entrenched in the update from ASC X12 4010 to 5010 for the health care industry, Updated Microsoft BizTalk 2004 mappings and schemas to BizTalk 2010 in preparation for 5010, re-architecting existing BizTalk deployment along the way to adhere to current best practices.

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  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  Aug 2011 - Jan 2023

  Wait, shouldn't this be under education? Yes. It is there as well. After juggling work and studies, the time in my program has arrived for me to do the heavy thinking and focus 100% on the studies. Post graduate education is a full time position, and requires a 9-5 work ethic, with an expectation of excessive amounts of overtime. For the next 30 months, this is my full time position. Everything else is a distraction.TA for LIS590NA - Social Network Analysis. RA for Dr Jana Diesner.Seem to be pushing on social network analysis more than I intended. Will be combining with text mining and interactive analysis using R. Wouldn't it be nice to have NodeXL or Gephi type graphs straight out of R ;) Show less

  • PhD Student - Informatics, expected gradation 2021

    Aug 2012 - Jan 2023

  • PhD Student - Informatics, expected gradation 2019

    Aug 2011 - Jan 2023
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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences

  Aug 2011 - May 2023

  MSLIS Student / Instructor.

  Graduated May 2023 with MSLIS Master of Science - Library and Information Science. Heavy on the Information, light on the Library ... but complimentary in ways that will be beneficial moving forward.While working through grad studies, I have been heavily focused on Data Science in general, and Social Network Analysis in detail. During my time as grad student, I created the syllabus and content for IS206 - Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications. This is mandatory course int he undergraduate BSIS program run at the iSchool, and I have been the instructor of the class since its inclusion in the program growing from a single class of students, to teaching multiple sections with over 100 students in total. Show less

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  John Deere

  Oct 2011 - May 2012

  Researcher - Data Analytics

  Developed a text mining solution to analyze comments from web form submissions and build keyword summaries and classify any technology involved into broader categories. Experimented with sentiment analysis (opinion mining) over a separate HR focused corpus of data.

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  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  May 2012 - Aug 2014

  Visiting Senior Research Programmer

  Resident software engineer supporting research projects for GSLIS faculty. Projects are diverse, but largely focused on big data initiatives and online services.

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  Triadix Networks LLC

  Aug 2018 - now

  Founder / Chief Analyst

  Formed Triadix Networks as a company to house personal software development projects and initiatives. Mainly focused on social network analysis, and developing tools to provide competitive insight into social medial platforms.

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  Vidaeris

  Oct 2023 - now

  Founder / Chief Analyst

  Photography is an understatement. Drone based Photography/Photogrammetry, Videography, Orthomosaics, Thermography, and Data Analytics.

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  ISchool at Illinois

  Aug 2024 - now

  Lecturer