Patrick J. Barnes

Office: 17811 Waterview Parkway * Dallas, TX 75252 * 972-454-8736 
Home: 2431 Via Barcelona * Carrollton, TX 75006 * 469-450-1186 
Web: pjbarnes@gmail.com * http://pjbarnes.com/resume.html 



OBJECTIVE

Research and development in technologies that bring people and information together.



EXPERIENCE

Intervoice, Inc.
Dallas, TX

Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2001 - Present

Developed software that brings people and information together by integrating speech 
recognition, voice verification, and text-to-speech technology with various browser and 
telephony platforms, primarily IVR's using VoiceXML. 
 
Also developed tools for tuning speech recognition applications—which involves 
recording audio, managing data in databases, transcribing speech, statistics reporting, 
and running experimental simulations—to measurably improve recognition accuracy 
and overall application performance. Collaberated with our customer-serving consulting 
services group to tune speech applications for many customers, including: Geico, T-
Mobile, numerous banks such as Chase and US Bank, Continental Airlines, Baylor 
Medical, Sirius Radio, and the I.R.S. 
 
Currently developing tools to translate IVR applications from one platform to another 
(InterSoft to SCXML). InterSoft is a proprietary IVR platform that executes IQTalk 
applications written in InVision, the award-winning fourth-generation application design 
tool. SCXML is a cutting-edge open standard to define state machine applications, 
which can be used to control application flow while delegating specialized services 
(custom actions) to separate entities.


Intel
Folsom (Sacramento), CA

Software Engineer Intern
Jan 2000 - Aug 2000

Developed and maintained a database-driven, web-based system to govern internal 
processes for creating, qualifying, and delivering software to customers, such as 
graphics drivers to board manufacturers. Experience with database design and web 
integration. 


Hewlett Packard
Richardson (Dallas), TX

Design Verification Engineer Intern
Jan 1999 - Aug 1999

Developed software to verify the design of HP server hardware components.


Texas Transportation Institute
College Station, TX

Network Technician
Aug 1998 - Dec 1998

Installed and maintained hardware and software for PC's on a Windows NT network; 
worked with peer technicians and attended to help desk requests.



SKILLS

Programming skills: 
Strongest languages are Java (6.5 years work experience) and C/C++ (8 years work 
experience). 
Also have experience with: Perl; SQL; XML, XSLT; JNI; HTML, XHTML, CSS; 
JSP/PHP/ASP; ECMAScript/E4X/Rhino, VBScript; ANTLR; audio file formats; .NET 
Framework. 
Developed multi-threaded integration-level software residing on heavily-used IVR 
systems. 
Developed application-level and low-level software (GUI-driven tools that access speech 
vendor API's, databases, etc.). 
Developed Lunch Tool in AJAX to enable co-workers to chat and vote on where to go for 
lunch. 
 
Configuration management experience: 
Maven/Ant, Subversion, JIRA, Confluence; JUnit, Agitar, Clover; Rational ClearCase, 
Caliber; DDTS; CVS 
 
Networking knowledge: 
MRCP, RTSP; TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP; VoIP; SIP, RTP 
 
Speech technology knowledge: 
*	Standards: VoiceXML (VXML), State Chart XML (SCXML), Call Control XML 
(CCXML), Microsoft Speech Application Language Tags (SALT), Speech 
Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS), Semantic Interpretation for Speech 
Recognition (SISR), Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS), Speech Synthesis 
Markup Language (SSML), Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP), xHMI 
*	Platforms: Intervoice Media Exchange, Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2, Edify 
Voice Interaction Platform (EVIP), HP OpenCall Media Platform (OCMP), 
Intervoice IQTalk (Legacy InVision applications) 
*	ASR Vendor Software: Nuance (Quantum, MRCP, 8.5, 8.0, 7.0.4, Verifier 3.0), 
SpeechWorks (SWMS, OpenSpeech Recognizer 3.0, 1.0), Microsoft SAPI 
*	IDE's: Intervoice InVision (Studio 2.x, 4.x), State Control Editor (SCE), 
Microsoft Speech Application SDK 1.x, Audium 
*	Grammars: W3C SRGS (GRXML, ABNF); Nuance GSL; Statistical Language 
Models (SLM's), including Robust Parsing



EDUCATION

University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX

Master of Science (in progress), Computer Science
Jan 2007 - Present

4.0/4.0 GPA


Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Aug 1997 - Dec 2000

3.6/4.0 GPA in major


Tyler Junior College
Tyler, TX

Computer Science AA, Engineering AA
Jun 1994 - May 1997


4.0/4.0 GPA



HONORS

First Place Computer Programming Contest, University of Texas at Tyler (1997) 
Novell Certified Network Engineer (CNE) for NetWare 4 (1997) 
International Honor Society Officer (1996) 
Community College Outstanding Computer Services Award (1996)