John P. Pratt, Research Scientist

P.O. Box 413 Duchesne, UT 84021

john@johnpratt.com

Astronomy Professor, developing dynamic, individually scored on-line astronomy exercises designed for national use. Specializes in ancient astronomical calendars and historical chronology. Science & Religion editor for Meridian Magazine. Software lead developer successful in leading program requirements, design, implementation, QA testing, documentation, and maintenance.

Astronomy Work History

• Meridian Magazine (1999-2009). Science & Religion Editor. Authored over 150 articles.
• Utah Valley State College (1991-2005). Adjunct Professor of Astronomy.
• Ashton Research Corp (1988-1991). Head Research Scientist.
• Eyring Research Institute (1976-1988). Senior Aerospace engineer, Team Lead of 9 engineers.

Software Work History

• Perfect Search (2007-2009). Developing high speed indexing and search retrieval software.
• Omniture (2005-2007). Developed browser based billing system for entire company.
• Cogito (2000-2005). Lead engineer developing learning software for network database.
• Novell (1995-2000). Led team of 5 QuickFinder indexing and search engine developers.
• WordPerfect (1993-1994). Wrote Mac WP 3.x/WP 6.x file format conversion for Mac.
• Eyring Research Institute (1976-1993). Led team of 9 Minuteman Missile developers.

Other Creativity

• Co-invented 3 software patents.
• Created a new Hydrid Database combining features of relational, network and hierarchal.
• Hosts several websites, adding innovative genealogy features.
• Created a pictorial periodic table.
• Created a new tournament pairing scheme, now approved in nationally sanctioned table tennis tournaments.

Education

• Ph.D. in astronomy, U. of Arizona, 1976
• B.A. degrees in both Physics and Math, U. of Utah, 1969 (upper 1% of class)
• Fluent in Portuguese; reads German, Spanish, some French