Robert Ruff

About Robert Ruff

Software entrepreneur and technologist with deep understanding of the application of artificial intelligence to the semantic deconstruction of documents. Twenty three years experience in the staffing industry, initially as a recruiter, then through growing Sovren as the global leader in recruitment intelligence components. Forty three years of programming experience.Specialties: Multi-lingual software, algorithmic data extraction, parsing, data mining, semantic searching and AI matching, whitebox AI, transparent AIWrote and deployed first system to receive and parse unstructured data, view it in a form remotely, edit it interactively, and save it back to a remote data store - in 1988, for what is now JP Morgan Chase. Wrote and sold the first system to parse and edit semi-structured or unstructured invoices over the internet, and save and store the data into a data store - in 1995 (for a publicly-held AMEX-listed corporation). Wrote and commercially deployed the first ATS that included both resume parsing and powerful searching - in 1996. Wrote the first commercially-deployed completely automated-no-human-intervention ATM check-cashing system (cash payroll checks at an ATM in seconds) in (for a publicly-held company). Wrote optical character recognition software, imaging libraries, printer drivers, legal mediation software, forms creation software, dozens of types of parsers, document converters, and even wrote software to invisibly remotely control other computers all commercially deployed.Self taught to read 25 languages (in the recruitment domain). Published author, photographer and documentary video producer, and winner of national writing awards and competitions. I

Experience

1. Strategic Advisor

   Resilience Education

   Oct 2021 — Present · Charlottesville, VA, US

   Resilience Education provides holistic services and mentoring to break the cycle of reincarceration. Resilience Education provides the FIRST CHANCE to many formerly incarcerated individuals to help them re-enter society in stable and productive careers.

Education

• University of Virginia

  BS, Commerce

  1977 — 1981

Skills

• Account Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Enterprise Software
• Crm
• Saas
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategic Planning
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Management
• Software Design
• Sales
• Start-Ups
• New Business Development
• Business Development
• Recruiting
• Strategy
• Leadership