Andy Doyle Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Silver Spring, Md, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Supporting the Office of the Clerk with systems that help manage legislative process.

Watson Discovery Advisor (WDA): Architecture, design and integration of core Watson components for managing identities and relationships. Data analysis and algorithm design for multiple cross document coreferencing approaches.Integration of continuous processing of identity analytics against a multi-terabyte DB2 database.Designed algorithms to discover and rank entities of interest using text and entity relationships.Automated Lexicon Development: Developed tools for automatically extracting, organizing and categorizing lexicon resources using domain-specific documentation and training materials. Prototyped multiple clustering and NLP approaches using Jupyter Notebook.Built tools for automatically generating lexicon information in Python using NLP parsers and scikit-learn.Geotemporal Analysis: Researched existing datasets and client tools to propose new WDA geospatial capabilities.Analyzed multiple unstructured and structured datasets for geo-temporal information.Worked with clients to understand requirements and write up analysis and proposals for new features. Cyber-incident Analysis: Analyzed existing WDA content and capabilities to develop use cases for cyber analysis.Worked with clients to understand use cases, business processes and existing resources.Documented approaches for integrating and expanding WDA capabilities to support cyber information.

EMBERS: Led architecture and integration for a multi-year research program using social media to predict social unrest. Implemented a streaming message system based on ZeroMQ to distribute data to multiple analytics. Deployed the system across a dozen university research teams and supported cross team development. Deployed and operated the system in AWS processing 2-10 G of data daily.Vigilant Pursuit: Developed cross domain data flows for complex document and image data sets. Supported integration, testing and information assurance processes for complex data flows. Led developers building components for content ingestion on handheld computers with limited communications.Windshear: Lead system engineer for the Windshear program. Responsible for architecture and technical direction of integration teams from multiple vendors.Integration of mobile capabilities against enterprise cloud services using Hadoop and Accumulo.Harmony ISR Surge: Lead a team of developers rapidly integrating new capabilities for multilingual document analysis. Integrated entity extraction tools from Basis Technologies into existing automated workflows. Led a team of a dozen developers delivering an application from concept to acceptance test in six months.HighVIEW: Responsible for the design, architecture and engineering of HighVIEW products and projects. Designed, implemented and lead engineering teams through a major release and architecture change. Transitioned a decade old application to a new architecture and platform using .NET and Oracle. Language Workbench: Responsible for the design, architecture and project management of a linguist support toolkit. Designed and implemented RESTful services in Java that integrated with a Microsoft Word front end. Developed services for entity extraction, language identification and translation dictionaries. Integrated public gazetteers for geotagging of extracted entity information using Lucene.

VoteX: Supported and designed components for an established proxy voting product.Implemented engineering and release best practices using open source tools including CVS and Bugzilla. Re-designed and implemented security features using Apache, FastCGI and BerkeleyDB on Linux.Design and prototype for the next major release using Java and J2EE technologies.

Led design and development of Java-based ReadyPortal(tm) content management platform components using Servlets, JDBC and other J2EE technologies on Linux with MySQL, Oracle and PostgeSQL databases.Online Publishing: Designed and developed online publishing tools using XML and XSL. Designed using UML and led the engineering team through the full product lifecycle.Mail Manager: Designed and developed a pure-Java mailing list manager framework using the JavaMail framework.

Used SGML, IIS and NextPage to deliver a profitable online publication. Designed and implemented an engineering process for a growing team.Managed vendor consultants and negotiated the vendor services contract.

Researcher and consultant focusing on software engineering process, distributed systems and database applications.