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Seattle, WA, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Working in the Alexa org to support and improve AI neural network training
• Designing, maintaining, and improving big data management systems and operations utilizing hundreds of millions of daily transactions
• Collaborate with other teams to determine and address customer needs through improved infrastructure, user interaction, and documentation

Austin, Texas, US

• Developed a multitude of custom convolutional neural networks in different frameworks and architectures to recognize, identify, classify, and mask all instances of an object in an image
• Utilized cutting edge research and techniques in the field of image recognition and deep learning
• Created custom training data for establishing the neural networks' weights distribution according to a designated list of categories/objects
• Worked with other engineers to establish a training pipeline and architecture to produce multiple neural networks in multiple different categories
• Gathered, cleaned, and processed training data while developing said training pipelines and overseeing the methodical training/testing of each neural network
• Built an image recognition tool to utilize the custom neural networks for demonstration, development, and production

Austin, Texas, US

• Worked with an overseas team to create synthetic training sets for convolutional neural networks (CNN) using 3D models, Unity, C#
• Trained and utilized CNNs to recognize and segment objects in images
• Maintained and improved upon synthetic training pipelines for CNNs
• Designed a mobile app to test product functionality and performance using Unity

Austin, TX, US

• Lead a team of programmers to design, build, and maintain the code on a large scale video game project
• Work with other developers, designers, animators, producers, and audio engineers to create an open world PC game using C# and the Unity engine
• Handle designing, writing, implementing, and debugging scripts and features
• Management through team meetings, code reviews, sprint planning, pair programming, and addressing the needs of the project and the programming team in an effective and professional way
• Build new, requested features from scratch using innovative, creative, and efficient approaches

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

• Collaborated with a team of analysts, engineers, and lawyers from the UK and USA to solve world-wide problems dealing with Patent Infringements, Intellectual Property, Claim Indemnities, Non-Infringement Claims, and.
• Analyzed 100+ products designed and sold by ARM; Researched corporate technical specifications and linked products to ARM patents and licenses.
• Developed 12 systems and processes for the company when there were none that were adopted as standard operating business procedures.
• Created 100+ claim charts and 10 digital libraries, templates, and intellectual property tracking/monitoring systems, which had not existed before.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

• Trained and coached 20 new hires
• Adjusted systems for specific office and unique customer needs,which resulted in over $50 million in savings.
• Handled mission-critical, high-performance ARM products.
• Worked with the legal team of 15 trained attorneys on UK PatentBox; Saving ARM £14 million.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

• Developed project prototypes and maintained optimal workflow for clients
• Collaborated with designers to create websites; test display and functional issues across all platforms, browsers, and devices using custom HTML, CSS, and UI controls.
• Created iOS and Android mobile apps
• Created storytelling interactives within the Unity Engine; C#
• Performed full Software Development Lifecycle in Agile-Scrum environment