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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

2nd Product Manager hire, leading product efficacy initiatives, and helping out anywhere I can.

San Francisco, California, Us

Product and strategy across multiple verticals

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager with focus on machine learning, data science, and security in an adversarial space.Work on Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly branded as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) with a focus on mitigating advanced threats. My goal is to provide the best protection possible for our users, and make adoption of these protections friction-less. Scope included: - Safe Attachments- Safe Links- ATP for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams- Cross team client integrations of the above security features- Tracking false positives and false negatives- Tracking emerging threats- Incubation of new products, features, offerings - Zero-Hour auto purge to remove or restore email upon verdict updates- Bulk / Grey mail content filtering- All content submission experiences including native in client, the Report Message Add-on, and Admin Submissions- Parts of our anti-malware and anti-phish filtering- User experiences around the above

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager with focus on machine learning, data science, and security in an adversarial space.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager with focus on machine learning, data science, and security.As part of my responsibilities I have led multi-team efforts, performed data analysis, and have written software specifications. I am the sole inventor on two patents both in the security and machine learning spaces, specifically deep learning. Additionally I have prototyped beta versions of internal and external software products which I also designed and spec'd. This includes prototyping a security related Outlook plugin that improves our user experience and unblocks customer scenarios, as well as a machine learning driven Chatbot which utilizes Microsoft Bot Framework, LUIS.ai, and Node.js. I also used R, Python, and Excel for data analysis and data visualization.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Technical Program Manager with Shared Cloud Services.Owned VisualStudio.com site scalability, site performance, and owned / wrote automated content conversions for Visual Studio site re-launch. Automated conversions led to 6 figure cost savings & time savings of 10 staff weeks allowing Microsoft to launch Visual Studio site revamp on time.Owned full UX & UI design of various webpages, pushed for high design standards based on data. Led content changes to increase user conversions based on A/B testing.Owned creation / adoption of staging environments for over 100 internal partners, & multiple dev teams; Improved developer practices.As part of a hackathon wrote an education related chatbot in C# using Microsoft Bot Framework, Bing Search API, and Luis.ai.Sole manager of a successful large scale site migration, redesign, and rebranding with hundreds of internal stakeholders.Wrote a specification as well as prototyped a functionality that led to an almost 400% increase in MacOS downloads of our products, and better UX site wide.

Chicago, Il, Us

Extensively utilized Amazon Web Services as well as Python, Node.js, Java, Powershell, Docker, and CoreOS to create microservices for the Intelligent Middleware Team.Internally recognized for publicly facing contributions involving my department's product and AWS.

Chicago, Il, Us

Performed ESXi / VMWare automation & testing in PowerShell, PowerCLI, Jenkins, and Java. Built out and deployed a department wide Test / CI framework that reduced a test process from one staff week to 9 minutes.

Chicago, Il, Us

Full time software engineer at Motorola Solutions. Object oriented Java EE, Python, and Perl. Here I implemented a Java backend application, REST API in object oriented Java, as well as designed and implemented high performance software in Python. In depth Java application stack: REST, JBoss / Wildfly, Hibernate (JPA, SQL), JAXB, XML.Python: Concurrent Futures, Asynchronous Multiprocessing, Threading, and RequestUnit and Integration Testing: JUnit, Python, SeleniumOther responsibilities included documentation, automation, and builds.

Technical: Python, Javascript, R, HTML5, CSSNon-Technical: Business plan (overview of entire fintech marketplace, market size, strategy, minimal feature set as well as differentiating features for MVP, marketing plan, business model), backlog prioritization and management, copy on the blog and website, externally published articles, advertising / outreach.

Chicago, Il, Us

Implemented software that will be deployed in Motorola Product. Extensively utilized Perl, and Shell on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Co-founded a mobile app company where over the course of one year we released 8 apps and achieved over 90,000 downloads. Did planning, prioritization, and Android development.

Enjoyed learning through doing by founding, managing, and growing of my own business. Started selling custom desktop computers (hence 'Unbeatable Machines') before pivoting to web development, design, and online marketing for SMBs. All of the above was self taught. Managed a portfolio of custom websites that I would design, host, and market. Did this work part time throughout college and was able to make enough to quit my minimum wage job and never return to one.

Develop software, and do testing / documentation at an ultra high performance computing company in Chicago.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Taught students Macro Economic theory, tutored students, held office hours, and taught certain lectures. Explained Aggregate Supply & Aggregate Demand, the IS / LM, Philips Curve, and causal variables in the Great Depression among other things. Taught students how to use economic theory to explain the causes of inflation, business fluctuations, unemployment, and economic growth.

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Taught students about the U.S. monetary system; including roles of financial institutions; commercial banking; creation of money; the Federal Reserve and monetary policy; and the macroeconomic relationships among money, interest rates, inflation, and gross domestic product. Also graded papers and made exam questions, held office hours, and tutored students.

Jack of all trades regarding software and IT asks for a local Introducing Broker (futures and options markets). On behalf of the broker I used TradeStation EasyLanguage to conduct real-time technical and quantitative analysis of various securities, focusing mainly on commodity, bond, and index futures. I also managed his website, did lead generation via Google Adwords, and was responsible for all computer and networking equipment working.

Managed several production level computers, upgraded software and hardware, built custom individualized hardware & software solutions for the brokerage, repaired older computers, preformed data backup, networking, communications & connectivity, hardware repair, remote computer management, as well as computer security for the firm.

Bachelor'S Degree, Double Major In Computer Science And Economics

History, Strategy, Geopolitics, Technology, Finance / Investing, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy

Associates Of Science