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Marietta, Ga, Us

Richmond, British Columbia, Ca

Lead AI strategy and execution. Infuse data-driven AI capabilities into existing processes to improve performance and reduce costs. Create new AI-driven systems for internal and external customers.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Review machine learning textbooks, recommend publication, provide editorial suggestions.

Brookhaven, Georgia, Us

• Won IBM Eminence and Excellence Award with significant cash bonus.• Led a team writing globe-scale core microservices that are involved in every Weather Company API call, on IBM Cloud and AWS (Scala, Go, Kubernetes, etc.).• Mentored junior, mid and senior engineers into productive Python developers.• Recruited to small senior team writing big data ETL pipelines in Apache Spark to support California Consumer Privacy Act compliance. Recognized company-wide for delivering solution in three months.• Sped up a data cleanup and migration process from over 15 hours to under 1 hour, enabling switchover of two core back-end services from AWS to IBM Cloud with minimal down time.• Wrote anti-corruption layer for microservices failing due to bad inputs that exploded Cassandra 10x. With cleanup and migration process, my design fixed the problem and prevented it from ever recurring.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Taught over 1000 students a year. Led a staff of 40 teaching assistants, including several top award- winning students; most now work at top tech companies. Co-directed study abroad program in Berlin, Germany. Developed and taught courses in Machine Learning, Databases, Computational Tools for Data Analytics, Object-Oriented Design and Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Program- ming, and Python workshops for MS in Analytics, MS in Quantitative and Computational Finance.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Conducted research in reinforcement learning and adaptive programming, created collaborations with GTRI. Published research in AAAI, OOPSLA, ICCM and the journal Scientometrics.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Software developer (primarily server-side Scala) on large online travel software product built from hundreds of thousands of lines of Scala code in thousands of Scala source files and millions of lines of code in Java, HTML, and JavaScript. Technologies included Scala, Akka, Play Framework, MySQL, Hibernate, MongoDB, ReactiveMongo, HTML, JavaScript.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Principal investigator: intelligent non-player characters for interactive narratives and games. Wrote AFABL, a Scala-embedded domain specific language for writing intelligent agents. First runner-up,GTRI independent research of the year.• Chief architect for 12 software engineers and leader of 5-member core sub-team. Modernized softwaredevelopment of broader team by restructuring sub-teams, creating and supporting shared libraries, redesigning software systems, and unifying development processes. Changes improved software quality and delivery schedules, reduced costs, and allowed creation of team of student cooperative Computer Science majors to act as junior software engineers. Two of my former reports are now senior principal software engineering leads at Microsoft and Amazon, one is a PhD Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Labs.• Led 3-member team that successfully applied information-theoretic machine learning optimization algorithm to an antenna design problem that had confounded existing genetic algorithm-based system.• Investigated neural network architectures for radio emitter identification.• Co-founded Cognitive Computing Lab with Prof Ashwin Ram (now Technical Director of AI, Google)• Working with econometrician investigating patterns of specialization in Physics research, wrote PythonNLTK and Numpy text mining analysis and presentation apps. Published in journal Scientometrics.• Developed an electronic warfare data management system with novel data representations, algorithms,and user interfaces (Java, JSP, HTML, Tomcat) that won a $2M follow-on project.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Rated in the top 5% of software engineers. Key player in two eXtreme Programming projects using Java servlets, RMI, and JDBC. One of two lead software engineers on UI/application server team, developed major portions of the design, established build procedures, and mentored other developers. Received formal award for contributions to the usability and design of the product. Chosen from the 12 engineers on first team for important core position on company’s most important forward-looking project.

Conceived, championed, designed and built flight management system which is heart of operations for two squadrons flying up to 200 flights per day. System has four front-end applications written with Borland C++ Builder, Interbase RDBMS server, and application logic in C++ using the Standard Template Library. Saved over 8000 person-hours per year and improved command and control by 100%.

Turned new Air Force officers into military jet pilots in USAF Primary Jet Pilot Training. Taught fundamentals, aerobatics, instrument flight in poor weather, and formation flying. Flew daily missions with young students in a dynamic, high stress flying environment regularly making critical real-time decisions and using expert judgment to achieve the best training and flight safety.

Executed hundreds of successful missions in worldwide military operations. Outstanding crew award during operation Southern Watch in Saudi Arabia. Highest co-pilot position in squadron (Stan/Eval). One of only two co-pilots in squadron selected for coveted special operations qualification.

Taught mechanics to students preparing for assignments as space operations officers. Every class I taught cited me as their best instructor. Achieved highest pass rate in all of UST while teaching its most difficult course. Developed in-house software in C for office and training applications.

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Ms, Computer Science