Front-end Developer (2013 – 2023)Products: Watson Discovery Tooling (2019 – 2023), Watson Compare & Comply UI (2018 – 2019),Watson Engagement Advisor UI / Tooling (2016 – 2017), Watson Discovery UI (2013 – 2015) • Built and maintained several web applications for a variety of products integrated with IBM’s Watson Cloud APIs • Integrated analytics, feedback, and onboarding frameworks to foster data-driven user experience improvements • Implemented and maintained unit and integration test suites to prevent product quality regressions • Planned and directed test fests to ensure product quality • Deployed releases to production via CI / CD tools • Provided 24/7 support for applications via PagerDuty • Delivered code changes and conducted code reviews leveraging version control tools, primarily git • Exhibited new application functionality in live demos • Contributed to open source projects to improve client integration with IBM Cloud APIs, including richly interactive samples of components library (github.com/JohnWColby) • Collaborated with designers to improve user experience • Visited with clients to better understand real use cases and pain pointsTeam Lead (2020) • Led a dozen developers on the Watson Discovery Tooling team and coordinated resources towards high-value goals • Administered daily scrum and weekly prioritization meetings • Communicated team progress to stake holders throughout the organization • Aided transition to working from home during pandemicBack-end Developer (2015 – 2016) • Maintained scripts to ingest data and documents for Watson Discovery’s general knowledge base • Deployed and monitored weekly ingestion of public source unstructured documents and knowledge graph dataMentor for New IBMers • Guided new hires and interns as they joined IBM and integrated with their respective teams • Engaged new IBMers with career advice and best practices to thrive within IBM

- Built tool to execute feature selection on data in order to improve the efficiency of machine learning algorithms, which reduces the time and hardware requirements of the Watson system- Watson is a Q&A system designed to comprehend natural language (IBM.com/Watson)

UF IPPD project sponsored by Lockheed Martin- Prototyped a remote-controlled and autonomous ATV under Dr. Eric Schwartz- Worked on an interdisciplinary engineering team over two semesters- Designed and created base station interface, network communication protocol, on-board interface, and vehicle autonomy, including waypoint navigation and obstacle avoidance

Planned and oversaw all scheduled activities; directed the day camp program; trained and supervised staff