Connecting the dots between customers, research and engineering to create the most productive platform for AI development.

Software engineer on the Machine Learning team. working to connect the dots between business, engineering and data teams to deliver an amazing customer experience.

Provide ML/NLP expertise for an implementation of Synthesys for a key financial services customer. Synthesys is a large-scale, natural language analysis application built on the Hadoop platform.Developed template-based method to identify specific events in natural language, based on customer use cases. Including: gifts/bribes and financial transactions of commodities and foreign currency.Developed method to adapt generic use-case lexicons to customer data with Google word2vec. Resulted in higher quality (increased precision and recall) identification of language events versus generic lexicons. Developed a method to identify boilerplate content in communications using a Bloom Filter. The method requires minimal supervision, only samples of target boilerplate text.

Division-wide point of contact for Human Language Technology work; at MITRE, in commercial industry and academia.

Senior Software Engineer focused in J2EE solutions to complicated business problems.

Technical editor for J2EE and XML titles:Covert Java, ISBN 06723263881.4 J2EE Developer’s Handbook, ISBN 0672323486Teach Yourself Web Services in 24 Hours, ISBN 0672325152Integrating XML and Web Services, ISBN 0672323540Java 2 Unleashed, ISBN 067232394X

Define, design and implement projects according to client specifications.

Senior engineer developing a platform for enterrprise wireless enablement.I worked on small, focused teams to produce the text transcoding engine (WML/HTML/XML manipulations via XSLT/SAX filters), and later on a reengineering of the messaging infrastructure.

Configuration Manager: responsible for build process of all software products including core client/server pair and plug in modules. Coordinated with development teams in CA, VA and Germany.

Developer on the Procurement Desktop-Defense programmer. Developed console app w/ PowerBuilder on a team of 40 and a browser-based version w/ Java applets.