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Houston, Tx, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Performed analysis and development on a continuously-evolving trading system- Regularly completed time-critical tasks- Developed new features to handle changing business requirements- Restructured subsystem components in preparation for a large redesign-Identified sluggish operations and developed performance improvementsDeveloped a new limit monitoring systemDeveloped a new aggregate position reporting system with asset decompositionRewrote core utility libraries for the Python infrastructureWorked with prime broker technical staff to establish and enhance advanced trading connections to fulfill new business requirementsInitiated and developed a continuous integration solution to replace a tedious error-prone processThe Jenkins platform solution included static code analysis, unit testing and code coverage for C++ and Python.Performed hundreds of code reviews

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

NOVA georegistration and detection and tracking system- Led software and system development to take prototype system to deployable product- Improved the feature detection, feature extraction, feature matching, and pose estimation components of the image-based georegistration algorithm- Developed interactive performance analysis suite to tune georegistration algorithm parameters and report results in auto-generated Excel spreadsheet- Improved vehicle detection, background modeling, and tracking algorithms- Developed and integrated a 3D georegistration algorithm to solve a long-standing inability to accurately register imagery on mountainous terrain- Increased throughput of 64 megapixel frames to 2 frames per second running on three 32-core servers- Redesigned poor codebase using object-oriented modules and created parallel pipeline architecture- Upgraded the system development environment to Visual Studio 2010 to enable the latest tools and libraries and 64-bit build- Upgraded the C++ codebase to use MPI, Intel TBB, Boost, Intel IPP, OpenCV, ZMQ, and C++11 functional programming- Chose C++11 lambda expressions, OpenCV, and Intel Threading Building Blocks to create simpler, more reliable parallel image processing algorithms- Debugged and profiled the highly-parallel system using the Visual Studio 2010 Premium parallel profiler- Wrote analysis tools and utilities in C# / .NET / WPF- Managed software configuration with CVS, upgraded to GIT- Supported extensive on-site system integration and debugging- Worked with managers and guided team members to meet performance requirements and deadlinesDARPA Visual Media Reasoning- Developed interfaces and architecture for the image search portion of the system- Consulted on various aspects of the system and software architecture

- Developed interactive dictionary and thesaurus for Windows 8 and website- Figures display hyponym relations to help match thoughts to words

New York, Ny, Us

- Investigated reported defects in the MarCom Integrated Communications Switch and designed, implemented, and tested software solutions- Designed and developed the Common Controller portion of the new DIAS redundant alarm

- Successfully modified the entire Prophet21 tool suite to properly use all date formats- Wrote C#/.NET applications that searched all PowerBuilder code for instances of date problems and automatically modified the code to resolve the problems

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Mathematics And Computer Science