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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Currently manage a cross discipline team of AI researchers and software engineers. The NLP Modernization team is tasked with expanding SAS Viya's text analytic capabilities with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence based algorithms. Delivered capabilities include BERT classification, aspect based sentiment detection, language identification and many more.Spearheaded design and deployment of automated CI/CD dev, test and integration pipelines for C++ using Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory and Kubernetes. Foster an inclusive, quality driven, risk tolerant development culture that celebrates our craft, delivers on commitments and supports personal growth. Applied skills: C++, Docker, CI/CD, BERT, Team Leadership, Test Automation, Agile Methodologies, Software Architecture

Lead the development of SAS Natural Language Understanding. SAS Natural Language Understanding brings semantic extraction capabilities to the SAS Viya analytics platform. NLU is an enablement technology that extracts meaning from unstructured text in the form of intents and actions. SAS Natural Language Understanding is a foundational component of the conversational agents that underpin chatbot capabilities in products such as SAS Conversation Designer.Applied skills: Java 8, Machine Learning, NLP, REST, Microservice design, Linux, Chatbots

Lead the design and development of a modular pipelining framework for text analytics.Refactored existing monolithic text analytics components into reusable modular components.Managed internal customer requirements and built consensus to support framework and module development.Researched and prototyped emerging text analytic algorithms.Applied skills: Java 8, NLP, Software Design, SDLC, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

IBM Watson Solutions DivisionDefined adaptations to Watson’s NLP algorithms, GUI and deployment models for the financial domain.Gathered, managed and negotiated customer requirements with Fortune 500 financial clients.Provided leadership for a cross site team of software engineers.Applied skills: Sentiment detection, cross document entity resolution, semantic relationship mining, information extraction, logistic regression.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

IBM Watson Solutions DivisionLead the healthcare NLP Algorithm development and semantic resources team.Architected Watson’s NLP adaptations to support consumption of medical corpora.Lead Watson's healthcare feature engineering effort.Developed refinements to Watson's workflow to support healthcare related use cases.Applied skills: Grammar parsing, named entity recognition, coreference resolution, semantic relationship mining, SDLC, Scrum, UX

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

IBM, Software Group Division Defined and drove component deliverables through each stage of the development process.Senior member of the release architecture board.Drove design interactions across the Lotus Foundations platform as well as our cloud based sister project: the IBM Smart Market.Provided design and development guidance to external vendors.Worked with the User Experience team to design and implement a new customer communication channel: The IBM Smart Report.Applied technologies: Java, Javascript, DOJO, Google Widget Toolkit, C# and CLR, JQuery

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Defined and drove the Simple Agent Framework through each stage of the software life cycle: concept, implementation, adoption and support.Defined the architecture and lead the development effort.Managed the corresponding IBM Open Source project.Drove adoption of the Simple Agent into the Lotus Foundations Appliance platform.Applied technologies: Java, JSON, X509 Certificates, SSL v3, Java Encryption APIs

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area