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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

• Coordinated research across a large portfolio of government contracts including the Department of Education, Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation• Led a diverse team of over 65+ managers and staff working across technology, data, analysis, and education• Led multiple, cross-division business development initiatives• Advanced innovative professional developed programs for engineering and research staff

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us

• Winner, 2021 CODiE Award for Best Emerging Education Technology Solution for Administrators• Finalist, 2021 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Awards• Member, AWS EdStart Startup Accelerator• Led the conceptual design of the Ask2Learn analysis framework• Delivered international, data-driven coaching workshops for teachers and administrators• Conducted international user-research studies and beta-test programs to assess product feasibility and impact• Designed and implemented the artificial intelligence platform for analyzing teacher audio and delivering interactive data reports across mobile and web• Developed tools for labeling AI training datasets and completing transcriptionsKey Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AWS Sagemaker), Automated Speech Recognition (AWS Transcribe), Natural Language Processing (NLTK, WordNet), React Native (iOS and Android Mobile Apps), AWS Compute Stack (ElasticBeanstalk, MySQL), Interactive Data Dashboards (HighCharts)

Cary, North Carolina, Us

• Led the EdTech start-up from launch to 10 years of profitability and exit through successful acquisition• Led a distributed workforce of engineers, designers, curriculum developers, and sales leaders• Developed customer-base across the US, the Middle East, Australia, and Asia• Primary inventor of SMALLab, an interactive learning environment for K-12 schools and museums that emerged from a university research initiative• Launched new products for K-12 learning including Wink for online learning and Flow, an interactive platform using the Xbox Kinect• Delivered teacher training workshops for K-12 educators across the US• Awarded $500,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create and evaluate interactive learning games• Conducted quantitative research demonstrating significant student learning gains using SMALLab products• Conducted qualitative research to assess the impact of SMALLab products on teacher attitudes and practicesKey Technologies: Unity3d, C#, marker-based motion-capture (Optitrack by NaturalPoint), UDP Multicast, PHP/CodeIgniter, MySQL

• Led research and development efforts in the areas of speech recognition, machine learning, data visualization, and emerging technologies• Delivered technology briefs to inform executive team strategy, identifying emerging technologies, and evaluate their suitability for company products• Led a team of engineers developing prototype applications to integrate speech-to-text, natural language processing, and augmented reality• Conducted formal user testing with children to evaluate application prototypes• Collaborated with multiple stakeholders across the company including the executive team, engineers, designers, and educatorsKey Technologies: Unity3D, C#, Node, AngularJS, Speech Recognition API’s (Carnegie Speech, Sphinx, Google Speech), Machine Learning API’s (IBM Watson, Google Image Classifiers, TensorFlow), Natural Language Processing API’s (IBM Watson, NLTK, WordNet)

• Led the implementation of two award-winning iOS apps [Haunting Melissa & Dark Hearts]• Created the information architecture to deliver a patented method for delivering dynamic video content that is customized for individual app users• Implemented a scalable web services architecture that has delivered millions of in-app video views across multiple apps and provides backend admin tools• Designed a web services API for client/server interactions that power the apps • Designed and conducted formal user experience testing pre- and post-launch• Designed a quality assurance process leading to 99.9% error free performance over 7 million sessions• Garnered press features in Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, Tech Crunch, ABC News, and Fast Company.Key Technologies: iOS, Xcode, Objective-C, iOS In-App Purchases, HLS streaming video, JSON, Push Notifications, Facebook API, iOS SceneKit, PHP, Yii, Highcharts Javascript API, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), cron, bash scripting

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Co-created Kwivia, a social trivia game for iOS. Featured in the 2012 Wired App Guide as a best new App• Co-created Home Real Estate Trends, a business-to-realtor marketing platform, built atop Facebook. The system gathered real time real estate data from client realtors’ regions via Zillow, and posted branded data visualizations to their Facebook pages• Developed Sencia Editorial, a custom, content management system to coordinate a remote team of US and off-shore content creators who generated bi-weekly social media and blog posts on behalf of small business clientsKey Technologies: iOS, Xcode, Objective-C, iOS In-App Purchases, Push Notifications, JSON, Facebook API, Zillow API, PHP, Yii, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), WordPress, cron, bash scripting

• Developed cross-platform, mobile apps and games for media clients including Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros, and MTV• Programmed mobile apps, games, and learning interactives for national, non-profit clients including ReadWriteThink.org and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned PregnancyKey Technologies: iOS, Xcode, Objective-C, Android, Unity3d, Flash, In-App Purchases, Push Notifications, Facebook API, PHP, Yii, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), WordPress

Tempe, Az, Us

• Led an interdisciplinary research team of 29 faculty, post doctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate researchers, spanning 8 academic departments• Awarded over $3.3 million in research funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Intel Research, and the City of Phoenix• Led the design and evaluation of SMALLab, a interactive learning environment for K-12 schools and museums• Designed and implemented the core technological infrastructure for SMALLab• Earned national press citations including the New York Times, Phoenix Business Journal, and Education Week• Published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in academic conferences and journals• Impacted over 40,000 students and teachers through a national network of school and museum partnerships with SMALLab• Taught courses in interactive media & supervised graduate student researchKey Technologies: Java, Java3d, JSyn, Unity3d, motion-capture, Arduino microcontrollers, sensors & actuators

• Created Sustainable, a robotic sound installation for 7 gongs, water tanks, and microcontrollers. International exhibitions include the Chinese Millennium Museum (Beijing, 2006) and SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies Gallery (Los Angeles, 2005)• Created Transition Soundings, an interactive public art installation for 100 networked micro-speakers, proximity sensors, solar charger, and arduino micro controllers. Installed in Tempe, AZ (2005 – 06). Funded by the Tempe Arts Council.• Created, Interactions, an interactive software installation based on neural network learning models. International exhibitions include: Maxis Festival of Sound (Sheffield, 2002) and ACM Multimedia Gallery (Singapore, 2005). Cited in the Oxford History of Western Music (Taruskin, 2004). Reviewed in the New York Times (2000) • Music/Sound Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), 2003-04• Artist-in-Residence, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (Netherlands), 2002• Taught undergraduate courses in music technology at Adelphi University, 2002 - 03Key Technologies: Java, JSyn, Java2d, Arduino microcontrollers, sensors & actuators

Doctor Of Music, Computer Music And Composition

Masters, Computer Music And Composition

Bachelor, Music Theory And Composition