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United States

Mobile Metropolitan Area

Daphne, Alabama, United States

Designed and developed a purpose-built agricultural drone platform along with the flight control computer to provide autonomous flight to a drone consisting of a heterogeneous wing and motor system, enabling a broad variety of payloads and motor configurations. The system uses an array of camera and LIDAR systems with a custom AI agent to identify targets.

Mobile Metropolitan Area

Designed and implemented the data architecture and systems design for an AWS cloud-based health and wellness SaaS product. Identified candidates and hired skilled people who matched our culture to help build an amazing company. Worked with Product Management to ensure the development of a quality product that meets our customers' needs.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Taught DSBA 6156 - Applied Machine Learning, DSBA 6165 - AI & Deep Learning, and DSBA 6160 - Database Systems for Data Scientists. Developed course materials for each class and participated in the development of curricula for the overall Data Science program at UNCC.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

The Data Science and Business Analytics (DSBA) program at UNC Charlotte is a partnership between the College of Computing and Informatics and the Belk College of Business.DSBA is interdisciplinary program at the intersection of business, computer and information sciences, statistics, and operations research. The program leads to an M.S. in Data Science and.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Worked with entomologists for a large pest management company to develop agent-based models of insect populations in portions of Charlotte, NC to predict pest population spikes and to proactively identify treatment plan changes to minimize customer impacts based on business types.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

In this role, I work with line-of-business (LOB) partners, external providers, company technology providers, and our internal technology delivery team to define our next-generation solution to deliver card-linked offers to our Consumer, Small-Business, and Wealth Management customers. This solution implements real-time event-driven opportunity targeting.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina

Davidson, North Carolina

At Aquanomix, I use my background in computer science, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to build systems to reduce energy consumption, reduce operational risk, and save billions of gallons of water per year for commercial real estate, manufacturing, and data center companies.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Manages the Systems Engineering, DevOps, Release Management, and Technology Governance, and Innovation activities for the Digital Payments & Commerce application portfolio for Consumer Bank Technology & Operations eCommerce, Architecture, Segments, & Technology organization. Work with AppDev, Line of Business, Architecture, InfoSec, Risk Management, PMO.

Led technology team responsible for the implementation of the BankAmeriDeals technology platform, a merchant-funded reward program that provides valuable discounts to Bank of America customers. Managed the systems engineering function responsible for infrastructure architecture & design, capacity engineering, vendor management, and application governance.

• Led the creation of a technology shared services organization supporting five application development teams responsible for the development and maintenance of the underwriting, fulfillment, and risk monitoring of the.
• Built a team of project managers, information architects, database & middleware engineers, infrastructure architects, and production support technicians that acted as a rapid response team to engage with technology.
• Worked with Microsoft to performance test critical applications, identify critical improvement projects, and worked with the senior leadership teams to integrate these projects into the initiative project cycle.
• Worked with IBM, Microsoft, and EMC to improve the performance of our application infrastructure, including the addition of over 25TB of solid-state disk (SSD). Through these efforts, we were able to improve our.
• Led an effort to improve our talent planning and management activities to identify and leverage team strengths, and to recruit new team members to balance our capabilities across the team to better serve our clients.

• Led an organization that provided consulting, project / program management, information technology design & implementation services, and logistics systems & supply chain execution services to U.S. domestic and global.
• Managed the financial, operations, human resources, project management, and risk management functions for a small (15-25 employee) organization with $6MM in annual revenues.
• Managed the development and operations of a successful technology training organization that served U.S. domestic clients, including many in the Fortune 100.
• Led the development and commercialization of a web-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for a supply chain execution & fulfillment product used globally by customers to manage and track order fulfillment to.
• Led the implementation and commercialization of a SaaS platform for transportation optimization, carrier management, route optimization, and shipment tracking used by U.S. domestic clients to manage outbound / return.
• Led the creation and operation of an information technology systems integration practice that provided consulting and solutions integration services to U.S. domestic and international clients. Managed the partner.

• Accountable to CIO / CFO, lead corporate information systems function for a publicly traded casual dining restaurant chain with over 460 stores and over $1.1 billion in annual revenue. Managed a staff of over 30.
• Managed the insourcing of key technology management functions from two external organizations. Led the creation of policies and procedures, as well as the staffing plan, to support the return of these functions to.
• Led technology efforts to convert mainframe-based M&D financial systems to Geac SmartStream client / server
• Implemented information and data architecture function to create enterprise data model, data warehousing framework, and alignment of business strategy with technology execution.
• Implemented real-time operations analytics system to allow multidimensional analysis of store KPIs within six hours of the previous day close using multiple segmentation strategies.
• Led efforts to migrate DOS-based back office store systems software to Windows-based system to improve manager visibility to store operations data.

Supported engineers in the implementation of process control solutions for customers in the food & beverage, pulp & paper, CPG, automotive, electronics, health & personal care, and other industries. Worked directly with customers to develop novel control solutions for complex manufacturing scenarios.Responsible for the design & implementation of the.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Dissertation topic: AviatAR - An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for.

Mba, Technology Management

Bs, Computer & Information Sciences