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Lehi, Ut, Us

Lehi, Ut, Us

Provo, Ut, Us

- Created deep learning pipelines for the purpose of automatically indexing historical documents, including the creation of a fully-automated pipeline for extracting information from a collection of semi-structured death records in the 1800's.- Coordinated with other organizations (outside BYU) to provide historical document analysis services which provided increased funding for the research lab and contract renewals.- Managed 5-10 research assistants by providing direction, training, and learning resources which allowed students to be more productive in the lab.- Regularly trained students in general machine/deep learning principles and document analysis specific methods which increased their ability to work in the research lab.- Provided detailed tutorials for performing handwriting recognition and document analysis in TensorFlow and PyTorch on Google Colaboratory.- Researched literature in top-tier Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing conferences which allowed us to provide state-of-the-art document analysis models.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

- Utilized big data frameworks HDFS and Apache Spark to perform data analysis on family tree information which provided valuable insights into how current web services could be improved.- Started the creation of a new web service tool that would boost productivity by providing bulk modifications to content. This involved requirements gathering, interviews, designing, and building the web service in Java and SpringBoot.

Rexburg, Idaho, Us

- Tutored roughly 5 students weekly about the basics of Java and Android mobile development.- Tutored roughly 5 students weekly about the basics of back-end web development including PHP and NodeJS.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

- Helped maintain a back-end web API in Java that provided access to FamilySearch tree data for the entire organization.- Created a back-end service in Java that provided access to millions of FamilySearch persons without authentication, for the purpose of being indexed by search engines, which resulted in an increase of new registrations.- Gained real-world experience with technologies/methodologies such as Amazon Web Services (S3, SQS), PostgreSQL, Spring-Boot, continuous integration, and agile.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

- Managed the upgrade and migration of nearly 50 production SQL Server databases.- Coordinated with employees across the organization to provide database solutions that were directed to the specific needs of their applications.- Resolved security warnings that were related to SQL Server databases to keep data more secure.

Rexburg, Idaho, Us

Tutored a class of 50 students in a personal and engaging manner which resulted in their understanding and proficiency in SQL and the basics of Oracle.

Kaysville, Utah, Us

Worked with team of nearly 15 people in a high stress environment to effectively and efficiently construct 120 bed lifts daily.

Worked with customers to design vector images using Adobe Illustrator to produce vinyl t-shirts/plaques/lettering/etc.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science