James Bell Email & Phone Number

Canada

Owner of ML prediction system:* Proposed and launched overhaul of ML forecasting service (>$10M/yr incremental revenue; annual savings of 4 years of Eng time); onboarded 8 Senior Engineers* Analyzed SLA regressions to identify root causes impacting $5M/yr; improved core metric of customer satisfaction by 10% (projected $30M/yr)* Redeveloped outdated ML models to improve model accuracy by 2%* Identified and fixed data flow bugs that blocked advertiser spending (~$100M/yr)

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

* Designed ML solutions through client engagements. Clients consistently gave excellent reviews for my ML advisement—problem formulation; ML system design; ML roadmap—and aligning projects with their business needs* Advocated for strategic directions for my team’s place in industry and within AMII* Quickly onboarded to diverse ML fields (reinforcement learning; unsupervised learning; physics-based simulations; fraud detection; etc.) to provide client value

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

* Planned research objectives to apply reinforcement learning to industrial control at the Drayton Valley Water Treatment Plant* Ensured technical direction was aligned with stakeholder requirements: connecting water treatment engineers, research agencies, and software engineers* Led a team of graduate students and experienced software engineers, providing coaching while focusing on project deliverables* Managed design and deployment of a machine learning pipeline for online learning (with go, gRPC, docker, etc.), supporting users in python, julia, and golang

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Founded company as a sole proprietorship in 2010 and built it into a corporation with a variety of clients and employees focusing on software projects• Managed, designed, and wrote code for many projects• Understood clients to see how my team and I could solve their unique needs• Supervised employees and contractors, both within my company and on behalf of my clients, to ensure projects remain on schedule• Reviewed written reports, design documents, and code to ensure quality remained constant, regardless of the experience or skill of the contributing developers• Mentored and trained computer scientists, computer engineers, and software testers• Designed software architectures and APIs for backend and embedded systems

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Designed electronic devices for clients, such as GPS vehicle trackers and thermostats• Developed protocols to allow communication between electronic devices and web servers• Wrote documentation so that clients were easily able to use their products and to ensure that the designs would be easy to update in the future• Interacted with clients to ensure that their needs were met by translating their non-technical requirements into technical specifications

Master Of Science - Ms, Neuroscience And Computing Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Physics