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Richmond, Virginia, Us

Architected and built an LLM/RAG Chat Engine for the Sports industry in AWS that gives officials the ability to use a Chatbot for their relevant rule books and exam creation. Primarily working as a backend ML Engineer this solution utilized the AWS CDK to deploy REST APIs that interact with Python Lambdas that invoke Bedrock Knowledge Bases containing OpenSearch Vector Stores with customized prompts. DynamoDB was the data store of choice for tracking chat, users, prompts, and examination data. Using openly available data and user inputs, the underlying foundational models were fine-tuned and pre-trained to provide customized responses from Bedrock.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Working within the Data and Analytics Practice Area to offer clients solutions for data strategy and architecture, advanced analytics, and build highly available fault-tolerant distributed Big Data systems to deliver data to decision-makers.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Updated existing retention data model to incorporate new and upgraded features to improve its quality and performance to produce an employee attrition risk score. This was done by pulling in new data sources, assessing them, and creating enhancements that were evaluated and verified by business users. Microsoft Power App and Power BI dashboards were created and updated to give end-users insight into how the model was evaluating and producing their relevant attrition risk. Jackson supported the in-place infrastructure by upgrading their Azure Databricks instances to maintain support contracts, improve performance, and reduce security risks. Jackson and the team ensured the client's future success by developing in-depth presentations and documentation for their awareness and education on Data Science and Machine Learning processes that were contained in the solution.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Successfully brought the clients first Innovation Lab product to production that delivers confidence scores of entities using in-house Machine Learning models. This involved completely refactoring the data ingestion and Machine Learning processing, serving Geospatial data via Spring Boot microservices, and displaying it using Angular. Jackson and the rest of the team had to create the client's first Jenkins pipeline to deploy Python code into AWS, consolidate disparate data from internal and external systems then formalize the companies first Agile Data Science and engineering team to fit with their new development life cycle framework. In addition, Jackson introduced innovative solutions and extended functionality to incorporate GraphQL, JavaCC for high-speed processing of contextual data and improving the product's performance using parallel processing.

Arlington, Va, Us

Lead engineer on project to build an analytics platform from the ground up to resolve identity information while becoming the central hub for person-centric data for the client. His primary focus was implementing a scalable tech stack hosted in AWS consisting of Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Docker containers housing Spring Boot microservices (written in both Java and Kotlin) which are all used alongside Kafka for fault-tolerant messaging and source/sink data processing. In addition to performing day-to-day activities, Jackson also participated in technical demonstrations to build prototype solutions and successfully acquire work across different Homeland Security organizations.

Arlington, Va, Us

Worked as a full stack engineer on USCIS Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) and was brought onto the team to maintain and develop new application features. Working within a fast-paced Agile environment Jackson was able to build upon his knowledge of Java Spring, AngularJS, Karma testing, PL/SQL (Oracle DB), bash scripting, Jenkins, AWS, ActiveMQ, SonarQube, Gradle, Vagrant and Docker (microservices) to help teams achieve their projected sprint goals. Over the course of his time on ELIS, he was recognized multiple times by upper-level management for his ability to produce high-quality code and acquire new work via technical demonstrations.

Java developer role to maintain and further develop the Freedom of Information Act Information Processing System (FIPS), a web-based application that supports on-line processing for large volumes of FOIA/PA requests. This system required developers to be fluent with an Oracle RBDMS, WebLogic server instances, OpenText Case360, and SAP Crystal Reports.

Created a Cloud SDK for Android devices that creates secure, robust, and high-quality applications in minimal time. Implemented common cloud services that are customizable and extendable such as: file browsers for both Android devices and server file system, efficient uploading and downloading of files, XMPP chat, and MongoDB backend support.

Security application to monitor, alert and respond to malicious events on a network built using a combination of Snort to listen and inspect traffic in real time, Python to process data and perform any necessary actions, Splunk to serve as a dashboard of the events that occurred on the network, MySQL for persistent storage and JavaScript/HTML to provide additional user interfaces to the backend data.

Harrisonburg, Va, Us

Tutored a student through his Computer Science courses to lead him down the path towards a degree.