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Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

* Oversee staffing, general company direction, logistics, technology, managerial infrastructure, and operations scaling support* Increase transparency, accountability, and efficiency between teams through digitization of paper-based methods* Field cloud-based technologies to prevent data loss and increase availability* Create cloud-based applications for employee adoption and usage * Develop technology roadmap for disruptive products for company and spinouts

* Create and manage research strategy* Implement and oversee development of new technologies* Foster talent

* Implementation of MAPE-K based control, distributed knowledge and reasoning, extensible algorithm and platform infrastructure, logging, testing and other core features for distributed artificial intelligence in potentially disconnected environments* Implementation of C++ core library, Java and Android ports for features* Overseen development by dozens of contributors* http://www.gams.ai

* Implementation of distributed timing, control, reasoning, threading, logging, testing, and algorithm features and services* Implementation of C++ core library and Java and Python ports* Creation and active maintenance of open source repository (http://madara.sourceforge.net)* Creation and active maintenance of Doxygen and Javadocs documentation, as well as technical support to external teams at CMU, Vanderbilt, etc.* http://www.madara.ai

Portland, Or, Us

Focus areas: command and control, visualization, determinism, and trust of distributed artificial intelligence in robotics.Goals: make AI easy, intuitive, and predictable, while also offering technologies and methodologies to combat adversarial or malfunctioning groups of autonomous systems (e.g., countering emergent behaviors).

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

* Distributed artificial intelligence* Formal methods for reliable autonomy* Quality-of-service for scalable robotics* Disruptive middleware in robotics

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Focus: reliable autonomy, artificial intelligence algorithms, middleware for groups of autonomous mobile robots, trust and verification

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Graduate Student on PhD track at Vanderbilt* Distributed and Networked Systems* Multiple agent distributed systems for robotics* Domain-Specific Modeling Languages Development (DSML)* Interpreter and Compiler Theory* Distributed testing frameworks

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

* Assisted Dr. Douglas Schmidt in teaching CS 251 - Intermed Software Design, an upper level course for juniors, seniors, and graduate students which focuses on advanced C++ programming, STL, and design patterns.* Helped maintain driver programs for student assignments* Assisted in grading assignments and weekly quizzes* Maintained diverse office hours for student questions and guidance* Gave a small number of class lectures when necessary on topics including advanced C++ programming, STL features and programming techniques, and grading policies* Received excellent TA evaluations including student evaluated scores of 100% for good to excellent overall TA rating, 93% good to excellent availability, 100% good to excellent knowledgeable, 100% good to excellent helpful and responsive, and 96% good to excellent in communicating effectively.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

* Assisted Dr. Douglas Schmidt in teaching CS 251 - Intermed Software Design, an upper level course for juniors, seniors, and graduate students which focuses on advanced C++ programming, STL, and design patterns.* Helped create and maintain driver programs for student assignments* Assisted in grading assignments and weekly quizzes* Maintained diverse office hours for student questions and guidance* Gave a small number of class lectures when necessary on topics including STL features and programming techniques, cache coherency and differences between Visual Studio compilation and g++ compilation* Received student evaluated 96% good to excellent availability scores, 93% good to excellent knowledgeable scores, 96% good to excellent grading (despite the course being one of the more difficult courses), and 93% and 97% in presentation and responsiveness, respectively.

* Designed perl scripts for distributed testing of publishers and subscribers for a dissemination framework called Apollo* Designed and ran blackbox tests and scenarios for gathering metrics for both performance (latency and throughput) and quality of service (QoS) testing vectors for Apollo and Quality-of-service Enabled Dissemination (QED) Apollo* Helped QED developers troubleshoot performance issues* Coded, maintained, and tested Java clients that interfaced with the underlying Apollo and QED Apollo architectures

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

* Worked with proprietary Windows software for building distributed forests and trusted root authorities* Worked with Active Directory and single sign on services to seamlessly integrate multiple forests

Murfreesboro, Tn, Us

* Developing generic array preparation algorithm (Sift Algorithm) for comparison-based sorting algorithms.* Researching algorithmic structures for inclusion in research methodologies and comparing the effective results of using those structures against the Sift Algorithm.* Researching advanced implementations of the Sift Algorithm for specialized sorting cases and working on the theoretical explanations and average case analysis for why the Sift Algorithm accomplishes what it does. Results from preliminary tests are very promising with some sorting algorithms like Insertion Sort and Bubble Sort performing at fractions of their previous times.* Wrote competitive grant proposal for funding the project

Murfreesboro, Tn, Us

* Reading and summarizing ten years of student research in Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University.* Selecting student papers and writing articles for Scientia that outline the importance of selected student papers.

Murfreesboro, Tn, Us

* Applied for and received funding for development of teaching aid for undergraduate Computer Architecture courses.* Designed and developed a compiler, interpreter, and GUI emulator called the Relatively Simple Computer (RSC) Emulator which is currently being used by professors at MTSU.* Published results of research with Associate Professor Brenda Parker. Students showed marked interest in using the Emulator and student retention and ability to build a final computer improved noticeably.http://frank.mtsu.edu/~jre2k/research/rscemu

Murfreesboro, Tn, Us

* Researched a sorting algorithm called Multiple Pivot Sort (M Pivot Sort) that had very little empirical testing published previously.* Empirically tested the algorithm against other comparison based sorting algorithms like Merge Sort, Quick Sort, and Heap Sort. M Pivot Sort performed better than the pre-mentioned algorithms on integer and string sorting for all cases at all sizes of lists (10-10,000,000).* Disseminated results to other scholars in the group through presentations, posters, and publications.

Murfreesboro, Tn, Us

* Conducted preliminary research into new sorting algorithm methodologies. Focused on existing algorithms and data structures like Minheaps.* Developed new data organization methodologies around heap structures, including a new concept called a Reverse Maxheap. This research resulted in the first Sift Algorithm, which requires data being organized with a Minheap and a Reverse Maxheap.

Worked in various capacities for the corporation, which is now defunct - formerly based in Sauk Rapids and Waite Park, MN.* Website development for dozens of businesses in MN and TN* Software Engineering on large C++ MFC projects (ProCerts, defunct)* Project lead on multiple large C++ projects (teams of 3-4 programmers, testers), including interacting with customers* Device driver and Operating System development (ZROS project, defunct)* Grant drafting and editing for NSF grant proposals* Eventually promoted to Director of Web Services in 2002

Phd, Masters, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science