John Dennis Email & Phone Number

Novi, Mi

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Collaborate with instructional designers and technical editing team to create new student-facing content and continuously improve existing content for Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, and AI programs.• Work closely with media team to create videos and infographics to support learning.• Produce educational assets to support written lesson content, student activities, assessments, capstone projects, and video scripts.• Develop and deliver automated testing systems for Python, SQL, and JavaScript assessments.• Create customized chatbot AI activities to guide students through an interactive learning experience.

• Designed and developed a Python-based web scraping tool for scientific researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to assist with identifying relevant academic papers to support research initiatives. Future updates will provide language translations, topic modeling, OCR, and sentiment analysis using NLP techniques and other Machine Learning methodologies.• Provided technical consulting to a research-focused start-up company affiliated with the University of Michigan. The guidance included providing insights on how descriptive analytics could help measure ongoing success and how using predictive analytics could help identify future business opportunities for pursuing research grants.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Responsibilities included managing the external research of emerging technologies and enabling innovation within Information Technology at Ford.• Active participant and contributor to Ford’s Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing team strategy and education sessions, providing strategic insights and points of view on new technologies. Also worked closely with business customers to research and select Chatbot technologies to support Ford Help Desk operations.• Leader of Strategic Research Services team (3 employees) – responsible for providing technical insights on emerging technologies so that Ford can focus research efforts on areas that will provide the greatest value.• Research lab interactive experience coordinator – scheduled and coordinated interactive tours of Emerging Technology & Innovation research labs covering Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Computing, Internet of Things, and Virtual & Augmented Reality labs. Also supported corporate innovation and research initiatives by providing Ford employees access to equipment for creating proofs of concept involving AI and other emerging technologies.• GitHub governance model team leader - drove the effort to strengthen Ford’s software development community with a more secure and unified software collaboration environment.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Supported Ford’s legal office to strategically align their business needs with emerging IT tools and services in support of global growth, innovation, and business sustainability. Key deliverables included:• Global adoption of smartphone app providing mobile access to corporate conduct policies and ethical guidelines• Successful replacement of all paper binders with an iPad app to support board of directors’ meetings• Developed and delivered a cost recovery model for Ford’s eBilling system recovering $250,000 annually• Successful implementation of new systems for eDiscovery, matter management and due diligence

Managing partner and lead developer of automated trading systems for commodity futures trading company:• Developed and implemented proprietary automated trading systems• Traded and managed commodity futures accounts for private investors• Utilized genetic algorithms and neural networks to improve performance of trading systems• Applied Monte Carlo simulations and other statistical methods to validate out-of-sample trading system performance before trading live accounts

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science & Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering (Evening Courses)

Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science & Financial Analysis (Evening Courses)