Jon Ammerman Email & Phone Number

Wailuku, Hi, Us

Irvine, Ca (Headquarters)

Horizon Consumer Science is a team highly skilled Ph.D. experts. My role is to support our client’s research initiatives by providing custom software, processing, IT and data products to the team in a highly dynamic agile environment. As a technology “Sherpa” I guide my esteemed colleagues towards trusted methodologies. Each challenge requires unique solutions that are best tailored to meet the data science and research demands of clients in industries such as Technology & Science, University Research, Governmental Offices, Banking & Financial Groups, Medical Services, Health & Well-Being, Travel & Tourism, Beauty & Fashion, Retail, Luxury & Consumer Goods, Wine & Liquor, Restaurants & Food Service, and Agriculture.The nature of the work often requires “heavy lifting”. These are technologies that I use in meeting the company’s computational demands.Foundational Technologies -* Linux and FreeBSD systems administration* Private Cloud server and storage resources: Virtual Servers, Webservers, Storage Blocks* Traditional databases: MySQL, Firebird* Flat-file and non relational (NoSQL) databases * Versioning control: CVS, SVN, Git* System automation, customization and integration using advanced shell scriptingCustom Software - * Perl (Perl lives! - excellent efficiency when parsing huge volumes of character data)* PHP (“Down and dirty” fast and easy programming for small/medium workloads)* Python (for when things get serious Machine Learning and Big Data)* Java (Mobile applications, data acquisition)* XML/HTML/JavaScript/CSS (and all the other common languages of web work)* Currently experimenting with Go (Golang) to enhance performance Big Data Solutions -* Cloud (AWS) hosted processing clusters: Hadoop, Hive, Spark* Various (AWS) big data tools: Athena, S3Statistical,Data Science and Machine Learning tools -* Online collaborative integrated development environments (Jupyter Notebook, Rstudio)* TensorFlow and Scikit-Learn platforms

Greater San Diego Area

Develop methodologies and manage program personnel at all levels. Create prototype systems and software filling research and development role. Provide a Point of Contact between technical operations and Defense Department. Coordination / management of large scale projects with geographically dispersed teams.