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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Leading teams building tools that make people's work with data better, more reliable, and easier to share.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Freelance software development and data science projects.• Customization of web-based annotation software• Building and supporting experiment processing and analysis pipelines• Hugo-based websites

Chicago, Il

Led both the Performance Engineering and Data Science teams. • Responsible for performance infrastructure and reporting across the company. • This team was mission critical for measuring and monitoring performance of all of Voltron Data’s products.• Our internal tools were so successful they were then also sold to a number of large clients.• Grew my teams 3.5x in 1.5 years. • Served as technical lead, architect, and product manager for the team; used a product-focused development process to deliver the most important features to our customers.

Chicago, Il

• Managed the Arrow R engineering team• Led our open source maintainer apprenticeship program (which later led to 2 Arrow committers, one of whom has since become an Arrow PMC)Ursa Computing merged with others to form Voltron Data and much of my work continued (see above)

Chicago, Illinois

Data science lead for implementing a data platform; crossfunctional technical leader for data science infrastructure, tooling, and best practices. Managed engineers and data scientists on the data platform team and on a data science tooling team.• Built a cross-functional tooling team that spanned data science teams, focused on building internal tools that made it easier for data scientists to interact with internal systems. This was critical to scaling DS hiring and onboarding.• Built, taught, and championed software engineering best practices to the entire data science org (e.g. test driven development, CI/CD, code review).

Chicago, Il

Drove product development and engineering management for a number of statistical features and tools to help data scientists interact with the Crunch platform in Python, R, as well as the Crunch backend. Implemented machine learning and data driven features for the Crunch platform. Developed and maintained R libraries for the Crunch platform.Previous titles: Senior R Developer, Data Scientist

Chicago, Illinois

• Architected, led, and implemented a project to bring software engineering best-practices to the data science code base and process for one of our largest products. Drove 10-15x speed improvements in our pipeline and unlocked scaling our modeling techniques.• Taught and implemented test-driven development practices for the data science team (testing and JenkinsCI).

Chicago, Il

Lead software developer for a number of labs (primarily: 2 linguistics lab and 1 psychology lab). Specialized in data collection (especially with high-accuracy sensors), data lineage, metadata management, databases, annotation, and validation.Coordinated and executed all stages of research for the Center for Sign, Gesture, and Language. Much of this work focuses on instrumented capture technologies (mainly motion capture and video recording).

Worked on a variety of projects under the supervision of Dr. Diane Brentari and Dr. Jason Riggle. Concentrated on data collection, management, annotation, and analysis, as well as statistical modeling of language data.

Sole lecturer for Introduction to Linguistics. Responsible for all course content, lecturing, managing teaching assistants.Teaching assistant for Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Responsible for leading a weekly discussion section and all homework grading.Teaching assistant for Introduction to Syntax. Responsible for leading a weekly discussion section and all homework grading.

Coordinated technology needs for a small service center dedicated to off site training of road professionals. Deployed and administered windows and linux based file servers, web servers, and email servers (exchange). Managed technical support staff focusing on desktop support.

Phd, Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Linguistics