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Itasca, Il, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Member of Point-of-Sale (POS) team; software implemented in Java 8.- Maintained software for the interface between POS devices and the rest of the system (inventory, sales, shipping, users, etc.).- Added new features to checkout experience streamlining the customer’s experience and facilitating better record-keeping.

Beaverton, Or, Us

- Worked on inventory team to improve storewide access to new data for price changes and stock-on-hand.- REST API development using Spring.- AWS development for streaming in new messages about stock and price changes. Infrastructure setup using terraform.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Backend development in Scala for data ingestion and processing- REST API development using Akka HTTP.- Helped design and develop AWS serverless architecture for large scale data throughput- Work with Kubernetes to develop and deploy solutions

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

- Core work supporting sales financial transaction for all POS systems across all Walmart stores.- Developing Akka microservices utilizing Kafka for streaming POS data.- Daily coding of various microservices in Scala.

Washington, D.C., Us

- Working to support Rally's platform for health initiatives as a software engineer- Developing a common representation for benefits information supporting a variety of sources.- Daily coding of various services in Scala with RESTful Play APIs.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Supported 14 legacy applications ranging from customer facing websites to internal user applications, including several that nobody had any knowledge about.- Solved problems arising from ticket system that would require a code change to address.- Became knowledgeable of entire system ranging from AS400 backend through ETL layers to the DB and more modern Java/Scala frontend.- Primary legacy work in Java, with new development in Scala with RESTful Play APIs.

- Refactor core database containing records that drive the logistics decisions BridgeNet delivers. - - Implement first stages as proof-of-concept and lay out plans for continuing development.- Create a trainable benchmarking model for logistics cost prediction.- Development using C# and SQL Server.

- Conducting research in the area of machine learning, using graphical models with applications in natural language processing, machine reading, information extraction, large-scale entity linking, probabilistic databases, and ontology alignment.- Majority of time spent developing in Java and Scala. Worked on freely available toolkit for machine learning implemented in Scala; Master's thesis implemented utilizing toolkit and additional Java/Scala development. MySQL and MongoDB as backend.

- Mentors: John Winn and John Guiver- Research with Infer.NET to build robust graphical models that are applicable to a variety of classification tasks, can create user-understandable justifications for their predictions, and scale to generate results in real-time.- Collected and evaluated models on user generated data.- Integrated several models into a working product prototype.- Research development 80% of the time using C#, remainder of the time conducted experiments and analyzed results.

- Research and development on Natural Language Interaction in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, In-car Multi-agent Dialogue Systems, and Coaching for Simulated Damage Control.- Experience in dialogue management, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech generation, and models of human-to-human/computer dialogue.- 80% of the time as architect and engineer; primary development in Java with a little C++ and Visual Basic. MS Access supporting the simulator and tutoring system backend.- Use of various proprietary and research systems such as Nuance SR and Genesis TTS. Remainder of time spent running experiments, analyzing results, documentation, preparing and presenting publications.

- Research and development on a real-time expert training simulator and advisor.- Experience in modeling expert knowledge, multi-agent simulation and communication, and automatic detection of fire from multiple-sensor input.- Occasionally managed the software development team.- Extensive use of C++, Visual Basic, and MS Access; 90% time as programmer.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science