Ken Williams Email & Phone Number

St. Paul, Mn

Contributed many distributions to the world's largest code archive network.

Member of the board of managers (leadership team) responsible for organizational technology.

St. Paul, Minnesota

Member of the Applied Mathematics group, working on problems related to wind farm management, energy production prediction, smart meter anomaly detection, and the like. The Applied Math Group directly serves the needs of our parent companies NextEra Energy, Inc. and Florida Power and Light, as well as internal initiatives of WindLogics.Key deliverables have included: * Prediction of wind turbine anomalies for the nation's largest provider of wind energy (NextEra) * Prediction of customer billing defaults using past billing behavior (FPL) * Prediction of large-scale outages in power utility distribution systems (FPL) * Detection of long-term drift and anomalous behavior in wind turbines' power output and their on-board anemometers * Collaboration on optimal dispatch models for battery systems to reduce customer peak billingKey technical achievements have included: * Pioneered graph database model for troubleshooting & navigating power distribution system (Neo4J) * Pioneered document datastore for computation & front-end of Generation Entitlement system (MongoDB) * Pioneered & sustained efforts to transition organization to a modern revision control system (Git) * Early development of distributed systems for big-data applications (Hadoop, Spark) * Led efforts to improve the software quality of the Applied Math Group using R package best practices, branch management, formal releases, and Atlassian Bamboo for automated testing. * Improved mechanisms for tight collaboration between R code and Java code through JNI (JavaR)

I worked in the fields of machine learning, statistical inference, information retrieval, text mining, finite state automata and sequence alignment, and maintain interests in dynamic languages and research methodology. I was instrumental in the development of WestlawNext and continued to work on enhancements to its functionality.

Swarthmore, Pa

Founding co-partner. Created the technical infrastructure behind a successful job-recruiting site.

Provided contracting services in data-driven application development, including web-oriented database-centered development.

Co-authored a book on Mason, a web content presentation platform for Perl: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002251.do

Taught mathematics, computer science, chorus, chamber music, and music appreciation.

Taught 7/8th grade Algebra, 9th grade Algebra, and 12th grade Advanced Topics course.

Developed solutions for physical & digital fulfillment based on Oracle infrastructure.

Swarthmore, Pa

I co-founded the "Ask Dr. Math" project, a free service for students around the world. The project created a large archive of in-depth questions & answers on math topics from elementary through college levels. I also created the CGI-based infrastructure for managing queues of questions and answers and designed the public-facing web site.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics And Music

Meng(R), Software Engineering, Machine Learning

Activities and Societies: Member of the Sydney Philharmonia choir

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics And Music

Ba, Mathematics & Music

Activities and Societies: Sixteen Feet a cappella group, Math tutor & director of the Math Clinic

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