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Boulder, CO, US

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

I lead a newly created Engineering Productivity organization within Visa's Issuing Solutions Product Delivery organization, focused on accelerating high-quality software delivery through improved DevOps tooling and practices, robust testing strategies, automation wherever feasible, and AI-assisted workflows.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

From August 2022 to January 2024: Member of the engineering leadership team of the Geo Machine Intelligence (GeoMI) organization. GeoMI's mission is to accelerate Google's map-making capabilities by applying state-of-the-art computer vision and AI technologies to automatically update Google Map's digital model of the real world from signals derived from.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I began my work at ThinkTopic primarily developing a personalized product recommendation system for a client in the e-commerce domain. My work involved developing bespoke analysis services and web applications in Clojure and Clojurescript (particularly using the React-like Reagent framework for Clojurescript) as well as the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash.

Alexandria, VA

I founded RKDN Digital to help non-profits, NGOs, public benefit corporations, and other mission-focused enterprises adopt and adapt modern digital technologies and practices. I had hoped to use my expertise in machine learning, agile software application development, Lean organizational transformation, DevOps, and infrastructure management to help clients.

Alexandria, VA

Directly reporting to the CEO, I was responsible for managing all day-to-day operations for ATS, a company with approximately 130 employees. I managed the vice-presidents of our two business unit divisions as well as the CTO and IT staff. I worked collaboratively with the CEO and the executive management team to craft and evolve ATS’s strategy. I.

Alexandria, VA

Dual-hatted in a CIO/CTO role, my primary mission was to develop and instill a DevOps culture within our organization, with a focus on continual improvement and experimentation. I managed the IT and R&D departments within ATS.My focus areas included:* Instituting a Continuous Delivery model for all software projects* Exploring new business models for.

Alexandria, VA

Managed internal research and development efforts in areas of:* Software development best practices and Agile delivery methodologies* Big data analytics and highly scalable infrastructures* Web-scale software architectures* Information extraction, text analytics, and natural language processingTechnologies: GATE, NTLK, Tesseract OCR, MeteorJS, DC.js.

Alexandria, VA

Provided systems and software architectural guidance for the next-generation Patents End-to-End (PE2E) project within the US Patent and Trademark Office, focusing on integration with legacy systems, data modeling, ETL processes, and design of a loosely coupled service-oriented architecture. Contributed to ATS's internal R&D efforts in cloud architectures.

Annapolis, MD

Led system integration efforts for Orbis’ legacy and cloud-based entity extraction engines, leveraging Apache Hadoop, Cassandra, Accumulo and other FOSS/GOSS solutions. Provided customer-site cloud-scale Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing (NLP) expertise, coordinating with analytics efforts of related programs within the.

Arlington, VA

Developed probabilistic inference and data analysis algorithms in Java for information extraction/retrieval applications, primarily geared toward DoD agencies interested in unsupervised categorization of unstructured text documents and discovery of relationships among named entities discovered in those documents.Led research efforts as Principal.

Specialized in teaching of algebra/trigonometry-based introductory physics sequence (PSU Physics 250/251) for students primarily from the biological and life sciences. Integrated results from recent Physics Education Research (PER) into curriculum. Authored new recitation and laboratory activities based on peer-instruction model.Provided administrative.

Performed research in Prof. Pablo Laguna's group on a three-dimensional fully-nonlinear, finite-difference time-evolution code for the calculation of solutions to Einstein's equations of general relativity in the context of an initial-boundary value problem.Wrote applications to visualize numerical relativity group's massive multi-dimensional datasets..

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Ph.D., Physics

AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2003) PSU Physics Excellence in Teaching Award (2001) Braddock Graduate Fellowship (2000-01)

B.S., Physics

Activities and Societies: President, Society of Physics Students (1998-2000)Summa cum laude Minors in Mathematics and Computer Science