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De Forest, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Developed applications as part of global and collaborate teams for automatic captioning and weather presentations primarily for broadcast TV market.
• Designed first in the market cloud based automatic captioning system for broadcast TV video interfacing to IBM Watson speech-to-text AI, reaching new market areas, providing cost savings to customers and creating.
• Created smart formatting of numerical data and associated web applications, providing real-time, accurate and comprehensible on-demand captions.
• Automated monitoring and performance dashboards for customer feedback on accuracy, latency and reliability, ensuring compliance with FCC regulations.
• Implemented automatic scheduled capture of weather data for display on websites and social media and on-air presentation of KML data, delivering life and property saving information for breaking severe weather.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Served as lead developer for automatic severe weather alerting system and contributed major features to primary TV on-air presentation product as well as expanding data processing to include traffic, weather-stick and.
• Built application for real-time alerting and displaying of Watches and Warnings and other data (e.g. school closings) to crawl over broadcast TV video, giving viewers life and property saving information.
• Drove over $1M in sales with new features for text-to-speech and US-Spanish language support, meeting FCC requirements and resulting in “first on the air” information about life and property for threatening severe.
• Devised and implemented user interfaces for displaying text content from interpolated weather data for weather broadcasts, simplifying work flow and adding greater control of visualizations.
• Improved algorithms for plotted weather data and added support for social media browsing and posting, showing most complete weather outlook and model displays on multiple portals.
• Integrated data support for traffic data, weather stick data, alerts and other non-model weather data, driving more complete solution informing viewers of daily life impacts and decision making.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Established client specific applications for production quality monitoring of manufacturing processes such as semi-conductors and steel, forensic analysis and university research to reach international markets.
• Produced intuitive user interface and report generation setup for elemental identification and processing popular for ability to display clear, accurate and immediate results, resulting in high customer satisfaction.
• Engineered GUI presentations and data reporting for automated analysis systems eventually expanded into core product line including Japanese language UI, increasing product reach in international markets.
• Customized and tested analysis software from UNIX to Windows platform, satisfying requirements for semiconductor industry vendors realizing a competitive market advantage.
• Integrated, installed, tested and maintained third-party microscope communication packages, allowing products greater flexibility and expanding marketplace appeal without being tied to single vendors.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

I obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry

I obtained a BS in Chemistry.