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Naperville, IL

Pace has been in the high tech services space since 1983. We are a client-focused organization, geared towards being an extension of the technology arm of large, complex organizations in Chicagoland. As of 2024 we have a team of 200 employees and offer a wide range of services, including: IT Services, Cybersecurity, Premise Security, Audio Visual, and.

Naperville, IL

A few clients of Pace Systems were asking for some custom software around scheduling. A small team of developers and I developed an initial scheduling system for several fire departments that helped fire chiefs schedule and manage their staff. We built the system for them in python/django and reduced their scheduling workload by more than 50%.In 2015.

Chicago, IL

Upkeep Charlie is a software system for service based businesses to manage customers and service providers. Customers can book and pay for work via our website or app, and admins can easily monitor/manage communications, invoicing and job status. Jobs are sent to vetted, high quality, independent contractors who actually perform the work and who are then.

Oakbrook Terace, IL

After selling Leaguevine to 8to18, Roger and I headed up their technology team with each of us focusing on different parts of the business.Some parts of my role here include building out the core product in Ruby/Rails, hiring people, setting our product roadmap, managing product development of 5 of our core applications, deploying each of the applications.

Illinois

Leaguevine is a site that gives non-professional athletes their own online sports profiles, highlighting their teams, games, and stats. It also gives tournament directors and league organizers a suite of tools to help them manage their schedules and put all their event information online. Leaguevine was part of the summer 2012 Iron Yard accelerator program.

Madison, WI

Conducted research in remote sensing under Professor Mutlu Ozdogan with the assistance of Professor Jerry Zhu within the Centre for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE). Worked on developing new statistical classification algorithms to utilize satellite images of varying spatial and temporal resolutions concurrently.

Madison, WI

Created a website from scratch (http://www.ewbuw.org) using the Drupal CMS. Used PHP, HTML, CSS, and MySQL to create dynamic pages that allow officers to update content quickly and easily. Taught future webmasters how to create and manage a simple website such as this one.

Bangalore, India

Worked at the Center for Sustainable Technologies primarily assisting other graduate students with various water quality projects. Traveled to villages 1-2 hours outside Bangalore to perform water quality analysis. Learned standard techniques for analyzing water samples and performing on site assessments.

Madison, WI

I was the Kenya Project manager from the time our group took our first trip to Kenya. I went there on 4 separate occasions for 21-30 days at a time, living in the rural farming community of Orongo, just outside Kisumu. While in country, we stayed in local homes, sometimes in mud huts which offered us additional insights into their way of life and how.

Madison, WI

Over two years, I was a TA for three different classes:CS 354 - Machine Organization and Basic Systems (3 times)CS 412 - Foundations of Scientific ComputingCS 577 - Introduction to AlgorithmsMy TA responsibilities included holding weekly review sessions and office hours, giving lectures while the instructors were out of town, writing and grading assignments.

Los Angeles, CA

Assisted in the development of a Java based Bayesian Network tool called Samiam (http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/samiam/) within Professor Adnan Darwiche's Automated Reasoning Group. Managed the server and website. Set up an additional website for privileged users for bug tracking and usage statistics. Assisted graduate students by writing testing scripts in.

Los Angeles, CA

Worked for Professor Miodrag Potkonjak on hardware authentication problems. Wrote a complex C++ program using linear programming to solve whether or not a digital logic circuit contains unwanted circuitry inserted by an ’attacker’.

Los Angeles, CA

Helped build and maintain a website for UCLA’s Ultimate Frisbee team (http://www.smaugultimate.com). Created a PHP program to take human readable text output from a palm pilot statistics program and parse it to enter the relevant information into a MySQL database we designed. Created dynamic pages for users to view team results and statistics.

Los Angeles, CA

Set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server and created the website for the UCLA chapter (http://tbp.seas.ucla.edu) using the Dragonfly CMS. Used PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and HTML to write custom pages for logged in users to contribute content. Created a searchable, password protected collection of past examinations. Trained future webmasters.

Naperville, IL

Interned at PACE Systems for the summers of 2001, 2003, and 2004. Configured and assembled large numbers of PCs and servers as specified by high volume clients. Worked on customer service helping physicians of Illinois obtain and set up high speed internet. Maintained our staffing service website and matched candidates to placement opportunities.

Master’S Degree, Environment And Resources, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without BordersThesis titled: Crop Type Classification Using Satellite Images of Different Resolutions.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders, UW-Madison Ultimate Frisbee TeamFocused my research on computational complexity.

Ba, Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Smaug Ultimate Frisbee, Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Eta Kappa Nu