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Knightdale, NC, US

Irvine, CA, US

• Actively engaged with cross-team organizations, both within and outside of the RGP organization
• Prototyped the use of Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-models, LLMs) with document indexing and vector embeddings to support a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution for talent and opportunity matching needs
• Integrated platform monitoring and observability, telemetry, and metric collection for situational awareness. Created visibility into system activity and Kafka message lag using Grafana and Azure Application Insights..
• Added GraphQL across a microservice architecture for use with single sources of truth (SSoT).
• Providing technical expertise for relevant technologies and engineering disciplines within company domain
• Aligning engineering efforts and communicating technical strategies to ensure strategic company goals and objectives are being met

Irvine, CA, US

• Created an AI-based comparison system to detect semantically meaningful changes in candidate resumes. This used natural language processing (NLP) for token and pattern identification, which led to a reduction in full.
• Created integration to provide human-readable visbility into Kafka events persisted using Google Protocol Buffers
• Supported DevOps by optimizing multi-stage product builds and deployments across all environments

Irvine, CA, US

• Designed, developed, and tested cloud-based microservices for the HUGO platform that are resilient, fault tolerant, highly available, performant, and self-healing (employing Spring, Node, Retries & Netflix Hystrix.
• Focused on backend development, with the creation of services to support atomic-level (CRUD) entities, composite services to handle specific business needs (e.g., featured talent for marketing), and integration.
• Used domain-driven design to create domain entities, bounded contexts, and domain & integration event types
• Integrated 3rd-party systems for providing system features (e.g., Google Cloud Platform for image and video intelligence, Vimeo for video management and storage, Nodus Payfabric for payment processing)
• Used Apache Kafka and Google Protocol Buffers for distributed event messaging for both event sourcing and asynchronous business & domain data communication
• Used MongoDB and SQL Server for database storage. API Management for integration OpenAPI specifications, and DevOps-related for team operations (e.g., Azure pipeline builds and deployments)

Cary, NC, US

• Developed for both user interface and mid-tier microservice development efforts for the SAS Visual Text Analyticsproduct technology
• Employing SAS HTML Commons libraries, OpenUI, and JavaScript technologies using an MVC architecture
• Responsible for multiple microservice projects used for application of various processing stages of a text-basedanalyses
• Serving as a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) liaison for handling nightly builds, testing, and artifact promotion
• Actively using Spring Framework, Git, Gradle, Gerrit, Artifactory, Jenkins, and Intellij for day-to-day activities

Cary, NC, US

• As a core member of Text Analytics R&D team at SAS Institute Inc., I provide expert support to consulting and pre-sales personnel in algorithmic and best practices aspects of implementation; collaborate with other.
• Assist in the development of state-of-the-art text analytics technologies
• Emphasis placed on natural language processing, text classification, sentiment analysis, search, information extraction, indexing, and storage
• Strong background in text analytics, natural language processing, data mining, and machine learning

Falls Church, VA, US

• Actively applying data mining and machine learning techniques in various efforts
• Developing and supporting Eclipse RCP/PDE Build application, coupled with Equinox P2
• Employed machine learning unsupervised learning algorithm (k-means clustering) for a given project (securityrestricts naming of project and related content)
• Actively involved in CMMI-compliant engineering process review group for application and program compliance

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Developed ASP.NET, AJAX-based web applications utilizing Telerik components, MS SQL Server 2008 DBMS (stored procedures, views, clustering), layered with a data access layer (DAL) for object-oriented development
• Developed custom caching system for multi-session, multi-record processing
• Required the integration of custom HTTP modules for custom application event handling for server-side state management
• Developed and integrated Microsoft Silverlight application plug-in, supporting bi-directional communication via a dedicated web service
• Actively involved with peer-to-peer, team-based discussions involving software engineering best practices

Albuquerque, NM, US

• Provided full cycle software development for many flagship, mission-critical systems spanning the realms of modeling and characterization, intelligence analysis, mission planning, tactical decision making, warfighter.
• Designed, developed, and integrated gSoap-driven, plug-in-based web service client components for interfacing with distributed systems
• Automated the data exchange and validation of the XML/XSD-driven data source between various client applications
• Supported Find, Characterize, and Assess (FCA) programs by designing, developing, and integrating a JBoss-deployed EJB interfacing with a third-party ISS for asynchronously processing sensor location and event data
• Integrated with Modeling/Simulation teams to support remote/on-site development and integration of a distributed, JMS-based client/server system wrapping Matlab “job” submissions for Radio Frequency (RF) propagation.
• Interfaced with and provided remote / on-site support for various clientele for ARA product design, development and usage

• Worked with development teams providing support for various products and services, specifically the “Vision” product, which consists of multiple portals serving as a provider of end-to-end process management
• Duties included development and maintenance of n-tier and front-end layers of various web-based products
• Developed database migration system for transitioning client databases (containing 400+ tables) to new database schema (corresponds to subsequent versions of web-based applications)
• Utilized XML, XSL, Visual Basic, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, and SQL (MS SQL Server)
• Supported a resume-parsing / information extraction expert system, consisting of an inference engine and a CLIPS rule base

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Provided C++ programming instruction to introductory level programmers for the Department of Engineering
• Interfaced with many different programmers, gaining experience working in a various team-oriented environments

Louisville, CO, US

• Developed and maintained the MFC extension core product Objective Grid, which is a full-featured grid control built completely from object-oriented technology
• Responsible for the creation and updates for the different components of Objective Grid, which included multiple architectures consisting of design, styles, drawing and updating, control, browser, and formula engine.
• Provided documentation support for the Objective Grid product, which consisted of updates to generated help files and white papers for distribution
• Developed an application for automating the migration of MFC applications to the.NET Framework

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science