Ray Johns Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Data License - Data Standardization- Design and implement highly distributed workflows to gather, transform, and deliver data to Bloomberg Enterprise Data clients.- Leverage Semantic Web concepts and open standards such as RDF/CSVW to transform and connect data.- Build distributed architectures to handle massive data pipelines using Python, RabbitMQ, Celery, PySpark, Ceph, and Docker.- Design and implement complex workflows in code for internal and external users.- Design and manage distributed databases and database APIs in Comdb2 and PostgreSQL.- Present papers on Natural Language Understanding for the Machine Learning Reading Group.- Create tools and perform outreach to enhance diversity and inclusion, developer experience, and AI within Data License.

New York City, Ny, Us

- Develop models to extract information from web pages for legal and corporate entities.- Manage, validate and deploy custom models for extraction and machine learning models.- Integrate models into existing extraction and processing logic.- Write queries and reports to confirm extraction models and processing models.

- Independent scholar performing deep dives into ML and AI research, translating academic papers into production, speaking on panels, teaching, and instructing- Full-stack developer selecting, curating and creating new alt data sets; training ML models on small, medium, and big data; performing analyses and extracting business insights; and crafting and delivering visually appealing presentations - Polyglot programmer making data-science-adjacent packages, apps, and scripts to automate and simplify the scientific process

New York, New York, Us

Natural language understanding researcher and full-stack developer innovating machine learning and artificial intelligence models to extract semantic and syntactic structures from raw legal and financial documents.- Use algorithms from classic natural language processing, graph theory, Bayesian probabilistic inference, bioinformatics, active learning, reinforcement learning and deep learning to create scalable and robust enterprise software.- Work with research training datasets such as GLUE and create self labeled datasets from publicly available corpora.- Curate datasets for natural language understanding tasks including entailment, constituency parsing, and paraphrasing.detection.- Fine tune deep learning models for inference, question answering, and information retrieval.- Lead efforts in legal artificial intelligence including customer requirement understanding and design of models and algorithms.

- Validated machine learning algorithm to extract, identify, and tag named entities in academic historical legal texts for major research institutions.

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- Prepare detailed, individualized written critiques of legal memoranda, briefs, motions,contracts, articles, press releases, and other legal documents written by junior associates inSkadden’s D.C., New York, Delaware, and Boston offices according to principles of plainEnglish and persuasive writing to promote excellence in legal drafting.

New Haven, Connecticut, Us

- Planned and executed massive project-management data gathering undertaking involving managing and training a team of 10+ staff, gathering and cleaning a massive data set of faculty scholarship, and using software to produce a visual report of metrics.- Identified problems in interdepartmental workflows and brought together stakeholders to implement a new ticketing software system to integrate the library’s operations and eliminate inefficiencies.- Collaborated with digital projects librarian to test drive preservation software for digitizing rare books.- Regularly find the answers to seemingly impossible questions for faculty, students, and members of the public.- Have one finger on the pulse of open government data and associated legislation and GitHub projects at all times.

New Haven, Connecticut, Us

- Research petitions for certiorari, party and amicus briefs. - Draft and record audio reports on Supreme Court opinions, oral arguments, and grants of certiorari. - Report live via social media platforms on oral argument from the Court. - Develop social media engagement strategies. - Produce feature content for web and podcast. On hiatus 2014-2015.

New Haven, Connecticut, Us

New Haven, Connecticut, Us

New Haven, Ct, Us

- Wrote an amicus brief quoted by both the Wall Street Journal and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in its opinion adopting our clients’ position.

Washington Dc, District Of Columbia, Us

- Assisted professor writing a review of a new poverty-law casebook. - Reviewed law enforcement records for a local criminal defense lawyer to determine whether searches and seizures were lawful.

- Worked with DVA government data to crunch the numbers and prove the inefficiency of the veterans benefits process and inspire the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims to push forward with overhauling the appeals process for disability claims. - Used data-driven approaches to show causation and lobby Congress to award compensation to veterans sickened by working on aircraft previously used to spray Agent Orange.

New York, Ny, Us

- Interviewed Silicon Valley-based client’s engineers to craft non-infringement arguments in patent infringement case. - Analyzed prosecution histories of patents to devise novel and incisive potential infringement and noninfringement arguments. - Wrote the brief winning remand in veteran’s appeal of denial of increased disability rating in the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Veterans Legal Services Clinic and Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.

New York, Ny, Us

- Advocated for clients in landlord-tenant disputes.- Conducted intake sessions, follow-up interviews, referrals to public interest attorneys, client outreach, billing, and accounting.

Computer Science

Professional Certificate, Natural Language Processing With Deep Learning

Master Of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Library And Information Science

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics

Data Science