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Carpinteria, Ca, Us

Carpinteria, Ca, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Engineering lead for software development of the Buoy Whole Home Water Controller. • Managed firmware, cloud, and machine learning development to detect and mitigate leaks preventing home water damage.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Technical architect and team lead on NLP machine learning prototypes that use Watson technologies with applied machine learning. Individual contributions in analytics using Python with Jupyter Notebooks.Pioneered the use of data driven machine learning chatbot design within IBM, enabling the training of systems based on log data, blind testing, A/B experiments, and collecting human judgements to feedback into the design. Used sentiment analysis to create a system that successfully correlated twitter and internet news to quarterly revenue for publicly traded firms. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/cc-sentiment-signal-watson-bluemix/index.htmlCreated a methodology for assessing the technical accuracy of the Watson NLP supervised machine learning systems, and tracking improvements over time. These analytics are used across IBM-Watson to optimize the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) between the user and the machine, and to evaluate the performance of the Watson systems on a given domain.https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/cc-watson-annotation-assist-measure-performance-trs/index.htmlhttps://www.slideshare.net/AnnaChaney/building-trust-between-human-and-watsonManagerial duties, including advising on technical direction, career advice, goal setting, and problem resolution.

Austin, Tx, Us

Principal investigator on a Office of Naval Research contract to investigate categorical classifiers, classifiers that blend discrete and continuous feature data to partition input space into an arbitrary number of sections. Every aspect of the classifier problem is explored under this funding from the meaning of “truth” data categories, examination of feature development for categoric separation, and classifiers that can be used to label more than two partitions.Responsible for underwater acoustic signal processing in Anti-Submarine Warfare surface fleet software. Created an auto-tune classifier in MATLAB using log-likelihood ratio test that trained on data collected from mid-frequency active sonar sensors. Developed metrics and methodologies to evaluate differences in sensor performance while managing terabytes of data using scripts in written in Perl and bash. Created classified documentation on sensor performance results, and presented results to a Navy working group. Prototyped changes to fine bearing estimation algorithms needed to support new sensors in MATLAB, and transitioned the algorithms to production C++ code. Created a MATLAB GUI that visualizes active sonar beam responses for different shaped arrays (cylindrical, line, and webbed), with different element responses. Supervised undergraduate students during summer projects, and during school year internships.Developed network intrusion detection algorithms in Java that used real time log information to scan for periodic network vulnerability probes.

Arlington, Va, Us

Engineering lead of a multi-division team of software and systems engineers to add Advanced Tactical Targeting Technology (AT3) capability to the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integrated Backbone.Developed and modified algorithms for radar systems under the Advanced Programs (R&D) Signal Processing Division [ALR-69A / F-16]. Wrote real-time C++ for link communications, Kalman filtering, and geo-location algorithms. Analyzed data from radar warning receivers using MATLAB, and made the appropriate algorithms enhancements based on observed data. Presented technical data to customers and internal review boards.Team member of a troubleshooting team for an optical tracker system. Debugged MATLAB simulation of tracker system. Diagnosed tracker system challenges and designed solutions. Received several Raytheon awards and recognition for individual and team improvements to tracker system.

Member of a team that designed and implemented and optical performance simulation of the thirty meter telescope (TMT). Responsible for integration of optical software, MATLAB, and computational fluid dynamics software.

Tucson, Arizona, Us

Taught undergraduate discrete mathematics source. Designed course materials and coordinated the activities of seven undergraduate section leaders.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Applied Mathematics