Thom Ives, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

* Developed two complete AI Web Apps, to be Outlook Add-Ins, to automate replies to quote request emails. They both used LLMs with Auto-RAG to perform entity identification. Front-end components, and FastAPI based back-end components all run from Docker containers. Did the same for the Front “Outlook Manager” app.* Developed and delivered many models and helped the data science team to learn and use FastAPI and Streamlit served through Docker containers and Outlook Add-In Web Apps served via Apache.* Developed a carrier manifest optimizer that saves ~10+% in carrier costs.

Founding member and technical advisor as Phoenix Intelligence helps clients use technology to achieve or exceed their goals.

Babylon, Ny, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

. Worked on an AI architecture to rapidly process unstructured technical data sheets. Programmed a fast document match math machine that grew real time. Created tokenizers to rapidly find property elements in PDFs. Developed a heterogeneous clustering algorithm to rapidly group property elements. Built a text terms aligner that uses two lookup engines and a trained GloVe model. Created a system of Python to SQL routines that generated the AI’s memory. Built several Py-Selenium based dynamic web scrapers. Started a data science community to share learning and mentor others in data science. Gave many presentations to the UL community to spread data science appreciation

. Worldwide Mentoring grown from LinkedIn followers. Writing an ML book with Packt and taught a course on the same. Weekly “Integrated Mentoring” sessions - recordings on YouTube. Technical and mentoring blog posts that address the data science community’s needs. Bi-weekly tech chats where I help data scientists with detailed technical questions. Frequently asked to keynote speak and present on data science topics

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

. Used data science and python to automate testing of imaging die on wafers.. Used software version control, testing, tuning, and benchmarking. Mentored new engineers on how to automate their work with Python. Developed a machine learning algorithm to automatically find image defects. Updated, maintained, troubleshot test algorithms, applied them to new products

Houston, Texas, Us

. Recipient of 25+ US Patents for many different types of devices. Color Imaging: Created python based data science tools to adjust halftones across different printers / scanners. Ran psychometrics. Mentored and assisted 3 PhD graduate students in data science methods to accurately predict toner usage.. Laser Cartridges: Developed statistical machine learning models for cartridge wear, automated data collection on laser cartridges in test to more rapidly ID problems; guided graduate students in modeling of toner dynamics for design improvements, served on their committees, and tested new cartridge designs.. R&D of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS): Coded simulations of mechanics, electrostatic motors and sensors, charged particle optical focused-emitters, and thermal performance using FEM, BEM, and lumped parameter modeling techniques for MEMS R&D. Specified and designed parts for, updated parts for, and constructed an R&D vacuum test system for performing laser-doppler-vibrometer dynamics studies using LabView coding for imaging and vision capture systems for MEMS testing; Used python to coordinate several computers to reduce cycle time in finding optimal solutions; Coded physical model simulations with python to control 3D surface animations to better characterize MEMS performance and quickly identify design problems.. Leadership in Training: Originated site wide technical training to preserve knowledge through online videos.. Parts Design: Faster more robust design & manufacture of plastic and sheet metal parts using design methodology and FEA.. Disk Arrays: Continuing product engineer troubleshooting large storage disk arrays (RAID systems) and mechanical engineer.

Moscow, Id, Us

Co taught design of experiments

Boise, Id, Us

Taught Control System Design 5 different semesters.

Us

Lead team in the use of better and faster design methods to develop a process tool for microchip fabrication.

College Station, Tx, Us

Managed operations of University Research Reactor, improved training and public tours, and designed and built support systems

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

Naval Nuclear Program engineer, test supervisor and trainer leading naval personnel through operations and training and maintenance in a dual reactor nuclear power plant like plant 3 on the Enterprise Aircraft Carrier. Held a secret security clearance.

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

M.S., Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering