Thor Russell Email & Phone Number

Christchurch Metropolitan Area

Data science, algorithm design and implementation in AWS for the modelling and control of the Low Voltage electricity grid. Developed novel algorithms for - Mapping network topology from lower level data such as wire and house connection coordinates. - Automatic phase identification of residential properties from voltage data. - Estimate how much additional residential solar PV can be added to the local circuit.

Christchurch Metropolitan Area

In this position I used my algorithm skills and C# skills to optimize and enhance the core retail valuation engine used by the Forbury product suite. I achieved up to 50* speedup in core functionality enabling sales and opportunities that would not have been otherwise possible for the company.

Christchurch

Co-founder and CTO of company commercializing language testing technology. Data science, linguistic science were used to design a world leading spoken English language test that is real world accurate, fast, cheap, and accessible online.I was responsible for assessing commercial viability of technologies, communicating technical vision to potential investors, data science to backup our technical claims and technical implementation and product development.While working for Fluent, I gained experience with full stack web development, Agile (scrum, Kanban etc), and continued data science skills.

I worked on a short term contract in code and product architecture, implementing new features and refactoring existing code for a client of GEROC. Worked in C#/.net and with SQL Server

Founder of company commercializing the IP I developed to teach pronunciation of language while at the university of Canterbury. Used novel speech recognition to show tongue position so learning could see visually how they should improve.Resulting EyeSpeak software was internationally recognized, receiving #3 place in TopTenReviews language software category, ahead of companies like rosettastone.com. While running VPSL I gained much experience, including commercializing software, communicating technical vision, managing international distributors, software development, contractors, outsourcing, negotiating license deals, business planning and fundraising.Technically I learned advanced signal processing, data science, algorithm design, implementation, and optimization. In the process I learned multiple programming languages.

Engineer specializing in signal processing. Implemented, coded algorithms in c and some assembly. Automatically tested systems using Labview.

Bachelor Of Engineering Hons(Be Hons) Bsc Mathematics, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 1St Class Honours Engineering

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