Introduction
Highly creative systems thinker and radical innovator with a deep understanding of ML algorithms, theory, and
applications. 15+ years of workplace experience – 30+ years counting personal projects. Track record of proven,
patent-worthy designs. Seeking senior research or engineering role in Machine Learning, Data Science, or NLP,
with a focus on novel algorithm development and/or application to new domains.
- Excellent problem-solving, analysis, & critical thinking.
- Strong coding, design, & data skills.
- Focused and clear-headed in the face of extreme problem complexity.
Relevant Experience
Chief Technology Officer, Transparent AI – 2024 to current
Project: CTO and co-founder of Transparent AI, a startup in the Explainable AI space.
Skills: Leadership | Algorithm Design | Product Design | Requirements Analysis | ML | Programming
- Developed bespoke algorithms for explainable AI.
- Helped design the product from the ground up.
- Managed and worked closely with product development team to rapidly develop a working prototype.
- Assisted in pitching directly to investors.
Senior Software and Machine Learning Engineer, Wiser Solutions, Inc., San Mateo, CA – 2022 to 2024
Project: Product matching pipeline
Skills: ML | Image Processing | Algorithm Design | Requirements Analysis | Leadership
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Developed a bespoke high-throughput image clustering algorithm for reliably identifying representative images
for similar products across multiple online retailer sites.
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Designed & developed a data labeling pipeline for crowdsourcing training and evaluation samples appropriate
to the problem domain.
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Comprehensive model analysis and evaluation, including the development of a novel framework for evaluation
metrics appropriate to the novel problem space of N-ary representative image selection.
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Designed a responsive pipeline for continually applying the representative image selection algorithm to a live
data stream.
Machine Learning Engineer / Software Engineer II, Insight Global & Bank of America, Plano, TX – 2017 to 2022
Project: Conversational agent: Entity recognition, intent detection, and anaphora resolution.
Skills: NLP | ML | Data Science | Algorithm Design | Programming | Requirements Analysis | Leadership
- Patent pending for an anaphora resolution algorithm.
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Part of the team responsible for the ML and NLP subsystem of a
virtual financial assistant
– a
groundbreaking
chatbot serving
tens of millions of bank customers
- Significant improvements to intent and entity recognition model performance.
- Extensive enhancements to the team’s data handling processes and model metrics.
- Built natural language data labeling tools from scratch.
- Built bespoke heuristic/rule-based system for time entity extraction.
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Regularly collaborated with other experts to improve customer experience in accordance with stakeholder
direction.
Lead Systems Architect, Ericsson, Plano, TX – 2014 to 2017
Projects: Business process automation | Explanatory AI | Supply chain forecasting pipeline
Skills: Programming | ML | Algorithm Design | Requirements Analysis | Leadership
- Trained & led a remote team in an agile environment.
- Designed and built an automated supply chain forecasting pipeline.
- Worked closely with stakeholders to identify business requirements.
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Evaluated and applied a multitude of ML algorithms, including deep learning, decision trees, market basket
analysis, and ARIMA.
- Designed and developed an open-sourced Python business automation framework.
Programmer/Software Analyst, West Asset Management (now Alorica), Sherman, TX – 2006-2014
Project: Business process automation
Skills: Programming | Automation Design | Requirements Analysis | ETL | Leadership
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End-to-end design, implementation, and automation of $50,000,000+ new and existing client-facing financial and
account data interfaces.
- Conception, design, and coding of extensive contributions to the in-house business automation library.
Software Engineer (Intern), Ericsson, Richardson, TX – 1998-2001
Projects: Network traffic analysis simulation | Telephony switch documentation management system
Skills: Programming | OPNET Simulation | Product Design
Education
Dual major, Computer Science and Mathematics, 1997 to 2001
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Autodidact and Machine Learning/AI Enthusiast, 1990 to current
Over 30 years of focused self-learning, practice, and experimentation