Experience

Rajant Corporation

• United States
• Wireless Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2022 - Present



The University of Georgia

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Application Analyst Principal

  • Nov 2015 - Sep 2022

  Application Analyst Principal (Nov 2018 – Present)Application Analyst Specialist (Nov 2015 – Nov 2018)• Member and Team Lead (Apr 2017 onward) — of Academic Services Development (ASD) within Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) — developing and supporting enterprise applications and services for the UGA Offices of Academic Planning, Faculty Affairs, and Institutional Research.• Principal Developer on the UGA Elements project — UGA's implementation of the Symplectic Elements professional profiling service, which the university uses to collect, search, and report on the research, scholarship, creative works, and professional activities of its faculty, postdocs, and graduate/professional students.• Consulting Developer on all ASD applications and services.

• Lab/Research Assistant

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2015

  Lab/Research Assistant (Jun 2015 – Nov 2015)Graduate Researcher (Nov 2011 – May 2015)• Principle Programmer and Lab Manager for the Games & Virtual Environments Laboratory (GAVEL) developing real-time, interactive, virtual reality (VR) applications supporting human behavioral research into Influence Factors, Decision-making, and Perception (i.e., how social media, video/internet games, and immersive virtual environments influence human attitude and behavior).• Installed and maintained lab's computing resources and VR technologies: motion tracking systems (OptiTrack, Kinect), head mounted displays (HMD) (Rift DK1/DK2), haptic devices (Falcon).

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2007 - May 2015

  Masters research with Walter D. Potter [Committee: Khaled Rasheed, Pete Bettinger]• Researched, developed and applied novel implementations of AI methodologies to the Snake-in-the-Box problem (SIB); a computationally complex problem in graph theory and multidimensional geometry.• In collaboration with fellow grad student, Seth Meyerson, extended the known lower bounds of SIB by one of the greatest margins of success in a single effort (to date); improving 11 of the 15 spread-2 lower bounds in dimensions 9–13. This spread and (for the foreseeable future) these dimensions represent the core focus of SIB. Results presented at IEA/AIE 2015 in Seoul, Korea, in June 2015.• Authored thesis titled "The Snake-in-the-Box Problem: A Primer."

• Graduate Assistant

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  College of Veterinary Medicine• Developed interactive, biological and physical science simulations (serious games) for secondary and post-secondary curricula as part of the Interactive 3D Education And Learning (IDEAL) Biology Project.

• Graduate Assistant

  • Jul 2009 - Dec 2010

  College of Veterinary Medicine• Principal web designer/developer responsible for the cleanup and migration of departmental and laboratory websites and online graduate level courseware to a common CSS/PHP framework in preparation for migration to a centralized content management system (CMS).• Supporting Developer on the migration of Noah’s Arkive (a fully annotated database of 30K veterinary pathology images) from a desktop application to a web-based service.

• Graduate Researcher

  • Jan 2008 - May 2009

  Institute for Artificial Intelligence• Developed original software in Automated Sentiment Analysis of reported sentiment events as part of the Intelligent Handling of Unstructured Text (IHUT) research group.• Developed original software in Propositional Idea Density as part of the Computer Analysis of Speech for Psychological Research (CASPR) group.



Booz Allen Hamilton

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2007

  • Technical Lead and Lead Developer of 3D interactive simulations and advanced courseware, 2D/3D Serious Games, and 2D Computer/Web-Based Training (CBT/WBT). • Technical Lead and Lead Developer of 3D interactive simulations and advanced courseware, 2D/3D Serious Games, and 2D Computer/Web-Based Training (CBT/WBT).



Self-employed

• Independent Developer

  • Mar 2001 - Dec 2004

  • Produced and developed award-winning interactive commercial and educational applications and web-based software products. • Produced and developed award-winning interactive commercial and educational applications and web-based software products.



America Online, Product Design Group (Modis, Inc., Laurel, MD)

• Lead Development Designer

  • Apr 2003 - Jun 2004

  (1 year contracted position with a 3 month extension)• Prototyped future AOL products for usability testing. Developed a custom Director Lingo behavior library (extending "Director in Director" functionality) for the rapid development of these prototypes.• Extensively documented same custom library, and authored primers on additional proprietary AOL software tools (previously undocumented), which greatly eased the learning curves of new users of these resources. (1 year contracted position with a 3 month extension)• Prototyped future AOL products for usability testing. Developed a custom Director Lingo behavior library (extending "Director in Director" functionality) for the rapid development of these prototypes.• Extensively documented same custom library, and authored primers on additional proprietary AOL software tools (previously undocumented), which greatly eased the learning curves of new users of these resources.



SAIC, Corporate New Media Solutions (Tek Systems, Inc., Reston, VA)

• Senior Software Developer

  • Aug 2002 - Jan 2003

  (6 month contracted position)• Problem solver responsible for isolating and resolving persistent critical performance issues and bugs in interactive (need-to-be) ready-for-delivery software products, to avoid cost penalty triggers related to delivery delays. Primarily debugged and improved browser and search performance in, and programmed and integrated data visualization timelines into, existing instructional/archival multimedia and web-based training (WBT) applications. (6 month contracted position)• Problem solver responsible for isolating and resolving persistent critical performance issues and bugs in interactive (need-to-be) ready-for-delivery software products, to avoid cost penalty triggers related to delivery delays. Primarily debugged and improved browser and search performance in, and programmed and integrated data visualization timelines into, existing instructional/archival multimedia and web-based training (WBT) applications.



Animators at Law

• Lead Interactive Media Developer

  • Mar 1999 - Feb 2001

  • Produced interactive evidentiary demonstratives for presentation at trial.• Designed and developed prototype application for presenting mixed Director-PowerPoint demonstratives in courtrooms. • Produced interactive evidentiary demonstratives for presentation at trial.• Designed and developed prototype application for presenting mixed Director-PowerPoint demonstratives in courtrooms.



The New Media Group

• Producer/Developer

  • Aug 1997 - Mar 1999

  • Production lead and lead programmer developing innovative and award-wining computer-based, web-based, and hybrid software products. • Production lead and lead programmer developing innovative and award-wining computer-based, web-based, and hybrid software products.



Smoke N' Mirrors

• Programmer Analyst

  • Mar 1997 - Jun 1997

  • Junior systems/network administrator providing onsite help desk, hardware, and network support, plus web client-server integration, software testing and debugging to company clients. • Junior systems/network administrator providing onsite help desk, hardware, and network support, plus web client-server integration, software testing and debugging to company clients.



Advanced Marine Enterprises

• Multimedia Designer

  • Oct 1995 - Feb 1997

  • Planned and developed effective digital, print, and interactive media for company clients. • Planned and developed effective digital, print, and interactive media for company clients.



A Guy With Bright Ideas

• Web/CGI Programmer

  • 1995 - 1995

  • Developed Unix shell scripts for browser-database interaction and dynamic HTML generation. • Developed Unix shell scripts for browser-database interaction and dynamic HTML generation.