Experience

Steppingblocks

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology & Data Officer (CTO/CDO)

  • Feb 2022 - Present

• Chief Data Scientist

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

  Overseeing and leading data science, machine learning, and AI efforts on Steppingblock's innovative education and career data analytics platform.

• Principal Data Scientist

  • Apr 2019 - Feb 2021

  Building a revolutionary education and career digital platform from the ground up to deliver insights and reports to companies, universities, and individuals through the use of innovative analytics, machine learning, and big data technologies.



Springboard

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mentor (Machine Learning, AI, Big Data) & Lead SME for MLE Course

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  Mentoring students of the AI and Machine Learning Engineering track Lead SME for the AI and Machine Learning Engineering Career Track, Spring 2020 curriculum update: https://www.springboard.com/workshops/ai-machine-learning-career-track/ Mentoring students of the AI and Machine Learning Engineering track Lead SME for the AI and Machine Learning Engineering Career Track, Spring 2020 curriculum update: https://www.springboard.com/workshops/ai-machine-learning-career-track/



startupsolutions.ai

• AI, Machine Learning & Big Data Solutions Architect & Advisor

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  Advising and helping startups to concretely design and implement solutions in the field of big data, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Advising and helping startups to concretely design and implement solutions in the field of big data, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.



Verint

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

• Principal Software Architect

  • Mar 2019 - Apr 2019

  Joined global architecture team within Verint. Responsibilities included working on building up AI/ML capabilities into a new global analytics platform.

• Senior Enterprise Architect & Data Scientist

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2019

  Joined global VoC architecture team to plan and execute platform consolidation efforts and continue to propel business in the Cloud Native era, as well as implement strategic Big Data, Predictive Analytics, NLP and AI endeavors.



OpinionLab, A Verint Company

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Research and Data Science

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2018

  Lead small team to build out AWS S3 based Data Lake on top of Apache Spark. DW on AWS Athena + Tableau. Created NLP models for state of the art Language Identification, PII scrubbing and profanity filtering.

• Senior R & D Software/Data Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Jan 2016

  Lead research on new technology and solutions (PoCs) to help engineering team migrate to new stack (Clojure, Elastic Search, AWS, etc..). Invented "Mosaic", a new product for real-time feedback visualization. Ramped up Data Science and Machine Learning skills with a focus on NLP.

• Senior Software Engineer & Architect

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2011

  Joined startup, architected and lead the development team. Pivoted products, worked closely with founders. Built leading VoC solution as a result. Hard to summarize 10 years of startup life in one paragraph ;)



@tlantic web creations, llc.

• Auburn, Alabama Area

• Independent Business Owner

  • Feb 1999 - Jan 2014

  Providing consulting services to small businesses for web-based applications development, support, and maintenance in a production environment (GoGrid, AWS, Digital Ocean) Providing consulting services to small businesses for web-based applications development, support, and maintenance in a production environment (GoGrid, AWS, Digital Ocean)



Auburn University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Director

  • Mar 1999 - Sep 2000

  Started out as IT Specialist for Department of Building Science, but got quickly promoted to oversee the entire College of Architecture. Managed small team and responsible for a budget of ~$1M/year to address all IT needs (hardware, software, communication, including Windows NT/Networking/ASP/.Net development) Started out as IT Specialist for Department of Building Science, but got quickly promoted to oversee the entire College of Architecture. Managed small team and responsible for a budget of ~$1M/year to address all IT needs (hardware, software, communication, including Windows NT/Networking/ASP/.Net development)



European Space Agency - ESA

• France
• Space Research and Technology
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern Researcher

  • Jun 1996 - Sep 1996

  Completed thesis project on reusable launchers (what we call today a SpaceX Falcon rocket ;) at European Space Agency near Paris, France. Completed thesis project on reusable launchers (what we call today a SpaceX Falcon rocket ;) at European Space Agency near Paris, France.