Director of Engineering

• Sep 2022 - Present

Senior Software Engineering Manager

• Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

Software Engineering Manager

• Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

Machine Learning Engineer

• Jun 2018 - Oct 2020

Data Scientist

• Jun 2015 - Jun 2018

Managed team transitioning portfolio risk metric tracking away from daily individual, non-standard excel spreadsheets to a database and web application to allow for historical trend views using Python Pandas, Azure, and Plotly Dash Developed application to determine Wealth Management portfolio drift from objective model in terms of risk, return, and financial product allocation, including ETL from multiple production databases using Pentaho, as well as designing the algorithm to calculate the distance metric Managed rotational employee in constructing his first dashboard displaying user access data for a website; provided direction and feedback Implemented random forest, C5.0, and extreme gradient boosting machine learning algorithms to improve classification and regression of predicted Mutual Fund flows beyond decision tree learning, reducing RMSE by 50% Used TFIDF and affinity propagation clustering to build prototype mapping of news articles to topics, allowing investment managers to quickly and easily digest news economic trends. Prototype will be leveraged for future project algorithmically connecting investment themes to companies Headed development of a user-friendly dashboard allowing C-Suite executives to quickly explore quarterly asset flow and revenue trends for multiple business units; collected business requirements and devised technical app layout Designed prototype of a client feedback repository bringing disparate data sources together and providing client based sentiment analysis to improve client service – a first for BNY Mellon Co-led research experiment with pension fund client to develop new client facing products leveraging BNY Mellon’s internal big data analytics engine; reduced a work-intensive process from multiple hours to a few minutes Show less

Engineering Physicist

• Sep 2012 - May 2015

Direct liaison to Chinese Food and Drug Administration for Radiation and Physics for successful new product audit, allowing product to be sold in China Individually selected for research and development project working in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland with doctors, medical physicists, and Varian’s Switzerland team Developed Python program to analyze exposed radiochromic films to determine electron accelerator beam spot size, allowing for early diagnosis of critical accelerator failures Applied large-scale statistics in the use of Statistical Process Control to monitor changes in beam steering currents to predict changes in beam symmetry; created Python program to monitor currents Initiated and lead effort in researching use of silicon strip detectors to monitor radiation beam Designed new, lower profile, stronger magnetic steering coils for electron beam collimation with a cost savings of over $1000 per unit Show less

Assistant Researcher

• 2009 - Jun 2012

Worked under NIH grant to develop proton CT and radiograph hardware, software, and methodology to improve efficacy of proton beam radiation therapy Worked under NIH grant to develop proton CT and radiograph hardware, software, and methodology to improve efficacy of proton beam radiation therapy

Engineering Intern

• 2010 - 2010

Developed, tested, and debugged hardware and software for activity and motion tracking technologies, including Nike+GPS, Jawbone UP, and MotionX Sleep Developed, tested, and debugged hardware and software for activity and motion tracking technologies, including Nike+GPS, Jawbone UP, and MotionX Sleep