Machine Learning Engineer

• Apr 2022 - Present

- Integrate NLP with our digital clinical trials offerings - Worked with Spark-NLP and John Snow Labs to dockerize pipeline for information extraction from patient notes - Integrate NLP with our digital clinical trials offerings - Worked with Spark-NLP and John Snow Labs to dockerize pipeline for information extraction from patient notes

Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer

• Dec 2019 - Apr 2022

- Research, suggest, implement and test potential improvements to our OCR & legal contract information extraction pipeline - Help prioritize research and determine roadmap - Write data cleansing guidelines to improve data quality / annotator consistency - Assist business in determining feasibility of AI use cases from a technical and cost perspective - Monitor and maintain production AI services (responsible for F1 of over ten thousand models) - Helped migrate our pipeline from AWS to Azure - Implemented transfer learning for part of our information extraction pipeline - Implemented unsupervised paragraph detection based on only visual features - Helped implement unsupervised annotation clustering to improve data cleansing speed Show less

NLP Engineer

• May 2019 - Dec 2019

- Research and test new methods for machine translation of dialectal Arabic (focused on transformer architecture) - Work on an internal corpus management tool for various NLP tasks using Neo4J graph database. - Built internal REST service layers. - Established company-wide code quality standards and built CI/CD pipeline. - Research and test new methods for machine translation of dialectal Arabic (focused on transformer architecture) - Work on an internal corpus management tool for various NLP tasks using Neo4J graph database. - Built internal REST service layers. - Established company-wide code quality standards and built CI/CD pipeline.

Lead Application Developer / ML expert

• Mar 2018 - May 2019

- Use AI to automate processes - mostly feature engineering for information extraction from contracts. - Took the lead on performance testing the machine learning capabilities of the WorkFusion platform. - Use AI to automate processes - mostly feature engineering for information extraction from contracts. - Took the lead on performance testing the machine learning capabilities of the WorkFusion platform.

Software Engineer

• Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

- Full stack development - Interview candidates for job openings - Help diagnose and fix performance issues - Lead developer for a custom integration with a client’s SAP interface - Full stack development - Interview candidates for job openings - Help diagnose and fix performance issues - Lead developer for a custom integration with a client’s SAP interface

Software Engineer

• Jul 2015 - May 2017

- Full stack development for UrbanCode Deploy. - Side Project: Along with one other person, designed, implemented and maintain an internal chatbot. - Has a chat-based UI that uses Natural Language Processing to parse commands and perform actions. • - Automatically assigns incoming support tickets in a load-balanced manner. - Side Project: Write tools to automate repetitive, time-consuming development and customer support tasks. • - Many of these tools help reduce the time required to give a meaningful response to customers, thus reducing the amount of time needed to solve issues. - Started and organized an internal tools team in order to improve our development operations capabilities. The team now consists of 18 developers and meets every two weeks. - Manager's Choice Award - 2016 (Unite to Get it Done Now) Show less

NLP lead

• Feb 2014 - Apr 2015

- Researched, designed and implemented code for new language modeling / data mining techniques to be used in speech recognition applications. - Increased speech recognition accuracy from 85% to 94%. - Integrated voice recognition with android apps. - Interviewed candidates for job openings. - Wrote and maintained cmake code to build projects (including Android). - Wrote and maintained Android JNI bindings for native c++ code compiled into shared libraries. - Researched, designed and implemented code for new language modeling / data mining techniques to be used in speech recognition applications. - Increased speech recognition accuracy from 85% to 94%. - Integrated voice recognition with android apps. - Interviewed candidates for job openings. - Wrote and maintained cmake code to build projects (including Android). - Wrote and maintained Android JNI bindings for native c++ code compiled into shared libraries.

Programmer

• May 2013 - Feb 2014

Worked on special programming projects, including: data mining, SQL query writing, batch file scripting, and integrating Pentaho (data mining software) and eCW (electronic medical records program) with a Java application and Microsoft SharePoint front end, which I developed to produce customizable graphs as a visual representation of statistics about our organization. Also received some exposure to ICD-9 and ICD-10 as well as CPT codes and eClinicalWorks ( EMR ).

Medical Records Retrieval Specialist

• Sep 2012 - May 2013

Assisted in the transition from written medical records to a networked electronic system. Assembled and organized medical records and documentation for audits. Also received some exposure to ICD-9 and ICD-10 as well as CPT codes and eClinicalWorks ( EMR ).

Tier 3 Technical Support Representative

• Feb 2012 - Jul 2012

Solved technical issues with phone, television, and internet services over the phone. Solved technical issues with phone, television, and internet services over the phone.

Server, Cook

• Jul 2011 - Dec 2011

Medical Records Retrieval Specialist

• Mar 2011 - Mar 2011

Assisted in the transition from written medical records to a networked electronic system. Assisted in the transition from written medical records to a networked electronic system.

Medical Records Retrieval Specialist

• Dec 2010 - Jan 2011

Assisted in the transition from written medical records to a networked electronic system. Assisted in the transition from written medical records to a networked electronic system.

Tech Assistant (Volunteer)

• Jun 2010 - Sep 2010

Created disk images and re-imaged computers, diagnosed and repaired hardware and software issues with computers, and provided assistance with any other issues that arose. Created disk images and re-imaged computers, diagnosed and repaired hardware and software issues with computers, and provided assistance with any other issues that arose.