Experience

Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Language Technologies Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  - Developed method to detect transactivity, the dialog act of responding to and building upon another’s idea, in Massive Open Online Courseware chat and forums. - Researched novel methods to identify the pathways of information flow through a complex neural architecture (including recurrent and convolutional layers) that correspond to and extend previously identified linguistic features. - Studied the rhetorical structure of academic writing via hierarchical neural models with structured outputs. - Developing a method of unsupervised learning to automatically identify and classify roles of objects and descriptions in the context of stories and narrative. - Expanded on an unsupervised approach to distinguish writing styles of various authors in academic writing with possible applications in authorship attribution. - Supported professor as a teaching assistant for Applied Machine Learning course. Show less



Northrop Grumman

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2013 - Jun 2016

  - Led 8 engineer team to modernize on-orbit operational analysis for military protected satellite communications.- Served as primary customer liaison for video, geospatial, and telemetry processing software for Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter.- Served as customer liaison for business acquisition of Mission Management Games technology.- Manned telemetry console and provided on the fly debugging and analysis during Northrop Grumman’s AEHF (Advance Extremely High Frequency) satellite payload activations and software updates.- Analyzed and resolved issues found during testing for Northrop Grumman’s AEHF Payload protected military satellite communication program. Show less

• Software Engineering Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  - Assisted research and development team implement state of the art wireless technology by developing UDP connection software for transmitting metadata over a WiMax connection.- Facilitated development efforts through a custom Java tool to provide automated documentation generation functionality.



Fallstreak Studio LLC

• Computer Games

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Nov 2012 - Dec 2015

  Also acting Chief Financial Officer. - Raised money through crowd funding to produce and release an award winning game to the Google Play Store, Apple’s App Store, Microsoft’s App Store and Amazon’s App Store. - Facilitated project and strategic meetings. - Analyzed and projected revenues to inform business strategy. - Prepared SBIR grant proposal for National Institutes of Health. - Led development of hybrid mobile/web app to modernize a professor's art tutorial distribution. - Prepared business taxes. Show less



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2012

  - Led a research project to develop a new haptic product to provide a direct link of facial expressions during conversations for the visually impaired. - Led a research project studying optimization/puzzle solving algorithms using distributed market based principles. - Led a research project to develop a new haptic product to provide a direct link of facial expressions during conversations for the visually impaired. - Led a research project studying optimization/puzzle solving algorithms using distributed market based principles.



Lockheed Martin

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• College Student Technical Specialist

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Privacy Intern supporting Lockheed Martin's Computer Incident Response Team at the Security Intelligence Center. Supported the development and maintenance of new and existing software infrastructure and custom tools for use at the SIC. Privacy Intern supporting Lockheed Martin's Computer Incident Response Team at the Security Intelligence Center. Supported the development and maintenance of new and existing software infrastructure and custom tools for use at the SIC.



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - 2011

  CSE 230 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming; Aided the professor during in-class exercises and provided office hours for students requiring extra help. CSE 230 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming; Aided the professor during in-class exercises and provided office hours for students requiring extra help.