Experience

Simbe Robotics

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of AI and Computer Vision

  • Jan 2021 - Present

• Computer Vision Lead

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2021

  - Expanded computer vision team, established development processes - Build CI/CD pipeline for the CV stack - Researched and implemented deep learning based OCR system - Developed bespoke object detection network with a focus on speed, simplicity, and accuracy - Established data annotation process

• Senior Robotics and Computer Vision Engineer

  • Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

  - Built the core of the computer vision stack from the ground up - Created image stitching system - Trained and integrated neural nets for object detection - Integrated and optimized libraries for barcode decode - Assisted in deployment and scaling of computer vision pipeline



MathWorks

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Robotics Intern

  • Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

  I worked on the Robotics Systems Toolbox. In my limited time there I fixed a bug that had been stalling their move to ROS Indigo, developed methods for incorporating real-time controllers with the toolbox, built a number of utilities for debugging network errors, and helped the team ship a demo with dynamic simulation by writing a high efficiency communication plugin for Gazebo. I worked on the Robotics Systems Toolbox. In my limited time there I fixed a bug that had been stalling their move to ROS Indigo, developed methods for incorporating real-time controllers with the toolbox, built a number of utilities for debugging network errors, and helped the team ship a demo with dynamic simulation by writing a high efficiency communication plugin for Gazebo.



Simbe Robotics

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Robotics Intern

  • May 2016 - Sep 2016

  In my internship I - Wrote a filtering chain for the Intel R200 camera to allow them to be used for robot navigation and obstacle avoidance - Made a 3D object detector and then used it to detect the robot's charging station (dock) - Programmed a docking behavior for the Tally robot - Tested a variety of cameras and lens systems - Wrote drivers for a camera rig (7 cameras) In my internship I - Wrote a filtering chain for the Intel R200 camera to allow them to be used for robot navigation and obstacle avoidance - Made a 3D object detector and then used it to detect the robot's charging station (dock) - Programmed a docking behavior for the Tally robot - Tested a variety of cameras and lens systems - Wrote drivers for a camera rig (7 cameras)



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Intern - Bing

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Interned at Microsoft during my transition from Masters to Ph.D during the summer. In my time there I: 1) developed debugging tools using C# for the entity resolution team to allow transparency in their rather opaque big data pipeline. 2) researched over-fitting issues in their clustering algorithm and discovered problem patterns in the data. 3) honed programming skills and learned more about good software architecture. Interned at Microsoft during my transition from Masters to Ph.D during the summer. In my time there I: 1) developed debugging tools using C# for the entity resolution team to allow transparency in their rather opaque big data pipeline. 2) researched over-fitting issues in their clustering algorithm and discovered problem patterns in the data. 3) honed programming skills and learned more about good software architecture.



Idaho State University

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2008 - Jul 2012