Experience

Resemble AI

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Machine Learning

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • Dec 2019 - Apr 2021

  Researching neural text-to-speech systems (controllable speaking style, voice cloning, efficient synthesis)



Replicant

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Machine Learning Engineer

  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

  Building conversational engines, including extracting meaning from natural speech (NLP, NLU, intent detection), and generating natural sounding speech from text in arbitrary voices (TTS, voice cloning) Building conversational engines, including extracting meaning from natural speech (NLP, NLU, intent detection), and generating natural sounding speech from text in arbitrary voices (TTS, voice cloning)



Sitata

• Canada
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Oct 2016 - Jul 2018

  Lead data science initiatives for real-time event detection, and a neighbourhood safety rating system.Development across several back-ends (Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix), front-ends (React, Vue), mobile applications (Java/Android, C#/Xamarin, Webview-based). Managed a small team of developers.

• App Developer

  • May 2015 - Oct 2016

  Mobile app fullstack (Android and iOS, cross-platform framework), and web app fullstack (Ruby on Rails) development.



University of Waterloo

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Created a 3D Virtual Reality application for a Psychology study about spatial memory performance. Participants actively or passively navigate one of several themed environments in VR, and are then tested for their memory of the path taken. Also responsible for data analysis and data visualizations. Created a 3D Virtual Reality application for a Psychology study about spatial memory performance. Participants actively or passively navigate one of several themed environments in VR, and are then tested for their memory of the path taken. Also responsible for data analysis and data visualizations.



Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity (REAPWaterloo)

• Canada
• Research Services

• REAPster

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2015

  Project work using interactive technology and hardware, such as the Myo armband (detects position and orientation of your arm, and simple hand poses like "fist"), Arduino, floor projection devices, etc. Project work using interactive technology and hardware, such as the Myo armband (detects position and orientation of your arm, and simple hand poses like "fist"), Arduino, floor projection devices, etc.



Sitata

• Canada
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• App Developer

  • May 2014 - Sep 2014

  Mobile app fullstack (Android and iOS, cross-platform framework), and web app fullstack (Ruby on Rails) development. Mobile app fullstack (Android and iOS, cross-platform framework), and web app fullstack (Ruby on Rails) development.



Printchomp

• Kitchener, ON

• Ruby on Rails Developer

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

  Ruby on Rails fullstack development. Ruby on Rails fullstack development.