Experience

  1. Research Software Engineer - Office of CTO

    Microsoft

    Work in a smaller agile team within office of CTO on early tech prototyping and proof-of-concept of new and emerging technology to facilitate rapid technology transition within whole division.

    Tech stack: Azure AI as a service, AutoGen, LangChain, Semantic Kernel.

  2. Research Intern, Advanced Autonomy and Applied Robotics

    Microsoft

    Project: Creating transformer-based Natural Language Processing model for code generation from English text for Robot Operating System (ROS).

    Tech stack: Pytorch, GPT, ROS, Gazebo, Python, Jupyter notebooks, CloudSim, Azure, CodeX.

  3. Research Intern, Data and AI Platform Team

    Meta (Facebook)

    Created data pipelines and metrics anomaly detection system for large-scale log data into production.

    Tech stack: SQL and Presto, Python, Jupyter notebooks, Prophet for Machine Learning.

  4. SWE / Machine Learning Intern

    Esri Inc.
    Created a machine learning solution pipeline for analyzing satellite imagery in geo-spatial context, including data cleanup and augmentation, machine learning model selection, image processing and training.

  5. SWE Intern, Tools, Audit and Automation Team

    Charles Schwab Corporation
    Internship focusing on tools, audit, and automation.

  6. Graduate Research Assistant

    Utah State University
    Project: Smart Career Recommendation System (‘The Pocket Jeanie’). Utilized machine learning techniques to harvest large-scale web data and build a recommendation model.

  7. IT Support and Escalation Engineer

    Microsoft (via Unisys Corp)
    Facilitated Microsoft’s internal transition to Secure Admin Workstation (SAW). Supported Microsoft employee’s active directory account, group policy, access control.

  8. Cyber Warfare Officer

    US Army Reserve
    Supervise Cyber section within Brigade as a staff officer and lead the team of over 15 cyber-trained soldiers.

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Utah State University
    Advisor: Dr. John Edwards.

  2. M.S. in Computer Science

    Utah State University
    Minor: Military Science and Leadership.

  3. B.S. in Computer Science

    Coppin State University
    Minor in Mathematics.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
Agentic AI
Generative AI
Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP)
Java/C++
Awards
USU Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities (GRCO) award
Utah State University ∙ January 2023
Research funding for student proposed and executed research project.
School of Graduate Study Student Travel Grant
Utah State University ∙ January 2023
$400 travel grant.
Gold Award
i-ETC Conference ∙ January 2023
$300 award at Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference.
Golden Eagle Honors Scholarship
Coppin State University ∙ January 2011
4-year full ride scholarship.
Best senior research thesis award
Coppin State University ∙ January 2015
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