1127 Gloria Court

Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA

ph: (281) 318-1391

tf_inquiries@createksolutions.com

 

        

Summary

A software veteran with 16 years international experience as an architect, lead, and consultant, with recent emphases in Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning.

Skill Summary

• 16+ years of experience in software development, DB Developer, project management, and software architecture.
• International Experience in India and the UK.
• Skills including technical leadership, mentoring junior developers, customer requirements gathering, and customer expectations management.
• Big Data experience includes Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Pig, Zookeeper, Oozie, Flume, Cassandra, Datastax, MongoDB, Lucene, Mahout, and many other related technologies (I am a certified Cloudera Developer – CCDH)
• Text mining experience: TextRank, LexRank, sentiment analysis, coreference
• Machine learning/statistics includes classification, clustering, recommendation algorithms, k-Means, statistical analysis, data visualization, R.
• R Experience includes R-Revolution Analytics, Rstudio, Rhadoop, MapReduce integration
• Foreign Language Processing / machine translation with an emphasis on non-Roman scripts.
• Computational Linguistics/ NLP: NLTk, OpenNLP, NLP, IPA, POS tagging, corpus linguistics, LingPipe, NER, RiTa, Antelope
• Experience creating webcrawlers/bots
• Java/J2EE experience includes Spring Framework, Hibernate, JDBC, JSP, Ant, Maven, Tomcat, JBOSS, Weblogix, Eclipse, Servlets, JNDI, JUnit, AWT, Swing.
• Experience with development of other JVM languages including Scala and Groovy.
• Cloud Experience: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Windows Azure.
• Social Media: Twitter, Facebook API mining, processing.
• Open Source / Dynamic Language experience includes Ruby, Python, PERL, TCL, PHP, bash etc.
• Web Experience includes HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP.
• UI/UX experience includes designing user interfaces, implementing UI, usability studies, etc.
• Database Experience such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle.
• Microsoft Experience Experienced in C#/ .NET ASP.NET, WPF/WCF, SQL Server 2005/2008. (MCTS .NET Application Development certification)
• Solid web foundation including HTML, CSS, Apache, Javascript, IIS, AJAX, PERL, Python, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, LAMP, JSON/XML etc.
• Experienced with diverse range of development methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, XP, and RUP.
• Proficient in C/C++, Java/J2EE-related technologies, several assembly dialects, and scripting languages (PERL, tcl, shells)
• Experienced in development in Unix/Linux/ Win32, .NET,  PC, mobile, and Web environments.
• Familiar with Project management and SCM tools including Git, TFS, VSS, CVS, SVN, Rational Clearcase/Clearquest, MS Project, Visio, etc.
• Proficient in object-oriented design methodologies.
• Demonstrated proven problem-solving abilities.

Work Experience

 

11/2004 – Present: CreaTek Solutions, Inc, Houston, TX, http://www.createksolutions.com/

Software Developer and Architect

• Identified customer opportunities, gathered requirements from customers, and communicated with customers during project deliverables.
• Major Projects and Customers:

 

Daily Mail / Mail Online, London, UK

• Architected Data Analytics and User Recommendations solution for Daily Mail, the largest online newspaper site by traffic and by news articles served.
• Analyzed and delivered data architecture and strategy for Mail Online for web and mobile (Android/iPhone)
• Developed model using R / Rhadoop / MapReduce / Hbase
• Used Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Mahout, R, Lucene/Solr, DynamoDB, Amazon AWS, Java, Python, Ruby, Node.js, MongoDB, redis, Zookeeper, CFEngine.
• Architected data harvesting solution from web application.
• Performed Machine-Learning clustering on users using k-means
• Implemented personalized Recommendation algorithms for users based on article view history and cluster data.
• Performed entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and TF/IDF for clustering on user article comments and social media interfaces.
• Used Redis as a distributed key-value in-memory cache to quickly served stored results and aggregates to millions of users.
• Architected and developed Node-based REST web service for serving recommendations
• Deployed System to AWS: S3, EC2, EMR, as well as internal rack infastructure. Used Chef, Puppet, CF Engine to deploy.

 

SHMSoft, Houston, TX

• Lead developer on big-data / Hadoop oriented application for legal services / e-discovery industry.
• Used Apache Solr and Lucene to index search engine for searching e-discovery document repositories
• Used Machine learning TF/IDF to cluster documents based on keyword frequencies and perform automatic summarization / keyword extraction

 

Geophysical Insights, Houston, TX

• Lead developer on big-data oriented analysis application for oil and gas industry.
• Applied Neural Network analysis for machine learning to generate probability maps.
• Used Apache Hadoop stack to perform analytics on large repositories of seismic and well log trace data.
• Implemented K-Means algorithm for clustering.

 

Rockwell Collins / Aptilla, Tustin, CA

• Led development and design of an internal web portal for employees
• Integrated solution incorporating most of Rockwell's internal Enterprise IT resources, including EDW, Oracle DB, ERP, etc.
• Implemented UX for web portal.
• Managed efforts of India-based team to deliver solution.

 

 

Evolver, Englewood CO/Fairfax, VA

• Lead Developer on a suite of business applications for legal services industry, focusing on e-discovery, and case management
• Implemented text mining of large document repositories including sentiment analysis, automatic summarization, LexRank/TexRank, keyword analysis.
• Performed statistical analysis of large document corpora.
• Implemented STT/ machine transcription using HMM.
• Developed and implemented Tables, Stored Procedures, triggers, and other SQL database objects for repository.

 

Cuattro, Boulder, CO / India

• Stayed in India for 4 months to direct and manage efforts of Indian development team
• Developed 2 generations of control interface for a medical imaging device, communicating with DICOM standard.

• Implemented Test Driven Development using mocks and unit tests.

 

Starz, Englewood, CO, http://www.starz.com/

• Developed J2EE-based web services for delivering video on demand media content to clients.
• Developed recommendation algorithms using collaborative filtering and machine learning to suggest new content to users based on likes and dislikes

 

ReFrameIt, Boulder, CO,

• Developer for community based social commenting system for news, blogs, and internet information.
• Developed a managed (C#) Internet Explorer extension for storing community-based comments and discussions on web content.
• Processed social media (twitter/facebook) using company provided API to perform sentiment analysis and 
• Performed automatic summarization using TexRank/LexRank
• Used Machine Learning techniques for automatic clustering and classification.

 

Biomedical Technology Solutions, Englewood, CO,

• Developed web service service for collection of biomedical results data from data collection devices.
• Implemented DB stored procedures, triggers, and reports to process and analyze data.
• Directed Development

 

Drive The Web, LLC, Denver, CO -- Acquired by PR Newswire

• Contributed to development of Mediaroom 2.0; a J2EE based solution for corporate press release management, search, analysis, and categorization.
• Developed crawler  / bot software to automatically gather and process press release text and ETL into Database.
• Developed analytics software to mine, report, and summarize press release information.

 

Ripple Applications, Denver, CO, http://www.rippleapplications.com/

• Performed statistical analysis on customer data using ‘R’.

 

 

6/2004-9/2004: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ
Contract Design Engineer, Platform Validation Solutions

• Software Engineer for “Turmoil,” an object-oriented C++ automated-test solution for wireless handsets.

 

1/2001 - 9/2003: National Semiconductor, Longmont, CO

Design Engineer, Information Appliances Division

• Developed system software for information appliance reference platforms.
• RTL Design engineer for key microprocessor functions.
• Performed silicon validation on x86 microprocessor.

 

2/1999 - 11/2000 Global Partners (UK), South Asia

IT Project Manager for NGO, South Asia

• Directed IT strategies and implemented software and IT projects for NGO operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• Oversaw the efforts of junior expatriate and national staff.
• Gained working language proficiency in Urdu, Hindi, Dari/Persian, and Pashto languages.

 

8/1996 - 1/1999 Hewlett-Packard Company, Fort Collins, CO

Hardware Development Engineer, Fort Collins Systems Lab

·          Design Engineer for Workstation Graphics Adapter product.

·          Used HP-UX (Unix), C/C++, PERL and other software tools to support job tasks

 

5/1995 - 5/1996 VT Spatial Data Analysis Lab, Blacksburg, VA

Student Research Assistant

• Contributed to machine vision research project funded by FAA.

 

1993 - 1995 Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA

Programmer/Systems Analyst

• Contributed to client/server multi-platform database system.
• Wrote most of the Oracle database SQL queries for software client.
• Designed and implemented server-side application using C (gcc).

Education

1992 - 1996 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

B.S. Computer Engineering

• VT Distinguished Scholars, T. Marshall Hahn Engineering Scholarship

 

Major Projects

• Performed Natural Language Processing research as part of Artificial Intelligence coursework and project work.