SUMMARY

Servant - leader, data scientist, and engineer. I transfigure data into insight and decisive action at massive scale and insane velocity in the cloud, cultivate innovation, and shrewdly transform individuals, teams, and organizations into competent, efficient, pioneering, and useful leaders.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Geospatial Data Science and Engineering
• Machine Learning / Deep Learning
• Remote Sensing / Photogrammetry / Computer Vision
• Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing
• Data Visualization / Storytelling
• Coaching / Mentoring

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Data Science
• Python
• NLTK
• Numpy / SciPy
• Pandas / GeoPandas
• Scikit-learn
• Scala
• Docker
• Computer Vision / OpenCV Data Visualization Tableau D3.js
• Web Mapping
• GeoServer
• MapServer
• Confidential Maps / Bing Maps
• Mapbox / OpenLayers
• Leaflet
• GeoMesa
• PostGIS
• GeoJSON & TopoJSON GIS / Geomatics Raster Analysis Vector Analysis Geodetics / GPS Photogrammetry Remote Sensing LiDAR FLIR
• Thermal Infrared Imagery
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Hyperspectral / Multispectral Sensors
• Sonar Safe FME ESRI ArcGIS MapInfo
• QGIS / GRASS / SAGA GIS
• Orfeo
• GDAL
• Proj4
• Java Topology Suite / GEOS
• Big Data
• Hadoop / HDFS / MapReduce AWS / EMR / ECS / EC2 / S3 Apache Spark PySpark
• Information Extraction Natural Language Processing Text Mining Semantic Analysis Machine Learning Social Network Analysis k-means, HAC SVM, KNN, ANN Naive Bayes Regression Analysis Predictive Analytics
• Ethnography/Cultural Geography Economic Geography
• Ecology / Environmental Geography
• Climatology Software Development
• C/C++
• C#
• Java
• Swift
• Ruby
• Visual Basic / VB.NET Web Development PHP
• ASP.NET
• Node
• Rails
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• Source Control
• Git
• CKAN
• Project Management Pivotal Tracker Jira
• Joomla / WordPress / Drupal
• Database Administration SQL
• PostgreSQL / Greenplum
• MySQL / MariaDB
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• SQLite
• PL/SQL p l pg s q l
• Database Design
• Normalization
• Data Management
• Data Warehousing
• Data Modeling
• Data Wrangling
• ETL / Data Integration
• NoSQL /Multi-paradigm DBs
• Graph Databases
• Document Stores
• Key-Value Databases
• Column-oriented Databases
• Neo4j
• Mongo
• Cassandra
• CouchDB
• HBase
• Redis
• Access
• FoxPro
• FileMaker
• Public/Open Records Law
• Freedom of Information Act
• Copyright Law
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Acrobat
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• UAS Autopilot and Telemetry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidentia

Geospatial Big Data Engineer | Cloud Analytics Developer

Responsibilities:

• Investigate complex systems and craft solutions to conduct advanced geospatial analysis at massive scale and velocity in the cloud.
• Develop models and engineer solutions to transform raw big data, especially geospatial data, into useful information products and actionable insights.
• Provide software development, training, integration, remote database administration and geospatial analytical support and services to teams worldwide.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Engineered solutions to migrate this indirect auto lender from MySQL to PostgreSQL and redesigned their database and data models.
• Ensured data integrity, security, and optimum performance of the Postgres and MySQL databases for all areas of the business.
• Crafted and implemented solutions to ingest, validate, and transform vast quantities of data from multiple vendors into valuable and accessible information products and services.
• Wrote highly efficient queries against big data to solve complex business problems.

Confidential, Richardson, Texas

Software Engineer | Postgres DBA | Geographer

Responsibilities:

• Engineered geospatial analysis and visualization solutions that enabled this oil/gas startup and its affiliated companies to more quickly identify and execute on opportunities.
• Mined courthouse land and mineral deed and lease records as well as tax records to identify mineral owners in key oil/gas rich areas.
• Scraped public records to aggregate lists of licensed professionals most likely to qualify as accredited investors and therefore qualified buyers or lessees of minerals.
• Identified the mineral acres most likely to be drilled, appraised their values, estimated ultimate recovery and production curves.
• Designed maps for mineral listings on the Confidential marketplace.
• Assessed risks and opportunities for new midstream projects.
• Coded Rails applications for the Confidential online marketplace.
• Crafted a robust public records scraper using Selenium and PhantomJS

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer | Geographer | Postgres DBA

Responsibilities:

• Transformed Confidential from a mere mapmaker into the premier publisher of hyperlocal GIS data and services licensed by such notables as as Confidential
• Spearheaded creation of Confidential ' most successful data products including School Attendance Zones, Postal geographies, Context Demographics, Context School Rankings, and Context Weather, a nationwide climate normals dataset at the hyperlocal level.
• Pursued and emerged victorious in multiple state open records actions to obtain public information from extraordinarily reticent government agencies.
• Disproved the Dallas Central Appraisal District's overly expansive copyright claims and won an administrative action through the Attorney General’s office forcing the agency to release its previously $50,000 tax parcel dataset to the public at no cost.
• Won an administrative action forcing the Hawaii Department of Education to turn over its complete set of ever-changing current and proposed school attendance zone boundaries available to the general public for the first time.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Contract Cartographer | GIS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Visualized the effects of various education policies on student and community outcomes primarily in the rural South.
• Designed maps and graphs/charts presenting educational, demographic and financial statistics in a more accessible fashion.
• Conducted a workshop on the use of GIS for education policy analysis at the annual Rural Education Working Group conference.

Confidential

Sales/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Guided the development of Confidential, a multiplatform ad booking solution based on partner Dick Honing's flagship product ECXS.
• Ensured that Confidential would be compatible with Baseview's Confidential ' ProductionManagerPro advertising production solution and with major European backoffice systems.
• Conceived and led development of the Weekbladservice, now known as Confidential .
• The Weekbladservice revolutionized how ads were booked across publishers and publications and how they were preflighted and corrected before arrival at the publisher.

Confidential

Product Specialist (Sales/Systems Engineer/Trainer)

Responsibilities:

• Installed and supported publishing automation solutions for newspapers and magazines all over the world as the international distribution partner of the US-based Baseview ( Confidential ) company.
• Localized software and documentation into Dutch and Spanish, and supported the same for French, Greek and other languages.
• Pre- and post-sales engineering support for integration with myriad accounting and product management systems
• Trained clients and reseller partners in the UK, Ireland, the Benelux, France, Spain, Germany, Israel, South Africa and elsewhere.
• Developed custom applications and services for business needs not addressed by Baseview’s product and service lines.

Confidential, Des Moines, Iowa

Systems Editor (IT Manager)

Responsibilities:

• Managed the newsroom's own IT department supporting hundreds of users and over 200 workstations and servers both in Des Moines and at remote bureaus across Iowa and in Washington, DC.
• Supervised helpdesk staff.
• Authored tools for editorial systems.
• Managed multiple projects, coordinating with fellow systems managers in advertising, production, circulation, and management information systems departments.
• Drafted the newsroom’s technology and systems training budgets.
• Led interdepartmental teams to redesign the newspaper for its new format.
• This included extensive work to source and modify special typefaces to improve readability while simultaneously saving precious column inches in the new column layout and reduced page size.

Confidential, Nashville, Tennessee

Systems Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Support information and publishing systems for the newsroom, advertising and marketing departments.
• Revamped production methods for greater efficiency.
• Trained users on the use of various applications and systems.
• Introduced instant/lean publishing methodologies with The "Instant" Tennessean, published multiple times daily onsite at the Confidential Lee Classic golf tournament in Hermitage, Tennessee.
• Proving remarkably successful, Confidential corporate magazine featured my team and our unique publication.
• Other Confidential papers reached out to me about replicating this at their special events.
• My drive and successes at Confidential earned me a major promotion from an entry level help desk technician to Systems Editor (IT Manager) at Confidential in less than two years.

Confidential, La Vergne, Tennessee

Mac Support Specialist

• I supported and trained Mac users in the advertising, marketing, and audio books departments.
• I maintained Macs, Mac clones, printers, scanners, etc. and managed the network.