Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

We're thrilled to announce that Intellex has acquired Expert by Big Village, effective March 22, 2024. This strategic move enhances our capabilities and strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

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Expert Details

AI Engineering

ID: 739720 Tennessee, USA

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Expert is a consulting AI Engineer building great artificial intelligence apps at scale. Expert has a long history of guiding companies to build out and implement AI infrastructure. He has 25 years of relevant software engineering experience developing a wide variety of applications using a variety of software development languages, tools, and technologies.

Expert has the skills and credentials needed to successfully complete almost any software and/or hardware project including machine learning, computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), MLOps, robotics, and more.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2021 Degree: MSCS Subject: Artificial Intelligence Institution: Lewis University
Year: 1992 Degree: MS Subject: Applied Mathematics Institution: University of Tennessee
Year: 1990 Degree: BA Subject: Mathematics Institution: Carson-Newman College

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2021 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Lead Software Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Designed cross-platform mobile stock price forecasting application for iOS and Android.

Responsibilities:
- designed and developed data pipelines for time series datasets for stock price indexes including S&P 500, NASDAQ, and Dow Jones
- designed model for stock price forecasting that achieved 98% accuracy with less than 2% mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)
- designed various models including long short-term memory (LSTM), Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Deep Convolutional GAN (DCGAN), WGAN, Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), and other machine learning algorithms
- created front-end and back-end architecture; designed and implemented MLOps infrastructure
- designed python microservices and serverless architectures to expose web apis to mobile application using web API; designed and implemented MLOps infrastructure
- designed unit, integration, and other automated tests
- performed verification and validation including confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and more
- profiled and improved performance of code
- tuned and optimized machine learning model and hyperparameters;
- automated deployment and monitoring of models and software using MLflow;
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2019 to 2021 Employer: codecypher LLC Title: Lead Software Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Team lead and subject matter expert for various commercial, open source, and research projects involving 2-4 developers.

Responsibilities:
- designed data pipelines and evaluated baseline models using AutoML tools and designed python code
- designed time series prediction model for weather data in Dijon, France
- designed time series prediction model for sitting posture using pressure sensor data in UK
- designed distracted driver detection system using Raspberry Pi 4, OpenCV, and Tensorflow
- designed classification model for medical blood test data
- designed time series prediction model for power transformer data
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2017 to 2019 Employer: FOTO Inc. Title: Senior Web Developer Department:
Responsibilities:
Designed customer portal system using Visual Studio, ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET Core Identity, Entity Framework, Serilog, and xUnit.
- created front-end using Razor Pages, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and Bootstrap;
- created back-end architecture using Microsoft IIS, Azure DevOps, Git, Windows Server, SQL Server;
- built front-end components library;
- debugged and resolved application issues;
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests;
- integrated with Azure DevOps;

Designed customer portal mobile application (iOS and Android) using Visual Studio for Mac, C#, macOS, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin Forms, FreshMVVM, REST, .NET Standard, GitHub, and SQL Server.
- created front-end and back-end architecture;
- built front-end components library;
debugged and resolved application issues;
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests;
- integrated with Azure DevOps;

Designed authentication and single sign-on system including database design using Visual Studio, ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET Core Identity, Identity Server, Entity Framework, Serilog, xUnit; Windows Server, SQL Server.
- designed custom PasswordHasher class to convert existing passwords using SHA512, CRC32, HMAC-SHA1, and HMAC-SHA256;
- designed Encryptor class to encrypt/decrypt strings to be used in all .NET Core projects.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2016 to 2017 Employer: Advanced Catalyst Systems Title: Lead Software Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Designed catalyst tracking and document storage system using Visual Studio, C#, ASP.Net Core, ASP.NET Core Identity, Entity Framework, Serilog, xUnit; Blazor Razor Pages, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Bootstrap; Microsoft IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server;
- created front-end and back-end architecture;
- built front-end components library;
- debugged and resolved application issues;
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests;

Designed data acquisition and log file processing Desktop application using Visual Studio, Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), and Microsoft Office API. The software is expected to save the company $45K or more per year
created front-end and back-end architecture;
- built front-end components library;
- debugged and resolved application issues;
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests;
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2008 to 2009 Employer: ETAHMP Title: Software Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
Designed and developed websites for East Tennessee Association of Hazardous Materials Professionals (ETAHMP).

Responsibilities:
- created front-end and back-end architecture
- built front-end components library
- debugged and resolved application issues
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests
Tech Stack: Joomla, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, PHP, and jQuery
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2008 to 2008 Employer: Pellissippi State Community College Title: Course Instructor Department:
Responsibilities:
Introduction to Linux (CSIT 2410) computer science course which introduces software engineering concepts to students.
Mathematics tutor for multiple sections of college algebra course.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2007 to 2008 Employer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Title: Software Engineer / Contractor Department:
Responsibilities:
Designed website and application used by researchers for modeling proteins and mass spectronomy

Responsibilities:
- created front-end and back-end architecture
- debugged and resolved application issues
Tech Stack: Visual Studio C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, Smarty, JavaScript, and MySQL.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1998 to 2006 Employer: Social Security Administration Title: Computer Specialist Department:
Responsibilities:
Team lead and lead software developer for design of multi-tier client-server appeals case management system using Visual Basic and IBM DB2 database.

Responsibilities:
- created front-end and back-end architecture
- built front-end components library
- debugged and resolved application issues
- wrote unit, integration, and e2e tests

Designed RFID real-time, multi-threaded server and web application to process tags for automated inventory tracking system using Visual Studio C/C++, C#, and SQL Server.
Designed web application for requesting building maintenance and furniture repair at 13+ locations using Visual Studio C#, ColdFusion, HTML/CSS, and SQL Server.
Designed Now Serving desktop application using Visual Basic and C Socket API.
Designed and implemented enhancements and bug fixes for web application to process disability claims; Eclipse Java/JEE, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Oracle, DB2, and XML.
Designed Perl script to migrate files/folders at 500+ locations across the United States.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
IEEE Senior Member
Licenses / Certifications
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Sun Java Certified Programmer (SCJP)

FreeCodeCamp:
Data Visualization
Scientific Computing with Python
Data Analysis with Python
Back End Development and APIs
Publications and Patents Summary
Publications: 8

Additional Experience

Training / Seminars
Relevant courses from education:
• Artificial Intelligence 1/2
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Distributed Computing Systems
• Encryption and Authentication
• Statistical Programming
• Robotics

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
English Native

Fields of Expertise

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