Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Ramon, California

• Architect focussed on GE’s Digital Twin platform. Coached 4 remote GE teams to deliver additional features to GE Digital products. Pioneered the Predix Application Engineering education sessions to raise technical skills and awareness across the engineering teams. Established the curriculum, presented and recorded multiple technical sessions. Created tools and processes to automate the generation and management of CI/CD for microservices. Built a chatbot to reduce email fatigue and increase responsiveness to alerts. Reduced pull-request review and merge time from days to hours. Mainly building in Node.js with Angular or React.

Nov 2013 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Ramon, California

• Technical lead for a SCRUM team providing analytics and cloud-based industrial internet software solutions to Aviation Engineering. Collaborated with UX, Product Owners and BAs to understand and discover user needs and translate into requirements. Improved practices across the Aviation SW teams through introduction of process and tools around CI, automated testing and deployments. Promoted a culture of pride in quality, helped developers learn from analysis reports and code reviews to continuously improve and maintain high quality. Lead multiple high-impact productivity projects, reducing analytic model update times from days or weeks to minutes.

Jun 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Subject matter expert on Condition Based Maintenance for Aviation. Architected and designed cloud-based platform to execute analytics on aircraft data. Lead design of integration for Matlab and C# analytics as part of an agile team. Provided guidance to development teams using the OSA-CBM standard. Created PoCs for different ways to store and consume time-series and derived data points using HAWQ, Hadoop, Cassandra and HBase.

Sep 2007 – Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Researched and designed an analytic network to execute analytics on data collected from aircraft and airlines in order to assess and predict the state of aircraft systems. Collaborated on multiple European and Boeing research programs around analytics and scalability of avionics. Developed embedded software and drivers for custom processor boards and experimented with using existing flight-grade avionic equipment for additional tasks. Created multiple tools to facilitate demonstrations and simulate other aircraft systems. Skills often required included computer networking, distributed and parallel computing, server and OS technologies, system design and standardization. Participated and contributed to the OSA-CBM standard technical sub-committee as the company focal and lead colleagues in understanding its application to the collection and analysis of aircraft data. Co-lead the authoring and publication of the OSA-CBM binary specification along with a Boeing representative.

Jun 2002 – Aug 2006 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Cheltenham, UK

• Developed embedded software for a managed Layer-2 Ethernet switch for the Blackhawk helicopter. Created tools for both Windows and Linux. Increased understanding of Ethernet protocols and IEEE standards. Designed and build software to implement OSA-CBM standard including demonstrations of integrating MATLAB-developed algorithms in a real-time distributed network. Further developed OSA-CBM standard and started design of the Binary Specification. Demonstrated distributed algorithm networks and contributed to European research project focused on predictive and condition-based maintenance for the airline industry.