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Experience

Colorado State University - Software Engineer

May 2013 - August 2017

Coded new modules for the AgroEcoSystem-Watershed (AgES-W) model, a Java framework for watershed health. Updated the Universal Plant Growth Model (UPGM), a legacy Fortran program, and integrated it into the AgES-W framework. Wrote RESTful Java web services to provide access to large geospatial databases. Wrote a RESTful API for a mobile app to calculate stream quality assessments. Wrote Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Java web services to build SQL Server databases from static data files. Reviewed students’ code for logic errors and code injection vulnerabilities.

• Automated forecasts for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service with several RESTful APIs.
• Automated on-site inspections with a RESTful Java backend for a mobile app used by USDA employees.
• Increased accuracy of existing numerical models used in scientific research by writing modules to simulate additional physical processes.
• Automated the process of creating and updating data stores from disparate data sources with Java ETL web services.

Louisiana State University in Shreveport - Graduate Assistant

September - December 2012

Investigated the effect of statistically normalizing raw datasets on data clustering results. Coded the k-means clustering algorithm, the Rand index validation method, and multiple data normalization methods in Java.

• Demonstrated that normalization does not provide statistically superior results compared to raw datasets.
• Presented experiment results to the department as a capstone project.

Education

Louisiana State University in Shreveport

MSc, Computer Systems Technology/Computer Science, 2012

Louisiana State University A&M

BA, English Literature; German minor, 2007