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Carnegie Mellon University – Ph.D. in Machine Learning.

• Advisor: Prof. Zachary Lipton.

Carnegie Mellon University – M.S. in Machine Learning Research

• Advisor: Prof. Zachary Lipton
• Areas of Emphasis: Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing

West Virginia University – M.S. in Electrical Engineering.

• Advisors: Prof. Roy Nutter and Prof. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova.
• Thesis: The Automatic Detection and Classification of Security Vulnerabilities in Issue Tracking Systems.
• Area of Emphasis: Computer Systems and Cybersecurity

West Virginia University – B.S. in Electrical Engineering

• Area of Emphasis: Bioengineering and Biometrics
• Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors College

Founder and CEO of Performance Photo

• Developed and implemented novel machine learning techniques and pipelines. (see project page for more info)
• Lead a team of 3 machine learning PhD's to solve our fundamental problems.
• Developed cradle-to-grave in-house ML tooling and pipelines.
• Served thousands of customers, hundreds of events, and hundreds of thousands of photos.
• Achieved 97% rank-5 accuracy in our racer re-identification pipeline, where out of the box models achieved less than 20% accuracy.
• Quadrupled the performance of text spotting pipelines on our task.
• Leveraged modern LLM's (i.e. Foundation Models) for multiple tasks, including intelligent web scraping and photo album to event matching.
• Our technology is being sold.

Electronics Engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory

• I was the technical integration lead for The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Contested Urban Environment (CUE) strategic challenge. See here for more information.
• As part of a small team, I designed, developed, and maintained the Open Standard for Unattended Sensors.
• Lead many projects.
• TS/SCI Clearance.
• From 2017-2018, I worked in the Network Sensing and Fusion Branch where we focused on combining information from many multi-modal sensors to make intelligent decisions and predictions.
• Since 2018, I am part of the Context Aware Processing Branch where we focus on the theoretical underpinnings of data fusion.

Graduate Research Assistant under Prof. Goseva-Popstojanova at WVU

• Built a system for NASA that was used to classify software issues as potential security threats or not. This system was implemented and used to prioritize the urgency of which to solve current issues.

Graduate Research Assistant under Prof. Roy Nutter at WVU

• Built a system that makes a dossier of a person based on personally identifiable information, including images. The dossier included a profile measuring an individuals exposure on the internet. See the project for more details.

Systems Technician at WVU Engineering School Help Desk

Day Trader at Hold Brothers Captial

Proprietor, Tyo Drafting and Design

• Provided drafting and design services to a few local businesses

Electrical Engineer Intern at Catawba Nuclear Station

• Developed a plan to upgrade a subsection of the plants valve controllers and integrate them into the DCS

Research Intern at WVU Department of Biochemistry

• Utilized R and Python to perform data analysis on several genomic projects in Dr. Peter Stoilov's lab

Electrical Engineer Intern at Jacobs Engineering

Sales Advisor at Vector Marketing

Electrical Engineer Intern at Taggart Global

Electrical Engineer Intern at Taggart Global

• Received computation grant from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

• Recipient of the IEEE Power and Energy Society PLUS scholarship

• Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) member and scholarship recipient
• Students of Excellence Scholarship Recipient
• Mountaineer Scholarship Recipient
• Engineering Achievement Scholarship Recipient