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About Me
In my senior year of high school, I was awarded the Alumni Distinguished Full Ride Scholarship to attend Michigan State University.
My scholarship covered four years of education and I made it my mission to learn and do as many things as possible in these four years. I graduated with by B.S., Computer Science with a minor in Math in 2 1/2 years. I was a member of Smash Club, Vice President of Poker Club, and Founding Father of Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity. I have also been involved with the MSU Hatch and Spartan Innovations to launch two startup companies: Genesis Investments and LiveSpot (formerly Trove Labs LLC).
I just finished my final semester and graduated with my Masters of Computer Science in May 2020. Throughout graduate school I worked as a teaching assistant under Dr. Charles Owen helping students in Web Application Development and Object Oriented Programming. Currently I'm continuing to work on both start-ups and I'm also searching for permanent employment as a full-time software engineer. I have proven leadership, desire to learn, software engineering and experience with a wide variety of technologies and software/product development. I have a passion for leveraging software and data to make a difference in peoples lives, and I'm seeking to apply my skillset and ideas in a full time Software Engineering role.
Education
Michigan State University
B.S. Computer Science •December, 2018
GPA: 3.77
Graduated from the Honors College with a minor in Mathematics
Relevant Coursework: Algorithm Engineering, Database Systems, Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Software Design and Network Security
Michigan State University
M.S. Computer Science •May, 2020
GPA: 3.75
All of my graduate courses and course projects are listed below:
Data Mining - Techniques and algorithms for knowledge discovery in databases. From data preprocessing and transformation to model validation and post-processing. Core concepts include association analysis, sequential pattern discovery, anomaly detection, predictive modeling, and cluster analysis. Course Project: Using Twitter to Predict Billboard Top 100 Artist Rankings.
Natural Language Processing - Models and algorithms for natural language processing including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. Knowledge-based and statistical approaches to a variety of language related applications. Course Project: Parameter Tuning and Task Framing for Commensense Reasoning Tasks.
Distributed Systems - Principles, paradigms and assurance techniques used in distributed systems. Focus on fault tolerance and research in design and implementation of distributed systems. Project: A Survey of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Mechanisms in Blockchain.
Artificial Inteligence -Cognitive models, goal-based systems, and language understanding with a focus on theorem proving and deductive systems. Course Project: Spotify Music Recommendation Experiment.
Computer Vision - Applications of visual information processing techniques. Covers image encoding, enhancement, edge detection, segmentation. 2D and 3D object description and recognition, and scene analysis. Course Project: Convolutional Masking Layers for Food Classification.
Foundations of Computing - Models of computation: partial recursive functions, Turing machines, alternative models of computing. Basic theory and limitations of computability and undecidability. Resource-bounded computational complexity, non-determinism, and NP-completeness. Course Project: Proving the Hilbert's 10th Problem Is Unsolvable.
Multi-Disciplinary Study of Evolution - Teams of students across multiple disciplines work on group projects to answer fundamental questions about the dynamics of evolutionary systems. Focus on experimental design, statistical analysis, data visualization, and paper/grant writing. Course Project: An Analysis of Multi-Objective Optimisation for Heterogeneous Task Scheduling.
Machine Learning - Computational study of various paradigms in learning and data mining. Strengths and limitations of various learning paradigms, including supervised learning, learning from scalar reward, unsupervised learning, and learning with domain knowledge. Course Project: Gotta Learn Fast: Generalized Reinforcement Learning.
Work
Michigan State University
Teaching Assistant• May 2019 - May 2020
Graduate teaching assistant for Web Application Development (Summer 2019) and Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2019 and Spring 2020). Responsible for monitoring online Q&A forum, assisting students during in-person lab hours, proctoring exams, and grading. For Web Application Development, I assisted students through online help forum with development of web applications using HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL, and JavaScript to build responsive browser interfaces for remote database backed sites. For Object Oriented Programming, I was responsible for conducting in-person and online help hours to assist students with the development of MFC applications in C++ with a focus on teaching object-oriented methodologies.
Trove Labs LLC
Co-founder/CTO• March 2019-Present
Lead developer for mobile loyalty program and promotions platform. See below for more information.
Michigan State University
Software Development Intern• Spring 2018
Worked on a team of 5 students in MSU senior capstone course. Designed and implemented anomaly detection module for client partner, MSUFCU. Developed machine learning fraud detection module with Keras with Django dashboard.
Genesis Investments LLC
Co-founder/CTO• January 2018-Present
Lead developer for algorithm-based cryptocurrency investment platform. See below for more information.
Centene Corporation
Software Development Intern• Summer 2017
Software developer for member experience application centered around big data analysis. Delivered APIs which provided snapshot of member activities to determine course of action for customer service representatives. Developed new RESTful APIs and expanded services of existing APIs using Spring. Experience working on Agile scrum team.
Skills
- Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, matplotlib)
- Java (Spring)
- C++
- Web Development with HTML, CSS, PHP, ReactJS, Django
- Data Management with SQL and Firebase
- Data Mining: Preprocessing, Classification, Clustering, Association Rule Mining and Regression
- Data Visualization: matplotlib, seaborn, and dashboards with Django/Reactjs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Genesis Investments is a full service investment company specializing in blockchain technology and built for the 21st Century. Founded by Josh Nassau-Young and myself, Genesis Investments seeks to provide simple and transparent access to an exciting new class of assets. A decentralized financial marketplace can provide incredible investment opportunities, but navigating this young, complicated, and rapidly-growing landscape requires a strong understanding of the technical and business fundamentals at play. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the hype, hysteria, and rampant price speculation of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and overlook the merits of the technical milestones that these projects represent. At Genesis Investments, we are striving to create a welcoming and transparently profitable on-ramp to the exciting world of blockchain.
Our Services
Our services can be broken up into two different sectors: public and private.
Our public fund is managed with Genesis Vision which allows us to provide public access to our financial services with completely transparent reporting. Genesis Vision has their services broken up into two parts: programs and funds. Programs are short term investment opportunities for day traders, and funds are longer term coin holdings. We participate in both programs and funds, but our focus has been primarily been on funds given the success of and demand for our previous funds. Our Genesis Vision manager page is where all of our active programs and funds can be viewed. We currently operate two funds, our Genesis Select Fund has been active since 2018 and as of May 2020 is the 11th most profitable fund of all time on the platform with a total profit of 65.25%. We also just launched a Genesis DeFi Selects fund with holdings in key DeFi projects. We've been thrilled with the progress that the Genesis Vision platform has made in recent months with analytics improvements, easier deposits, and more social trading features. We hope to continue improving our services and staying up-to-date with bringing you the latest investment options. The Genesis Vision Blog is a great place to learn about the platform, and gives instructions on how to make deposits and invest in programs/funds.
Genesis Vision has been a game-changer for us in providing public access to our investing services, but doesn't capture the full scope of our company. We seek to provide our investors with access to the very best that the DeFi space has to offer with our private portfolio management. Currently our private fund is very limited, but a high priority for our company is to merge our public and private funds and offer our DeFi services through a seperate application or allow investing directly through our site. This merger is a work in progress as it requires integration of fund information from a variety DeFi services and Genesis Vision directly to our site dashboard.
Trove Labs is a data analytics company built to increase customer loyalty and engagment for small businesses. We seek to achieve customer engagment through loyaylty programs and custom promotions pushed out through our iOS and Android mobile apps. Our product is still in development, but we hope to launch the apps in late 2019 or early 2020. Some screenshots from the iOS app are shown below.
In addition to mobile apps for customers, we provide merchants with a dashboard built to help business owners analyze consumer trends, and tailor promotions and other business decisions based on these insights. Our system collects consumer data through Bluetooth Low Energy sensors located inside of stores which facilitate interactions with the mobile apps. These sensors track customer movement inside the store as well as interactions with the stores loyalty and promotions programs. This data is then aggregated to our merchant dashboard, a sample of which and the associated code is shown below. Our eventual goal for the product is to implement a payment system into our mobile apps which will greatly increase the value of our product to both consumers and merchants. There a number of technical and regulatory hurdles that we must work through in order to reach this state, but in the meantime we are working to build up our rewards and promotions platform and a base of merchants to implement our system.
