Work Experience

  • 2008-09   University of Missouri, instructor (IT 2810)
  • 2008        University of Missouri, instructor (CS 2110)
  • 2007        University of Missouri, teaching assistant (CS 2050)
  • 2007        MiTek Industries Inc, software engineer
  • 2006-08  Rolla Engineered Solutions LLC, member/owner
  • 2005-07  United States Geological Survey, student programmer
  • 2005-06  Missouri S&T, Learning Applied to Ground Robots (LAGR) research team
  • 2005       Missouri S&T, peer tutor and grader (CS 153)

Research Experience

  • 2007       Localized Learning with the Adaptive Bias Perceptron, 1st place MU CIS poster competition
  • 2006-07  American Helicopter Society VTOL First-Responder Team (Project SAVER) 
  • 2005-06  DAPHNE: A simulation and development environment for unmanned systems

Education

  • 2010       University of Missouri, PhD Computer Science
  • 2008       University of Missouri, MS Electrical Engineering
  • 2007       Missouri S&T, B.S. Computer Science
  • 2007       Missouri S&T, B.S. Computer Engineering

Honors and Activities

  • 2008       UM-System Entrepreneur of the Year
  • 2008-09  IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2008-09  IEEE Communications Society
  • 2004-09  Association of Computing Machinary
  • 2006-07  Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • 2005-07  Upsilon Pi Epsilon Comp. Sci. Honor Society
  • 2004       Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society

Technical Skills

  • Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Lua, Python, Perl, PHP, SQL, Matlab, JavaScript, XML
  • Libraries: CUDA, OpenGL, OpenCV, POSIX, STL
  • Platforms: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Windows CE
  • Tools: GCC, GDB, Subversion, Visual Studio .NET, Keil uVision