Ba (Hons) Political Sociology

Work in a variety of environments and projects:

• Work with a number of projects and teams worldwide. Highlights include - development of optimized networks for NVIDIA Pegasus boards, auto-labelling for AR headsets in order to assist visibility during search and rescue, and assistance in distributed fine-tuning of large language models.
•  Several years development experience with edge computing ‐ including industrial grade Nvidia Jetson boards ‐ along with Nvidia's software stack, Intel Neural Compute stick 2, Openvino Toolkit.
•  Research and development of course materials, guest lectures and blog posts.
•  Contribution to a growing number of open‐source projects across a range of genres and industries.
•  An advanced knowledge of Linux based systems and GPU accelerated data science.
• Advisory roles in the production of technical solutions in theatre and the visual arts with the use of microcontrollers or single‐board computers.

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

Backend and Machine learning lead at Pronti AI - A smart wardbrobe assistant with over 1 million downloads:

•  Team leadership, project management and roadmapping.
• System orchestration, optimisation and accountability.
• Technical and personal mentorship, training material development and quality assurance.

Backend and Machine Learning Team Lead

Senior Machine Learning and backend engineer at Pronti AI - A smart wardbrobe assistant with over 1 million downloads:

• Development and implementation of cutting edge computer vision and collaborative recommendation systems.
• Machine Learning operations, optimisation and implementation of real-time distributed, cloud computing solutions.
• Team leadership, project management and system design.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

• Developed and built practical and academic material for a deep learning capstone and machine learning engineering bootcamp.
• Ran labs and taught a number of cohorts advanced theoretical and practical machine learning, Python and cloud engineering.
•  Delivered a Tensorflow 2 workshop at the 2020 Toronto Machine Learning Summit, along with and introduction to GPU accelerated data science with Rapids at the Big Data and AI conference in 2020

Machine Learning Engineering Instructor and Lab Supervisor

Provision of student support during 4-hour weekly lectures and a one hour online seminar. Duties included:

•  Environment setup and debug requiring knowledge of multiple operating systems.
•  Clarification of Python fundamentals as well as advanced data science techniques and libraries.
•  Assessment, feedback and grading of student assignments and projects.
•  The creation of an hourly seminar once a week in the form of a Jupyter notebook covering students questions and diving into alternative libraries and techniques that unable to be covered in the lectures.

Teaching Assistant: Python for Data Science

• Responsibilities included the reception and ordering of large freight,
packing and wrapping of pallets, and consignment note taking, as well as
retail store sales.
• Operation within a dedicated installation team (in council owned space,
shopfronts and shopping centres) installing large frame structures up to
36 feet tall and rigging with assistance from heavy machinery.
• Event theming and installation, transport logistics and warehouse
management/ deliveries.


Warehouse Assistant and Exhibition/ Events Installer

• Sales representative for a diverse range of products ranging from props to
production essentials and art supplies.
• Maintenance, creation and hire of props, clients included major motion
pictures, television and theatre production companies including – Ash vs
The Evil Dead, Roman Empire: Reign of Blood and Power Rangers: Dino
Charge.
• Event theming and installation, transport logistics and warehouse
management/ deliveries.

Props Department - Retail store, rentals and workshop

Technical and project lead for a number of clients and initiatives including:

• Optimisation and deployment of visual neural networks for use in a variety of projects including autonomous vehicles, background removal and colour intelligence.
• Use of Natural Language processing models and transformers for automated knowledge extraction in the healthcare sector.
• Consultancy and expertise deploying workflows on cutting edge embedded systems.

Senior Data Scientist and lead Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer | ML Ops

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