Curriculum Vitae

Executive summary

I am an IT professional with over 10 years of industry experience ranging from software development to project management to technical support and user training. I have a passion for problem solving and data; two elements that I have found practically inseparable. Collecting quality information, clear and consistent communication, and learning to ask the right questions are skills that form the foundation of my work.

Each of the following categories are ordered by familiarity, from most to least familiar. All remaining sections are ordered by date.

Technologies and skills

Software Development
Programming - Python, C++, C#, C, Matlab/Octave, Java, Regex, SQL
Libraries - Numpy, Matplotlib, Pytorch, Plotly, Pandas, Scikit, Tensorflow
Documentation - user guides, requirements, APIs (Sphinx), process
Development environments - PyCharm, Jupyter Notebook, RStudio
Testing - Unit (PyUnit), Operational, A/B, Doctests
Version control - Git, Github, Bitbucket, Subversion

Machine Learning
Interests - artificial neural networks, computer vision, deep learning, NLP
Models - ANN, classification, regression, forest/ensemble, generative
Skills - visualization, vectorization, research, encoding, optimization
Feature engineering - cleaning, imputation, normalization, transformation
Data sets - MNIST, Wordnet, Black Box, Kaggle House, ImageNet

Information Technology
Operating Systems - Windows, iOS, Android, Ubuntu, macOS
Web development - DOM, Markdown, HTML, XML, CSS, JSON, D3, Heroku
Hardware - desktop, mobile, Audio/Visual, printing, network
System Administration - AD, Exchange, Entrust, Exchange, O365, Airwatch
Content Management Systems - Wordpress, ServiceNow, Sharepoint
Deployment - SCCM, Airwatch, Containerization (Docker), VMware
Networking - Cisco, Unity (VoIP), CCNA (Expired)

Recent projects

Self-Organizing Recurrent Networks
Private Repository (more information on request) — 2019 to Present
A framework for experimenting with various methods of self-organization and recurrent neural network signal processing.

Animated Matplotlib Visualizations
github.com/kotulc/visualizations — 2019 to Present
A framework for displaying and animating collections of Matplotlib components.

Visualizations and Related Notebooks
github.com/kotulc/notebooks — 2020
Jupyter notebooks focusing on machine learning and data visualizations.

Adaptive ML Pipeline
bitbucket.org/kotulc/pipeline — 2019
An automated Machine Learning pipeline built with Scikit-learn.

Front Range Wheel Works
frwheelworks.com — 2017
Concept wheel building and storefront site. Wordpress, PHP and Woocommerce. Recently re-built with a simpler blog-style front end and no commerce components.

Employment history

Technical Support Specialist Sr.
Jefferson County Public Health
Lakewood, CO — 2012 to Present
Central role in a lead position involving system administration, purchasing, inventory management, configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, training, documentation and project support.

Functional Consultant
Compusearch Software Systems
Dulles, VA — 2010 to 2012
Provided support for the PRISM acquisition and procurement ERP. Primary responsibilities included generating reports, documentation, feature planning and tier I/II software support.

Research Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY — 2008 to 2010
Assisted in the design, development, documentation and testing of a culturally-focused educational application framework written in Java. Included work with applet-based 3D rendering.

Software Development Intern
The Ayco Company, L.P.
Albany, NY — 2008 to 2009
Updated security for the client-side financial portal; tracked, tested, documented and deployed software updates in a small team setting. ASP.NET and C# Programming experience.

Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3.69 / 4.0 cumulative GPA
Troy, New York — 2006 to 2010
B.S. in Computer Science and Information Technology
Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction (dual major)