Andrew R

Andrew R. Freed

Experience IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC September 2017 – Present

Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor

· Led complex cognitive projects with strategic clients.

· Influenced IBM product direction from client feedback.

· Harvested intellectual capital from new products and technologies.

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC August 2011 – September 2017

Senior Software Engineer

· Led and delivered projects using NLP and ML to solve client problems.

· Preprocessed structured and unstructured documents for cognitive content ingestion.

· Drove TDD and DevOps processes through my teams and projects.

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC August 2007 – August 2011

Advisory Software Engineer

· Managed the migration of 500+ projects and 7500+ users from GForge to IBM tools.

· Educated 2000+ developers on Jazz Source Control.

· Developed internal application with over 10,000 registered users.

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC August 2005 – August 2007

Staff Software Engineer

· Led development squads on installation and monitoring.

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC June 2003 – August 2005

Software Engineer

· Developed J2EE application components.

TVHound LLC, Cary, NC May 2005 – August 2005

Software Architect

· Designed and implemented a J2EE application for startup.

Education Master of Science in Computer Science May 2003

Honors Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

· GPA 3.86/4.0, Dean’s List all semesters.

Key Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), Content Ingestion

Skills Java, REST APIs, XML/JSON, Database, On-premise and Cloud technologies

Client-facing, mentoring, collaboration, Agile/Lean, TDD and DevOps

Certifications Watson Knowledge Studio Methodology

and Badges Watson Discovery Service Foundations

IBM Mentor

Sun “Certified Enterprise Architect”, Exams 310-051, 310-300A, and 310-061

Sun “Java Certified Programmer”, Exams 310-055, 310-252A, and 310-027

Patents Over 80 patents filed with USPTO in cognitive and cloud technology

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