Patrick Lewis, MS, PMP

Experience

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  United States Navy

  May 2006 - Sept 2011

  Project Manager

  Led the intelligence division of a U.S. Navy unit and provided technical electronic-countermeasure support to troops in Iraq.• Consistently demonstrated initiative and flexibility by stepping into ad-hoc positions and responsibilities that were not defined by traditional military structures. Identified organizational needs and took steps to gain skills or create relationships that would fill those needs.• Led a pilot project to upgrade 200 widely dispersed electromagnetic jamming systems across eight bases in central and northern Iraq in three months.• Forged trusted relationship with US military leadership by presenting electromagnetic information and threats in a simple way which helped them make relevant safety decisions preceding each mission outside designated safe zones.• Maintained technical systems and conducted regular tests on jamming devices used by U.S. troops to protect themselves from radio-controlled roadside bombs.• Formed a relationship with US Air Force units at Al Dhafra Airbase in UAE as the only naval intelligence officer in Dubai; secured an unprecedented personal request from the General Officer for daily delivery of written products due to their high quality. Show less

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  Mission Essential

  Jan 2013 - Mar 2017

  Team Lead

  Led a team of thirteen analysts that provided technical intelligence analysis in support of US military forces in Afghanistan to identify and neutralize foreign security and intelligence threats. • Responsible for creating analytical products that could provide actionable information to key stakeholders even when initial requirements were vague or ill-defined. Broke broad questions down into smaller components to give teams discrete tasks to focus technical efforts against.• Created and demonstrated new processes to integrate complex intelligence tasks into simple, actionable intelligence presentations for deployed government field agents.• Trained dozens of new analysts on technical processes and analytic software.• Received recognition from foreign stakeholders after improving relations with a Czech Republic intelligence team in Afghanistan, enabling productive information sharing between units while complying with all US government regulatory restrictions regarding classified information exchanges.• Reduced the overall production time of the team by nearly 50% by outlining the work stream of analysts, identifying the critical path and dependencies of production, and introducing a novel way parallelize a series of tasks analysts could conduct simultaneously, • Designed and coded in Python custom, specialized analytic tools to creatively solve customer problems by finding hidden patterns in large datasets. Show less

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  IBM

  Apr 2017 - May 2021

  Led and presented data-driven studies on U.S. government assets to guide Senior Executive level decision-making regarding the use and value of technology to customers. Identifying hypotheses, required metrics, and analytic solutions to provide data driven solutions to clients. • Quantified the impact of an Artificial Intelligence technology in US military Intelligence organizations responsible for the exploitation of collected sensor information.• Self-taught in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning—including the ability to design and code custom Machine Learning analytical models in Python—to ensure the ability to have detailed discussions with clients on technical matters during stakeholder engagements.• Communicated complex findings through clear, concise methods to convey key concepts quickly and accurately to technical and non-technical audiences. • Created and delivered a comprehensive presentation to an assembled audience of over 100 expert representatives from multiple organizations in the U.S. military on the theories, hypotheses, and methods of the team’s study on Artificial Intelligence.• Earned the AWS Machine Learning certification in two months during the COVID-19 mandatory work-from-home period.• Identified the potential for a 30% reduction in required personnel to meet a client’s intelligence production needs by coding a client-specific analytical model in Python.• Drafted Office of Management and Budget “Budget Data Request 17-35” to coordinate Federal interagency response to personnel expenditures. Created VBA macro to substantially reduce the time and human error involved with combining multiple iterations of agency response. • Personally led stakeholder engagements at client sites located worldwide in Afghanistan, Qatar, and Somalia as well as multiple stateside locations. Show less Conducting advanced analysis on Department of Defense assets to provide critical recommendations to senior government leadership for strategic planning.* Quickly established value by conducting hypothesis-driven quantitative analysis using Python,Excel, and geospatial analytical tools.* Crafted tailored Machine Learning analytics including classification and regression methods to gain insights into large datasets.* Communicated complex findings through clear, concise methods to convey key concepts quicklyand accurately. Show less

  • Management Consultant

    Oct 2018 - May 2021

  • Senior Consultant

    Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
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  Personal Projects

  Nov 2021 - Jan 2022

  Software Developer

  EDTradeLines | Full-stack solo developer | React, Node, Express, MongoDB, zeroMQ • Full-stack application allowing users to study near-real-time market data • Created dynamic data visualizations using Plotly to present needed information to viewersYaowarat | Full stack developer | React, Node, CSS, HTML, Node, AWS • Front end application to browse fashion products for purchase • Synthesized multiple complex server requests into easily digestible product summaries• Horizontally scaled back end operations with minimal cost by incorporating multiple AWS EC2 instances Show less

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  Trinnex

  Mar 2022 - now

  Software Developer

  Currently leading a full stack developer team building apps for the CAST platform, a data management and analytics software suite providing actionable insights for critical public health and infrastructure domains. Results driven and customer focused.• Built the epiCAST app used by the Louisiana Department of Health and California Department of Corrections for their COVID wastewater measurement program. epiCAST is an end-to-end data management platform that intelligently combines field and lab data into CDC compliant records.• Currently building the dataCAST foundational software, which leverages Google BigQuery to conduct data analysis at scale.• Javascript | React | Node | Mongo | PostgreSQL | Google BigQuery Show less

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2022 - Nov 2022

  Software Developer

  Solo developer for Paddle Baddle, a Unity driven game currently available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. I planned an executed every aspect of app development:• Designed all gameplay elements from scratch.• Wrote entirely custom C# scripts to control game behaviors, logic, and user management.• Managed and executed all administrative elements required for App Store and Google Play development and release.• Integrated and customized advertising campaigns using multiple SDKs. Show less

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  Self-employed

  May 2023 - Sept 2023

  Software Developer

  Solo developer for AstroVolts, a Unity game currently available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. I planned and executed every aspect of app development:• Designed and implemented all gameplay elements from scratch.• Wrote entirely custom C# scripts to control game behaviors, logic, user management, and a unique wallpaper generator feature.• Managed and executed all administrative elements required for App Store and Google Play development and release.• Used prompt engineering as a multiplier for my own coding knowledge, as well as art generation for icons and background images. Show less

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2024 - Aug 2024

  Software Developer

  Solo developer for WebWhacker, a utility app currently available on the Apple App Store. I planned and executed every aspect of app development:• Designed and implemented all functionality from scratch.• Wrote entirely custom React Native javascript to control extraction logic, display elements, and user preferences.• Managed and executed all administrative elements required for Apple App Store development and release.• Used prompt engineering as a multiplier for my own coding knowledge, as well as art generation for icons and background images. Show less