Alex G.

Experience

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  University of Ottawa

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2013

  Teaching Assistant and Researcher

  • Delivered over 84 weekly lectures in Linear Algebra, Calculus and Discrete Mathematics to groups ranging from 30 to over 100• Research: Generalized and proved a new result in the field of Lie Algebras about infinite sized matrices

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  BioTalent Canada

  Jun 2014 - Nov 2014

  Web Developer

  ● Used tools including Google Analytics, Drupal to maintain website and create reports from an SQL database of over 50,000● Participated in the planning, designing and implementing information systems, analyzing, developing and testing various programming systems, including coding, testing, debugging and documenting programs.

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  Alterna Savings

  Nov 2014 - Jan 2015

  Sales Reporting Analyst

  • Programmed a query platform with MS Access for all branch managers across Ontario to find account information by branch, account type and export results to Excel.

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  Canada Revenue Agency - Agence du revenu du Canada

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2019

  Data Scientist

  ● Managed a Natural Language Processing data mining project with 4 employees using CRISP-DM methodology in SPSS Modeler, and achieved 82% accuracy in predictive modeling with text mining● Automated the creation of 50 GUI dashboards with VBA from Cognos data saving a team from repeating the work manually every quarter● Worked with big data (100+ million rows) using SAS, SQL, R, Python to automate the creation of monthly projects for the team

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  ANVIL

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2020

  Machine Learning Researcher

  ● Streamlined a national health agency’s medical research by developing an NLP model leading to a research paper and patent presented at an ACL workshop in Italy● Satisfied military client’s use-case for speech-to-speech translation by recoding Google’s translate algorithm (GNMT) in Python for military use on an edge device● Achieved top results in an NLP medical task by automatically generating annotations from a publicly available data source using pandas● Developed a multi-label text classification algorithm leading to an original NLP research paper and patent presented at an ACL international workshop● Rebuilt Google’s translate algorithm (GNMT) layer by layer from first principles in TensorFlow 2.0 for targeted use-case in a client project● Delivered internal training transformer-based NLP models, organizing ML projects and agile● Presented at 9 machine learning events, panels, lunch and learns and met with 7 public and private clients in a sales and technical advisory capacity Show less

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  Canada Border Services Agency | Agence des services frontaliers du Canada

  Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  Machine Learning Consultant

  In a leadership position requiring Secret Security Clearance, I provided advisory services on AI solutions to the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canada Revenue Agency, focusing on image detection, human resources, and border patrol issues.● Augmented border agent ability to assess criminal risk by designing an ML algorithm in scikit-learn targeting highest risk individuals from historical data● Successfully led 3 AI initiatives by translating tech to business value for senior management and training 3 developers on the use of CI/CD, Git and Data Engineering● Modernized agency recruitment process by developing an NLP resume-matching web app with Python, Dash, and Azure DevOps● Training and onboarding employees on the use of machine learning and Azure cloud technology Show less

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  Microsoft

  Aug 2021 - now

  Software Engineer II

  ● Acquired proficiency in various technologies such as C#, Typescript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Linux, KQL, Grafana, RBAC, and concurrent programming● Wrote and delivered a system design that solved complex partnership challenges, consulting with six cross-functional teams over three months● Built and deployed an access control tool that collects structured access data from multiple platforms and resolves discrepancies in less than 4 minutes, enhancing security and auditing capabilities● Created a pivotal dashboard deployed in a React web app and a C# backend, which reduced deployment time by 20% and became a vital component of deployments Show less