Resume and CV
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Experience
Algorithmic Trading Developer - Rallyflag Trading
October 2006 - Present: Chicago, Illinois
Currently developing an algorithmic trading application written in Ocaml using genetic algorithm and statistical modeling techniques to find market price patterns on a time scale of less than one hour.
Research Engineer - National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Jan 2008 - May 2009: Champaign, Illinois
Acted as a core developer and release engineer for project SEASR. SEASR is a development platform and analytics toolkit for Humanities research communities to to develop, share, and deploy analytics driven web applications, primarily involving digitized document collections. Primary responsibility was design and execution of release process, including integration and final QA.
Technical Sales - RiverGlass, Inc.
October 2004 - September 2006: Chicago, Illinois
Acted as technical liason to sales and marketing. Brought technical expertise to solution consultations, sales calls, investor briefings, and other customer facing situations. Also responsible for defining marketing messaging by authoring abstracts and white papers, particularly in new markets and early stage product roll-outs
Analyst/Developer - RiverGlass, Inc.
January 2004 - October 2004: Chicago, Illinois
First full-time employee of RiverGlass, Inc., a company formed to commercialize data mining technology developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Designed and implemented statistical and machine learning oriented applications in Java. Primary project involved analysis of groundwater monitoring schemes at chemical and oil spill sites to identify redundancies. Designed and developed software that justified the removal of redundant wells resulting in up to a 10% yearly cost savings for the potentially 50+ years of monitoring required by the EPA at spill sites.
Graduate Research Assistant - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
May 2000 - December 2003: Champaign, Illinois
As part of the Masters in Computer Science program at University of Illinois, performed research in the implemention of neural networks, genetic algorithms, and other automated learning techniques in Java. Thesis was on the subject of feature selection for machine learning in hyperspectral remote sensing (see Publications). This work involved parallel and distributed computing.
Publications
Minsker, B. S., P. Groves, and D. Beckmann Optimizing Long Term Monitoring at a BP Site Using Multi-Objective Optimization , American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) World Water & Environmental Resources Congress 2005 & Related Symposia, Anchorage, AK, 2005.
Groves, P., Bajscy, P. Rank Ordering with Accuracy Selection (ROWAS) for Hyperspectral Band Selection. M.S. Thesis. December 2003.
Bajscy, P., Groves, P. Methodology For Hyperspectral Band Selection. Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. Vol 70, No. 7. pp. 793-802. July 2004.
Groves, P., and Bajscy, P. Methodology For Hyperspectral Band and Classification Model Selection. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data. October 27-28, 2003.
Education
Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Expected Graduation Date: December 2003
Final Cumulative GPA: 3.61 / 4
Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Engineering , Minor in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Graduation Date: August 2001
Final Cumulative GPA: 3.89 / 4