Data Scientist Computer Science

Adrian D. Cunningham, M.A.

225-***-**** • *********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian601/

Education:

M.A. Computational Neuropsychology

University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Riverside, CA

July 2014 – Dec 2016

B.S. Computer Science and Engineering

University of Notre Dame (ND)

Notre Dame, IN

May 2008 - Aug 2012

Professional Experience:

AT&T El Segundo, CA July 2017 – June 2022 Houston, TX June 2022-Present

Senior– Cybersecurity Feb 2024 – Present

Professional – Cybersecurity Feb 2022 – Feb 2024 Professional – Technology Security Aug 2021 – Jan 2022

Sr. Specialist – Technology Security July 2020 – July 2021 Flex Force Engineer II Oct 2019 – June 2020

-DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) Compliance Coordinator June 2021 – Present

●Remediated DLP incidents, providing guidance on protecting AT&T SPI, handled over 600 incidents per year.

-Sensitive Data Discovery Program Remediation Manager: Jan 2022 – July 2022

●Managed applications that need rescans, handling at least 15 applications at a time and providing weekly updates on remediation statistics to management.

-Sensitive Data Discovery Program Project Manager (PM): Oct 2019 – March 2021, March 2023- Present

●Liaison between the Sensitive scanning team and application owners, managing at least 10 applications at a time and over 65 applications through the scanning process yearly.

●Managed the process improvement for the Sensitive Data Discovery Project July 2020 – Present

-Other Projects:

●Designed, coded, and maintained the CSO Security Enablement Organization SharePoint site Sept 2022 – Present

●Redesigning Women of ATT Community Outreach site in HTML Jan 2020 – Sept 2022

●Designed, coded, and maintained the CSO Security Governance Organization tSpace site Sept 2020 – Sept 2022

●Managed the CSO (Chief Security Office) Security Enablement Team Education Plan June 2020 – Present

●Worked with ASLA (application server logging and alerting) as PM & in Process Management March 2021 – Aug 2021

Technology Development Program: Part of the Technology Development Program at AT&T July 2017 – April 2019

-Second Rotation: April 2019 to Oct 2019 - Sr. Specialist Technology Development Program I

Created a financial database using AWS to store the database and information

Responsible for distributing vendor reports – improved the Excel VBA script to increase efficiency

Financial manager for 30+ vendors in the LA area

-First Rotation: July 2017 to April 2019 - Technology Development Program Engineer I AT&T Technology Operations (ATO) Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform and Systems Network Cloud & Infrastructure

Designed & orchestrated AT&T Hybrid/Public Cloud Communication Plan & Hybrid/Public Cloud website in HTML

Consulted on Dashboard creation and created Intelligent Dashboard items for Operations Knowledge Management (OKM)

Designed & managed Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards for Technology Engineering (TE) Organization using MicroStrategy

Designed a template for the elimination and retiring of TE Tools

Managed the TE Tools Database using Data Science and Analysis techniques

Short Projects:

oRedesigned the Technology Development SharePoint site (Header & Leadership section) in HTML, Oct – Dec 2018

oRedesigned Field Operations Future Ready site in HTML Nov – Dec 2018

APPLE INC.

Technical Specialist Thousand Oaks, CA Oct 2016 – July 2017

-Provide frontline customer support for mobile devices at the Genius Bar, including hardware and software troubleshooting, diagnosis, and basic customer product training.

-Demonstrate familiarity with internal and external resources for customers

-Troubleshoot and repair Apple hardware and applicable software products.

Family Room Specialist Rancho Cucamonga, CA July 2014 – Sept 2014

-Provided frontline customer support for mobile devices at the Genius Bar, including hardware and software troubleshooting, diagnosis, and basic customer product training.

-Demonstrated familiarity with internal and external resources for customers

-Was a troubleshooter and repaired Apple hardware and applicable software products.

Genius Plano, TX Jan 2014 – June 2014

-Provided frontline customer support for all Apple technology at the Genius Bar, including hardware and software troubleshooting, diagnosis, and basic customer product training.

-Demonstrated familiarity with internal and external resources for customers

-Was a troubleshooter and repaired Apple hardware and applicable software products.

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC Carlsbad, CA June 2016 – Dec 2016

Intern – Quality Analysis and Program and Project Management

-Worked with Data Analysis of Enterprise Application Services (EAS) Projects and Proposals in HP PPM

-Made and maintained interactive and dynamic Microsoft Power BI Dashboard for the EAS data

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Riverside, CA Oct 2014 – Aug 2016

Teachers’ Assistant

-Led 3 discussion sections and held office hours for the Skepticism & Pseudoscience In Psychology class (Oct - Dec 2014)

-Led 3 discussion sections and held office hours for the Topics in Psychology: Your Perceptual Superpowers class (Jan - March 2015)

-Led 3 discussion sections and held office hours for the Cognitive & Neuropsychology class (Jan – Mar 2016)

-Led 1 discussion section and held office hours for the Social and Personality class (July – Aug 2016)

THE BOEING COMPANY Seattle, WA June 2015 – Sept 2015

Information Technology Intern – Program and Project Management

-Became the Risk Focal for project group and lead weekly risk assessment meetings

-Ran suite of SMT tests for Boeing eEnabling on Panasonic Maintenance Laptop

-Participated in the Boeing IT intern iHack Hackathon July 2015

MICROSOFT CORPORATION Las Colinas, TX July 2012 – Nov 2013

Support Engineer

-Tier 3 (highest level) support engineer for Microsoft Exchange Server for enterprise premier customers

-Assisted with critical server situations to provided excellent research and troubleshooting capabilities

-Used cross functional collaboration for issue resolution to provide and insure exceptional customer service

-Technical Writing Experience: designed and implemented tutorials on Exchange Topics for personal use and sharing with both customers and coworkers

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DEPT Notre Dame, IN Aug 2011 – Dec 2011

Teachers’ Assistant - Assisted students in C/C++ programming class with homework assignments

CAPITAL ONE FINANCE Plano, TX June 2011 - Aug 2011

Systems Specialist I, Ops (Intern) - Identified and documented customer, technical, and business requirements and provided supplemental development of the Automobile Finance Department website user interface.

ST. JOSEPH’S ACADEMY Baton Rouge, LA Dec 2004 – Dec 2005

Computer Technician - Computer repair technician for Dell and IBM hardware and software

Skills:

●AT&T CELL Courses: Data Science, Machine Learning

●Programming Languages: C/C++, SPSS, C#.net, HTML, MATLAB, CSS, R, Python, SQL

●Software Knowledge: Apple hero products (Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod), Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suites, Google applications, Microsoft Exchange Server

●BI Knowledge: Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy

●Undergraduate Computer Courses: Logic Design, C/C++, Computer Architecture, Discrete Math, Data Structures, Algorithms, Pervasive Health, Robotics, Theory of Computing, Artificial Intelligence

●Publications: “A Big Present” published in An Anthology of Short Stories by Young Americans (2003 edition).

Certifications:

●Mac Pro (Late 2013) Service Qualification

●MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid-2012) Qualification

●MacBook Air (Mid 2013 & Early 2014) Qualification

●iMac (Late 2012) Qualification Exam

●Apple Certified Mac Technician

●MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) Qualification

Family Room Specialist Achievement

Research Experience:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Riverside, CA July 2014 – present

Graduate Research

●Currently working with Apple Inc. to develop an Application using ResearchKit to gather priming data. The empirically motivated application is entitled ‘Semantic Cognition in Language’ (SCiL), and collects background information, and reaction times to and accuracy in priming and categorization tasks using Apple mobile devices. The goal for this application is to have it used as a diagnostic tool for Dementia.

oGiselle Urquijo, Kimberly Miller, Mabel Wong, Meera Shah, Ashima Kumar, Adrian Cunningham and Curt Burgess (April 2016) Exploration of Memory and Language Function in Dementia with the SCiL Application. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium, University of California, Riverside.

oAdrian Cunningham, Felipe de Luca, Bruno Flora, Giselle Urquijo, Kimberly Miller, Mabel Wong, Meera Shah, Ashima Kumar, and Curt Burgess (Nov 2017) The Semantic Cognition in Language (SCiL) Application: Expanding Cognition’s Research Frontiers with iOS

oFelipe de Luca, Adrian Cunningham, Giselle Urquijo, Kimberly Miller, Mabel Wong, Meera Shah, Ashima Kumar, Bruno Flora, and Curt Burgess (Nov 2018) 'The SCiL Application - Conducting Community-Driven Cognitive Research'

●Completed programmatic modifications and redesign of The Hyperspace Analog to Language (HAL) model and the High Dimensional Explorer (HiDEx), which are computational models of memory that derive representations for words that are learned from a natural corpus of language. The goals are to model memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease and Short Term Memory loss, as well as develop a computational diagnostic tool for neurodegenerative diseases.

●Researched and presented on semantic density in Alzheimer’s patients

oCunningham, A, Burgess, C (April 2015). COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTIC DENSITY IN ALZHEIMERS PATIENTS. Poster presented at the Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, University of Southern California (USC)

oCunningham, A, Burgess, C (April 2015). COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTIC DENSITY IN ALZHEIMERS PATIENTS. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association (WPA) Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV

●Wrote and presented an R package entitled ‘PlotMDS’, A Self contained Multi dimensional Scaling Program Designed for the Presentation of High dimensional Memory Modeling Results

oCunningham, A, Burgess, C (2014). A Self contained Multi dimensional Scaling Program Designed for the Presentation of High dimensional Memory Modeling Results. Dec 2014

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME Notre Dame, IN Jan 2011 – May 2011

Undergraduate Research - Completed programmatic modifications to OpenModeller (an open source cross-platform environment that I used to track endangered species by their location) to determine suitable areas for the relocation of endangered species.

Awards/Scholarships:

2022

●Recipient of Standing Ovations Award at AT&T for exceptional performance

2021

●Recipient of Promotion to Level 2 position of Professional at AT&T

●Recipient of ISI (Individual Service) Award at AT&T for exceptional performance in 2020

2020

●Honoree Recipient of Making a Difference Award at AT&T for work on the tSpace Organization Site

●Recipient of Acceptance from Stanford University to attend the Treehacks Hackathon

2019

●Recipient of Progression Promotion at AT&T to Engineer II

2018

●Recipient of Service Excellence Award at AT&T

●Recipient of Tech Dev Award at AT&T for significant accomplishment and collaborative teaming efforts across and within the organization

●Recipient of Acceptance from Stanford University to attend the Treehacks Hackathon

2017

●Accepted into the AT&T Technical Development – Technology Operations Rotational Program

2016

●Recipient of Travel Award from MIT to attend MIT Media Lab Open House

●Accepted into the PennApps Fellows Summer 2016 Program

●Recipient of Travel Award from Rice University to attend and acceptance into HackRice Hackathon

2015

●Recipient of Apple Development Team to develop research application using Apple ResearchKit

●Recipient of Acceptance from Stanford University to attend the Treehacks Hackathon

●Recipient of Travel Grant and from the University of Michigan and admittance to the University of Michigan MHacks Hackathon

●Recipient of Google Travel and Conference Grant to attend VLDB (Very Large Database) Conference

●Recipient of UCR Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Grant

●2015 Cornell SoNIC Summer Research Workshop Admittance

●Accepted to the Tapia 2015 Distinguished Fellow Writing Workshop

2014

●University of California, Riverside Dean's Distinguished Fellowship

2008-2011

●Joseph E. Duffey Scholarship

●Bundschuh Scholarship

2008

●Conejo Valley Black women’s Association Scholarship and Z. Frann Krajeski Memorial Scholarship

2004

●Induction to National Society of High School Scholars

2003

Sierra Club Essay

Memberships/Associations:

●Girl Scouts of America – Audubon Society

●Society of Women Engineers

●National Society of High School Scholars

●National Society of Black Engineers (Treasurer 2010-2011, Senator 2011-2012, 2014-2016)

●The Western Psychological Association

The Society for Computing in Psychology

Activities:

Musician: Harp performance

Languages: Proficient in French, Japanese

Panelist: Graduate Panelist at UCR for undergraduates interested in pursuing graduate school

Board Member: UMCWV (United Methodist Church of Westlake Village) Board of Trustees Member 2021-2022, RWA (Roger Williams Academy) Board of Directors Member 2023-Present

Writing: Fiction

Mentor: G.I.F.T. (Girls in Future Technology) Day mentor and mentor coordinator in 2017, 2018, and 2019, Mentor for the Girls Who Code Program at AT&T in Summer 2018 and 2019. TDP (Technology Development Program) Pillars Mentor 2022 and 2023

Tutoring: Math and science tutor with the UC Riverside NSBE chapter at JW North High School. Math and engineering tutor for 6th-9th grade students at the University STEM Academy (USA) at UC Riverside.

Advisor: 2015-2016 Graduate Advisor for the UCR National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Chapter

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