Michael Connor Senior AI Engineer
1-571-***-**** **********@*****.*** San Mateo, CA https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-connor-80316b269/ Professional Experience Summary
Software Engineer Consultant
Anatomy Financial
Apr 2024 – Nov 2024 San Mateo, CA
Formalized sorting steps into an NLP grammar to increase content by 15x, allowing only a marginal increase in complexity. Created ML classifier and led innovation involving LLMs. Improved local QA testing to mirror GCS Doc AI. Authored preprocessing library for data mining, feature extraction, and run-time classification. Co-Founder Serious Mlerm
Serious Mlerm
Apr 2023 – Apr 2024 San Mateo, CA
Started independent video game studio, produced and released “Earth, Fire, and Wind” Senior Software Engineer
Provide (acquired by 5/3 Bank)
Oct 2019 – Apr 2023 San Francisco, CA
Initiated AI core of detection (OCR, NLP), extraction (NLP), and data management (AWS) financial tool. Conducted ML financial analysis with sklearn and PyTorch. Devised financial information Expert System for normalization of hierarchical data. Streamlined testing for data extraction to run 50x faster than production.
Senior Software Engineer
3M Health Info Systems
Jun 2013 – Oct 2019 Silver Spring, MD
Lead Developer of platform team responsible for infrastructure for Inpatient / Outpatient / Pro-fee Coding, unstructured Data Mining as well as optimizing and maintaining ML nodes. Increased QA coverage by 900%. Reduced EMR processing time by 22% through streamlining ML preprocessing and model representation. Ran offline feature analyses using spaCy and PyTorch on proprietary Big Data datasets for integration into legacy systems. Research Assistant
George Mason University
Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 Fairfax, VA
C4I Center – Contributed to C4I software and papers, and BML NATO standards group. Teaching Assistant
George Mason University
Feb 2011 – May 2012 Fairfax, VA
Introduction to Python – Taught labs 2/week for the core CS course for 60 non-CS students Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Liaison Officer USAF
Apr 2008 – Sep 2008 Baghdad, Iraq
Facilitated US Army integration of USAF Intelligence assets and reports. Attached to 3rd Infantry Division and 10th Mountain Division in Iraq while reporting to CAOC in Qatar. Chief of Operations
USAF
Nov 2006 – Nov 2008 Beale AFB, CA
Led aerial film processing and digitization for U-2 Dragon Lady. Managed image translation, analysis, and mosaicing with world’s largest concentration of digital film scanners. Directed processing, database, and $8M imagery systems through a $3M upgrade. Education
M.S. In Computer Science
George Mason University Fairfax, VA Dec 2012
B.S. in Computer and Information Science
University of MD - University College College Park, MD Jan 2009 B.A. in Government and Politics
University of MD - College Park College Park, MD May 2003 Hobbies
Piano, Cycling, Hiking, 3D Animation, Video Game Programming, AI Frameworks Sole AI engineer for a fin-tech startup (Anatomy
Financial) that is advancing in funding, using NLP and ML and LLMs to sort and reorganize insurance
documentation. Co-founded a video game company
(Serious Mlerm) and released a 3D ARPG on Steam
and Epic Games. Sole AI engineer for a successful fin- tech startup (Provide) that became a subsidiary of Fifth Third Bank, primarily integrating Tesseract into an AWS pipeline for document classification and data
extraction of tax forms. Back-end NLP developer and team leader / mentor for Infrastructure and Platform teams within diverse AI suite of products for 3M
Health Information Systems. Former Captain in the
United States Air Force, a seasoned leader of people, projects, and resources in the USAF for 5 years
focusing on the technical systems and funding of
Intelligence Operations Enterprise Systems. Separated in Jan 2009 with an honorable discharge.
Skills
C / C++ 10+ yrs, Perl 10+ yrs, Python 10+ yrs, Java 10+ yrs, Shell 10+ yrs
Pytesseract, Sklearn, UIMA, ClearTK, OpenAI,
ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet, LangChain, HuggingFace,
TensorFlow, AI, ML, NLP, LLM, RAG, Textract,
SciPy, Numpy, scikit-learn, spaCy, Cython, Pandas, PyTorch, XGBoost, RNN, CNN, SVD, Markov Chains,
Clustering, LibLinear, Kaggle, NLTK, Native Coding
(Java, Perl, Python), Go / Golang, R, SAS, Jupyter, Matplotlib, Plotly, LISP, Haskel, ASM, CUDA,
OpenMP, MapReduce, Matlab, XPath, OCR, SQL,
MariaDB, Postgre, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, Cassandra, UML, XML, JSON, LaTeX, Subversion, Maven, Ant,
Bazel, Make, Cmake, Blaze, Git, GitHub, Eclipse,
Netbeans, GDB, Valgrind, MAT, Boost, Scraping, STL, Yacc, Lex, Memory Management, EC2, S3, Docker,
Kubernetes, VB, VBA, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Agile, Six Sigma, Unreal Engine, Niagara, Blender, GIMP
AWS, GCP, GCP tooling, Document AI, Apache,
Javascript, REST, SOAP, AJAX, Flask, PHP, CGI,
MIME, TCP, UDP, RPC, iptables
Linux (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse), Windows,
Mac/iOS, VMWare, Xen
Languages
English – Native
Spanish – Professional – Exchange Student to Guatemala Russian - Beginner
Find Me Online
M.S. Project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hash-sat-solver/ Hobby: https://sourceforge.net/projects/safe-harbor-deidentification/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-connor-80316b269/ Serious Mlerm: https://www.seriousmlerm.com
Steam Store - Earth, Fire, And Wind:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2751980/Earth_Fire_And_Wind/