I am an IT professional with broad experience as a systems programmer, business systems analyst, published technical writer, software development manager. I am looking for work as a Machine Learning engineer, preferably in the area of Natural Language Processing or Quantitative Finance. As a former teacher of Compiler Theory and Computational Linguistics at the University of the Americas in Puebla, I am well versed in mathematical grammar. I am also versed in current NLP techniques such as the use of RNNs and LSTMS to garner insights into syntactic and semantic structure of text and tools like Word2Vec and Doc2Vec. I have used clustering techniques such as Affinity Propagation and DBSCAN and GraphLasso to identify potentially cointegratable pairs of stocks, and I am familiar with the use of Kalman filters to determine hedge ratios. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. I have a strong background in mathematics and statistics, including familiarity with the mathematics of quantitative finance. I am a graduate of Udacity’s Machine Learning Engineering Nanodegree and hold certificates as a Salesforce Apex/Visualforce developer and Microsoft Visual Basic Professional. https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngstrong Thanks, - John Strong Website: www.etherpros.com Skype ID: pluviosilla Google Hangout: pluviosilla Tel. (512) 487-8494