Nick Duncan

My Experience

1. January 2021 - Current
   ikeGPSLead AI / ML Engineer

   Responsible for the research, design, implementation, testing and support of a machine learning pipeline utilizing deep learning and computer vision in order to provide detailed analysis of utility poles.

   Examples of achievements include:

   • Developed an advanced web-based application to facilitate the masking of object segmentation datasets across numerous types of datasets. Items can also be assigned a "parent" object of sorts to help further establish an object hierarchy in CV tasks.
   • Helped train neural network models that can detect and segment specific objects in the power and communication spaces on utility poles with a minimum mean average precision (mAP) of ~0.88.
   • Developed a web-based application to facilitate the training and collection of prediction artifacts of neural networks.
2. April 2020 - Current
   PROTOSEV Labs, LLCSole Proprietor

   Personal LLC created for the sole purpose of freelancing. Specific examples of work completed are not available for client privacy reasons, but generally includes implementations of image segmentation via convolutional neural networks — as well as computer vision solutions — to identify relevant objects and provide data analytics within large datasets of photo imagery.

3. October 2019 - January 2024
   AvodahMedSoftware Engineer

   Responsible for the research, design, implementation, testing and support of a software solution designed to aid in the real-time translation of sign language, spoken languages, and written languages.

   Examples of achievements include:

   • Developed a web-based platform with a multi-modal approach to pose prediction and sign recognition for mapping common ASL signs into actions in a web app in real-time on live 1080p+ quality webcam video streams.
   • Built neural network applications to aid in the real-time translation of various types of languages.
   • Developed a web-based application with predefined user roles to facilitate the real-time translation of various types of languages.
4. April 2019 - April 2020
   TecStar ConsultingSenior Technologies Engineer

   Responsible for the research, design, implementation, testing and support of hardware and software solutions for various projects.

   Examples of achievements include:

   • Built a desktop application for use with debugging and facilitating the setup of smart home devices.
   • Built a desktop application for use with designing, training and using neural networks.
5. June 2011 - April 2019
   Accenture Mortgage CadenceSoftware Developer Senior Analyst

   Responsible for feature development and product support of enterprise-level .NET applications, such as, but not limited to, loan origination software.

   Examples of achievements include:

   • Upgraded reporting feature of loan origination software, including conversion utility used to upgrade legacy reports into the upgraded format.
   • Redesigned and overhauled user interface and functionality of WPF utility used by business analysts.
   • Built error-handling framework and associated UI to help identify problems with aforementioned WPF utility.
   • Implemented Memory Caching in aforementioned WPF utility to reduce load on SQL server database and improve performance of the utility.
   • Designed and made functional WPF test harness for ASP.NET MVC Web API.
   • Created unit tests for ASP.NET MVC Web API as part of a unit test initiative.