Richard Lewis

I do the weird stuff, the really weird stuff. When people think that something might be possible or probably isn't but is still needed, they call me. The more hopeless and convoluted a situation is the more I feel at home. I filled this style of role as an intelligence specialist in the United States Navy, again as an engineer and program manager at Intel and continuously in my volunteer activities. I did this too at the last "real" job I had which was working for the University of Washington. I was responsible for almost all of UW's engineering educational content that was delivered off campus, on the weekends or in the evenings. Basically I needed to make sure that working engineers and engineering companies had the educational resources they needed to succeed. As always I was under staffed, under funded, over stretched and overworked... I wouldn't have it any other way.

My current position which my wife refuses to call a real job is solving problems for various clients. My ideal client has a sensitive business problem, hoards of data, and no idea of how to solve the problem. Most, but not all of the businesses I have engaged with have employ data scientists. Most but not all of the businesses I have engaged with have had those data scientists label the problem as impossible, and many of the problems involve a third party using my client's services to break the law.

Oh yes, the reason my wife doesn't consider it a real job is that I have too much fun for it to be considered work.

Specialties:

• Machine learning, Data Mining, Natural Language processing.
• Map reduce, SQL, R, Matlab, Azure ML.
• Finance, Forensic accounting, Intelligence analysis.
• Chaos management / Cat herding/ Fixing broken systems.
• Engineering project/program management.
• Electrical interconnect architecture, design and testing.
• Test, debug, and validation of engineered system.
• Other duties as assigned.