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I am an experienced hands-on technical leader, software engineer, and research scientist working at the intersection of quantum computing, artificial intelligence, hardware development, and software. In the past I have worked on problems spanning robotics, optimization, computer vision, risk and threat assessment, quantitative finance, aerospace, multimedia analytics, simulation, computational physics, and geospatial. I have experience with and am adaptable to a wide variety of technologies and development methodologies. I thrive in fast paced, collaborative, interdisciplinary teams where problems don’t always have obvious solutions. 
Dr. Ries is an accomplished research scientist, system engineer, program manager, and business developer that has honed his expertise in scientific consulting and data analytics. Dr. Ries' expertise is in developing advanced imaging products incorporating cutting edge hardware with custom detection software incorporating data analytics to improve performance. Dr. Ries seamlessly interfaces with customers capturing funding opportunities for cutting edge imaging systems (proposal writing, networking, expanding current contracts, ...). Dr. Ries manages staff, defines tasks, and ensures delivery (software and hardware) in a timely manner to the customer.
Dr. Ries has:
-> 20 years of experience developing data analytic algorithms to gain key insights into a multitude of problems ranging from magnetic earthquake detection to airborne optical imaging. Utilized machine learning theory to enhance detection algorithms drastically reducing false alarms by elucidating underlying physical mechanisms.
-> Certificate in Statistical Learning in R from Stanford Open Course which taught logistic regression, multi-variable regression, tree based approaches, unsupervised learning and other techniques.
-> Used clustering analysis to create a registration algorithm for 3D point cloud data collected from a LiDAR imaging system.
-> Achieved outstanding turnaround of demoralized software team to harmonious, committed, productive team consistently meeting all deadlines and proactively identifying strategies to increase performance and cut expenditure.
-> Strong history of vital project management including all PMMW product lines. Developed multi-year product roadmap outlining areas where key technological advances were required. Conducted market research and interfaced with customers to enhance existing systems delivering ground breaking product to DOD.
-> Recipient of 4 Professional Achievement Awards for outstanding achievement in ensuring success of critical projects to Arete. 
I'm a driven, experienced technical leader and research scientist with a wide background that crosses climate science, energy, remote sensing, signal processing, predictive data analytics, and computer vision (PhD, Planetary Sciences). I have over 15 years of experience leading efforts to bring ideas from concept to operations to solve some of the biggest problems challenging our communities.
I’m interested in helping people and the planet thrive using both my technical and leadership skills. I have extensive experience in:
-- Managing technical team to bring ideas to impact: --
• Project management (100+ people teams, >$5M projects)
• Customer engagement and proposal writing
• Directly managed technical teams of 5-15 people
-- Leading efforts in early phase research/product development --
• De-risking efforts through effective prototyping
• Establishing meaningful measurement approaches and metrics to drive innovation
• Facilitating organizational changes to landing new concepts into operations
-- Understanding the real story in data to drive meaningful action: --
• Combining modeling, ML, signal processing and statistics to extract meaning from complex data
• Detecting high threat, low frequency events in noisy, cluttered environments with high reliability
• Blending data from survey, geospatial systems, maps, sensors to create deeper insights
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Some highlights from my recent work:
• Developed novel carbon emission measurements to drive product impact for Meta’s new Climate Pledges products, which helps users take meaningful action towards combating climate change
• Validating the CMU/UMD/Meta’s Covid Trends and Insights survey (PNAS paper, AAPOR awards). Codeveloped scaled, global reporting which reached 80+ countries.
• Collaborated with Meta’s energy team to enhance predictive analytics and insight tools to support better data center load management and help Meta reach it’s NetZero goals
I’m actively looking for my next opportunity. If my experience and skills match what you’re looking for, please reach out to me via LinkedIn. 
