Ryan Osborn

Current

• Developer Analyst at RecycleBank

Past

• Sr Software Developer at Signal Patterns
• Sr Software Engineer at VoiceVerified
• Associate Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley

• Software Engineer at IBM TJ Watson Research Center
• Software Developer at SpeechWorks Inc
• Software Engineer at Syncsort Inc

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Education

• State University of New York at Albany

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Industry

Computer Software

Ryan Osborn’s Summary

Over a decade of diverse professional experience in the software and tech industry. Responsibilities have included development, design, technical/team lead, consulting, technical support, and scientific research.

Ryan Osborn’s Experience

• Developer Analyst

  RecycleBank

  (Privately Held; Environmental Services industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Senior Ruby on Rails Software Developer.
  
  Working with a group of intelligent and fun people at a tech startup that rewards consumers for recycling.

• Sr Software Developer

  Signal Patterns

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 6 months)

  At Signal Patterns I was the first employee and had a large range of responsibilities, including:
  
  • Development, designs, and maintenance of public facing apps as well as apps/frameworks for several experiments for research data and statistical analysis during the earlier stages of the company
  • Team Lead of a small outsourced group of developers for a Facebook app and Parenting style app for a partner site
  • Cowrote design and development of the database and wrote redesign specs and refactored/maintained online scoring/matching engine
  • Interviewed numerous candidates for employment
  • Coauthored patent for location aware compatibility through portable personal devices
  • Coauthored patent for model-based dyadic compatibility identification over the web and pending patent for dyadic compatibility interfaces

• Sr Software Engineer

  VoiceVerified

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 2006 — November 2006 (3 months)

  My consultation here was primarily for the VeriVoice Voice Biometric Threadsafe Project.
  
  • Sole engineer responsible for a large scale refactoring of the entire VeriVoice engine C++ codebase, in which determined flaws or weaknesses, fixed numerous bugs, applied common oo design/implementation solutions and brought the software to a stable, threadsafe state.
  • Recommended diagnostics and debugging tools.
  • Designed and developed a multithreaded environment for testing the engine's training and scoring.

• Associate Software Engineer

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; MS; Financial Services industry)

  October 2005 — September 2006 (1 year)

  At Morgan Stanley I was on the Client Metrics team, where we provided ways to collect data and report statistical information.
  
  • Developed, enhanced, maintained and supported a distributed metrics client library and server app. For this app, I fixed a couple of multithreading related bugs, added event notifications, and fixed some data recording issues.
  • Codesigned, developed a basic job scheduling, throttling and management app for monthly metrics reporting jobs.

• Software Engineer

  IBM TJ Watson Research Center

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 7 months)

  On the software side, I designed and developed scientific tools, engines, and prototype systems. Sole developer and designer/co-designer of:
  • Biometric engine. This was over 20,000 lines of C++ code I rewrote for this engine's re-architecture
  • Dialog engine
  • Interactive policy design and management tool, with:
  UI state machine componentry
  State machine language and interpreter
  Monte Carlo simulation
  • Detection cost function threshold tuner tool
  • Four conversational biometric telephony prototypes demonstrating technology, including: enrollment, shopping, credit card, and door lock authorization systems
  
  On the research side, I analyzed fused scoring. Through my Monte Carlo simulations, I showed the intuition is correct that fused scoring is generally much more reliable than individual scoring.
  • Coauthored patent for automaton sequenced fused error rate scoring and pending patent for automated channel threshold tuning

• Software Developer

  SpeechWorks Inc

  (Public Company; SPWX; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 4 months)

  Designed (code design, not usability design), developed, tested and deployed many telephony speech recognition solutions across several industries. I also worked as a Technical Lead on a couple of projects.

• Software Engineer

  Syncsort Inc

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — April 2000 (1 year 11 months)

  Developed minor enhancements, fixed numerous bugs and provided product support.

Ryan Osborn’s Education

• State University of New York at Albany

  Bachelors , Computer Science, Business , 1994 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Varsity Cross Country and Track & Field Athlete, Educational Coordinator for Albany Business Computing Association, Professor's Assistant for upper level Computer Science course.

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