Travis Rasor

Am I the right fit for you?

I am a good fit for a customer-centric organization that is passionate about embracing change and taking smart risks. I have been successful working in a cross-functional capacity interfacing with customers, data scientists, developers, and business analysts coordinating product research and development as well as providing technical leadership. I love learning new languages and ideas and enjoy sharing my enthusiasm with others.

Health care patient matching and identity management, message brokering and integration, patient database deduplication services, and HIPAA compliant solution development.

Analytics-driven solutions for the retail banking industry including financial forecasting, workforce management, and systems integration.

Corporate team training programs, educational software utilizing AI and NLP driven intelligent systems, social networking

ARGO Data Resource

Senior Software Engineer

May 2011 – Present

Memphis, TN

Team lead on strategic product R&D team reporting directly to Senior Management. Coordinate product and feature development with customers, direct research and implementation with internal business and technical development teams. Multi-functional role includes contributions to team process management, peer development, product marketing and sales, and hiring decisions.

MentorMe Inc

Development Consultant

Nov 2015 – Present

Memphis, TN

Contribute improvements to front end design and back end data management for a mentoring social analytics platform. Advise and assist in feature development and project architecture as project transitions from a legacy Ruby on Rails application to a RESTful rails-api with AngularJS stack.

Institute for Intelligent Systems

Graduate Research Assistant

August 2010 – May 2011

Memphis, TN

Worked in natural language processing and human-consumer psychology on the GURU project creating AI-driven tutoring systems for elementary school students. Findings featured in the 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference.

• Enterprise development (Java, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, ActiveMQ, .NET)
• Database theory and design (Postgres, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Web facing applications (Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Vue, React, Node)
• Health care messaging (HL7, FHIR, DIRECT, HIPAA compliance)
• Machine learning, statistical and research tools (R, Python, Knime)
• Agile project development and tooling (Kaizan, Kanban, Scrum, XP)
• Ninja skills (Taekwondo, Karate)

University of Memphis

Computer Science Graduate

2010-2011

Memphis, TN

Completed one year of four year PhD program in Computer Science. Withdrew in good standing to transition into a full-time product development role at ARGO. Coursework included in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, and Data mining with research focus in Human-Agent Interaction.

Rhodes College

BS, Computer Science

2006-2010

Memphis, TN

Completed Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Physics minor. Recipient of the Jack H. Taylor Scholarship in Physics. Published papers in virtual reality, optics, and theoretical materials. Research featured in the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization in Greece and at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).

• Rasor, T., Olney, A., & D’Mello, S. K. (2011, March). Student Speech Act Classification Using Machine Learning. FLAIRS.
• Williams, B., Rasor, T., & Narasimham, G. (2009, September). Distance perception in virtual environments. ACM.
• Banerjee, S., Rasor, T., & Widom, M. (2009, March). A shape phase diagram for a ferromagnetic liquid drop. APS.