I have a passion for exploring the ways in which people interact with technology through the use of statistics, data analysis, and machine learning.

Data Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Greater New York City AreaData/Algorithms Engineer @ - Manage ETL processes and batch aggregations using Hadoop/Hive, Cassandra, and MongoDB - Develop RESTful APIs to enable access to external and internal databases - Design scalable data processing applications using Scala/Spark - Utilize machine learning algorithms to extract actionable insights from large amounts of web data From July 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaResearch/Teaching Assistant @ Projects: - Contributed to the ChatCoder project by developing a system to capture and analyze social media data from a variety of social networks. - Participated in the author identification task of the PAN 2012 competition, where we were able to successfully identify predatory authors and lines of text from a large dataset of real chat conversations. TA Courses: - CSE 202: Computer Architecture & Organization From May 2012 to May 2014 (2 years 1 month) Bethlehem, PAREU Research Intern @ Research Topic: A Java Framework for XML Schema Matching From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Corpus Christi, Texas AreaSEO/Marketing Intern @ Responsibilities: -Researching social networks as tools for marketing -Search Engine Optimization (SEO) -Basic Webmaster Tasks From March 2010 to May 2011 (1 year 3 months) Lab Staff Specialist @ From January 2010 to May 2010 (5 months) IT Intern @ - Responsible for maintaining the audit database as well as for creating reports and extracting data. - Projects include: SharePoint page migration, IT inventory management, writing scripts for the extraction of data/reports From June 2009 to September 2009 (4 months) Data Aquisition Intern @ - Responsible for acquiring contact data from various sources and importing it into excel spreadsheets - Assisted in the formatting of data to be loaded into the databse From May 2009 to August 2009 (4 months)

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.8 @ Lehigh University From 2012 to 2014 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ The College of New Jersey From 2008 to 2012 Shore Regional High School From 2004 to 2008 Will West is skilled in: Java, HTML, C++, Data Mining, Unix, Machine Learning, LaTeX, Analysis, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, R, Hadoop, C, Weka, Python, Hive, SQL, Text Mining, Git, Tornado, Programming, Research, Data Analysis, Apache Pig, Spark, Databases, Apache Mesos, Chronos