Contact
Lyons, France
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www.linkedin.com/in/walkerrowe
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southernpacificreview.com
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Top Skills
Walker Rowe
American Big Data Analytics freelance Programmer and Tech Writer.
Villeurbanne, Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
I am an American big data and analytics freelance programmer and
tech writer.
Python
Scala
Big Data
Languages
French (Limited Working)
English (Native or Bilingual)
Spanish (Professional Working)
Certifications
Certificat Pratique de Français
Commercial et Économique
Publications
Experience
self employed
Big Data Analytics Programmer and Freelance Tech Writer
March 2011 - Present
Lyon Area, France
I am an American freelance tech writer and programmer. I write code and tech
documents. I have a mathematics background and know Scala, Python, Java,
logistic regression, k-means clustering, linear regression, and neural networks
with TensorFlow, Keras, and SparkML. I know Spark, Hadoop, Kafka,
A History of Virginia Wines from
Grapes to Glass
MongoDB, Pig, Hive, MapReduce (Java and Scala), and ElasticSearch.
Wandering through Virginia's
Vineyards
I speak English natively, French conversationally, and Spanish fluently.
The Avocado Republic of Chile:
Because it's too Cold to Grow
Bananas
Here is some of my writing and code.
Wine, Communism, and Volcanos
http://www.bmc.com/blogs/author/walker_rowe/
https://www.techtarget.com/contributor/Walker-Rowe
Keras Binary Classification https://github.com/werowe/KerasExample/blob/
master/KerasBinaryClassification.py
TensorFlow Neural Network https://github.com/werowe/
tripAdvisorNeuralNetworkTensorFlow
Apache Spark Preventive Maintenance https://github.com/werowe/
preventiveMaintenanceLogitReg
Sckit-learn linear regression https://github.com/werowe/
sckilearnLinearRegression/blob/master/logitRegSckitLearn.md
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Bias and Variance https://github.com/werowe/biasandvariance/blob/master/
biasandvairance.py
TensorFlow GPU vs CPU benchmark https://github.com/werowe/canonical
Spark Streaming Stock Monitor https://github.com/werowe/
sparkStreamingScala/blob/master/stockStreamingMonitor.scala
PM Scala https://github.com/werowe/sparkMLPipelin/blob/master/
PMSpark.scala
NeoSecure
Senior Engineer
March 2011 - June 2012 (1 year 4 months)
Santiago, CHILE
CA Identity Manager, LDAP, ArcSight, and Siteminder.
Java, Python, Perl developer.
CSC
independent contractor
October 2009 - March 2011 (1 year 6 months)
Java developer.
Technical lead for ArcSight implementation.
Sprint Nextel
Oracle Xellerate IDM developer and administrator
July 2006 - March 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Siteminder, LDAP, Microsoft and Oracle Xellerate Identity Manager.
CSC
independent contractor
June 2005 - June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Siteminder and LDAP administrator.
Waste Management, Inc.
independent contractor
April 2004 - May 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Siteminder and LDAP administrator.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
independent contractor
December 2002 - March 2004 (1 year 4 months)
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Princeton, New Jersey
Siteminder and LDAP administrator.
Hewlett-Packard
Professional Services Consultant
February 2001 - November 2002 (1 year 10 months)
Siteminder professional services engineer at Netegrity (now HP).
Sallie Mae
independent contractor
May 2000 - January 2001 (9 months)
Worked at Sallie Mae Solutions doing software installation, administration, and
programming as Oracle Financials DBA.
Rowe Consulting
Owner and President
January 1996 - April 2000 (4 years 4 months)
President and owner of software company with 10 employees. Clients
including Bob Dole for President, BMW, Lucent Technologies, Philips Lighting.
Wrote accounting software for clients in Visual Basic and Microsoft Access.
Worked on SAP projects doing EDI and ABAP.
Accenture
Senior Consultant
March 1993 - September 1995 (2 years 7 months)
Senior consultant.
Vista Systems
programmer
August 1991 - May 1993 (1 year 10 months)
C++ developer.
System Dynamics
programmer
May 1990 - August 1991 (1 year 4 months)
COBOl programmer.
Automated Design Systems
programmer
August 1985 - January 1990 (4 years 6 months)
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Installed banking software at client sites. COBOL programmer.
Education
The George Washington University - School of Business
MBA, Information Technology · (1991 - 1993)
University of South Carolina
BS, math · (1980 - 1984)
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