Eric M Forbell

Engineering veteran. AI builder. Practical sorcerer. Bitcoiner. Family man. Christian.

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Objective

Experienced technologist and thought leader with twenty-five years of experience leading innovative products from conception through development and delivery.

Experience

Deloitte Consulting

Solution Manager / Architect April 2021 - Present

  • Currently modernizing advisory program onboarding and account activation systems for a large wealth management firm.
  • Architected and helped lead MVP delivery of a payroll modernization system for a prior Fortune 500 client.

Vubiquity (Amdocs Media)

Director, Software Engineering - Studio Services April 2018 - April 2021

  • Directed development of an Emmy Award-winning digital media servicing platform.
  • Continuously delivered servicing, packaging, and delivery capabilities for OTT platform libraries, including 4K static/dynamic HDR ingestion, audio normalization, IMF ingest/servicing support, and flexible output compositions.
  • Drove agile planning and execution of new integration projects with large studio clients in a high-volume operational environment.

Beyond Limits, Inc.

Principal Engineer / Architect October 2015 - August 2017

  • Conceptualized and delivered an automated analysis system for well operating conditions and risk assessment for a large oil and gas customer.
  • Adapted legacy technology and developed a new data pipeline to drive risk inferences from depth- and time-series geophysical and production data, with explanation traces.
  • Rapidly developed an MVP platform enabling conversational agents for healthcare use cases.
  • Developed a data-driven crowdsourced approach to improve model retraining for user intent.
  • Helped create and lead early-stage business opportunities through technical thought leadership and stakeholder communication.

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Research Project Co-PI / Computer Scientist / Programmer Analyst January 2005 - October 2015

  • Managed development and delivery of an award-winning virtual training platform for medical student learners.
  • Owned architecture, development, and technical delivery across virtual patient simulation, NLP, authoring, animation render services, and intelligent assessment.
  • Optimized language performance across a large medical taxonomy and built a web tool to improve supervised machine learning for simulated-patient language understanding.
  • Conceptualized, developed, and led delivery of the authorable conversational agent platform Simcoach for veteran mental health support.
  • Led technical development of an award-winning bilateral negotiation training platform from design and development through fielding to a government sponsor (Army Best Trainer Modeling & Simulation Award, 2008).

Key Skills

  • Programming languages: Java/Spring, Python, SQL, JavaScript
  • Process and tools: Project planning, Agile development, Jira/Confluence, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes
  • Expertise: Agentic computing, AWS / Azure cloud, media processing, distributed systems, Linux

Education

Bowdoin College

  • B.A. in Computer Science
  • B.A. in Neuroscience
  • Graduated summa cum laude

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