Nicholas Workman

Father, software engineer, linguist.

Reach out, and let's deploy efficient solutions to meet your modern development needs.

Experience

Lead / Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

Artificial Intelligence Developer
Ally

Dec 2020 - Aug 2022

Web Developer
Freelance

Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

Also used: Pug

Full Stack Software Engineer
Omnichain

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

Also used: MySQL, Postman

Event Manager
Rocky Top Hospitality

Nov 2017 - Oct 2018

Help Desk Administrator
Greenlight Community Broadband

Jan 2017 - Oct 2017

Also used: MySQL

Sous Chef
New Heights

Jun 2016 - Dec 2016

Stage, Prep
1789

Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

Summer Conference Coordinator
Georgetown University

May 2015 - Sep 2015

Consultant - Portuguese Language
Center for Applied Linguistics

May 2015 - Aug 2015

Also used: MySQL, SurveyMonkey

Projects

GMBJJWNC68
Eastern NC Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Team Website
  • Also uses: Jekyll, Ruby
  • High Google search ranking: 36.9% of new users come from organic search.
  • Social media integration: 42.6% of new users originate from social media.
  • Generated over 18,000 interactions across 2,800 new users so far!
GUM: The Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus
GUM is an open source multilayer corpus of richly annotated texts.
  • Also uses: XSLT, Cython, & ANNIS
Annotations include the following features:
  • Multiple POS tags, morphological features and lemmatization
  • Sentence segmentation and rough speech act
  • Document structure in TEI XML (paragraphs, headings, figures, etc.)
  • Normalized ISO date/time annotations
  • Speaker and addressee information (where relevant)
  • Constituent and (enhanced) Universal Dependencies syntax
  • Information status (given, accessible, new, split antecedent)
  • Entity and coreference annotation, including bridging anaphora
  • Entity linking (Wikification)
  • Discourse parses in Rhetorical Structure Theory and discourse dependencies
Personal Website
Interactive Resume & Portfolio
  • Dynamically generated CSS & HTML via Sass & Pug
  • Average engagement time: 6m 09s
  • 23.5% average click-through rate
  • Convenient cross-platform dev setup, powered by npm

Skills

tier tool
  • S+
  • S
  • A
  • B
  • Additional skills & tools: MySQL, Rasa, ML, NLP, NLTK, Postman, Bitbucket
  • Mobile-friendly, modern, & responsive design
  • Secure, efficient, & detail-oriented work
Spoken Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Burmese

Education

Georgetown University
Bachelor of Arts
Linguistics

Minors: Spanish, Portuguese

Activities and societies: Georgetown Undergraduate Linguistics Society (GULS), Spanish and Portuguese Club, Hawaii Club.

Aug 2012 - Dec 2016

University of Oxford
Study Abroad

Studied creative writing and general UK history; especially related to architecture, general religion, and Celtic imagery.

Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

Woodberry Forest School
High School Diploma

Activities and societies: Varsity wrestling captain. Graduated summa cum laude. President of the International Forum, a cultural exchange program for international students. Lead prose editor and co-designer of The Talon, a CSPA-distinguished, student-run literary arts publication. Chemistry Award and Syracuse Book Award winner.

12 Trimester Walker Scholar (4.01+ GPA of 4.50 total); summa cum laude Latin graduation honors.

Aug 2008 - May 2012

Certifications

Rasa Developer
Source: Rasa

Credential ID: R8Y N08 69G

"The Rasa Developer Certification exam is designed to provide a credential that shows that you are a Rasa developer who has an understanding of the Rasa framework and best practices in chatbot development."

Mar 2021

Volunteering

Instructor

Gustavo Machado Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu of Wilson NC

Taught kids aged 4-12 general self-defense with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu techniques and led coordination-increasing activities.

Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

Intern

Greenlight Community Broadband

Shadowed the Creative Solutions Engineer daily, and occasionally picked up projects with other members of the engineering team in order to develop a broad, holistic sense of fiber optic networking, web development, graphic design, and video production.

May 2013 - Sep 2013

Spanish-English Tutor

DC Reads

Worked mainly in Spanish with DC public school system students. Helped tutees acquire a better understanding of the English language and other academic topics.

Aug 2012 - Jan 2014

Translator

City of Wilson

Provided English to Spanish document translation services for the victims' assistance program at my local police department.

Jun 2010 - Sep 2010

Mentor

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Served as a mentor and pen pal for several local children while in high school, and attended several school-sponsored events with mentees.

Sep 2009 - May 2012

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