Anthony Morast

Software Specialist

National Information Solutions Cooperative•  July 2018 - Present

Took on additional responsibilities (when compared to my Software Associate position) as a software developer (using Java) which included larger projects and gaining expert level knowledge of certain features of NISC's billing and reporting software.

Graduate Research Assistant

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology•  June 2018 - April 2019

Developed parallel implementations of a novel algorithm for building more optimal classication and regression trees using the C++ and Python programming languages. Also assisted in the analysis of datasets to determine when the algorithm will outperform CART's greedy splitting decisions.

Software Associate

National Information Solutions Cooperative•  June 2015 - July 2018

Worked on a team of ~12 software developers maintaining and developing NISC's software used to bill and manage telecommunications customers.

Data Analyst

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology•  August 2016 - June 2018

Developed scripts in the R programming language to analyze student data in an attempt to predict the success of students provided entry-level mathematics coursework information.

Owner/Operator

HyTex Software Solutions•  April 2015 - November 2017

Worked as a software consultant/freelancer developing innovative solutions in a variety of industries. Took responsibility for the completion and correctness of all software delivered to my clients. Developed projects ranging from hundreds of lines of code to tens of thousands in languages including Python, C++, and Java as well as some web languages.

Software Developer Intern

CHR Solutions•  January 2014 - May 2015

Learned new languages, technologies, and business practices while developing back-end telecommunications billing applications in an Agile/SCRUM environment. Was part of a small team working to innovate CHR's newest addition to their billing software suite.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Computational Sciences and Robotics, MS•  August 2016 - May 2019

Studied deep learning, time-series forecasting, and fluid dynamics.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Computer Science, BS•  August 2010 - May 2015

Completed an undergraduate senior design project wherein our small group of three developers created a billing system for wholesale telecommunications companies.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Applied and Computational Mathematics, BS•  August 2010 - May 2015

Wrote an undergraduate thesis on some novel observations about Latin squares.