About Me

Education & Accomplishments

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Education

  • Instrumentation & Signal Processing Concentration

    Thesis: Use of minimum negativity constraint in reconstruction of noisy signals.

  • I was shy of 3 units from getting an official degree. However, I took so many non-core courses such as VLSI design, Neural Networks, Robotics, Audio Engineering, Digital Signal Processing, to name a few.

    Thesis: Use of Hidden Markov Model (HMM) in recognizing Tagalog-spoken words

    Note: HMM is an approach used in both Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Professional Education

I love learning and expanding my knowledge.

As I get deep into leadership, I love exploring areas that make me a stronger and well-rounded leader so I can better serve my teams and my community.

Stuff I usually explore:

  • areas relevant to my field (build my expertise)

  • areas I need more knowledge on (fill in the gaps)

  • areas I am just simply curious about (expand my mind)

My learning is not limited to ones where I get official certifications. Outside of these, I explore a lot more other areas.

  • What I learned:

    Transforming a corporation’s operations, management, and mindset to leverage Data, AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing.

    (see my Certificate)

  • What I learned:

    Developing and implementing actionable plans and strategies that will have a lasting impact on organizations and communities.

    Taught by Prof Eric Rosenbach

    (see my Certificate)

  • What I learned:

    Transforming data to insights.

    Data analytics (Prescriptive, Predictive, Descriptive analytics), Forecasting, Optimization, Simulation, Data visualization & interpretation, Regression analysis, Correlation & causation, Customer analytics, Performance analytics

    [see my Certificate]

  • What I learned:

    Becoming a better problem solver and improving the performance of projects through system thinking.

    (see my Certificate)

  • What I am learning:

    Intersection of strategy, finance, and accounting.

    Evaluating a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success.

Professional Certificates

Patent

US Patent 7490032: Framework for hardware co-simulation by on-demand invocation from a block model diagram design environment (30 Dec 2004)

In a nutshell: This approach allows you to surgically invoke a function/method dowloaded on a hardware device (e.g. DSP chip). It’s like controlling a hardware in an appliance.

Funny story…

Colleague: Mary Ann, I want you to figure out how to do <this & that>

Me: But that is not possible!

Colleague: Exactly. And you’re going to do it.

(the rest was history)

Publications

“Signal recovery in sinusoid-crossing sampling by use of the minimum-negativity constraint” (Vol. 37, Issue 14, 1998), Applied Optics (peer-reviewed scientific journal)

“Spectral recovery in crossing-based spectrum analysis by analytic continuation: Minimum negativity constraint,” 1995: Proceedings of the 13th National Physics Congress, Philippines

Speaker Gigs

How SDETs & QEs Can Step Up and Empower Their Dev Teams

STARWEST Software Testing Conference (April 2022, Florida, USA)

“The Need for Quality Engineering in Software Engineering Education & Training”

Test Automation & Digital QA Virtual Summit 2021 (April 8, 2021)

Session on Application Quality at PegaWorld (June 2017)

PegaWorld is Pegasystems’ yearly flagship conference attended by thousands of customers, partners and prospects

Book Gigs