Occupational Objective

Develop robust software, build and maintain REST APIs and messaging systems, and build and maintain automated distributed systems including client side, server side, and database instances.

Collaborate in an agile team, create thorough documentation, and share results through writing and presentation.

Technologies

Current Skills:
Python, React, Nodejs, Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Flask, Openstack, OpenLayers, Atlassian

Rusty Favorites:
OpenCV, Matlab (CV), PhP, Docker, Jupyterhub, RabbitMQ, Regression

Would Like to Improve:
DevOps / Kubernetes

CURRENT POSITION

Writer

May 2023 - Present
Self Employed

Published a journal on amazon for those suffering from addictive behaviors
The Stages of Change and Irrational Beliefs Journal:
Using Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy toward a Healthier and Productive Tomorrow
by Marcus C. Slavenas

Writing a course and book for veterans in need
  • Title: Veterans Dispelling Irrational Beliefs toward a Healthier and Productive Tomorrow.
  • Power Statement: Are you a veteran having difficulties integrating back into the civilian world. In this 6 step course, we will challenge and adjust our beliefs of military experiences by advancing to long-term goal thinking, engaging safer environments, and developing wholesome relationships

Work Experience

Senior Information Management Engineer

March 2022 - April 2023
EOA Inc
Develop a MERN stack for modelling trash reduction for municipalities
  • Lead developing data management systems
  • Provide oversight of web-based tools that inform decision making by clients
  • Train staff on technology practices
  • Provide task management for projects
  • Share results by presentation and writing

Senior Programmer

Sept 2021 - Feb 2022
Hewlett Packard Idaho, Imaging Team
Predict failure of remote printer components
  • Create and run python unit tests on printer devices, components, operations, and diagnostics
  • Make printer component configuration files
  • Build and deploy code using TFS Azure

Research Programmer

2014 - 2021
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SD3 - Software Development, Delivery, and Deployment Group

Projects:

  • Image Analysis of Rural Photography
    • Lead Programmer
    • Pull Library of Congress Images and dynamically allocate cloud and HPC for image metadata extraction
      • Create objective python client for pulling images from the Library of Congress
      • Create computer vision extractors for cataloging image metadata using OpenCV Python
      • Use rabbitmq to push images to cloud resources that run the image extraction - if the cloud resources reached full capacity, the images would then be pushed to HPC systems
  • Vector Borne Disease
    • Lead Programmer
    • Predict mosquito infection rates from trap and climate data.
      • Convert fortan recursion model that predicts mosquito infection to python.
      • Create Rest API using python flask
        • pulls climate data from multiple sources
        • inserts data into postgresql database using python SQLAlchemey and GEOAlchemy
      • Build geospatial web app with openlayers, javascript, jinga, python flask
        • Displays regions created with arcGIS
        • Displays mosquito traps with data statistics
        • Creates graphs using plotly (built on D3)
  • Brown Dog
    • Programmer
    • Automated data transformation and metadata extraction using distributed systems.
      • Create data extractors (python and java)
        • Computer vision
          • Satellite image lake finder java
          • Use google apis to pull streetview images and get the green index for paths or regions python
        • Convert genetic files using Galaxy
        • Dockerize extactors
      • Build RestAPI using python flask that accepts template jupyter notebooks from a web application, creates a user password protected docker container that allows the user to edit and run the notebook
  • Great Lakes to Gulf
    • Programmer: Data and Systems
    • Parse water quality data from variant sources for aggregated display and download in geographic web client.
      • Build python routines that automatically pull data from variant sources (USGS, NOAA, etc) and parses the data into postgresql databases
      • Build the distributed systems (ubuntu) on openstack including multiple instances of postgresql and mongodb
      • Create objective python clients for engaging the geostreams API (scala)

Contract Software Developer

2010 - 2014

Developed and sold property management system using LAMP
  • Built the system under the guidance of the property manager and their accountant.

Research Assistant

2006 - 2010
Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MRI based modeling of tissue response to impact loading
  • Administration of group's SGI
  • Create finite element grids of brain tissues for mechanical modelling on HPC

Research Engineer

2009 - 2010
Illinois Rocstar
Multiphysics modeling of solid rocket fuel burn with HPC
  • Create finite element grids of solid rocket boosters for boundry surface modelling
  • Run the models on HPC

Teaching Assistant

2008 - 2009
Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Intermediate Mechanics and Relativity I and II
  • Teach recitation and problem solving
  • Substitute for the Professor
  • Hold office hours

Publications

How do computers see landscapes? Comparisons of eye-level greenery assessments between computer and human perceptions

2022

Landscape and Urban Planning 227, 104547, P Suppakittpaisarn, Y Lu, B Jiang, M Slavenas

Prediction System for Vector-Borne Disease-Model and Geospatial Application

2020

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Marcus Slavenas, William M Brown, Max Burnette, Aaron Hoyle-Katz, Serena Schatz, JA Uelmen Jr, Nancy Westcott, Rebecca L Smith

Image Analysis and Infrastructure Support for Data Mining the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photography Collection

2016

XSEDE16, Accelerating Discovery Award, M. Slavenas, P. Rodriguez, A. Craig,J. Will, E. Wuerffel

Does density of green infrastructure predict preference?

2019

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 40, 236-244 P Suppakittpaisarn, B Jiang, M Slavenas, WC Sullivan

A Prediction System for Vector-Borne Diseases:
a Use Case for Weekly Estimation of West Nile Virus Risk

2018

AGU Fall Meeting Marilyn Ruiz, Marcus Slavenas, Nancy Westcott, Rebecca L Smith, Surendra Karki, William M Brown, Johnny Albert Uelmen, Leslie A Stoecker, Kenton McHenry

Illinois Water Conference

2016

Plenary Speaker, Measuring Success: Large-scale water monitoring programs in Illinois, Great Lakes

MRI Based FE Model of Head Trauma: Imaging and Mesh Generation

2010

1st World Congress of Nanoengineering for Medicine and Biology, Marcus Slavenas, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

The Great Lakes to Gulf Observatory:
An Interactive Geospatial Application Focused on Nutrients in the Mississippi River and its Tributaries

2016

71st Soil and Water Conservation Society International Conference; Edward Kratschmer, Brock Angelo, Marcus Slavenas, Jason Votata, John Sloan, Isaac Chapman, William Kruidenier, Richard Warner

Brown Dog - A Science Driven Data Transformation Service

2016

Gateways, K. McHenry, J. Lee, P. Kumar, B. Minsker, M. Dietze, R. Marciano, J. Alameda, S. Bradley, L. Marini, R. Kooper, C. Navarro, S. Padhy, G. Jansen, M. Slavenas, S. Satheesan, Y. Zhao, B. Zhang, I. Zharnitsky, E. Roeder

An Architecture for Automatic Deployment of Brown Dog Services at Scale into Diverse Computing Infrastructures

2016

XSEDE; S. Padhy, J. Alameda, R. Kooper, R. Liu, S.P. Satheesan, I. Zharnitsky, G. Jansen, M. Dietze, P. Kumar, J. Lee, R. Marciano, L. Marini, B. Minsker, C. Navarro, M. Slavenas, W. Sullivan, K. McHenry, 2016

Developing and Adapting Data Management Services Across Multiple Virtual Observatories

2018

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts Rob Kooper, Luigi Marini, Jong Lee, Indira Gutierrez-Polo, Max Burnette, Michelle M Pitcel, Marcus Slavenas, Yan Zhao, Paris Collingsworth, David LeBauer, Kenton McHenry, Praveen Kumar

Moving beyond the neighborhood:
Daily exposure to nature and adolescents’ mood

2018

Landscape and urban planning 173, 33-43 D Li, B Deal, X Zhou, M Slavenas, WC Sullivan

Brown dog: Making the digital world a better place, a few files at a time

2018

Proceedings of the Practice and Experience on Advanced Research Computing, 1-8 Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Jay Alameda, Shannon Bradley, Michael Dietze, Benjamin Galewsky, Gregory Jansen, Rob Kooper, Praveen Kumar, Jong Lee, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Barbara S Minsker, Christopher M Navarro, Arthur Schmidt, Marcus Slavenas, William C Sullivan, Bing Zhang, Yan Zhao, Inna Zharnitsky, Kenton McHenry

Brown Dog:
A Data Transformation Ecosystem for Research-Advancing from Beta to 1.0

2017

AGU Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Jay Alameda, Shannon Bradley, Michael Dietze, Gregory Jansen, Rob Kooper, Praveen Kumar, Jong Lee, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Barbara E Minsker, Chris Navarro, Eugene Roeder, Arthur Schmidt, Marcus Slavenas, William Sullivan, Bing Zhang, Yan Zhao, Inna Zharnitsky, Kenton McHenry

Brown Dog: Leveraging everything towards autocuration

2015

IEEE International Conference on Big Data Smruti Padhy, Greg Jansen, Jay Alameda, Edgar Black, Liana Diesendruck, Mike Dietze, Praveen Kumar, Rob Kooper, Jong Lee, Rui Liu, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Dave Mattson, Barbara Minsker, Chris Navarro, Marcus Slavenas, William Sullivan, Jason Votava, Inna Zharnitsky, Kenton McHenry

Autocuration Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Discovery and Preservation

2015

IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science Smruti Padhy, Edgar Black, Betsy Cowdery, Liana Diesendruck, Michael Dietze, Greg Jansen, Rob Kooper, Praveen Kumar, Jong Lee, Rui Liu, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Dave Mattson, Barbara Minsker, Chris Navarro, Ankit Rai, Marcus Slavenas, William Sullivan, Jason Votava, Qina Yan, Inna Zharnitsky, Kenton McHenry

Using Google Street View to Examine High School Students’ Exposure to Green Space and Their Psychological Well-being

2016

CELA16, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Dongying Li, Marcus Slavenas, William C. Sullivan

Scripting in Landscape Assessment: A Vegetation Density Case Study

2016

CELA16, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Pongsakorn Suppakittpaisarn, Marcus Slavenas, Bin Jiang, William Sullivan

MRI Based Finite Element Modeling of Mild Head Trauma

2008

6th Biophysics and Computational Biology Symposium of the Illinois Biophysics Society, Marcus Slavenas, Ying Chen, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

MRI-Based Finite Element Modeling of Mild Head Trauma. Part 1: Imaging and Finite Element Mesh Generation

2008

1st American Academy of Mechanics Conference Marcus Slavenas, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

MRI-Based Finite Element Modeling of Mild Head Trauma

2008

45th meeting of the Society of Engineering Science Marcus Slavenas, Ying Chen, Martin Ostoja-Starzewski