Liz Wade
Simplifier ● Strategist ● Software Storyteller
SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
- Problem
There are many fairly sedentary people who know they ought to walk more but never quite get round to it.
Solution: SOFA TO STRIDERA mobile-first app that overcomes common hurdles by showing you when, where and why to walk.
- Problem
Our teammate Alistair has had his Seat Ibiza for 4 years and he still doesn't know how to turn the fog lights on.
Solution: MY MECHANICA RAG chatbot that applies the power of ChatGPT to Alistair's car manual, giving friendly, correct, sourced answers without hallucinations.
- Problem
A job I was interested in wanted someone who had built things with Flask.
Solution: FLASK IN FIVE HOURSProve I could get to grips with a new framework in less than a day.
AI KNOWLEDGE
- Problem
Most scheduling problems are NP-complete, so cannot be solved by any known polymomial-time algorithms.
Solution: EVOLUTIONARY AIIn 2014, I designed and built this genetic algorithm from scratch that outperformed a hill-climbing algorithm.
- Problem
It was 2018, and computers were still pretty bad at understanding the content of pictures.
Solution: MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERUsing transfer learning, I built and trained a new AI to successfully classify flower images by species.
- Problem
Companies need to know who their best customers are so they can target their most lucrative prospects.
Solution: SEGMENTATIONI cleaned, scaled, vectorized, and clustered population data then compared it to client data to inform the marketing strategy.
TECHNICAL STORYTELLING
- Problem
IBM has been responsible for some of technology's biggest breakthroughs, but newer companies were getting the limelight.
Solution: "A LEADING BRAND, A LASTING BRAND"I wrote this award-winning paper, which saw IBM crowned one of the five most effective brands in the world.
- Problem
Developers who are used to Javascript sometimes resent the time it can take to meet Typescript's requirements.
Solution: "WHY WE HAVE TYPESCRIPT" SONGI wrote and recorded this song and video to remind people why the effort is worth it.