David Birchfield

About David Birchfield

Experienced, strategic leader with a range of business, education, engineering, and research skills• Driven entrepreneur with a passion for delivering digital products and programs• Hands-on technologist with a focus on interdisciplinary innovationSkills: Strategy, Business Development, Learning, Engineering Leadership, Software Development, Interaction design, ResearchTechnologies: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Learning Management Systems, Natural Language Processing, React Native, iOS Apps and Games, PHP, Amazon Web Services, Unity3D, Java, Android Apps

Experience

1. Senior Director & Center Lead, Technology Practice Area

   RTI International

   May 2023 — Present · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US

   Led strategic and operational activities for a diverse team of 75 directors, managers and staff working across technology, data, analysis, and social sciences• Collaborated across the organization to support cross-team initiatives including adoption of AI productivity tools (e.g, GitHub CoPilot for software developers and Microsoft CoPilot)• Served as engineering manager and product owner to modernize large-scale technology platform serving the needs of federal and state clients• Led business development efforts including large-scale proposal development, client engagement, and long-term planning for strategic accounts• Conducted cost-benefit analyses of commercial off the shelf products vs. open-source vs. custom software solutions to meet client needs and modernize legacy systems• Championed agile/scrum development to transform software development practices across the organization• Served as task leader to architect and deploy a cloud-first data collection system using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), DynamoDB, Textract, and Comprehend for a large U.S. federal client• Led organization-wide tiger team for Generative AI to assess the landscape, clarify client perspectives, support upskilling and proof-of-concept pilots, and inform executive leadership’s strategic roadmap• Coached innovation teams and supported the internal innovation portfolio as a member of the Innovation Task Force using frameworks including Lean, Blue Ocean, and Ten Types of Innovation

Education

• Columbia University

  Masters, Computer Music and Composition

  1997 — 2000

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor, Music Theory and Composition

  1993 — 1997

• Columbia University

  Doctor of Music, Computer Music and Composition

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Iphone Application Development
• Quantitative Research
• Yii
• Google Analytics
• Amazon Ec2
• 3d Printing
• Teacher Training
• Ios
• Facebook Marketing
• Lamp
• Arduino
• Quality Assurance
• Unity3d
• User Experience
• Ios Development
• Php
• User Experience Testing
• Subversion
• Android Sdk
• Mysql
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Educational Technology
• Amazon Rds
• Motion Capture
• Music
• Eclipse
• Amazon S3
• Wordpress
• Android Development
• Objective-C
• Unity
• Amazon Cloudfront
• Facebook Api
• Xcode
• Php Frameworks
• Ipad Development
• Qualitative Research
• Information Architecture