Andrew Silva
Assistant Director Of Career Services at Lincoln Tech
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Silva is a Marine Corps veteran and career services leader transitioning into information technology, currently serving as Assistant Director of Career Services at Lincoln Tech while pursuing a bachelor's in Computer Science at UIC. With 11 years of work experience that spans military logistics instruction, retail operations, and secure cash transport, he brings disciplined leadership, process-driven problem solving, and hands-on operational security expertise to IT roles. As a certified instructor and former sergeant, he has led and mentored teams of up to twenty, translating training and organizational skills into career advising and student placement success. His professional focus is on protecting personally identifiable information, combining a practitioner’s appreciation for physical security with growing software engineering knowledge. Comfortable working at the intersection of people and technology, he actively seeks connections with IT and information security professionals to learn industry best practices and transition into technical roles. A Midwestern professional based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs military-grade accountability with a curiosity for secure, practical engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Information and Decision Sciences, Graduate, Bachelor's degree, Information and Decision Sciences, Graduate at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (43)
lists9
ros9
starcraft8
acl7
phonetics7
geocoding7
encoding7
matlab7
unet-image-segmentation7
voice6
computational-linguistics6
openstreetmap6
percy5
reimplementation5
computer-vision5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CORE-Robotics-Lab/Interpretable_DDTS_AISTATS2020
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
differentiabledecisiondecision-treesmachine-learningpublic-code
CORE-Robotics-Lab/ProLoNets
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Public implementation of "Encoding Human Domain Knowledge to Warm Start Reinforcement Learning" from AAAI'21
Contributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
knowledgereinforcement-learningencodingdomainaaai
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