Cory Gearhart
Chief Information Officer
Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Gearhart is a seasoned IT executive and Chief Information Officer with over 12 years leading technology transformation across education, healthcare, and ISP environments. He has a proven track record modernizing infrastructure—consolidating 20 directory systems, driving district-wide 1:1 device rollouts, and re-engineering datacenter redundancy that yields multi-year cost savings. Technically hands-on early in his career, Cory brings deep systems and networking chops (Windows/Linux, Cisco, firewalls, clinical engineering) and a practical focus on ITIL/ITSM-driven lifecycle and risk management. He also contributes to open-source learning projects, improving backend performance and test robustness in Udacity AI repositories, showing a taste for performance tuning and quality engineering. Based in Grand Island, Nebraska, he blends enterprise strategy, vendor negotiation, and team-building to turn operational pain points into scalable, auditable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, emp. Information Technology, MBA, emp. Information Technology at Bellevue UniversityBS, Information Systems Management, BS, Information Systems Management at Doane College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
data-structures10
algorithm10
algorithms10
planning10
game-development10
performance-optimization10
python10
data-structure10
test-automation10
testing10
caching9
ai9
finite-field6
galois-field6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
udacity/AIND-Isolation
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:49 commits, 17 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on improving the quality and robustness of the provided Isolation game code. Their commits include bug fixes related to timeout handling during the search, which directly addressed potential game-breaking issues. They also refactored the game's board representation for performance optimization, likely to improve the search speed. Additionally, the user updated the test suite to include checks for agents that may be calling the incorrect heuristic, and added a visualization tool for debugging.
udacity/AIND-Planning
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Role in this project:Backend Engineer & Performance Engineer
Backend Engineer & Performance EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on improving the performance of the planning project, which involves both backend and potential ML aspects. They refactored the project by adding LRU caching to expensive heuristics, optimizing `PgNode` subclasses with caching and equality checks, and enhancing the `PriorityQueue` class using `heapq`. Additionally, the user fixed a critical bug in the AIMA priority queue implementation and addressed an issue with printing in the planning graph.
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