Robert Maguire
Director Of Marketing at University of the District of Columbia
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Maguire is a creative technologist and founder with 14 years of experience sculpting brand identities and delivering print, web, and social campaigns through his studio, StudioRMD. He combines hands-on design leadership with practical marketing insight from an MS in Marketing, guiding projects from packaging and national retail campaigns to digital experiences for clients like Sony PlayStation and PayPal. Technically fluent, Robert has contributed to open-source Android OCR work—improving Tesseract integrations, image processing, and user-facing features—revealing a blend of visual craft and backend problem-solving. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he balances agency-scale creative direction with a developer’s attention to stability and efficiency. Colleagues know him for a tailored, objective-driven approach and a knack for translating complex technical constraints into clear, engaging design solutions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Marketing, Master of Science - MS, Marketing at UniveMaster of Science - MS, Marketing, Master of Science - MS, Marketing at University of Maryland Global CampusBFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at SUNY New PaltzAlbany HIgh School
English
Github Skills (10)
ocr10
javas10
leptonica10
ocra10
android10
image-processing10
java10
tesseract10
api4
apidoc4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rmtheis/tess-two
Oct 2011 - Mar 2022
Fork of Tesseract Tools for Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:336 commits, 26 PRs, 128 pushes in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the development of the Android Tesseract OCR engine, mainly focusing on the integration of image processing libraries, particularly Leptonica and libjpeg. The commits involve adding methods for feature extraction such as getting textlines, and incorporating the image binarization and scaling functionalities from Leptonica. This included adding code for creating image objects with various methods and functions for OCR and PDF processing and incorporating the library code in to the project.
androidtesseract
rmtheis/android-ocr
Oct 2011 - May 2018
Experimental optical character recognition app
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:115 commits, 10 pushes, 69 comments in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the development of an Android application for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Their work included initial setup and implementation, as well as fixing potential errors and improving functionality. Key changes include passing fewer objects, handling null pointer exceptions, and updating for Tesseract version 3.01 and the latest tess-two library, demonstrating a focus on stability, efficiency, and staying current with library updates. They also added features like text line recognition and user-facing functionality like sharing text.
optical-character-recognitionandroidocrtesseract
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