Experience
Oracle
March 2016 – Present
Architect
August 2021 – Present
Consulting Member of the Technical Staff
June 2019 – July 2021
Principal Member of the Technical Staff
December 2016 – May 2019
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
March 2016 – December 2016
- Building distributed storage systems for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon.com
January 2013 – February 2016
Software Development Engineer II
April 2014 – February 2016
Software Development Engineer I
January 2013 – March 2014
- Shipped Amazon Maps app and API for the Fire Phone and Fire Tablets
- Lead developer on Android routing and navigation API used in Amazon Flex app for local delivery
- Made significant performance and stability improvements to real-time map rendering engine
- Key skills / tools used: Android, OpenGL, Java, C++, Python, Continuous Deployment, Git, Eclipse
University of Wisconsin–Madison
June 2010 – January 2013
Research Assistant
- Developed image/video processing and computer vision algorithms
- Key skills / tools used: Parallel computing, C++, Matlab, CUDA, OpenMP, MPI, Boost, Eclipse, Mercurial, LaTeX
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison
June 2010 – December 2012
M.S., Electrical Engineering
- Focus area: Signal Processing
- Advised by Prof. Hongrui Jiang (electrical engineering) and Prof. Li Zhang (computer science)
Arizona State University
August 2006 – May 2010
B.S.E., Computer Systems Engineering
- Mathematics minor
- 4.0 GPA
Publications
- Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. Random Coded Sampling for High-Speed HDR Video. International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 2013. Project Website
- Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. Optical Flow in the Presence of Spatially-Varying Motion Blur. International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, Rhode Island. June 2012. Project Website
- Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. High-quality Video Denoising for Motion-based Exposure Control. International Workshop on Mobile Vision (IWMV), Barcelona, Spain. November 2011. Runner-up for best paper award. Project Website
- Travis Portz, Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy. A clinical data validated mathematical model of prostate cancer growth under intermittent androgen suppression therapy. AIP Advances, Special Topic on Physics of Cancer, March 2012. Read Online
Patents
- Li Zhang, Travis Portz. High-Definition Video with Low-Speed Cameras. United States WARF reference P130162US01. Filed 2013.
Honors
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, Spring 2012
- Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, Fall 2010 – Summer 2011
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Barrett Honors College graduate, Arizona State University, May 2010
- Honors thesis: A Comparison of Mathematical Models of Prostate Cancer Treatment by Androgen Deprivation
- Moeur Award, Arizona State University, May 2010
- National Merit Finalist, DeForest Area High School, Spring 2006
Organizations
- Chief Technical Officer of The Triple Helix, an undergraduate journal, Fall 2007 – Fall 2009
- Member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, Spring 2008 – Present