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Michael Lizzio

Work

I've spent three summers working as a software intern: two at Greenman Pedersen (GPI) and one at TTM Technologies. Here's what I did at each.

Resume (PDF)

Experience

  1. Summer 2026

    Application Development Intern, AI & Automation

    Greenman Pedersen, Inc.Babylon, NY

    My second summer at GPI, this time on the AI side. Most of what I built helps people use a small local AI on traffic signal data without having to trust it blindly.

    • Built a filter assistant that turns plain English into database filters, which people check before anything runs (JavaScript, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Ollama).
    • Wrote a test harness that ran the same 200 prompts across 8 local models, then picked and tuned a 3B model that fit on a 4 GB GPU.
    • Prototyped a tool that reads, sorts and names scanned signal records for a 300,000-page digitization project, with a person approving every file.
    • Made tools that find and fix messy records left over from an old DOS system, with dry runs and a person signing off on every change.

    Projects from this job

  2. Summer 2025

    Application Development Intern, GIS & Computer Vision

    Greenman Pedersen, Inc.Babylon, NY

    My first summer at GPI. Most of it went into a road sign survey: finding signs in video and working out exactly where each one is on a map.

    • Used YOLO-E to find signs in survey video, then stereo vision, tracking and GPS to place each sign on the map.
    • Connected my Python code to the team's existing C# app through a small TCP server, and helped with field testing.
    • Built a tool for sorting and grouping GIS intersection data, and a multi-user Flask app for checking results and making a QA summary PDF.
    • Tested a virtual tunnel inspection app built in Unity and wrote up the bugs I found.

  3. Summer 2024

    Cyber Data Management Consultant

    TTM TechnologiesFarmingdale, NY

    My first real software job, at a defense contractor. I learned how cybersecurity compliance reporting works and then automated the slowest part of it.

    • Learned the NIST Risk Management Framework and the DISA tools used to check systems against it.
    • Built Python and Tkinter apps that let the cybersecurity team update checklist XML files safely, with a review step before anything changes.
    • Tested them with lots of odd inputs to find the edge cases. The tools were used for five quarterly reports.

    Projects from this job

Education

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

    B.S. in Software Engineering2024 to 2029

    • Immersion in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
    • GPA 3.8
    • Coursework: Software Development and Problem Solving I and II, Personal Software Engineering, Engineering Software Systems, Engineering Web-based Software Systems, Discrete Math, Calculus I and II, Statistics