Experience

Senior Manager, Discover Financial Services (DFS), Chicago, IL

  • Advise and guide strategy, product, technology, and legal partners through the inception and the materialization of AI/ML solutions using hybrid cloud solutions.

April 2023 - Current

Senior Data Scientist (Tech Lead), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Chicago, IL

October 2022 - April 2023

Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Chicago, IL

  • "Alexa, what does a data scientist do?"

October 2019 - October 2022

Data Scientist II, CCC Information Services, Chicago, IL

  • Predictive and prescriptive modeling with model deployment (Python, Java)
  • Customer analytics and forensic analysis
  • Workflow standardization and automation (Luigi, Airflow, Spark, Docker, Kafka)
  • Data lake architecting on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Machine learning enablement on the cloud
  • Data science model research and enhancements

January 2019 - October 2019

Data Scientist I, CCC Information Services, Chicago, IL

  • Predictive and prescriptive modeling with model deployment (Python, Java)
  • Customer analytics and forensic analysis
  • Workflow standardization and automation (Luigi, Airflow, Spark, Docker, Kafka)
  • Data extraction, transformation, and loading (SQL)
  • Image analysis, computer vision, and deep learning (OpenCV[Python], Tensorflow, Keras)

June 2017 - January 2019

Lead Data Science Instructor, General Assembly, Chicago, IL

  • Lead instructor for the part-time data science program (April’19 cohort)
  • Taught data science topics including,
    1. data science workflow
    2. introduction to python programming
    3. python programming for data science
    4. statistics and linear algebra for machine learning
    5. supervised and unsupervised machine learning
    6. natural language processing

April 2019 - June 2019

Informatics Researcher, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

  • Web scraping (Python) and API data collection (Twitter)
  • Natural language processing
  • Propensity modeling

March 2017 - September 2018

Data Scientist, Digital Youth Network, Chicago, IL

  • Customer analytics (R)
  • User segmentation, behavior analysis, and trajectory mapping
  • Customer retention/churn modeling
  • Multi-stakeholder recommender system (perception)

December 2015 - June 2017

Qualifications

Programming and Tools: Python, Spark, SQL, Java, R, Matlab, Git, Bash, HTML, Javascript, C++
Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn, statsmodel, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, AWS SageMaker, MLlib

Education & Credentials

Credential of Readiness (CORe), Pass With Honors, Harvard Business School Online, Online certificate

Deep Learning Specialization, deeplearning.ai, Online certificate

M.S. in Predictive Analytics, With Honor, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

B.A. in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Ripon College, Ripon, WI

B.A. in Business Management, Magna Cum Laude, Ripon College, Ripon, WI

Publications