Background

Experience & skills

A fuller picture of where this work comes from—roles, impact, and tools I bring to advisory and hands-on projects.

Director of Data Science Fortune 500 company

2019 – Present

  • Lead AI strategy across operational, marketing, pricing, and distribution domains
  • Manage cross-functional AI, product, and engineering teams; implement frameworks for business scoping and team development
  • Expert in AI, geospatial systems, and applied AI workflows

Senior Lecturer Ivy League University

2016 – 2019

  • Developed statistics curriculum for Ivy League University
  • Coursework across advanced analytics, GIS, statistics, visualization, and object-oriented programming
  • Supervised and mentored junior instructors

Director, Data Unit Local Government

2015 – 2019

  • Led Data Science and operations strategy for a team of ~50 scientists
  • Significant OPEX savings through academic partnerships
  • 20+ Machine Learning models for surveillance and operations; data communication to C-suite and elected officials

Data Scientist State Government Agency

2013 – 2015

United States

  • Built and deployed forecasting models for risk and operations
  • Mentored analysts in predictive, diagnostic, and descriptive analytics
  • Automated analytics across on-prem systems; characterized temporal patterns of risk

Research Fellow Global Risk Organization

2011

China

  • Competitively granted research funding for field and lab work
  • Research with East China Normal University on national operations
  • Authored SOPs and workshops on data communication

Graduate Researcher Research University

2004 – 2013

Bolivia

  • Multilingual interdisciplinary work with government, NGOs, and academics on operational risk
  • Mentor in risk analytics, genetics, and spatial statistics
  • Modeled risk in emerging communities; secured competitive research funding