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New York, United States

- Built and deployed application using Google Cloud, Docker, Flask and Plotly Dash to automatically track independent expenditures by political action committees - Built and deployed application using Flask, Docker, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, MySQL and Twilio to track financial transactions of members of congress and send text alerts about new data, leading to dozens of conflict of interest stories over 5 years

Member of a team awarded a grant from the Google/Medill Data-Driven Reporting Project to study 30 years of detailed crime statistics obtained from the Baltimore Police Department.Results of the study are being published as a multipart series in The Real News

In partnership with the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, I worked with graduate students to investigate American newspapers' reliance on police sources when reporting on crime, and how that affected coverage of both crime and police. While the students conducted an in-depth analysis of a representative 300 article sample, I used a programmatic approach to analyze the full 100,000 article data set.- Development of a standalone Python package for quote identification, attribution and resolution- Acquisition and processing of 100,000 articles- Lexis/Nexis query optimization to minimize irrelevant or off-topic articles- Topic modeling to verify the fidelity of the students' sub-sample

Greater New York City Area

Chatdesk is a Series A company backed by leading Silicon Valley investors like Menlo Ventures, Susa Ventures and Slow Ventures in the customer service space, whose customers include leading brands like Grubhub, BarkBox, Thinx, and OLAPLEX.- Deployed message classification model for 1 million weekly messages with 99.5% accuracyImplemented Named Entity Recognition to increase flexibility of cleaning code- Developed and maintained code base for cleaning and standardization of incoming messages for downstream processing for 100+ companies in 10+ languages, from diverse sources (Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, Facebook, Instagram)- Attended client meetings for technical integration and conduct data analysis to help our sales team

Greater New York City Area

Trained students in data science methods, concepts and technologies, including: bash, python, data mining, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, model building, forecasting, SQL, AWS and NLP.

Brooklyn, Ny

Planned, promoted and threw over 200 events (including residences in New York and Philadelphia), including budgeting, guest booking and contract negotiation. Also played at over 500 events in 50 markets across 3 countries.

London, England, United Kingdom

Contributed 50+ pieces to FACT, including interviews, opinion pieces, and fully-researched long-form investigations.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Contributed 100+ articles to Noisey, Vice's music vertical. Fostered relationships with artists and other industry contacts to maintain access, and followed local scenes and up-and-coming artists to stay informed and spot potential subjects for future coverage

New York, Ny

Using both molecular and computational techniques, searched for the specific point of chromosomal mutations whose locations were only broadly known. Also developed, codified and taught personal protocols and lab techniques to other researchers doing similar work.

Greater St. Louis Area

Explored the behavior of the Na/K pump beta subunit through the creation of chimeric proteins.

Certificate, Data Science

The Data Science Immersive program is full time, 12-week course (300+ hours) that covers Python application for major quantitative.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology, General

B.S. in Biology, 2004 In addition to foundational courses in molecular biology and organic chemistry, also studied bioorganic chemistry.