Alan M. Armen Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

o Oversee multiple teams comprised of ML data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts responsible for developing models that support our algorithmic pay and compliance systems, across our On-Demand and Last-Mile Delivery product linesKey Accomplishments o Successfully led my teams and our cross-functional partners in bringing +10 new models to market in 2022-2023, which combined led to a +$22M cost reduction for Shipt o Supported the business in scaling Target Last Mile delivery from 1 to 10 cities, driving 7X growth in order volume and revenueo Lead author in developing now patent-pending IP for optimizing Shipt’s marketplace economics

San Francisco, Ca, Us

o Develop software and ML models that support at-scale interactions with, and measurement of, DocuSign customerso Build data science tools / frameworks to drive productivity for the Customer Success Analytics team o Provide thought leadership and consultation for analysts and other data scientistsKey Accomplishmentso Led the development of an XGBoost-based Recommendation Engine for targeted campaign marketing, driving a +2X lift in conversion rates and reducing irrelevant emails by 66%o Ideated, built, and delivered a self-service AB Testing Platform for Customer Success Analyticso Designed and developed software that provided fully-automated ML-based incrementality analysis for +10 analystso Ideated and delivered software for analysts to build their own ML models to explore and discover important drivers for business KPIs via SHAP value estimates

Seattle, Wa, Us

o Lead data analysts and data scientists to conduct new Ad product experiments and develop ML models to optimize shopper experienceo Regularly present updates and reports at global product reviews, including to Expedia’s executive VP’s and CEOKey Accomplishmentso Drove +$2.3M in incremental revenue by devising a novel test of what was previously considered an untestable product featureo Enhanced an existing ML model of customer conversion, correcting the model’s specification and introducing seasonality-controlling features, leading to a 15% reduction in model erroro Identified areas of internal financial model improvements worth 17% of our annual advertising revenueo Owned end-to-end the production of a new business-critical dataset, formulating sampling methodology, drafting frontend logic, and working with teams of developers to deploy the logic and build data pipelines

Dallas, Texas, Us

o Develop statistical and economic forecasting models to support key Federal Reserve policy decisionso Engineer end-to-end data pipelines to automate data releases and model updateso Conduct research and analyses to provide insights into the current and future state of the U.S. economyKey Accomplishments o Fully automated previously manual model estimation processeso Researched and delivered a new standard model for forecasting unemployment and inflationo +10 publications during my tenure, resulting in both academic citations and media interest

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Specialization Machine Learning

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Major: Mathematics And Philosophy (Honors). Minor: Economics And Physics