Alex Schwarm, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

▪ Spearheaded the establishment, growth, and development of the Data Organization at a tech-forward company, enabling profitable growth from $800M/yr to $2.4B/yr in revenue within a span of two years▪ Tripled the Data Science team size and led the implementation of multiple new online, real-time Data Science models, resulting in substantial value delivery (e.g., one model alone contributing >$16M in annualized gross profit) and significant sustainability impact (e.g., >230M lbs. of CO2 saved in 2024) while identifying new opportunities using fine-tuned, generative AI models (OpenAI, open source LLMs)▪ Pioneered the development of a new ML Engineering team and established streamlined processes, significantly boosting the speed and maintainability of Data Science implementations▪ Implemented processes and state-of-the-art technologies to scale data engineering and analytics engineering capabilities, facilitating the processing of 3X the data volume while significantly improving cost efficiency

Austin, Texas, Us

▪ Built and led Data Science team; quickly promoted to a much larger, increased scope▪ Deliver quantitative business value to organization through leading the team to increase gross profit by over $1M per month▪ Developed Multi-Year Data Science strategy for dramatically increasing key business metrics

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

▪ Led the creation of multiple business cases, presented to executive committee, and received multi-million dollar investments for new products▪ Doubled data science team to support three critical new product development efforts, including creating a Natural Language Processing core competency within Dun & Bradstreet▪ In nine months, went from concept, to prototype, to beta, to release of patent-pending Natural Language Processing based product leveraging digital identity resolution on billions of web events▪ Inventor/Co-inventor on 33 patents in the areas of machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization, 30 granted and 3 submitted▪ Collaborated across product teams, technology teams, and sales on enabling new D&B Buyer Intent product for digital advertising/programmatic advertising and sales use cases▪ Participated in over 50 sales calls with Fortune 500 companies and implemented freemium, scalable, personalized Buyer Intent Reach Report for pre-sales engagements▪ At beginning of pandemic, went from concept to release of freemium, personalized, scalable, automated multi-tier supply chain risk assessment, still in use as of 2024▪ Deep knowledge and multiple patents covering applications of: Deep Learning / Natural Language Processing (Language models, BERT, word embeddings, word2vec, semantic similarity, document classification), Classification and regression (GBM/GBT, Random Forest, SVM), Dimensionality reduction (auto encoders, PCA, SVD), optimization/nonlinear programming (FSQP, QP, LP), autonomous control (MPC), and related mathematical modeling

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

▪ Led team to define novel technique (patent pending) using large-scale, time-series analysis of web content in conjunction with natural language processing (NLP) to automatically deliver customers their best potential prospects▪ Defined positioning/messaging and delivered customer presentations to penetrate new product offerings at over 10 strategic accounts▪ Delivered proof-of-concept classification models using deep-learning-based NLP algorithms for digital marketing applications▪ Led team to implement on-line system for automatically scoring and prioritizing prospects based on personalized machine learning models

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

▪ Led cross-functional and cross-organizational team to develop machine-learning-basedsystem for automated personalized analysis▪ Led scrum team to release SaaS product with machine learning-based, automated system foraccount-based-marketing segmentation and automated market sizing/TAM analysis, goingfrom my initial concept to delivery in 5 months using an agile scrum approach

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

▪ Created business plan and market penetration strategy for large, strategic Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) product offering as part of company's overall modernization goal▪ Initiated incubation project investigating automated machine-learning modeling for performing marketing analytics

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Managed team of six product managers to develop market sizing, market share analysis, and product strategy for complex product portfolio encompassing hardware, process control/analytics software, and services of over $200M▪ Defined strategy for service delivery growth based on multiple strategic analysis techniques (Porter, Osterwalder)

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Developed business plan and launched new service product to deliver over $7M in bookings within 6 months of launch

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Doubled China regional revenue year-over-year and justified significant increase in sales force to capitalize on new opportunities▪ Defined global market penetration strategy for solar cell manufacturing service and automation solutions through defining market needs, opportunity, market segmentation, and customer profiles ▪ Supported multiple sales cycles for multiple products in China region including penetration plans, target customers, and supporting executive-level proposals and technical presentations ▪ Executed development gate exit reviews with executive management for multiple, concurrent projects

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Led global consulting team to win consulting and product sales at multiple Fortune 500customers to deliver innovative solutions for record consulting revenue in multiple regions▪ Developed engagement process and defined organizational structure for executing consultingand product sales support▪ Directly participated in over 30 sales cycles in China, S. Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Europe, and North America

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Developed business plans, revenue growth plan, and managed all new product developmentwork for group including defining new markets, new product definitions, and potentialacquisition targets▪ Led advanced analysis team to identify new market opportunities (six direct reports) throughcollaboration with sales teams and engineering groups▪ Profit and loss (P&L) responsibility for multiple new products including resource budgets,vendor negotiations, and pricing strategies▪ Coordinated and led all product development effort across three development groups based inmultiple regions based on market-driven product needs and vision

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Developed resource plans and defined success criteria for product installations▪ Coordinated and led support for multiple service deliverables across multiple processes(dielectric etch, dielectric deposition, rapid thermal processing, ALD/PVD, chemicalmechanical planarization)

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

▪ Managed internationally-based technical development team▪ Defined high-fidelity, predictive models, control systems, and experimental designs (DOE) ▪ Algorithms and models developed resulted in over $250M in sales over 10 years

B.S., Chemical Engineering

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering