Alison Smith Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

I lead and oversee Booz Allen’s multimillion dollar Cognitive Solutions portfolio which comprises intelligent applications that primarily leverage unstructured text and voice data; as new techniques and technology emerge, I direct the strategy and expansion of our capabilities that currently include: Cognitive Search, Cognitive Automation, Chatbots, Recommendation Engines and Call Center Automation.I direct and guide a diverse team of 30+ machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data engineers, and prioritize their professional growth and ability to make positive impacts in our client mission areas and on our overall business pipeline.I also serve as a key natural language processing (NLP) subject matter expert (SME) to identify emerging technology and important partnerships, help set strategic priorities and multi-year planning for Cognitive and NLP capabilities, and consult on client problems involving any text data.

Mclean, Va, Us

I continually assess client needs and the evolving technical landscape to ensure that the team builds useful and leading-edge solutionsI am developing a strategy to establish and expand cognitive technologies that improve efficiency, business value, and customer experiences; I explain and communicate how innovative deep learning methods create a “smarter” experience for clients and clients’ customersI manage and mentor staff data scientists, and identify training and career development opportunities that align with their personal goals and the firm’s strategy and needs

Rockville, Maryland, Us

I established and grew data science capabilities at the company to include: machine learning, natural language processing, social media analysis, network analysis, and data mining. To ensure the success of the company's growing data science practice, I had to effectively communicate complex data mining and analytic techniques to clients and colleagues with nontechnical backgrounds to facilitate understanding, knowledge sharing, and realistic goal setting. In addition to expanding the company's analytic knowledge base, I served as a technical lead on the executive technical advisory committee to develop an enterprise-wide analytic strategy.SELECT PROJECT WORK:ETL public and proprietary unstructured data to develop and pilot a lexicon to uncover associations between features and vaccination coverage rates across the USUtilized natural language processing and text analytics techniques to review and analyze 13,000+ citizen comments to a proposed ruling, reducing needs for manual review by over 60%Developed and tested an automated QA system to estimate and verify criminal statistics, reducing manual calculation and verification times from weeks to less than 30 minutesPRESENTATIONS:Thaung, A., Mangel, R., Brown, N., Berkowitz, J. Connected Health Conference – Global Digital Health Forum, (2016, December 14). Open Source Data Analysis. Presentation and Workshop.Rappaport, J., Thaung, A., LeRoy, L. Zhan, C., Meyers, D. AcademyHealth Annual Meeting (2016, June 26). Team Collaboration on Patient- Centered Care and Quality Improvement Functions in Innovative Primary Care Practices. Poster Presentation

Rockville, Maryland, Us

I led and managed multimillion dollar business development opportunities, liaising with partner firms to build the best teams to pursue the specific opportunity; I coordinated and oversaw the development of analytic approaches and associated tasks, the project and data management plans, and design and monitoring of budget plans.In addition to my management responsibilities, I conducted a range of analytic projects, compiling, integrating, and cleaning quantitative and qualitative primary and secondary data; constructing dashboards and metrics displays for non-technical audiences; and writing programs to automate data processing and reporting for quarterly disclosure

Washington, Dc, Us

I analyzed and researched private equity markets and macroeconomic conditions in China and Southeast Asia, gathering and streamlining data from multiple statistical and research resources and presenting findings and conclusions in a final reportAs part of my research, I met with various General Partners of $500M - $1B funds in China to discuss potential investment plans in business sectors ranging from consumer products to energy and infrastructure. While I focused mostly on Asia, I also assessed the opportunity to expand an integrated transportation infrastructure company in Brazil with a $50M capital commitment. As part of this assessment, I evaluated the feasibility, strategy and long-term potential of an integrated waterways logistics company in Brazil requiring a $120M capital commitment.

Boston, Ma, Us

As a Senior Analyst, I oversaw and supervised junior analysts as Head of the analyst mentoring program. Recognizing the growing need for new analysts to have more formal training, I developed a comprehensive Excel-based training program that incorporated common data issues and modeling challenges that analysts would encounter. The training model accelerated analysts' learning, improving their productivity and allowing them to take on more responsibilities soon after joining the company.Additionally, I managed case teams ranging from 2 to 7 analysts, mentoring 20+ analysts in total, helping them build efficient models, utilize effective research techniques and incorporate best practices. While I took on additional management responsibilities, I continued creating models that assessed the value of products and services as I had done as an Analyst. SELECT PROJECT WORK:Modeled the potential $27 - $91billion impact of proposed excise taxes on selected sugar-sweetened beverages; researched tax pass-through rates and price elasticities and incorporated findings to increase model robustnessTracked bidding patterns in an FCC wireless spectrum auction; recommended changes in bidding strategy, resulting in $2.4B of winning bids with the lowest average cost per unit of spectrum among competitor firmsAssessed the value of certain skincare products and select emulsifiers by researching and analyzing the competitive landscape, market shares, revenue potential, consumer segments, price points, and consumer sensitivity to prices

Mba, General Management, Managerial & Organizational Behavior, Finance, Economics

B.A., International Politics & Economics

High School Diploma