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Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

• Implementing LLM embeddings of patient medical history to create predictive features and to utilize patient history within RAG architecture• Creating internal company LLM powered chatbots to facilitate knowledge work• Creating prediction models for 30-day and 90-day readmission as well as other clinical outcomes prediction models using clinical records from the EMR.• Engineering high-value complex medical features from the EMR and implementing them into the ML production pipeline

Lenexa, Kansas, Us

• Developed mortality risk models to assist in underwriting for life insurance policies using medical data. Collaborated with a team to develop requirements and implement models in production. • Trained models to predict potential ICD-10 diagnoses using prescription history. • Collaborated with clients to build custom accelerated underwriting models using a mixture of statistical modeling and heuristic underwriting rules.• Researched methods to enrich and standardize identifying data to increase hit rates when pulling medical data such as labs, prescriptions, and diagnoses.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Collaborated with a team to create machine learning models to assist hospitals with staffing, bed placement, and throughput. • Standardized and transformed health record data into features for machine learning algorithms and communicated requirements to data engineers.• Connected with Cerner clients to research health record models in order to extract accurate data for machine learning models.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Applied statistical analysis and machine learning to varied system performance data to identify poor system performance within Cerner Solutions.• Led engineer teams to investigate system performance, identify improvements, and drive system performance projects through the software release pipeline.• Built reports with Vertica, SQL, R, and Python to measure the efficacy of system performance improvements across multiple clients.• Communicated system performance metrics to encourage best practices among software development teams and high adoption of performance tuning among Cerner clients.

Columbia, Missouri, Us

• Analyzed trends among internal and external data sources to drive action to improve customer acquisition and retention.• Created customer data analysis reports using SQL and Tableau

Bsba, Marketing, Italian Area Studies

1 Month Study Abroad Followed By 2 Month Internship