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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