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Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• At Capital Technology Group, I lead strategic client engagements, upskill and scale junior talent, and expand our burgeoning data science and AI practice. I currently manage a team of 25 personnel including software.
• Led the development of a generative AI powered application aiming to expedite security compliance. The application will largely automate the writing of security controls for NIST 800-53 compliant systems, reducing the.
• Built proof-of-concept generative AI powered chatbot solely using open source technology while being completely internally hosted in our AWS environment. This solution offers organizations a ChatGPT-like experience.

Washington, DC

• As the first non-founder and technical employee, I turned the founders’ concept of creating a scalable supply chain risk management tool into a real product that was profitable, drove millions in revenue, and led to.
• Starting from a blank slate, personally built or managed the people who built the entire product from data ingestion, storage, ETL/pipelines, analytics, AI/ML, reporting, and frontend resulting in award of three year.
• Developed the policies, processes, and relationships to grow headcount from five to 30 in a two year period allowing us to meet contract deliverables, build product features, and acquire new business.
• Dual hatted as our cyber security lead, standing up our cyber security program to enact NIST 800-171controls allowing compliance for work with DoD contractors and government entities; set groundwork for development of.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Use R and Python to provide a full range of data science solutions from custom reports and dashboards to machine learning models incorporating natural language processing and neural networks. Interfaced with clients to.
• Successfully transformed an Excel/PowerPoint based analysis team into a fully functioning data scienceteam where all team members utilize R/Python and R Markdown/Jupyter Notebooks for analysis andreporting.
• Conducted cluster analysis of 65 million row text data set using Spark and R, allowing the customer toclose gaps in their data collection and analysis.
• Built a tool using doc2vec method which allowed query of documents against corpus of previous proposals, preventing awarding of funds for duplicative work or work previously deemed unviable.
• Classified unlabeled documents with machine learning models and analyzed results, providing clients with quantitative metrics of strategic initiatives, giving them the ability to make evidence backed decisions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Achieved coherent performance management for internationally dispersed client through delivery of analytics dashboards and reports; enabled client requirements through delivery of data strategy, process engineering.
• Designed schema for client data and advised on steps toward creating functional data warehouse; acted as clearing house for client’s performance metrics and visualized results in reports to senior stakeholders.
• Conducted enterprise wide skill survey, liaising with outside stakeholders to build consensus and increase participation; analyzed, visualized, and presented results to a variety of senior leaders in the organization.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Shaped client resource planning and strategic decisions through design and delivery of custom analytics and assessments.
• Developed advanced analytics on agencies’ workforces, providing quantitative metrics which allowedsenior executives to make informed decisions on recruiting and retention.
• Delivered framework for military intelligence IT overhaul through gap assessment and businesstransformations. Framework was adopted by the Air Force as a budget item for developing aninteroperable military intelligence.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Analyzed, tracked, reported, and briefed events and findings; worked on the staff of Associate DeputyDirector of Analysis as project manager for strategic initiatives. Led teams with as many as six members;regularly.
• Realized 100 personnel efficiencies in Agency’s largest office, managing strategy implementation effort.
• Streamlined Agency’s data collection system through enterprise-wide technology insertion initiative.
• Co-led Lean Six Sigma project on analytic production, decreasing errors and increasing productivity.
• Co-chaired December 2012 Department of Defense counterterrorism conference working group.
• Represented NGA at a 2012 Chatham House conference in London, England on Lebanon and Syria.

Jerusalem, Israel

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Worked with local team and Shanghai based client to build Citibank China's custodian banking strategy.

Ma, Global Security Studies, Government | National Security

Thesis title: Cash for Peace: Economic Factors in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

Ba, Middle Eastern And South Asian Studies, Arabic, Hebrew

Activities and Societies: Student Inquiry and Research at Emory (SIRE)Magna Cum Lade

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