Hire, lead, budget, and manage teams of data scientists, ML engineers, and other technical and non-technical professionals. Build and maintain relationships with clients, stakeholders, and partners. Build AFS’ business and reputation through successful client advisory, project delivery, and Federal sales growth. Develop people, including external hire interviews, campus recruiting, and mentoring.♦ Planned, hired, and led a seventeen person cross-functional team through a three-year effort to design, build, and operate a data lake, dashboard, and automated reporting pipeline in an Agile environment for performance, operations, and security metrics for a greenfield hybrid IL5 poly-cloud (AWS + Azure) with 100,000+ planned users. Delighted the client by delivering valuable insights on-time and under-cost, gaining three contract extensions and helping the client allocate $150MM in funding.♦ Led sales product development, communicating the best of AFS’ artificial intelligence, GenAI, machine learning, and data science capabilities clearly to a non-technical audience. Collaborated closely with account executives, sales personnel, and delivery leads to refine messaging. Won numerous contract awards across U.S. Federal civilian, homeland security, defense, and intelligence agencies, generating tens of millions of dollars of new revenue for Accenture.♦ Rescued a financial services project when it was discovered, a week before a go-live date, that the project’s planned reporting system would not work. In a high-intensity sprint, on-boarded to the project, defined reporting requirements, and coded in R an automated reporting solution to advise project leadership in real time about fraudulent access in the critical hours after go-live, enabling decisions to secure a system with over 6 million users and over $800 billion in assets.

Led and coached team of eight to provide HR business intelligence analysis, visualization products, and statistical investigations, as well as human resources strategy and policy recommendations. ♦ Defined requirements, architected, and automated user interface to distributed SQL/VBA database application to track National Guard Bureau manpower. Developed automated reporting using VBA and Excel. Presented metrics and analysis to the Director of the NGB Joint Staff and others.♦ Developed and implemented decision framework for nominations to the Joint Duty Assignment List.♦ Authored the policy instruction CNGBI 1701.01A and navigated the staff approval process, resulting in the document being signed by the Chief, National Guard Bureau.

Owned the development of statistical models and data collection tools and processes used by a team of four dozen contractors and government employees to allocate Army National Guard full-time support manpower resources, representing over $2 billion in annual salaries, over a three-year time horizon.♦ Led a team of three operations research analysts to build, validate, and defend statistical models.♦ Automated the exploratory data analysis and statistical model generation in R♦ Designed, built, and maintained distributed office applications using VBA with 40+ users.♦ Automated the process for turning Visio process maps into data collection instruments using VBA, reducing the human labor required after each workshop from weeks to minutes.

Built manpower models to forecast needs for full-time support resources at Army National Guard facilities across a three year time horizon. Activities included office application development, statistical modeling, operations research, and facilitating workshops. Tools included R, Visual Basic for Applications, Excel, and Visio.

As sole Industrial Engineer on the team to build out and operationalize a new 90-station assembly line, conducted motion-capture studies and rebalanced workloads to meet throughput goals.♦ Doubled line throughput rate to meet 60,000 units per year target.♦ Convinced manufacturing department manager of wasted assembly time relating to packaging and materials presentation. Took leadership role in implementing Kaizen teams to improve efficiency of assembly line. Represented manufacturing engineering team in cross-functional Kaizen tiger teams to reduce waste throughout the supply chain, leading to reduction in direct man-hours and line throughput time of 20 minutes per engine, saving over 20,000 labor hours annually.♦ Developed Excel-based application system to manage and analyze cycle-time records.

Performed forecasting and analysis work for the Trade and Transportation Group, including generating the quarterly trade forecast and writing customer deliverables.♦ Re-wrote SQL used to generate quarterly economic forecast, reducing data generation time from weeks to hours.♦ Created Access-based system to automate forecast generation process.♦ Created Access-based, VBA-scripted form to speed the process of producing over 200 datasets and graphs to update the numbers from a 400-page report for a client. Updated report with new figures and tables.

Supported efforts to manage operations on assembly lines employing ~200 UAW laborers manufacturing ~60,000 diesel engines per year from roughed-in engine block to tested and paint-ready engine.♦ Created VBA-scripted Access database to manage and to facilitate analysis of engine test results from mainframe computers on the assembly line. ♦ Created VBA-scripted Access database to manage tool inventories.♦ Created a dynamic pivot table report in Access 97.