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United States

Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

• Conducted extensive data matching on large-scale nationwide permit-contractor profiles and website data,employing both exact and fuzzy techniques to increase data reliabiltiy and accuracy.• Led a team of three in developing a data pipeline that utilized data cleaning, primary key creation, andML modeling, directly feeding into our core front-end SaaS product.• Fine-tuned BERT model (Hugging Face), achieving 85% accuracy in classifying contractors as residentialor… Show more • Conducted extensive data matching on large-scale nationwide permit-contractor profiles and website data,employing both exact and fuzzy techniques to increase data reliabiltiy and accuracy.• Led a team of three in developing a data pipeline that utilized data cleaning, primary key creation, andML modeling, directly feeding into our core front-end SaaS product.• Fine-tuned BERT model (Hugging Face), achieving 85% accuracy in classifying contractors as residentialor commercial based on permit and website descriptions.• Integrated a logistic regression model into our SaaS product to estimate annual revenues of contractors,utilizing predictors such as the number of yearly permits and total annual job values.• Designed and implemented interactive dashboards using AWS Quicksight, enhancing client data visualization and insights. Show less

De Kalb, Illinois, United States

• Conducted weekly recitations with students online.• Taught basic R skills and worked with economic data. This was done in conjunction with Econ 372: Incomeand Poverty Distributions coursework.• Graded weekly homework assignments and projects.

• Set up and configured a data warehouse in snowflake.• Created several predictive models, deploying them in a R shiny dashboard. • Provided consultation for clients to help solve their data related problems.• Helped apply/write a grant related to how first responders can utilize DS/ML

Janesville, Wisconsin, United States

• Conducted the city’s annual vacancy survey and collaborated with downtown property and business owners in order to assess vacancy of parcels.• Analyzed the vacancy data for trends and created an infographic to visualize the data and overall results.• Conducted analysis on tax increment financing policies of several economicdevelopment departments statewide.

M.A, Economics

Related Coursework: ○ Advanced Predictive Data Analytics for Business ○ Econometrics I ○ Bayesian Statistics ○ Computational Economics ○.

B.S, Economics

○ Minor in Applied Mathematical Sciences ○ Graduated with departmental honors in Economics