Daniel V. Friedheim Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Virginia, US

• At US Agency for International Development (full time):
• on Supply Chain integrity team, designed and built custom predictive analytics tools identifying private sector partnership investment opportunities; automated workflows with NLP and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• advised on adoption of ML tools in new agency-wide Data Commons production environment and on LLM/Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) use cases considered for Center for Innovation sandbox environment; evangelized.

Comfortably fine tuned 7B-parameter core GPT quantized with QLoRA for conversation with 15k instruction dataset on a single A100 GPU.

Arlington, VA, US

• LLM proposal task lead; built LLM proof of concept using step-decompose prompt engineering with LangChain on ChatGPT API.
• For US government flagship civilian chatbot, brought a 32-bot deep-learning ensemble in production (word2vec with Rasa open source and spaCy pre-trained) up to ML standards by converting data to user utterances.
• recruited two junior data scientists and managed them in a small ML Dev team;
• On decennial nationwide population survey by web and personal device, built custom time series “spikes” anomaly detection model in production and innovtive geo-located personal device fuzzy fingerprinting model in.

Newport News, Virginia, US

For Education Dept.'s digital National Assessment of Educational Progress, data mined billions of system and student observable records to triangulate system errors, identify data anomalies; shifted analytics from SQL to R, Windows to Linux, and PC to AWS VMs; built reactive Shiny web app tools; principal in oral presentation of new proposal.

Founding Partner, International Insights, LLC building risk models with R and dashboards with Tableau as a consultant to medium-sized business and international development NGO clients.

Falls Church, VA, US

Automated custom reports from 25 M mobile app observable and CRM records in multiple SQL Server databases, and built Sales & Marketing KPI dashboards, with VBA & DAX in Excel.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Teaching international politics, economics & development.

Boca Raton, FL, US

Leading small teams to deliver training camps.

Washington, DC, US

• consulting Social Scientist in Social Development Unit

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• donor coordination, country strategy evaluations and program design

Washington, DC, US

• Meritorious Honor Award

Ba With Senior Essay Prize.

Phd, Quantitative Social Science